U.S. rights to drama "Stuck Between Stations" by Brady Kiernan have been picked up by Wreckin Hill Entertainment and NECA Films. The film, starring Sam Rosen ("The Oranges"), Zoe Lister-Jones ("Breaking Upwards") along with Michael Imperioli ("The Sopranos") and Josh Hartnett, will have a threatrica...
Read More »Tribeca Film has acquired North American rights to Ian FitzGibbon's ("Perrier's Bounty") "Death of a Superhero," an ensemble drama with animated sequences that stars Andy Serkis ("The Rise of the Planet of the Apes"). The company plans to release it on VOD and theatrically next year.
Read More »In case you were away from your computer this weekend, indieWIRE has compiled ten of the top stories published this week on iW and the blog network. Included below are indie and mainstream box office reports, "Titanic 3-D" news, the new trailer for the latest stop-motion film from the team behind "C...
Read More »The Film Society of Lincoln Center is hosting a "first-of-its-kind film series" celebrating the contributions of Jews to Hollywood films of the late '60s and '70s as actors and directors in major films, featuring what J. Hoberman called "a hitherto unspeakable degree of Jewish content."
Read More »011 hasn’t exactly been an exceptional year for animated films. Besides this spring’s deliciously strange “Rango” and this summer’s gorgeous, supple “Winnie the Pooh,” there hasn’t been a whole lot to fawn over, animation-wise. (When Pixar unloads a colossal letdown like “Cars 2,”
Read More »Sony and Paramount's move to open Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin overseas months ahead of its December stateside release --where the Herge comic books are beloved--is paying off. The performance capture film opened overseas with an estimated $55.8 million in...
Read More »How does the Occupy movement celebrate Halloween? With a screening program that ranges from little-seen foreign shorts to the iconic zombies of George Romero.
Read More »Johnny Depp was all over iPOP this week, touting his anticipated turn in "The Rum Diary," Bruce Robinson's adaptation of the early Hunter S. Thompson novel that hits theaters this Friday.
Read More »This week on indieWIRE, David Lynch talked about his foray into music with his debut album "Crazy Clown Time," Anton Yelchin dished on making "Like Crazy," the International Documentary Association unveiled their nominations for 2011, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" ...
Read More »Nicole Kidman and her Blossom Films banner partner Per Saari are teaming up again with Rabbit Hole co-producers Olympus Films. They are optioning screen rights to The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson's bestselling first novel about a group of performance artists whose children (who as children were ...
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