All Distribution articles – Page 524
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Wolfe Video acquires North American rights to White Frog
Director Quentin Lee’s family drama stars Booboo Stewart, Joan Chen and BD Wong and is scheduled for theatrical, VoD and DVD release in 2013.
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NewsVisit Films closes sales on First Position, Don’t Stop Believin’
Bess Kargman’s ballet documentary First Position has gone to Artificial Eye in the UK, Eurozoom in France and Edko in Hong Kong, Visit chief Ryan Kampe announced on Monday (27).
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NewsAMC Theatres, Fever Productions to release horror film Smiley
The exclusive partnership means a limited Oct 12 national roll-out for Michael Gallagher’s film through the theatre chain’s AMC independent platform on 28 screens in 14 markets such as New York and Los Angeles.
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NewsStrand Releasing takes US rights to Comes A Bright Day
Simon Aboud’s coming-of-age romance takes place against the backdrop of the robbery of a London jewellers and stars Craig Roberts of Submarine and Imogen Poots.
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ShortsHD announces Stars In Shorts screening programme
Seven celebrity-packed films featuring Keira Knightly, Colin Firth and Judi Dench will screen starting on Sept 28.
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NewsPaladin, 108 Media strike broad distribution partnership
Mark Urman’s New York distributor and the Toronto-based sales and distribution company will team up on North American distribution and will attend Toronto as an all-rights buyer.
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NewsCohen teams with Focus World to unleash The Attack
As previously reported exclusively on Screendaily, Cohen Media Group will handle the North American theatrical and DVD release of the Toronto-bound special presentation.
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NewsMPM Film picks up Venice titles Mold and A Month in Thailand
EXCLUSIVE: MPM also announces Italian sale of Mold to Nanni Moretti and Luigi Musini’s Sacher Distibuzione for Italy.
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NewsClip filmmakers respond to Russian ban of film
Russian Ministry of Culture accused the Rotterdam winning film of being child pornography.
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Gravitas Ventures, Red Bull Media House partner on sports roster
The arrangement gives the VoD distributor access to a range of sports documentary programming for North America.
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NewsIFC Midnight acquires US rights to Berberian Sound Studio
Peter Strickland’s psychological horror film will screen in Toronto and played previously in Locarno and Edinburgh.
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NewsSPC takes US rights to The Company You Keep
The buy takes Robert Redford’s thriller off the table ahead of its world premiere out of competition in Venice and subsequent Toronto screening.
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Magnet answers Nature Calls for North America
Magnet Releasing has picked up North American rights to Nature Calls starring Patton Oswalt, Johnny Knoxville, Rob Riggle, Patrice O’Neal, Maura Tierney and Darrell Hammond.
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NewsPivotshare launches web tool for streaming video
Internet start-up Pivotshare is making available a web video tool allowing creators to monetise their content through streaming video channels that can be sent across a variety of devices.
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NewsWestEnd builds on Cattleya bond with library additions
London sales outfit adds three Cattleya titles to library.
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NewsFocus Features throws Promised Land into awards race
Insiders had spoken of a fifth film that would join Anna Karenina, Hyde Park On Hudson, Moonrise Kingdom and ParaNorman on the company’s slate and on Thursday Focus revealed it will be the latest film from Gus Van Sant.
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NewsMarVista acquires three young adult features
The company has picked up telefilms Pop Star, I Kissed A Vampire and Circle Of Lies for global distribution.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires North American rights to Clandestine Childhood
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Clandestine Childhood (Infancia Clandestina), the debut feature from Argentina’s Benjamin Avila.
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Deals round-up: IFC Midnight falls for Maniac, O-Scope courts Disaster
Franck Khalfoun’s thriller is a remake of William Lustig’s 1980 slasher film of the same title and is based on a screenplay by Alex Aja and Gregory Levasseur about a repressed mannequin store owner with homicidal urges.
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NewsGlobal boost for Left Bank in £40m SPT deal
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) plans to turn Left Bank Pictures into a global scripted powerhouse; SPT will be first in line to sell the indie’s future feature films.