Tag: acquisitions-foreign-films
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Music Box Have a Wandering Eye For Fontaine’s “Gemma Bovery”
After shoring up in Toronto with their Cannes pick-ups in Alleluia and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, the Music Box Films folks have landed...