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You know, I woke up this morning and thought to myself the world could use another lonewolf assassin flick, preferably of the dragged out of retirement variety. Apparently the bigwigs at Summit Entertainment were thinking the same thing, announcing today that they’ve acquired the rights to the DC Comics miniseries Red.

British outfit Icon Film Distribution has picked up the UK home and theatre rights to acclaimed director Ken Loach’s latest Looking for Eric, currently in production in Manchester. The film is being repped by the fine folks at Wild Bunch with Sixteen Films, Canto Bros., and Why Not Productions adding to the British/French co-production.

"Instead of just digesting the reflections of one man as in An Inconvenient Truth, viewers receive a gamut of talking head-delivered information, interspersed with shockingly beautiful and shockingly devastating images of our globe (of the 10 o’clock news variety)."

Less than a year since the passing of his co-producing partner Anthony Minghella, Academy Award-winning director and part-time supporting actor Sydney Pollack has passed away at the age of 73 after battling with cancer.

Well that didn’t take long. The 61st Festival de Cannes is just underway and the first major pickup has already been made. IFC Films has ponied up for the domestic rights to Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel).