Tag: acquisitions-documentary-films
Southside with You: Oscilloscope Breathe More Life into “Los Sures”
After playing like gangbusters (or more apropos, like ghetto blasters) for the past two weekends at the The Metrograph (grabbing $60,000 and change), Diego...
The Girl Fiend Experience: Grasshopper Investigates “Kate Plays Christine”
One of the Sundance Film Festival's more rewarding, challenging viewing experiences (Top 5 on my list), Grasshopper Films have landed Kate Plays Christine for...
Paired Pear: Grasshopper Film Harvest “Portrait of a Garden”
We're currently in the winter thaw, and Grasshopper Film's Ryan Krivoshey is thinking beyond tulip season landing the Berlin Film Fest preemed Rosie Stapel docu Portrait of a...
In the Eye of the Storm: IFC Films Lands “Weiner” in Pre-Sundance Pick-Up
Just in time for the cuckoo American political season comes a double down cautionary tale revolving around the public eye meltdown and media frenzy surrounding Anthony...
Tom Quinn, Jason Janego & Tim League Figure Out “Where to Invade Next”
Michael Moore might have turned a new leaf with his topical, engaging, simple and endearing TIFF premiered Where to Invade Next but so have...
Pins & Needles: The Orchard Take “Crocodile Gennadiy” into Their Own Hands
Despite the Tribeca Film Fest only being at the halfway mark it would appear that we have already have a critical darling and front-runner among...
A24 Go Back to…: Distrib Jazzed About Asif Kapadia’s “Amy”
Tipped for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, and knowing how well Senna played globally and how Amy Winehouse in her short time became an...
The Orchard Have Bulletproof Plan for Heineman’s “Cartel Land”
While top honors at this year's Sundance Film Festival would go to The Wolfpack, it is Matthew Heineman's Best Director Award and Special Jury...
Suburban Seidl: Strand Adds “In the Basement” to the Collection
Having previously released all three items his Paradise: Trilogy, Screen Daily reports that Strand Releasing have excavated Ulrich Seidl's out of comp Venice Film Festival...
Giving a Voice to the Victims; RADiUS & CNN Films Support Kirby Dick’s Campus Sexual Assaults Doc
Housing current award season/hot button docu front-runners in The Great Invisible and CITIZENFOUR, Tom Quinn and Jason Janego's RADiUS are already thinking ahead towards...
Anything But Crude; RADiUS Dives into Margaret Brown’s “The Great Invisible”
RADiUS' Tom Quinn and Jason Janego have traded in suit & tie garb for some wetsuit gear as they've landed the rights to Margaret...
O-Scope Do Whatever Common People Do; Distrib Grabs SXSW Docu “Pulp: A Film About Life, Death, And Supermarkets”
Austin's tents might be put away and the venue halls are emptied but the flurry of expected post SXSW fest deals are in overdrive....
Please Don’t Stop the Music; BOND/360 Like the Sounds of Aud Fave “Alive Inside”
Not unlike the Beanie Baby popularity of the 90s, it appears that 2014 batch of Sundance docs are all the craze among indie and...
Drafthouse Loves Thy Neighbor; Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters Finds Distrib Housing
After taking The Act of Killing to the bank, Drafthouse's Tim League smells another docu winner. A full two months after its premiere in...
F For Fake…Oscilloscope Grab “Art and Craft” Prior to Tribeca Film Fest Premiere
If Tim's Vermeer found traces of lenses and mirrors in the painting process, Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman's Art and Craft looks to set...
Boston Bulger; Magnolia Adds Berlinger’s Gangster Docu to Most Wanted List
A couple of months post festival, and a large number of Sundance preemed docs are being cuffed up by the docu distrib forces around...
Who Picked Up Lambert & Stamp? Barker & Bernard’s Sony Pictures Classics That’s Who
Taking a strategic page from big studios dependence on pre-existing characters with a built in fanbase, Sony Pictures Classics docu line-up works with some...
Participant & Samuel Goldwyn Get Schooled with “Ivory Tower”; Rossi Sundance Docu Hits Theatrically in June
School might be out for summer, but this coming June, Participant Media and Samuel Goldwyn Films are adding the student debt question to the...
Fisherman’s Friend; AFFRM Nets Slamdance Preemed Vanishing Pearls
The folks at AFFRM are testing the docu-waters picking up the worldwide rights to Vanishing Pearls. Plans are to have Nailah Jefferson's debut/Slamdance preemed...
Rich Hill Double Bill; The Orchard & PBS Mine For Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner
Deadline reports that 2014 Sundance's Grand Jury Prize Documentary winner has found a double down of a deal: a theatrical distrib home with the...
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