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Hot Trailer: ‘Two Mothers’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday February 15, 2013 @ 2:23am PSTTags: Exclusive Media, Sundance, Two Mothers

Exclusive Media-owned Exclusive Releasing acquired U.S., UK and CIS rights to Anne Fontaine’s drama Two Mothers at Sundance in January. The story revolves around the passionate affairs of two lifelong friends who fall in love with one another’s sons. Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton penned the adaptation of Doris Lessing’s short story that stars Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville. French major Gaumont, which backed the film, has dropped a trailer with the tweaked title Perfect Mothers. It releases in France on April 3. Exclusive has said the movie will go day-and-date.

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Sundance: Cinedigm Acquires Rights To Shaul Schwarz’s Docu ‘Narco Cultura’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 5:20pm PSTTags: Cinedigm, Narco Cultura, Sundance

LOS ANGELES, CA (January 30, 2013) – Cinedigm has acquired North American distribution rights to Israeli photographer and filmmaker Shaul Schwarz’s NARCO CULTURA, which world premiered last week at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in the Documentary Competition section. The film was produced by Parts & Labor’s Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy and Ocean Size Pictures’ Todd Hagopian; executive produced by Fred Warren and Robin Warren; and edited by Bryan Chang and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg. It will next screen at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival in the Panorama section. Cinedigm plans a theatrical release and awards qualifying run for the film in 2013.

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Mike Fleming Q&As Harvey Weinstein: On Oscars, Sundance, Obama, And Getting The Web To Pay Up For Borrowed Content

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 28, 2013 @ 7:03pm PSTTags: Django Unchained, Harvey Weinstein, Oscars, President Barack Obama, Silver Linings Playbook, Sundance, Sundance Wrap-Up
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Last Monday, after a trade report had him skipping Park City for the D.C. inauguration, Harvey Weinstein met me in Sundance for what has become an annual sit down lunch. He and his COO David Glasser looked … Read More »

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Sundance: ‘Spectacled Tiger’s Kentaro Hagiwara Nabs International Award

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday January 26, 2013 @ 12:22pm PSTTags: Sundance, Sundance Wrap-Up

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have announced Kentaro Hagiwara, director of the upcoming film, Spectacled Tiger, as winner of the 2013 Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Award. The award was presented at a private ceremony at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Created in 1996 to celebrate 100 years of cinema, the annual award recognizes and supports a visionary filmmaker on his or her next film. Sundance Institute staff works closely with the winner throughout the year, providing creative and strategic support through the development, financing and production of their films.

Films previously supported by this award include Beasts of the Southern Wild, by Benh Zeitlin, and May in the Summer, by Cherien Dabis, which had its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

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Sundance: Radius-TWC Closes Deal On ‘Concussion’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 21, 2013 @ 7:50pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Concussion, Radius-TWC, Sundance, Sundance Wrap-Up
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Radius-TWC has just closed what I’m told is a low 7-figure deal for Concussion, a drama about a fortysomething wealthy, married, lesbian housewife who gets beaned by a baseball and strangely reflects on a life that she realizes is wanting and leads her to lead a secret life on the side. It’ll get a multi-platform release in a deal brokered by Paradigm. IFC and Magnolia also chased.

Here is the official announcement from Radius-TWC, which just confirmed Deadline’s scoop.

RADiUS – TWC proudly announced tonight that it
has acquired North American rights to CONCUSSION, one of the most provocative
and well received films at this year’s Festival that is drawing endless
comparisons to BELLE DE JOUR.

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Sundance: Looks Like Another Late Night

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 21, 2013 @ 5:35pm PSTTags: Austenland, Before Midnight, Sundance, Sundance Wrap-Up, The Way
Mike Fleming

The films The Way, Way Back played strongly at Eccles, and tonight is The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman. Sounds like another late night for buyers, sellers and the journos who stalk them. Negotiations continue on … Read More »

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Sundance: Anchor Bay Acquires ‘The Rambler’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 6:01pm PSTTags: Anchor Bay, Sundance, Sundance Wrap-Up
Mike Fleming

PARK CITY, UT – Anchor Bay Films kicks off the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with the pick-up of The Rambler starring Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Grey). Written and directed by Calvin Lee Reeder, the film is set to premiere on Monday, January 21st (11:59pm) during Park

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Berlin Forum Program Includes ‘A Single Shot’ With Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday January 16, 2013 @ 6:19am PSTTags: Berlin Film Festival, Sam Rockwell, Sundance, William H. Macy

The Berlin Film Festival has put together its Forum program made up of 41 features that include 22 world premieres. The section is heavy on European titles with films from Croatia, Greece, Georgia, Denmark, Spain, Greece and Germany. Also on the roster are three U.S. films: David M. Rosenthal’s A Single Shot starring Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Melissa Leo, Jeffrey Wright, Kelly Reilly and Jason Isaacs; Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess and Matt Porterfield’s I Used To Be Darker, both of which are premiering in the Sundance Next sidebar. Berlin kicks off on February 7. Click over for the full list of Foum films. Read More »

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Spike Lee’s Sundance Film ‘Red Hook Summer’ Finds Distribution Through Upstart Variance Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 25, 2012 @ 12:38pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee, Sundance, Variance Films
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EXCLUSIVE: Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer, the controversial film that premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, has found theatrical distribution. Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks is partnering with New York-based Variance Films for a theatrical release that … Read More »

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Strand Releasing Acquires Sundance’s ‘California Solo’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Wednesday March 28, 2012 @ 11:55am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Strand Releasing, Sundance

California Solo Strand ReleasingCalifornia Solo stars Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting) as a former Britpop rocker-turned-farm worker who is charged with DUI, leading to possible deportation after living in Los Angeles for two decades. Marshall Lewy wrote and directed the … Read More »

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Wrekin Hill Nabs Rights to Mark Webber’s Sundance Drama ‘The End Of Love’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday March 20, 2012 @ 6:15pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Sundance, Wrekin Hill

The End Of Love Mark WebberLos Angeles, CA (March 20, 2012) — Chris Ball, President and CEO of LA-based film production and distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment, announced today that the company is acquiring North American rights to writer-director Mark Webber’s drama THE END OF LOVE. Webber also produced the film and stars in it alongside Issac Love, Shannyn Sossamon, Michael Cera, Jason Ritter, Amanda Seyfried, Aubrey Plaza, and Jocelin Donahue. Elizabeth Destro, Mollie Engelhart, and Matt Sprague also produced the project, which had its world premiere earlier this year at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Wrekin Hill plans to release the film theatrically and on VOD day and date in Late Summer/Early Fall 2012.

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Film Movement Acquires Sundance Winner ‘Teddy Bear’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday March 20, 2012 @ 12:20pm PDTTags: Film Movement, Sundance

Teddy Bear SundanceFilm Movement has landed North American rights to Teddy Bear, the Mads Matthiesen-helmed film that won a World Cinema Directing Award at Sundance this year. His first feature film centers on a shy Danish bodybuilder who … Read More »

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Oscilloscope Takes North American Rights To Sundance’s ‘Hello I Must Be Going’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Friday March 9, 2012 @ 11:05am PSTTags: Oscilloscope Laboratories, Sundance

Director Todd Louiso’s Hello I Must Be Going stars Melanie Lynskey (Two And A Half Men) in a story about a demoralized, recently divorced New York photographer who moves back in with her parents. Things begin to look up, … Read More »

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Sundance ‘LUV’ Duo Lands At Gersh

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 27, 2012 @ 11:35am PSTTags: Gersh, LUV, Sundance
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed Sheldon Candis and Justin Wilson. They co-wrote and Candis made his directorial debut on LUV, which premiered at Sundance in the US Dramatic Competition and was acquired by Indomina and BET in a 7-figure deal for … Read More »

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ICM Signs Sundance Breakout Emayatzy Corinealdi

By BRIAN BROOKS | Thursday February 23, 2012 @ 12:27pm PSTTags: Middle Of Nowhere, Sundance

Corinealdi played the lead in the Sundance ’12 competition film Middle Of Nowhere which Participant Media and AFFRM jointly picked up at the festival this year. She received good word of mouth during the festival for … Read More »

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‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Writer Lucy Alibar Signs With Gersh

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 12:27pm PSTTags: Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Gersh, Lucy Alibar, Sundance

EXCLUSIVE: Alibar and director Benh Zeitlin adapted the 2012 Sundance winner from her play Juicy And Delicious. The Beasts Of The Southern Wild world premiere received a standing ovation at the Eccles Theater early in the festival, … 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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Sundance Sales Continue: Image Collars ‘Goats’ For U.S.

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 2:30pm PSTTags: David Duchovny, Image Entertainment, Sundance, Vera Farmiga
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Though the 2012 Sundance Film Festival is starting to fade from memory, buyers and sellers continue to make unhurried deals for the films that premiered there. Image Entertainment has just acquired U.S. rights to Christopher Neil’s coming-of-age stoner film Goats for what I’m hearing was near $1 million. The film premiered January 24 at the Eccles Theater and buyers sparked to the performances by David Duchovny, Vera Farmiga, Ty Burrell and Graham Phillips. Christopher Neil directed and Mark Jude Poirier wrote the script. Read More »

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Anchor Bay Picks Up Sundance’s ‘Excision’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 11:50am PSTTags: Anchor Bay Films, Sundance

Sundance’s Park City at Midnight premiere Excision is headed to North America via Anchor Bay Films, which picked up the film by first-time feature writer-director Richard Bates Jr. Produced by Dylan Hale Lewis, the horror pic’s cast includes … Read More »

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