Tag: Acquisitions Foreign Films
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...
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...
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...
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...
Participant Media Welcomes Pablo Larrain’s “Neruda” into the Club
They were already onboard as a financier/production company, now Variety reports that Participant Media have grabbed the North American rights to Pablo Larrain's sixth feature film...
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...
Disparate “Youth”: Fox Searchlight Fawn over Fonda in Palme d’Or Cannes Contender
The Fox Searchlight folks have always been a label who look towards Youth and they could technically be the first out of the gates among U.S. distributors...
Assassin’s Creed: Well Go USA is Protective of Kleiman’s Partisan
Winner for the Sundance World Cinema Special Jury Award for cinematography (Germain McMicking), Variety reports that Ariel Kleiman’s directorial debut will receive a theatrical release later this year. A major...
Down the Hatchet: Strand Take Advice from Pat Mills’ “Guidance”
We can coin this as a double Toronto Int. Film Festival acquisitions kind of day for the Strand Releasing folks --- according to Variety, they've...
Farhadi Not Forgotten; Cinema Guild Dig into The Past for “About Elly”
Rarely do we report on films being picked up a good half decade after the fact, but Cinema Guild's Ryan Krivoshey saw value in...
Live Free or Die; Roadside Attractions Land Dolan’s “Mommy”
In a deal that we can already claim as filmmaker Xavier Dolan's most significant opening in the U.S yet, the folks at Roadside Attractions...
Kino Lorber Sink Their Canines into Godard’s “Goodbye to Language”
Perhaps the most decisive film at the recent Cannes Film Festival, the Jury Prize winning Goodbye to Language has found a home in the U.S...
Music Box Madly in Love with Fabrice Du Welz’s “Alleluia”
Definitely in the Godfather: Part II category of films where the second instalment might be the jewel of a proposed trio of films, Fabrice...
Roadside Attractions Moves Behind Enemy Lines; Yann Demange’s ’71 Set for the Front Lines of 2015
THR reports that Roadside Attractions and the newly formed Black Label Media who are backing a trio of (Jean-Marc Vallée's Demolition, Denis Villeneuve's Sicario...
