Phase 4 is expanding their distribution strategy to offer titles via Video-on-Demand. The company's initial venture into the VOD market will include a simultaneous theatrical/VOD release of films such as Craig Teper's "Vidal Sassoon: The Movie," Will Canon's SXSW Audience Award-winner "Brotherhood,"...
Read More »“Fubar: Balls to the Wall” has been acquired by Screen Media Films ahead of its US Premiere at SXSW, it was announced today. The sequel to Canadian cult film "Fubar," the film will be released on VOD and home video on April 19, 2011.
Read More »OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has announced that Sundance doc "Miss Representation" has been added to the OWN Documentary Club. Directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film is the 11th documentary acquisition for OWN.
Read More »Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to the Fred Cavaye's French thriller "Point Blank," from Gaumont, it was announced today.
Read More »Stylish raindrop graphics dominate the poster for Aaron Katz's new film, "Cold Weather," which opened at IFC Center February 4. The one-sheet also served as an apt advertisement for the neighborhood's February 5 "Cold Weather" scavenger hunt, in which 130 people made their way through the Greenwich ...
Read More »David M. Rosenthal's "Janie Jones" has been picked up by Tribeca Film for a release this summer, it was announced today. A 2010 Toronto International Film Festival premiere, the "rock n' roll road trip drama" stars Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola, and was inspired by writer-director Rosenthal'...
Read More »Strand Releasing has purchased all US rights to Tom Tykwer’s "Three" from Match Factory. The romantic drama, which will open the Kino series at the Museum of Modern Art in April, will receive a theatrical release in late summer.
Read More »What happens when documentaries get political? People get mad. What happens when documentaries make money? People get greedy. indieWIRE offers its take on three documentary slugfests that have been throwing their punches in public and in the courts.
Read More »Espionage thriller "The Debt," directed by Oscar nominee John Madden ("Shakespeare in Love"), will be distributed for Miramax by Focus Features and Universal Pictures International.
Read More »The 7th annual Boulder International Film Festival unveiled its 54 film lineup, including the event's opener, Morgan Neville's musical documentary "Troubadours," which recently world premiered at Sundance.
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