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Guillaume Canet’s English-language directorial debut Blood Ties is here in the official selection, out of competition. Lionsgate has taken U.S. 
distribution rights in what I hear is an over $2M deal, which is understood to be the biggest of the festival so far. The film will go out via Lionsgate sister company Roadside Attractions. Canet and James Gray wrote the script about two brothers, one a cop and one an ex-con. It’s based on the French film Les Liens Du Sang which starred Canet. He stayed behind the camera for this one with Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Domenick Lombardozzi, Mila Kunis, Matthias Schoenaerts, Zoé Saldana and James Caan starring. Lionsgate UK took rights for that territory last year. READ MORE »
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Cannes: Lionsgate Acquires U.S. On Guillaume Canet’s ‘Blood Ties’
Roadside Attractions, Sony Acquire Sundance Pic ‘In A World’
LOS ANGELES, CA – February 21, 2013 – Following a jubilant debut at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and a competitive
pursuit by distributors, Roadside Attractions acquired U.S. rights, while Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) acquired International rights, to comic charmer IN A WORLD…, written and directed by Lake Bell. Roadside Attractions is planning a summer 2013 release for the film. The film premiered to rave reviews in Sundance’s prestigious Dramatic Competition category and garnered Bell the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, whose past recipients include Christopher Nolan for Memento as well Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Winter’s Bone.
Kristen Wiig Film ‘Imogene’ Gets New Title And July 19th Release Date
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions, which made one of the splashiest deals at the last Toronto Film Festival in acquiring U.S. distribution rights to the Kristen Wiig-Annette Bening-starrer Imogene, has set the film for a July 19 nationwide release. They’ve also changed the film’s title to the catchier Girl Most Likely.
When it was bought, I remember thinking that Imogene was an awful title, unless the film was a biopic of Imogene Coca, and I wouldn’t go see that movie anyway. The new title is a clever reference to Wiig’s character, a one-time playwright-to-watch who unfortunately has saved her most dramatic moments for her trainwreck of a life. A crisis of confidence stunts her professional momentum and when her boyfriend dumps her, she fakes a suicide attempt. She thinks he’ll be sympathetic and take her back. Instead, she’s consigned to return home to Jersey to live with her estranged gambling addict batshit crazy mother (Bening). Matt Dillon, Christopher Fitzgerald, and Darren Criss also star, and American Splendor‘s Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer directed from Michelle Morgan’s script. Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, Alix Madigan-Yorkin and Mark Amin produced it. Read More »
‘Avengers’ Helmer Joss Whedon Steps Back Into Spring–This Time With Shakespeare
EXCLUSIVE: Joss Whedon, who late last spring set the blockbuster tone for summer with the May release of The Avengers, will venture further into the warm weather season with his next film — this time aiming for the counter-programming buck. Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate have set a June 7 opening for Much Ado About Nothing, Whedon’s contemporized adaptation of the William Shakespeare play. The film will open that day in five markets and then broaden out June 21. Read More »
Roadside, Lionsgate Split ‘Emperor’ Rights
Toronto, September 14, 2012 – Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Peter Webber’s Emperor, which had its world premiere this evening at the Toronto International Film Festival. Roadside will release theatrically, and all
Toronto: Lionsgate & Roadside Near Consummation On Sex Addict Dramedy ‘Thanks For Sharing’
EXCLUSIVE: In what is shaping up as their second big Toronto Film Festival deal in the last 12 hours, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have teamed to acquire the Stuart Blumberg-directed Thanks For Sharing. 
I’m hearing the deal is nearly done for an over $2 million minimum guarantee for U.S. rights with a commitment for a theatrical release and not a day-and-date VOD plan. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad and Gwyneth Paltrow, and it made its debut Saturday night at the Ryerson.
This follows last night’s Lionsgate-Roadside deal for the Kristen Wiig-Annette Bening comedy Imogene. Blumberg, who scripted this and also wrote the indie smash The Kids Are All Right, here focuses on three recovering sex addicts who, despite a history of promiscuity and raucous romps, struggle to maintain meaningful relationships among lingering temptations as they go through a 12-step rehab program. It’s Blumberg’s directing debut. Read More »
Toronto: Lionsgate And Roadside Team For ‘Imogene’
Lionsgate bought U.S. distribution rights to Imogene, the Kristen Wiig-Annette Bening dysfunctional comedy. They had been rumored as the buyers yesterday, but the sellers of the film put me off saying they were just one of several bids, … Read More »
Toronto: Roadside Attractions Buys Sarah Polley Doc ‘Stories We Tell’
TORONTO, September 10, 2012 – Roadside Attractions has acquired all U.S. rights to STORIES WE TELL, the latest film from Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Sarah Polley (AWAY FROM HER, TAKE THIS WALTZ) produced by Anita Lee from
Hot Trailer: ‘Branded’
This trailer for Branded looks more than a little creepy with echoes of David Cronenberg, John Carpenter and even David Fincher. The premise? Mind control and global domination via advertising with subliminal messages that trigger irresistible appetites and urges to consume mass quantities. From Roadside Attractions, the English-language Russian … Read More »
Roadside Picks Up ‘Escape Fire’ Healthcare Documentary
LOS ANGELES, CA – May 30, 2012 – Roadside Attractions has acquired all U.S. rights to the award-winning documentary, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, which had its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and captured prizes at the recent Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Newport Beach Film Festival, where it took Outstanding Documentary and Outstanding Director Achievement Awards.
Specialty Box Office: ‘Where Do We Go Now?,’ ‘God Bless America’ And Three More
Debate about the role of critics and the demise of local newspapers frequently surfaces among specialty filmmakers and distributors. And for some specialized fare opening this weekend, critics definitely played a big part. Critics and audience reaction prompted Sony Classics to pick up Where Do We Go Now? after initial hesitation. And Roadside Attractions’ theatrical release Tonight You’re Mine appears to have scored some high-powered critical acclaim the distributer is hoping will give the feature a positive push. Also this weekend among specialty offerings, Magnet Releasing bows the thriller God Bless America at sister company Landmark Theatre following a VOD debut. First Run Features’ Nobody Else But You is going for straight theatrical after exhibitors scoffed at a possible VOD component and A Bag Of Hammers also joins this weekend’s limited openers. Read More »
Roadside Attractions Acquires North American Distribution On ‘Branded’
EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions co-president Howard Cohen has closed a deal to acquire North American rights to Branded. The plan is for a nationwide theatrical release this September. Lionsgate has home entertainment, VOD and other ancillary rights through their output deal. The film’s described as a dark and mind-bending journey into a surreal, dystopian society where corporate brands have unleashed a monstrous global conspiracy to get inside our minds and keep the population disillusioned, dependent and passive. One man’s (Ed Stoppard) passion to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with the hidden forces that really control our world.
Specialty Box Office: ‘The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye,’ ‘Friends With Kids,’ ‘Good For Nothing,’ ‘Jiro Dreams Of Sushi,’ ‘Salmon Fishing In The Yemen’
This weekend’s specialty releases includes Friends With Kids, which will open in over 300 locations on one end and doc Jiro Dreams Of Sushi, slated for two initial runs in New York before heading slowly out in other cities on the other. Fresh from its string of Berlin acquisitions, Adopt Films will open The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye Stateside, while New Zealand “spaghetti western” Good For Nothing makes its way to theaters from down under. Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is also among this weekend’s specialty offerings – a project he took over before shooting.
The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye
Director: Marie Losier
Cast: Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P’Orridge and Big Boy Breyer P’Orridge
Distributor: Adopt Films
One of the early pick ups by Adopt Films, the documentary about artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye was picked up by Adopt Films last Labor Day by the newly formed company co-headed by the veteran specialty distributor Jeff Lipsky who co-founded October Films back in the ’90s. “I don’t know that I’ve ever been involved with another film after distributing over 230 films that has been in production for seven years,” Lipsky told Deadline. He and partner Tim Grady made news at the recent Berlin International Film Festival picking up a number of films from the event’s competition lineup, surprising even Lipsky. “It was a surreal experience. We saw so many films in main competition that blew me away, so we decided to go for buying films. We thought we’d never get them but we did. That (experience) never happened at October or Lot 47 Films.”
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Roadside Attractions Makes Pre-SXSW Deal For ‘Blue Like Jazz’
EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to Blue Like Jazz, the Steve Taylor-directed film that will have its world premiere in the Narrative Spotlight section of SXSW on March 13. The film is based on the Donald Miller semi-autobiographical bestseller. It was adapted by the author, the director and Ben Pearson. True Blood‘s Marshall Allman plays Don, a pious 19-year old soph at a Texas junior college who leaves the shelter of his conservative religious upbringing to attend Portland’s Reed College, a progressive campus. The culture clash forces him to discover himself and what he really believes. Claire Holt and Tania Raymonde also star, and Taylor, J. Clarke Gallivan and Coke Sams produced. Lionsgate will handle DVD, VOD and TV through its output deal with Roadside. They teamed on Margin Call. Roadside’s Howard Cohen made the deal with the director and V.T. Murray for the Tennessee-based The Panda Fund. Roadside releases it April 13. Read More »
Roadside Attractions Nabs U.S. And Latin American Rights To ’30 Beats’
Directed, written and produced by Alexis Lloyd, 30 Beats has been picked up by Roadside Attractions for U.S. and Latin America. Lionsgate will handle all non-theatrical rights for the film including VOD, DVD and television in those … Read More »
OSCARS: ‘Margin Call’ Nomination Bolsters VOD Fest Push
Can Actors Be Sold On The VOD Business Model? Sundance Buyers Ponder That…
One of the hot topics of discussion at Sundance has been how viable VOD-centric releases can be in the Oscar race. While independents received 60 nominations … Read More »
23rd GLAAD Film/TV Awards Nominations
Despite GLAAD’s recent criticism of ABC over cross-dressing comedy Work It, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation showered the network with nominations for its 23th annual media awards. ABC was the leader by a mile, scoring eight nominations, more than all other broadcasting networks combined. The only other network to land more than two nominations was Showtime with three. On the feature side, two studios landed multiple nominations: Focus Features and Roadside Attractions. The 23rd annual awards will be held in New York on March 24, Los Angeles on April 21 and San Francisco on June 2. Here is the list of film and TV nominees:
OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE
Albert Nobbs (Roadside Attractions)
Beginners (Focus Features)
J. Edgar (Warner Bros. Pictures)
OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE
Circumstance (Roadside Attractions)
Gun Hill Road (Motion Film Group)
Pariah (Focus Features)
Tomboy (Rocket Releasing)
Weekend (Sundance Selects) Read More »
Double Toronto TOLDJA! Lionsgate Confirms ‘Friends With Kids’ Deal
Deadline revealed during the festival that Lionsgate was bearing down on a deal to release the Jennifer Westfeldt-directed comedy Friends With Kids, in partnership with Roadside Attractions in a deal made by Cinetic and Red Granite. Lionsgate has just issued the press release:
SANTA MONICA, CA (September 21, 2011) – LIONSGATE® (NYSE: LGF), a leading global entertainment company today announced the acquisition of Red Granite Pictures’ FRIENDS WITH KIDS, directed by Jennifer Westfeldt, following its debut screenings at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. The announcement was made jointly by Steve Beeks, Lionsgate’s President and co-COO, Joe Drake, co-COO and Motion Picture Group President, and Jason Constantine, President of Acquisitions and Co-Productions.
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