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Cannes: Sundance Selects Acquires Dardenne Brothers’ ‘Two Days, One Night’ With Marion Cotillard

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday May 19, 2013 @ 7:15am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Sundance Selects, Two Days One Night
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sundance Selects has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Two Days, One Night, which will be directed by two-time Palme d’Or-winning auteurs Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and stars Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione and Olivier Gourmet. She signed on to star in February, and shooting will take place in Belgium this summer. Cotillard plays Sandra, a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job. Longtime Dardenne collaborator Rongione plays Cotillard’s husband. The film is a co-production between the Dardennes’ Les Films du Fleuve and Denis Freyd’s Archipel 35. Wild Bunch negotiated for filmmakers with Arianna Bocco at Sundance Selects/IFC Films.

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Tribeca: Sundance Selects Acquires ‘Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 3:41pm PDTTags: Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Sundance Selects, Tribeca Film Festival

NEW YORK, NY (April 29, 2013) – Sundance Selects announced today that the company is acquiring North American rights to Chiemi Karasawa’s directorial debut ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME, a feature documentary about the stage and screen icon that made its world premiere last week at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. The film was produced by Karasawa and Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, and executive produced by Alec Baldwin and Cheryl Wiesenfeld.

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Sundance Selects/IFC Films Promotes Publicity & Marketing Execs

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 11:24am PDTTags: IFC Films, Lauren Schwartz, Michael Winton, Shani Ankori, Sundance Selects

Sundance Selects/IFC Films has upped Lauren Schwartz to head of publicity and Shani Ankori to marketing chief. Schwartz, previously VP Publicity, will oversee the creation and implementation of national publicity campaigns, management of film festivals, and … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Dirty Wars’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 23, 2013 @ 9:32am PDTTags: Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, Sundance Selects

Richard Rowley’s docu tracking investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill (Blackwater: The Rise Of The World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army) on a global hunt to uncover America’s secret wars on terror won the Cinematography award at Sundance. Scahill stars in and also wrote and produced the exposé. Sundance … Read More »

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Sundance Selects Slots Sly ‘We Have A Pope’ Re-Release

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 14, 2013 @ 5:33pm PDTTags: Pope Francis, Sundance Selects, We Have A Pope

Capitalizing on the media frenzy surrounding the newly announced Pope Francis, Sundance Selects announced today the re-release of Nanni Moretti’s papal comedy-drama We Have A Pope (Habemus Papam). The Cannes selection … Read More »

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Sundance Selects Pays Low 7-Figures For Beltway Sniper Pic ‘Blue Caprice’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 12:35pm PSTTags: Beltway Sniper, Big Deals Film, Blue Caprice, Sundance Selects
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: In what I’m told is a low seven-figure minimum guarantee, Sundance Selects acquired North American and Latin American rights to Alexandre Moors’ debut feature Blue Caprice, which debuted at Sundance last January.

Pic stars Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, … Read More »

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Jonathan Demme Puts His Tag On Graffiti-Filled Indie ‘Gimme The Loot’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 14, 2013 @ 6:50am PSTTags: Adam Leon, Gimme The Loot, Jonathan Demme, Sundance Selects
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: When you see a filmmaker like Martin Scorsese or Jonathan Demme put their brand names on movies, you wonder how involved they get. Scorsese put his imprimatur on two films this month – Luc Besson’s Malavita and Andy Lau’s Revenge of the Green Dragons. Now, Demme has taken a “presenting” credit on Adam Leon‘s Gimme The Loot, hoping his contribution will be that people notice a worthy indie when it gets released in late March by IFC Films/Sundance Selects. Gimme The Loot won Best Narrative Feature at last year’s SXSW. Leon is a current nominee for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Film.

Said Demme: “Knowing that Gimme The Loot is — astonishingly — Adam Leon’s first feature most certainly adds to the film’s extraordinary sense of achievement. But the sheer entertainment value of this very smart, hilarious, and heartfelt movie made by young filmmakers about contemporary young people, filmed and played with great freshness and originality, is what makes Gimme The Loot a truly thrilling experience — this is really one crazily accomplished American motion picture debut.” Read More »

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Sundance: AMC’s Sundance Selects Nabs ‘Dirty Wars’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday January 20, 2013 @ 11:35am PSTTags: Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Selects, Sundance Wrap-Up
Mike Fleming

Can’t believe I’m writing this, but AMC’s Sundance Selects is so far dominating the acquisitions marketplace at the Sundance Film Festival, even if it’s doing small documentary deals. They’ve just bought North American on Dirty Wars, the Richard Rowley-directed pic. That follows yesterday’s deal for The Summit. Here’s the announcement:

 PARK CITY, UT (January 20, 2013) – Sundance Selects announced today from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival that the company is acquiring North American rights to Richard Rowley’s DIRTY WARS, which premiered in the U.S. documentary competition section. The film, with a screenplay by Jeremy Scahill and David Riker, was produced by Anthony Arnove, Brenda Coughlin, and Scahill.

Rowley’s film follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill on an unexpected journey as he chasesdown the truth behind America’s covert wars.

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Sundance: AMC’s Sundance Selects Closing Deal For ‘The Summit’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday January 19, 2013 @ 7:59am PSTTags: IFC Films, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Selects, Sundance Wrap-Up
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: AMC‘s Sundance Selects is closing a deal for North American rights to The Summit, the Nick Ryan-directed film about 24 climbers who attempt to scale K2, the most dangerous mountain on the planet. By the time … Read More »

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Sundance Selects Acquires Doc ‘The Flat’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 27, 2012 @ 9:45am PDTTags: Sundance Selects, The Flat

The Flat Sundance SelectsArnon Goldfinger’s The Flat won the editing award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival as well as the Israeli Academy Award for best documentary. It follows the director as he cleans out the Tel Aviv apartment … Read More »

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Sundance Selects Acquires North American Rights For ‘Una Noche’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 10:53am PDTTags: Sundance Selects, Una Noche
Mike Fleming

Sundance Selects will release the Lucy Mulloy-directed Una Noche in North America. The film premiered in Berlin and plays in competition at Tribeca where it won Best New Narrative Director, Best Cinematography and Best Actor in a Narrative Film … Read More »

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Sundance Selects Acquires ‘Like Someone In Love’: Cannes

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday May 27, 2012 @ 6:48am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Selects
Mike Fleming

CANNES, FRANCE (May 27, 2012) – Sundance Selects announced today from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival that the company is acquiring all US rights to LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE directed and written by former Palme d’Or winner Abbas Kiarostami (CERTIFIED COPY, THE TASTE OF CHERRY). The film is an MK2 and Eurospace Production. It stars Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase. It was produced by Marin Karmitz (MK2) and Kenzo Horikoshi (Eurospace), and associate produced by Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE made its world premiere in competition earlier in the week at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Sundance Selects Nabs Ken Loach’s ‘The Angels’ Share’: Cannes

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 24, 2012 @ 3:58pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Selects

The Angels' Share Cannes Sundance SelectsCannes Film Festival favorite Ken Loach’s latest competition film The Angels’ Share has been acquired by Sundance Selects. The sister label of IFC Films scooped up all U.S. rights to the bittersweet comedy, about a … Read More »

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Specialty Box Office: ‘Marley’, ‘Darling Companion’ Lead Limited Debuts

By BRIAN BROOKS | Sunday April 22, 2012 @ 12:26pm PDTTags: Darling Companion, Eamonn Bowles, Magnolia Pictures, Marley, Sony Pictures Classics, Sundance Selects

Magnolia Pictures appears to have another strong documentary on its 2012 slate. The distributor bowed Kevin Macdonald’s documentary Marley at 42 locations Friday 4/20 (a coincidental date?) to impressive numbers theatrically, averaging over $6K per site and a taking a weekend gross of more than a quarter million dollars. Magnolia has also spun box office gold with doc Jiro Dreams Of Sushi, which has had a seven-week run, topping out over $1.5 million. Marley was No. 1 “in all but a handful of complexes and usually by multiples over the next highest film,” Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles told Deadline, “which is great news for expanding in the next couple of weeks. In addition, we were the number six film in all iTunes on Friday, which bodes extremely well for the digital and VOD platforms. This looks to be an extremely profitable film for us.” Marley opened as Screen Gems’ Think Like A Man became North America’s number one movie, averaging $16,377 in 2,015 theaters.

The specialty weekend’s per screen average winner, however, goes to Sony Pictures Classics’ debut of Darling Companion, which averaged $11,574 from four locations. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, Darling Companion producer Anthony Bregman told Deadline that unlike his previous baby boomer films, this one had to be made as an independent film. In other openers, Sundance Selects’ Goodbye First Love bowed more modestly also at four locations, averaging $5,300, while its sister label IFC Midnight opened The Moth Diaries in two theaters, averaging a sluggish $1,200. Entertainment One’s Jesus Henry Christ launched comparatively stronger, but nevertheless mildly, with an average just over $3K at three locations. Read More »

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SXSW Winner ‘Gimme The Loot’ Sold To Sundance Selects

By BRIAN BROOKS | Monday March 19, 2012 @ 11:33am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Gimme The Loot, Submarine Entertainment, Sundance Selects, SXSW

Gimme The Loot SXSW Sundance SelectsAdam Leon’s Gimme The Loot took SXSW’s prize for best narrative feature last week. Sundance Selects today announced that it acquired North American and Latin American rights to the film, which centers … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Nanni Moretti’s ‘We Have A Pope’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Friday March 2, 2012 @ 2:41pm PSTTags: Nanni Moretti, Sundance Selects, We Have A Pope

Celebrated Italian director Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room) divided audiences in Cannes last year with his latest, We Have A Pope (Habemus Papam). Starring French actor Michel Piccoli (Contempt) the feature centers on a cardinal who is elected as the next Pope. Wary of the spotlight and completely caught off … Read More »

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‘Being Flynn,’ ‘Boy,’ ‘Black Butterflies,’ ‘Last Days Here,’ ‘Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie’: Specialty Box Office

By BRIAN BROOKS | Thursday March 1, 2012 @ 1:33pm PSTTags: Focus Features, Magnolia Pictures, Sundance Selects, Tribeca Film

This Friday’s specialty releases run the gamut from Being Flynn with stars Robert DeNiro, Julianne Moore and Paul Dano, which Focus will begin to roll out over the weekend, to much smaller titles Boy and Black Butterflies with much more limited release plans. Most of this week’s specialty offerings, however, faced long roads to the big screen and fluctuating production budgets. Below are a snapshot of this week’s new limited releases.

Being Flynn
Director: Paul Weitz
Writer: Paul Weitz, Nick Flynn
Cast: Paul Dano, Robert DeNiro, Julianne Moore, Olivia Thirlby
Distributor: Focus Features
It’s been a lengthy road for Being Flynn to get to theaters this weekend. The feature starring Robert DeNiro, Julianne Moore, Paul Dano and Olivia Thirlby traveled an eight year journey starting out as a Sony project before heading to Fox 2000 and finally landing at Focus Features. Along the way co-writer/director Paul Weitz wrote thirty drafts of the script, evolving along the way. “We were fortunate to have Robert DeNiro from the point we were working with Fox 2000 and he stayed [with the project] after the budget became tighter,” producer Andrew Miano told Deadline, adding that an actor who originally was to play the role of DeNiro’s son in the film had to drop out, which eventually lead to Paul Dano joining the project. “We weren’t forced to do certain casting with an actor who could sell the film in Germany or Africa,” said Miano adding that Focus gave the production leeway on finding Dano. “He’s an actor who has worked opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood and The Ballad Of Jack And Rose and we knew he could do this with DeNiro,” said Miano.
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‘The Forgiveness Of Blood,’ ‘Around June,’ ‘Tomorrow When The War Began’: Specialty Box Office

By BRIAN BROOKS | Friday February 24, 2012 @ 11:05am PSTTags: Freestyle Releasing, Sundance Selects

It’s probably not a surprise on the indie front, but finance posed the biggest challenge for three of this weekend’s specialty releases. Despite an Oscar nomination and box office success with his first film, Joshua Marston’s followup The Forgiveness Of Blood managed to turn a resource challenge into a unique story that takes place in an isolated Balkans village. Around June writer-director James Sacova maximized his limited budget through passion, but also discovered having all the necessary permits didn’t guarantee smooth sailing. And Australian production Tomorrow When The War Began had a top-selling book series behind its big-screen ambitions, but getting the cash together was anything but a slam dunk. Read More »

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Sundance Selects Acquires Doc ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 12:05pm PSTTags: Berlin, Sundance, Sundance Selects

Sundance Selects is planning a summer theatrical release for first-time director Alison Klayman’s documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry to correspond with the the famed artist/dissident’s first trip outside China since his detention there. Klayman had unprecedented access to Ai while working as … Read More »

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