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PDA Signs On To Release SXSW Winning Docu ‘Brooklyn Castle’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 19, 2012 @ 8:30am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Brooklyn Castle, John Sloss, Richard Abramowitz
Mike Fleming

Brooklyn Castle MovieEXCLUSIVE: Producers Distribution Agency has signed on to release the SXSW Audience Award-winning documentary Brooklyn Castle. PDA is the releasing arm hatched by Cinetic Media’s John Sloss and Bart Walker that selectively takes on art house fare. Brooklyn Castle marks its fourth release, after the successful docus Senna and Exit Through The Gift Shop and the Emilio Estevez-directed drama The Way. Brooklyn Castle will be released October 19, and once again, Abramorama’s Richard Abramowitz and Bond Strategy’s Marc Schiller will guide the marketing and distribution of the Katie Dallamaggiore-directed film. READ MORE »

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SUNDANCE: Cinetic Annual Bash Gone?

By BRIAN BROOKS | Wednesday January 18, 2012 @ 7:59pm PSTTags: Cinetic, John Sloss, Sundance

A high point of Sundance’s annual party circuit – Cinetic’s Monday night bash at Zoom on Main Street — is apparently off. Insiders tell me that unless a last-minute sponsor comes forward, the party “likely” won’t be held. Sad, because … Read More »

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Emilio Estevez’s ‘The Way’ Finds Distribution

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 28, 2011 @ 11:34am PDTTags: Bart Walker, Cynthia Swartz, Emilio Estevez, Film Distribution, John Sloss, Martin Sheen, Richard Abramowitz, The Way
Mike Fleming

When Emilio Estevez launched The Way at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival, reaction was encouraging for the film he directed and which stars his father, Martin Sheen, as a grieving dad who walks The Camino de Santiago to honor his … Read More »

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Millennium Buying ‘Bernie’ With Jack Black

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 6:51pm PDTTags: Avi Lerner, Bernie, Cinetic, Graham Taylor, Jack Black, John Sloss, Los Angeles Film Festival, Mark Gill, Matthew McConaughey, Millennium Films, Richard Linklater, Shirley MacLaine, WME Global
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: A deal is near for Millennium Entertainment to acquire U.S. distribution rights to the Los Angeles Film Festival opening-night pic Bernie. I’m told that it will be the first significant grab for former Film Department co-head Mark Gill since … Read More »

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CANNES: Oscilloscope Acquires ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 23, 2011 @ 9:49am PDTTags: Adam Yauch, Bart Walker, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Ezra Miller, John C. Reilly, John Sloss, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Mike Fleming

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American distribution rights to We Need to Talk About Kevin, the Lynne Ramsay-directed pic that was a competition film at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Oscilloscope will release the film in the winter, with an … Read More »

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Sundance: Focus Features Acquires ‘Pariah,’ Buys Filmmaker’s Next Project

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 28, 2011 @ 7:56am PSTTags: Adepero Oduye, Andrew Karpen, Dee Rees, Focus Features, James Schamus, John Sloss, Lisa Cholodenko, Spike Lee
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has closed an acquisition deal for worldwide rights for Pariah, the Dee Rees-directed coming of age story of a 17-year old African American teen from Brooklyn trying to find her place in the world, and coming to … Read More »

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