While "The Last Exorcism" and "Takers" battled it out for the final weekend crown of Hollywood's summer, Jean-François Richet's "Mesrine: Killer Instinct" was easily the top specialty debut, at least among those reporting estimates to Rentrak earlier today.
Read More »Austin's Fantastic Fest has added 16 films to its lineup, with the U.S. premiere of John Curran's "Stone" joining this year's fest, taking place September 23 - 30. The latest batch include what the fest teased as a "bayou-dwelling psycho-killer, a disturbed housemaid, Muay Thai bone-crushers, blood-...
Read More »Originally screened at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2009, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's (co-writers of "Bad Santa") long delayed "I Love You Phillip Morris," will finally make its way to North American theaters this winter through Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment, who are also b...
Read More »Massy Tadjedin's directorial debut, "Last Night," starring Keira Knightley, will open the upcoming Rome Film Festival (IRFF), which kicks off on October 28 and runs to November 5. The romantic thriller, which co-stars French hearthrob Guillaume Canet, Sam Worthington and Eva Mendes, will close this ...
Read More »Fina Torres' "Habana Eva" was last night's big winner at the closing night awards ceremony for the 14th edition of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF). The film took home the Rita Award for Best Feature Film, while Tatiana Gaviola's "Teresa" went on to receive an honorable me...
Read More »Following its divisive world premiere at Cannes, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s follow up to "Babel," "Biutiful," starring Javier Bardem, has been acquired for U.S. distribution by Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment. Bardem collected the Best Actor Award at Cannes for the film earlier thi...
Read More »U.S. rights to Vadim Jendreyko's "The Woman with the Five Elephants" has been picked up by Cinema Guild. Ryan Krivoshey of The Cinema Guild negotiated the pact for the film with Susanna Guggenberger of Mira Film and Patrick Sibourd of Nour Films. "Elephants," which won the Sterling Award for a World...
Read More »The Chicago International Film Festival unveiled the first twenty films confirmed for this year's lineup. All festival screenings will take place October 7 through October 21 at the AMC River East 21 Theater. The festival will start with the prison drama "Stone" from director John Curran ("The Pai...
Read More »Actress Kerry Washington is poised to own this year's 14th annual Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by BET Networks. Not only will she serve as the festival's ambassador, but she plays the lead in Tanya Hamilton's "Night Catches Us," which is slated to open the festival, that runs from September 1...
Read More »An anticipated American movie is finally coming to theaters. U.S. rights to Andrew Jarecki's "All Good Things" have been picked up by Magnolia Pictures.
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