All Distribution articles – Page 562
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NewsStudioCanal sees Double deal with Protagonist
StudioCanal has struck a UK/Ireland deal with Protagonist Pictures for Richard Ayoade’s comedy The Double.
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NewsContent adds up sales for Numbers Station
EXCLUSIVE: Content is showing the first promo of The Numbers Station, currently in post, to buyers in Berlin.
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NewsHanWay picks up Daniel Stamm thriller The Darkness
HanWay to handle international and co-handle US on thriller set to star Mary Elizabeth Winstead; European shoot set for summer 2012.
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NewsMagnolia takes Belle Isle for US
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to The Magic of Belle Isle, a drama directed by Rob Reiner and starring Morgan Freeman
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NewsForesight gets Emmett/Furla pair 2 Guns and Rule #1
Foresight Unlimited has added two new Emmett/Furla productions to its slate: Courtney Hunt’s romantic comedy Rule #1 starring Reese Witherspoon and Baltasar Kormakur’s action comedy 2 Guns starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.
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NewsPray For Japan gets 14-city with AMC Theatres
Filmmaker Stu Levy is partnering with exhibitor AMC Theatres to release his feature documentary Pray For Japan in 14 cities across North America.The film will be released as a one-night special event on March 14, honouring the anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.Profits will be donated to charity Japan ...
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NewsWolfe picks up North American rights to Mosquita y Mari
Theatrical launch planned for 2012; VOD/DVD release in 2013.
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NewsRaven Banner acquires Manborg ahead of EFM
Toronto-based genre sales company Raven Banner Entertainment has picked up world rights to Steve Kostanski’s Manborg.
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NewsSoda's New British Cinema Quarterly gets BFI investment, launches 2012 slate
BFI’s P&A fund backs the programme with £50,000.
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NewsChronicle flies into top spot at UK box office
Fox’s sci-fi takes the reins from War Horse, which drops to 4th, over a snow-affected weekend in the UK; StudioCanal has DVD hit with Tinker Tailor.
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NewsPeccadillo to release North Sea Texas in UK
Peccadillo Pictures is to handle UK and Ireland distribution of Bavo Defurne’s directorial debut North Sea Texas, about two teenage boys who fall in love.
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NewsNew Toronto-based sales and distribution company launches
108 Media’s first acquisition is the Korean hit animation Leafie: A Hen Into The Wild.
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NewsJinga adds horror Rites of Spring to EFM slate
US horror already sold to IFC for US and Mongrel for Canada.
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NewsID takes on 1940s-set Hamlet
Montreal-based ID Communications has taken worldwide rights to Hamlet, a feature film adaptation written and directed by Bruce Ramsay.
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CommentIndie Shakedown
The news – not entirely unexpected – that Lionsgate had bought Summit Entertainment comes as good news in that the two companies will together create an independent powerhouse and as depressing news in that the business loses another buyer of material and movies and a key supplier to the international ...
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NewsSPC swoops on Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone
The distributor negotiated terms with Hengameh Panahi of Celluloid Dreams to North America, Latin America and East European rights to the filmmaker’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2009 Cannes world premiere A Prophet.
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NewsNetherlands Film Fund overhauls model in wake of funding cuts
The Netherlands Film Fund today published its proposals for a new streamlined film policy for 2013 to 2016, introducing three funds.
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NewsFernando Ojeda to head Universal Pictures Benelux
He currently holds the title of managing director Universal Pictures Brazil.
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NewsPaladin acquires Otter 501 before Santa Barbara world premiere
Mark Urman negotiated the deal with producers Sea Studios Foundation. The film is set to receive its first public screening at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Thursday (2).