All Distribution articles – Page 457
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NewsParamount sets Star Trek, WWZ double
Paramount will release its two summer hits Star Trek Into Darkness and World War Z as a double bill in select nationwide theatres from Aug 30-Sept 5.
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NewsFortissimo acquires Richie Mehta's Siddharth
Fortissimo Films takes rights to Richie Mehta’s second feature, which will receive its world premiere at Venice.
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NewsKaleidoscope takes 'Happy Ending'
Kaleidoscope secures UK distribution rights for Karen Gillan rom-com Not Another Happy Ending and sets release date.
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NewsGlobal Screen picks up Bank Lady
Global Screen has acquired Christian Alvart’s Bank Lady - the true story of Germany’s first female bank-robber
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NewsDallas Buyers Club, Diana to open Nov 1
Two films expected to makes waves this awards season have been scheduled for US release on Nov 1.
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NewsWicker Man Final Cut to open in US
Reissue distributor Rialto Pictures has announced it will release a long-unseen and complete version of 1970s horror film, The Wicker Man: The Final Cut on Sept 27 in New York City.
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NewsFilmTrack gets $20m backing
The cloud-based content, contract and rights management service has closed a $20m equity investment from Insight Venture Partners, the private investors who backed Twitter and Tumblr.
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NewsAl Jazeera Balkans, Croatia’s HRT acquire Sarajevo titles
Al Jazeera Balkans and Croatian national broadcaster HRT are negotiating TV rights for Sarajevo Film Festival’s competition films.
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NewsOctane fired up for Haunted 2
A Haunted House 2 is scheduled to kick off production on Monday [26] through IM Global’s Octane genre division. Open Road will distribute in the US on Mar 2014.
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NewsPicture Tree takes two Toronto titles
Berlin-based sales agent Picture Tree International (PTI) has picked up two Toronto titles – Mary Queen Of Scots and Metalhead – for international distribution.
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NewsUnitel Classica boards Noye's Fludde
EXCLUSIVE: Unitel Group’s Unitel Classica label has boarded world sales for Unogumbe-Noye’s Fludde.
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NewsDrafthouse to play in Hell
EXCLUSIVE: Drafthouse Films has picked up North American rights to Japanese director Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play In Hell? ahead of its Venice world premiere.
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NewsSundance Selects gets Bastards
The distributor has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Claire Denis’ Un Certain Regard premiere and has set an Oct 25 release. Separately, FilmBuff and Abramorama are teaming up on Broadway Idiot while The Cinema Guild has picked up Agnes Varda’s five-part autobiographical documentary series.
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NewsEpic sets Vikingdom debut
UPDATED AUG 29: Epic Pictures Releasing has set Oct 4 for the release of Yusry A Halim’s action adventure, which will screen in 3D in select theatres.
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Clear Blue Sky to get nationwide roll-out
Screenvision has announced that, along with distributor Area 23a and Asphalt Films, it will release Out Of The Clear Blue Sky as a national one-night theatrical event on Sept 11.
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NewsFortissimo picks up Altarejos' Unfriend
EXCLUSIVE: Fortissimo picks up international rights to Unfriend from Filipino ‘new wave’ auteur Joselito Altarejos
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NewsFSC adds two for TIFF
EXCLUSIVE: The Film Sales Company head Andrew Herwitz will introduce buyers in Toronto in September to the New Zealand mystery-thriller White Lies and documentary When Jews Were Funny.
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NewsSPC plots Blue Jasmine expansion
Sony Pictures Classics announced that it will expand Woody Allen’s box office hit Blue Jasmine this weekend from 229 screens to more than 1,200, making the awards contender Allen’s widest ever release.
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NewsMundial finds Wolf At The Door
The joint sales venture between IM Global and Mexico’s Canana has acquired international rights from Gullane and TC Filmes to the Brazilian thriller ahead of its Toronto world premiere.
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NewsBlue Is The Warmest Colour gets NC-17 rating in US
Sundance Selects to release Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2013 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner with adult rating.