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‘Metallica Through The Never’ Pic Opens September 27 With IMAX Run

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 9:27am PDTTags: IMAX, Metallica Through The Never, Picturehouse

Bob Berney’s rebooted Picturehouse has set the release pattern for its first distribution effort, the 3D feature starring Metallica’s band members and Chronicle‘s Dane DeHaan. Metallica Through The Never is written and directed by Nimrod Antal and marries groundbreaking concert footage and editing techniques with a feature film narrative, in which a band crew member (DeHaan) is sent out on a mission during Metallica’s roaring show. While out, he unexpectedly has his life turned completely upside down. Charlotte Huggins (Journey To The Center Of The Earth) produced. The pic will get an exclusive one-week IMAX run in North America beginning September 27 before expanding into more theaters October 4.

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Berlin: Stephen Herek To Direct Kathy Bates, Danny Glover In ‘The Great Gilly Hopkins’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday February 8, 2013 @ 7:43am PSTTags: Berlin Film Festival, EFM, Picturehouse

Kathy Bates and Danny Glover are attached to star in The Great Gilly Hopkins, the bigscreen adaptation of Katherine Paterson’s Newbery Award-winning novel. Stephen Herek is directing the story of a wisecracking girl who moves from … Read More »

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The Berneys Are Back With Picturehouse, And They’ve Got Metallica: Sundance

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 15, 2013 @ 1:34pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Bob Berney, Picturehouse, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Wrap-Up
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BREAKING: One of my questions for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival has been answered: when the heck are Bob and Jeanne Berney getting back into the indie distribution mix? Well, they’re back. They’ve restarted Picturehouse, the shingle Berney ran before it was shut down by Warner Bros. After that, the Berneys started Apparition with Bill Pohlad, and left to start FilmDistrict with Peter Schlessel. After they left, they’ve been quietly been percolating the next move.

At a relaunched Picturehouse, the Berneys get underway distributing a new film: Metallica Through The Never. It stars the guys in the band (who were so memorable in the 2004 documentary Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster), and Dane DeHaan, the Chronicle star who plays a band crew member. Here’s the announcement, and it will be interesting to see if they will be active players in what is shaping up to be a promising acquisitions marketplace that will kick into gear this weekend in Park City:

Picturehouse, the full-service independent film marketing and distribution company started in 2005, is reopening its doors with founder Bob Berney at the helm. Berney will serve as CEO and Jeanne Berney will serve as President of the relaunched company, which will continue to be based in New York.

“We are absolutely thrilled to be back in business under the Picturehouse banner,” said Mr. Berney, who recently acquired the trademark and logo from Warner Bros. “We worked very hard to build it into a brand known for acquiring exciting, challenging and entertaining films from the U.S. and around the world, and helping them find their audiences.”

Picturehouse’s first new release will be Metallica Through The Never a feature film starring members of the iconic rock band and Dane DeHaan (Chronicle, The Amazing Spider-Man 2). DeHaan plays a young band crew member who is sent out on an urgent mission while the band is playing a rousing live set in front of a sold-out crowd and unexpectedly finds his world turned completely upside down. The film, written and directed by Nimród Antal (Kontroll, Predators), is due in theaters August 9. One of the bestselling rock acts of all time, Metallica has sold over 105 million albums worldwide.

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Who’s Adopted This Orphaned Cash Cow?

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday May 30, 2008 @ 4:54pm PDTTags: Abigail Breslin, Actors, HBO Films, Movies, Picturehouse, Studios, Warner Bros

It’s hard not to root for a Depression era kiddie movie that costs under $9 million, showcases good clean fun for little girls, and stars Abigail Breslin, the Hayley Mills of her generation, as well as a great supporting cast of very funny adults … Read More »

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End Of Picturehouse Was Predicted; But End Of Warner Independent Not So Much

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday May 8, 2008 @ 10:49am PDTTags: New Line Cinema, Picturehouse, Studios, Warner Bros, Warner Independant Pictures

Everyone knew for months this was going to happen since it was just a matter of time after New Line was brought under Warner Bros. But the news still means that today is Black Thursday for all those people working at … Read More »

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