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Factory 25 to Distribute ‘All the Light in the Sky’
Brooklyn-based distributors Factory 25 have announced that they have acquired the distribution rights to Drinking Buddies director Joe Swanberg's latest film, All the Light in the Sky.
The film stars Jane Adams as Marie, a middle-aged actress struggling in ...
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Oscilloscope to Distribute FantasticFest Mind-Bender ‘Coherence’
Distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories announced today that they have acquired the North American rights to Director James Byrkit's debut film, Coherence.
The film, which won genre festival FantasticFest's Next Wave Best Screenplay award, is about a group of...
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Sundance Selects to Distribute ‘Run and Jump’
Sundance Selects has announced that they have acquired the North American distribution rights to director Steph Green's Run and Jump.
The film follows Vanetia (Maxine Peaka), a woman trying to cope with her new circumstances after an accident drastically c...
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Lionsgate Considers ‘Hunger Games’ Theme Parks; Misses the Point of ‘Hunger Games’
Let's talk about irony for a minute.
The wildly popular Hunger Games YA book and film franchise takes its name from an event involving an arena constructed by a dystopian totalitarian government for the sole purpose of sending randomly selected children to...
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Sundance Selects Acquires German Oscar Contender ‘Two Lives’
Two Lives, Germany's submission for the Best Foreign Film category of this year's Academy Awards, will be distributed in the United States by Sundance Selects.
Directed by he Georg Mass and starring Juliane Kohler, Liv Ullman and Ken Duken, the film is abo...
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Focus Features International Will Be Shutting Down Dec. 31st
Following a change in leadership early last month, Focus Features will be shutting down it's London-based foreign sales office by year's end.
Today's announcement coincides with the start of Santa Monica's American Film Market, which Focus Features Interna...
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Blockbuster to Close All Stores, And There Was Weeping And Gnashing of Teeth
In an event that will signal countless thinkpieces reflecting on the current state of home cinema and the blogosphere's relation to it, Blockbuster announced that they will be ending all retail operations. The chain's 300 remaining U.S. stores, as well as its ...
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‘Ender’s Game’ and The New Anti-War America
By now, I’m sure you have heard about the long, winding road Ender’s Game took to the big screen. Despite the best efforts of some accomplished Hollywood filmmakers, it has taken 28 years for the adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s young adult book to finally be ...
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Call To Action: Bring Back Intermissions
During Hollywood's heyday in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s when long-form epics were all the rage, films, especially the higher-grossing ones, would run over three hours long. Lawrence of Arabia, the poster child for movies with intermissions, was aided tremendous...
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Why Racial Films Must Be Made By Black Directors
Hollywood finally seems interested in telling stories about race that aren't designed to appeal to conservative, white viewers.
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