As the 2011 Berlin Film Festival crosses the halfway mark, indieWIRE looks at three of the top competition titles from Bela Tarr, Ralph Fiennes and Asghar Farhadi.
Read More »Earlier this week, the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s new artistic advisors Mark Cousins and Lynda Myles delivered "EIFF65: Our Suggestions," the "first fruits" of their rethink of the Festival (which was initially announced late last year). Cousins and Myles outlined a "radical evoluton o...
Read More »The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center today revealed the full lineup for the 40th edition of New Directors/New Films. Bookending the festival - which is dedicated to new works by emerging talent - are J.C. Chandor's feature film debut "Margin Call" and Maryam Keshavarz's Su...
Read More »IFC Midnight announced today that they are partnering with MPI Media Group and its subsidiary Dark Sky Films to co-release Jim Mickle's "Stake Land," the apocalyptic thriller that won the Midnight Madness Audience Award at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. The film will be released in...
Read More »Zeitgeist Films has acquired Julie Bertuccelli's "The Tree," which closed the Cannes Film Festival last year. Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, the film will open theatrically in New York and Los Angeles this summer, with a national rollout to follow.
Read More »Kino Lorber has picked up U.S. rights to Jean-Luc Godard's "Film Socialisme," which had its world premiere at the Festival de Cannes last year. Kino-Lorber confirmed to iW its acquisition and said it is tentatively planning a mid-May theatrical release. No other details were immediately available.
Read More »Filmmaker Todd Phillips ("The Hangover") and Paul Reubens are among the key panelists taking part in The South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival Film Conference sessions for the 2011 event. Over 100 sessions will take place over the course of the festival, which takes place from March 11-19 ...
Read More »Music Box Films has acquired Liz Garbus's "Bobby Fischer Against The World," which screened in Sundance's new Documentary Premieres section last month. The HBO Documentary Films & LM Media Production will premiere on HBO, followed by a theatrical release by Music Box. Music Box acquired all US Thea...
Read More »Coming off a recent run at the Sundance Film Festival and screenings at Berlinale, Sundance Selects has picked up the North American rights to Göran Hugo Olsson’s "The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975." Olsson's documentary follows the journey of the Swedish journalists who travelled to the United Stat...
Read More »Paladin will release Malcolm Mowbray's "Meeting Spencer," a farce set in the world of theater, it was announced today. The film, starring Jeffrey Tambor, will open in New York on April 8.
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