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Hot Trailer: ‘Disconnect’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 3:08pm PSTTags: Disconnect, Jason Bateman, LD Entertainment

Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Andrea Riseborough and Alexander Skarsgård star in LD Entertainment‘s ensemble drama about the dangers of life in the digital age. Director Henry Alex Rubin, who earned an Oscar nomination for his 2005 documentary Murderball, helms his first narrative feature from a script by Andrew Stern. Mickey Liddell, Jennifer Monroe, and William Horberg produced the pic which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival. Disconnect opens in limited release April 12.

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William Friedkin-Directed ‘Killer Joe’ Will Be Released NC-17 By LD Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 7, 2012 @ 5:09pm PDTTags: Killer Joe, LD Entertainment, Matthew McConaughey, William Friedkin
Mike Fleming

Killer Joe Rating NC-17EXCLUSIVE: The William Friedkin-directed black comedy Killer Joe will be released by LD Entertainment on July 27 with an NC-17 rating. The film received that rating in late February, and the decision was made after the distributor and filmmaker unsuccessfully went through the appeals process before deciding they didn’t want to change the ending.

William Friedkin Killer JoeAn adaptation of the Tracy Letts play, Killer Joe is the first release by LD Entertainment after Mickey Liddell formed the distribution company late last year and hired veteran indie executive David Dinerstein to run it. It’s not the first time Friedkin turned in a cut of a film that drew a dreaded rating from the MPAA. While Friedkin tackled rough subject matter in films like The Exorcist and To Live And Die In L.A., he got an X-rating for the 1980 film Cruising, in which Al Pacino played a detective who goes undercover looking for a killer preying on gay men. Friedkin said he had to cut 40 minutes of that movie to get an R rating. But he won’t have to cut a frame of Killer Joe. LD Entertainment will release a trailer for the film tomorrow, and it will wear the NC-17 rating like a red badge of courage. Read More »

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MPAA Upholds NC-17 Rating For ‘Killer Joe’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 14, 2012 @ 2:43pm PDTTags: Killer Joe, LD Entertainment, Tracy Letts

‘Killer Joe’ Gets NC-17; Planning To Appeal Rating

LOS ANGELES — The Classification and Rating Appeals Board today upheld the NC-17 rating given to the movie Killer Joe. The Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) had assigned the movie the NC-17 rating for “graphic aberrant content involving violence and sexuality,

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‘Killer Joe’ Gets NC-17; Planning To Appeal Rating

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 4:56pm PSTTags: Killer Joe, LD Entertainment, NC-17, Tracy Letts
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Another movie has gotten an NC-17. Killer Joe, the Billy Friedkin-directed adaptation of the Tracy Letts play just got an NC-17 rating. That is one of the first releases by LD Entertainment, the new distribution company started by Mickey … Read More »

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Liz Berger Named SVP Publicity At LD Entertainment

By BRIAN BROOKS | Friday February 24, 2012 @ 12:30pm PSTTags: Albert Nobbs, David Dinerstein, LD Entertainment

The former Miramax and Weinstein Co publicity executive recently relocated to Los Angeles temporarily overseeing publicity at Screen Gems. She will remain in L.A. for her new position at LD Entertainment, where she will report to company president … Read More »

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Midnight Title ‘Black Rock’ Bought By Upstart LD Distribution: Sundance

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday January 22, 2012 @ 11:52am PSTTags: Black Rock, LD Entertainment, Sundance
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: LD Entertainment is closing a North American distribution deal for Black Rock, the thriller that premiered last night in a midnight screening at The Library. I’ve heard six figures [UPDATE: Several sources say price was in the … Read More »

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