Tag: Acquisitions: Foreign Films
Oscilloscope Isn’t Horsing Around with Ann Oren’s “Piaffe”
This week the Oscilloscope folks went shopping adding a Locarno comp title to their future slate. The company lands Ann Oren's Piaffe - which...
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...
Exclusive: KimStim Gets Medieval on Dumont – Capture “Joan of Arc” for Summer 2020 Release
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...
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. Starring his...
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...
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...
It’s Not a Joke: SPC Isn’t Monkeying Around with Palme d’Or Favorite “Toni Erdmann”
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...
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...
Alchemy Sedates Hadzihalilovic’s “Evolution” in Pre-Fest TIFF Pick-Up
We're already gearing up for some TIFF presales with this one coming from the delicious Vanguard programme offerings. Deadline reports that Lucile Hadzihalilovic's long awaited...
Perfect Ten: Sony Pictures Classics Reteams with Almodóvar on “Silencio”
Almost a full year before it likely premieres In Comp at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival (where it will surely compete against his produced...
Amplify Releasing Prepare Summer Harvest for Dolan’s “Tom at the Farm”
Going on almost two full years since it landed in competition for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Amplify Releasing have made their...
Creme Caramel: Zeitgeist Films Adopt Civeyrac’s “My Friend Victoria”
Having just been had the chance to shine at Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema last month, it may have flown...
Toddlerized Beat Generation: Kino Lorber Digs “The Kindergarten Teacher” from Sandbox
His allegorical, dense and at times discomforting sophomore film received a Special Screening slot during Cannes Film Fest's 2014 Critics' Week (see our video...
Making Their Next Moves: Broad Green Pictures Up for the Challenge with “The Dark Horse”
Their TIFF purchasing blitz wasn't exactly over and done with. After Samba, 99 Homes and Eden, Broad Green Pictures have now added a touch...
KimStim Leading the “Blind”; Bring Eskil Vogt’s Debut to Safety
They're responsible for landing some of the best in unwanted, rejected yet critically acclaimed festival winning titles all during the eleventh hour. As was the...
The Summer of Sangaile Flies onto Strand Releasing Radar
It's a national cinema that we barely mention here on the site, but Lithuania has received some big praise treatment by opening and winning...
They’ve Gotta Have It: Strand Releasing Add May Allah Bless France! to Future Bling
Strand Releasing's healthy appetite for French cinema is made once again apparent with the pick-up of Abd Al Malik's TIFF-preemed, double nominated (Best First...
Kino Lorber Get Behind the Wheel of Panahi’s Taxi
IndieWIRE reports that Kino Lorber has acquired the North American rights to Jafar Panahi's latest film, the third film (2011's This Is Not a Film...
Fox Searchlight Take a Dip with Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash”
Fox Searchlight folks have brought out their swim gear and might be getting ready for a Cannes Film Festival splash with Luca Guadagnino's highly anticipated...
Sure Shot: Adopt Films Bank on Sebastian Schipper’s “Victoria”
Perhaps making Sokurov's one-shot wonder Russian Ark feel a little dated, the Adopt Films crew have potentially "robbed" another fest favorite in the award-winning Berlin Film...
Sundance Selects Have No Doubts about Andrew Haigh’s “45 Years”
Among our most anticipated foreign films (#27) for 2015, along with Pablo Larraín's The Club, Andrew Haigh's 45 Years has turned out to be among...
Vote for Pedro; The Cinema Guild Off to Races with Costa’s “Horse Money”
There is a special place in cinema heaven for the likes of Locarno programmer Mark Peranson, TIFF programmer Andréa Picard and The Cinema Guild's...
Live Flesh: Cohen Media Get In Touch with their Feminine Side with Ozon’s “The New Girlfriend”
After a one film hiatus, the Cohen Media Group are once again working with the prolific François Ozon. While the rights to his previous film,...
Daft Funk: Broad Green Pictures Raving about Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Eden”
Perhaps making a more robust offer than IFC Films (who released her last pair of features in Goodbye First Love and The Father of...
Broad Green Pictures Place “Samba” in Detention; TIFF Proving Fruitful for New Distrib
They've yet to sink their teeth into the complexities of the game, but Broad Green Pictures (going by the acronym of BGP) are in...