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FilmDistrict Launches Boutique Distribution Label

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 15, 2013 @ 11:53am PDTTags: FilmDistrict, High Top Releasing

Los Angeles April 15, 2013 – FilmDistrict announced today the launch of High Top Releasing, a new boutique label which will provide theatrical booking services to independent producers. This new label, which will exist as a standalone subsidiary under FilmDistrict, will provide distribution-for-hire services including sales, in-theatre marketing and print control support, film rental negotiation and collection capabilities to independent producers who have the ability to provide their own prints-and-advertising and marketing resources. Films released under the High Top moniker will be distinct from FilmDistrict and will not be accounted for in the studio’s box-office revenue share. The label will launch with the release of romantic drama I’M IN LOVE WITH A CHURCH GIRL, in association with Mission Pictures Releasing, which stars rapper Ja Rule, alongside Adrianne Bailon and Michael Madsen; and THE ULTIMATE LIFE, sequel to THE ULTIMATE GIFT, starring Peter Fonda, Logan Bartholemew , Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwhether and Ali Hillis.

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FilmDistrict Boards Paranormal Horror Pic ‘The Last Word’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 10, 2013 @ 11:42am PDTTags: FilmDistrict, The Last Word

FilmDistrict has come on to co-finance and release the true story horror pic, set to hit theaters in 2014. Based on actual events, The Last Word unfolds after a young Texas man is wrongfully convicted … Read More »

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FilmDistrict Acquires U.S. Rights To Paul W.S. Anderson’s ‘Pompeii’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 9, 2013 @ 4:31pm PDTTags: FilmDistrict, Paul W.S. Anderson, Pompeii

FilmDistrict has acquired U.S. rights to Pompeii, the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed action adventure film, set for a February 28, 2014 release. Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Ann Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and … Read More »

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Release Date Roundup: FilmDistrict’s ‘Walk Of Shame’; Summit’s ‘Escape Plan’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 9, 2013 @ 3:07pm PDTTags: Escape Plan, FilmDistrict, Insidious Chapter 2, Walk of Shame

The Elizabeth Banks-starrer Walk Of Shame will bow wide September 20, 2013. That’s the date FilmDistrict originally planned to release its horror sequel Insidious Chapter 2, but the distributor has now shifted that title up a week to a September 13, where it will face Open Road’s Machete Kills and Screen Gems’ drama Battle Of The Year. Steve Brill wrote and directed Walk Of Shame, a romantic comedy about an aspiring reporter (Banks) whose dreams of becoming a network news anchor are compromised after a one-night stand with a handsome stranger (James Marsden) leaves her stranded in downtown LA without a phone, car, ID or money – and eight hours to make it to a big job interview. Read More »

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FilmDistrict Ups Three In Business Affairs, Finance & Marketing

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday March 4, 2013 @ 10:38am PSTTags: FilmDistrict

LOS ANGELES March 4, 2013 – Independent U.S. distributor FilmDistrict announced today the promotion of three executives within the company’s business affairs, finance, and marketing divisions. Beth Lemberger will move in to the role of Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel, continuing to report to FilmDistrict CEO Peter Schlessel; Brad Goldberg now holds the new title Executive Vice President of Media and Digital, and will continue to report to Christine Birch, FilmDistrict’s President of Marketing; and Anjay Nagpal has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Finance and Business Development, continuing to report to Chief Operating Officer Adrian Alperovich.

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‘Insidious Chapter 2′ Release Pushed To September 20

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 3:02pm PSTTags: FilmDistrict, Insidious Chapter 2

FilmDistrict said today the sequel to the low-budget 2011 horror pic will now be released September 20, 2013. It originally was scheduled for August 30, when it would have gone up against four films including The Weinstein Company’s own … Read More »

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Sony Moves ‘Evil Dead’ Into April 5 Slot After Fox Bumps ‘The Heat’ To Summer

By JEN YAMATO | Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 12:55pm PSTTags: Evil Dead, FilmDistrict, Sony Pictures, The Heat

Evil Dead RemakeSony has shifted the release of its reboot with FilmDistrict of Evil Dead to April 5 now that Fox has moved its Sandra Bullock-Melissa McCarthy comedy … Read More »

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Sundance: Sales Action Heating Up On ‘Austenland,’ ‘Look Of Love’ And Others

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday January 20, 2013 @ 8:24pm PSTTags: Austenland, FilmDistrict, IFC Films, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Wrap-Up, The Look Of Love
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The Sundance acquisition logjam appears to be breaking. Deal-making is close on Austenland, and a deal just closed on The Look Of Love, with offers starting to be made on several other films. Word is that FilmDistrict is in talks for Austenland, which stars Keri Russell as an obsessed Jane Austen fan who visits a theme park based on the famed author’s work and her search for romance. Pic’s repped by UTA, which tells me this hasn’t been decided yet.

At the same time, a deal is closing for IFC to acquire North American rights to the Michael Winterbottom-directed Steve Coogan-starrer The Look Of Love. Coogan plays Paul Raymond, who ran Soho’s notorious Raymond Revue Bar and Men Only magazine. UTA consulted for Studiocanal on the deal. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Dead Man Down’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 2, 2013 @ 1:09pm PSTTags: Colin Farrell, Dead Man Down, FilmDistrict, Noomi Rapace

The first trailer for the Colin Farrell-starring Dead Man Down dropped today. Niels Arden Oplev directed the crime thriller, about a professional killer and right-hand man to an underground New York crime lord who’s seduced and blackmailed by a crime victim seeking retribution. The latter juicy role is … Read More »

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FilmDistrict Moves ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ To March 22, 2013

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday December 14, 2012 @ 12:34pm PSTTags: FilmDistrict, Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down
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BREAKING: Perhaps trying to create more space between competing movies, FilmDistrict has moved Olympus Has Fallen to March 22. That film, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman, has a storyline very similar to … Read More »

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‘Insidious’ Sequel Set For Aug 30, 2013

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 19, 2012 @ 3:17pm PSTTags: Alliance Films, FilmDistrict, Insidious Chapter 2, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions

The cast, writer Leigh Whannell and director James Wan are returning for Insidious Chapter 2, which FilmDistrict will release August 30, 2013. The first horror pic, released in April 2011, was one of the most profitable films of … Read More »

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FilmDistrict Picks Up ‘Olympus Has Fallen’; Thriller Set For April 5, 2013 Release

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday October 26, 2012 @ 3:55pm PDTTags: FilmDistrict, Millennium Films, Olympus Has Fallen

FilmDistrict has acquired domestic distribution rights to the White House action thriller Olympus Has Fallen. The company will release the Millennium Films-produced movie April 5, 2013, in the U.S. This puts the picture ahead of … Read More »

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Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ Gets October 2013 Release Date

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday October 19, 2012 @ 11:14am PDTTags: FilmDistrict, Oldboy, Spike Lee

FilmDistrict so far has October 11, 2013 all to itself on the release schedule with Oldboy, which stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley and Samuel L. Jackson in a remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 cult suspense thriller. … Read More »

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Toronto: FilmDistrict Grabs U.S. Rights To Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 7:33am PDTTags: FilmDistrict, Josh Brolin, Oldboy, Spike Lee
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BREAKING: FilmDistrict grabbed US distribution rights to Oldboy, the Spike Lee-directed remake of the crazy South Korean suspense film. Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley star. Roy Lee and Doug Davison via Vertigo Entertainment and Nathan Kahane on behalf … Read More »

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‘Red Dawn’ World Premiere To Close Fantastic Fest

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 10:35am PDTTags: Fantastic Fest, FilmDistrict, Red Dawn

Red Dawn Fantastic FestRed Dawn, based on the 1984 film of the same name, stars Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, Josh Hutcherson, Josh Peck, and Adrianne Palicki and will have its world premiere September 27 at the Austin-based festival. … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Playing For Keeps’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 7, 2012 @ 2:26pm PDTTags: FilmDistrict, Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Playing For Keeps

Here’s a look at Gerard Butler as a retired soccer pro in Playing For Keeps. Butler’s character suffers from a roving eye that ruined his marriage and alienated his son (Noah Lomax), and he moves closer to them to try to mend the relationships. Directed by Gabriele … Read More »

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FilmDistrict Renames Gerard Butler Soccer Comedy ‘Playing For Keeps’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 16, 2012 @ 7:21pm PDTTags: FilmDistrict, Gerard Butler, Playing For Keeps

The newly titled Playing For Keeps (formerly Playing The Field) remains set for a December 7 wide release from FilmDistrict, which acquired the title at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The Nu Image/Millennium Films comedy stars Gerard Butler … Read More »

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FilmDistrict Hires New Line’s Elissa Greer As SVP Publicity

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday June 25, 2012 @ 2:56pm PDTTags: FilmDistrict, New Line Cinema

Related: FilmDistrict Hires Trio Of Marketing Execs

LOS ANGELES – June 25, 2012 –Independent North American distributor FilmDistrict announced today that Elissa Greer has joined the studio as Senior Vice President of Publicity, overseeing the Company’s domestic theatrical publicity and promotional campaigns. Greer, a seasoned executive who built her career at the independently oriented New Line Cinema, will report to Christine Birch, FilmDistrict’s President of Marketing, who made today’s announcement. The hiring of Greer completes the senior executive team working under Birch, a team that shares a wide range of experience, a passion for film, and the desire to build FilmDistrict into a market leader.

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‘Dead Man Down’ Gets Release Date

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 21, 2012 @ 11:26am PDTTags: Colin Farrell, Dead Man Down, FilmDistrict

FilmDistrict has announced an April 5, 2013 release date for the Niels Arden Oplev-helmed Dead Man Down. The film stars Colin Farrell as Victor, a professional killer and the right-hand man to an underground crime … Read More »

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