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Grasshopper Film Paints “Right Now, Wrong Then” onto 2016 Slate
Grasshopper Film’s Ryan Krivoshey is slowly building his company’s year one slate and has picked up one of the best undistributed films from South Korea’s most prolific auteur filmmaker. Continue...
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Hang Noose: Music Box Films Find Swede Spot with “A Man Called Ove”
Next to Ikea, the Music Box Films folks are perhaps the biggest importers of Swedish culture, so after bringing The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (a stinker item according...
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Frenemy With Benefits: Strand Releasing Adopt Andre Techine’s “Being 17″
Continuing their longstanding relationship with French filmmaker, Variety reports that Strand Releasing have added the Berlin Intl. Film Fest comp Being 17 to their evergrowing Andre Techine library....
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Croisette High Tide: Dumont’s “Slack Bay” Disappears into Kino Lorber Slate
Not to be outdone by SPC and IFC (they just nabbed films Mungiu’s Graduation and the Dardenne’s The Unknown Girl), it pays to have longstanding relationship with world renowned auteurs and Richard...
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Vicious Village: Well Go USA Puts Spell on “The Wailing”
Last year, Well Go USA made an impressive, headline grabbing pre-Cannes move in picking up Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin and now lightning strikes twice as they’ve partnered with Fox International...
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It’s Not a Joke: SPC Isn’t Monkeying Around with Palme d’Or Favorite “Toni...
Sony Pictures Classics might have nabbed this year’s Palme d’Or winner. Of course, time (a little less than a week) will tell if Maren Ade‘s Toni Erdmann is crowned by the jury, but one thing is for...
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Cinema Guild Orders Bed Rest for Albert Serra’s “The Death of Louis XIV”
Considered Jean-Pierre Léaud’s “best role and most noteworthy performance in some time”, Cinema Guild have landed the rights to the out of comp Cannes selected The Death of Louis XIV. Continue reading...
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Grasshopper Films Shepherds Pietro Marcello’s “Lost and Beautiful”
A filmmaker we’ve been keeping tabs on since his acclaimed The Mouth of the Wolf landed in 2009 has found a supporter in Grasshopper Film’s Ryan Krivoshey. Continue reading...
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X Marx the Spot: Amazon Weaponize for 2018 with Pawlikowski’s “Cold War”
Amazon Studios are getting their 2018 awardage game on. Variety reports that they’ve come on board to distribute Paweł Pawlikowski‘s Cold War. Continue reading...
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Exclusive: KimStim Gets Medieval on Dumont – Capture “Joan of Arc” for Summer...
After grabbing Cannes’ Un Certain Regard preemed Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come earlier this month, the Brooklyn based distrib KimStim have gone back to the Cannes sidebar to land yet another prize...
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Exclusive: KimStim CUT TO Frank Beauvais’“Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream”
Pushing the notion of cinema as a sanctuary to a personal extremes and artistic freedoms, the KimStim folks have landed North American Rights to 2019 Berlin Film Festival’s Forum sidebar selected Frank...
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Shu Qi Flows into Taipei: Hou Hsiao-Hsien Set to Begin Production on “Shulan...
Thanks to the interwebs, we learn that master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien is finally set to begin pre-production on the long gestating Shulan River. Continue reading...
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Neon Checks Into Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel
The Neon folks are packing their backpacks for The Royal Hotel landing the North American rights to Kitty Green’s new feature film that is just months away from production. Continue reading...
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¡vamos! Iñárritu: Netflix Has Big Plans for “BARDO, Chronicle of a Handful of...
After losing out on fellow Mexican helmer Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma going to Venice, I’m certain that Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux would have loved to lock down Alejandro G. Continue reading...
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Mubi Lands Palme d’Or Hopeful “Decision to Leave”
The wallets are officially open and Mubi are the first to move on available Palme d’Or titles taking the rights (on several territories) for North America on Park Chan-wook‘s Decision to Leave....
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Grasshopper Film & Gratitude Films Fly Over to Albert Serra’s “Pacifiction”
Men in white suits were a thing in week two of the Cannes Film Festival’s competition this year — with Benoît Magimel in Mr. Continue reading...
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