All Distribution articles – Page 5
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NewsSony swoops at EFM on Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell fantasy romance ’A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’
Deal closes in Berlin for reported $50m.
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NewsDCM takes stake in Wim Wenders’ outfit Road Movies
DCM also has stakes in sales outfit Rocket Science and New York cinema operator Metrograph.
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NewsScandinavia’s ScanBox Entertainment buys Norwegian distributor Ymer Media (exclusive)
Ymer has released titles including ‘Past Lives’; has ‘Civil War’, ‘Back To Black’ on slate.
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NewsGreenwich Entertainment acquires ‘Aum’ Japanese cult doc; EFM sales kick off (exclusive)
Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto co-directed Sundance 2023 selection.
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FeaturesTrue Brit revamping ‘The Critic’ for UK release; Zygi Kamasa talks slate, ambitions for his new company (exclusive)
Following reshoots and a revamped cut, Anand Tucker’s period thriller will be the company’s first UK release.
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NewsREinvent picks up psychological drama ‘Hercules Falling’ starring Dar Salim (exclusive)
Dar Salim plays a combat veteran wrestling with mental health challenges.
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News‘In Camera’ snaps up key deals including UK-Ireland (exclusive)
Naqqash Khalid’s debut launched at Karlovy Vary last year.
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NewsGravitas Ventures takes ‘Break’ for US release and EFM sales (exclusive)
The pool hall-set thriller is directed by Will Wernick.
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NewsTrustNordisk sends ‘The Quiet Ones’ to key territories including US (exclusive)
Danish action drama is set after the financial crisis in 2008.
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NewsFrench lottery comedy ‘Lucky Winners’ comes up trumps with buyers for Charades (exclusive)
The dark comedy is about a group of friends who win big but then quickly lose hard.
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News‘Slingshot’ goes to Bleecker Street for US
Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne star in the space travel thriller from Mikael Hafstrom.
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Features“There’s an assumption everything is just coming out of the US”: Searchlight’s UK team on their significant role
Searchlight Pictures is in the awards fray with three strong films: ’Poor Things’,’ All Of Us Strangers’ and ’Rye Lane’. But less well known is how pivotal its UK team has been in bringing these titles to fruition.
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News‘How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer’ to Zeitgeist and Kino Lorber for North America (exclusive)
Jeff Zimbalist documentary is the first project with access to Mailer family archive.
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NewsVue CEO Tim Richards on how company has been “to hell and back”, personally lost him “eight figure” sum (exclusive)
A confident Tim Richards now believes the company is “in the strongest position of any exhibitor” right now.
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NewsRoadside, Vertical acquire biopic ‘Lee’ starring Kate Winslet
Theatrical release set for September 20.
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NewsAltitude lines up two films about iconic British band blur
The UK sales and distribution outfit is launching sales at the EFM and will release theatrically in the UK and Ireland.
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News‘Kneecap’, ‘The Outrun’, ‘Layla’ among UK Global Screen Fund awards recipients
The nine awards given out total £129,498.
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NewsM-Appeal sells teenage sex tale ‘Vera And The Pleasure Of Others’ to North America, Germany (exclusive)
Further sales include Japan, Korea.
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FeaturesDoes a decent Sundance suggest a strong EFM?
Last month’s Sundance Film Festival saw a decent flow of acquisitions and one all-night bidding contest.