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Cannes: Phase 4 And XLrator Acquire ‘Jamesy Boy’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday May 18, 2013 @ 12:40pm PDTTags: Cannes Wrap-Up, Jamesy Boy, Phase 4, XLrator Media

Phase 4 and XLrator Media have teamed up on North American rights to Jamesy Boy, starring Mary-Louise Parker, James Woods, Ving Rhames, Taissa Farmiga, and newcomer Spencer Lofranco. Trevor White directed and co-wrote the true story pic with Lane Shadgett. Lofranco plays teenager James Burns, who befriends a convicted murderer (Rhames) in prison who helps him turn his life around. The Synergics Films and Star Thrower Entertainment production is produced by Tim White, Wayne L. Rogers, Steven P. Saeta, Maria Norman, Galen Walker and Scott Mednick. Phase 4′s Larry Greenberg and Gordon of XLrator Media negotiated the deal with the Paradigm Finance Group on behalf of the filmmakers. Atlas International is handling the foreign sales.

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Open Road Films & XLrator Media Partnering On TV Sales Deal

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday May 6, 2013 @ 11:45am PDTTags: Open Road Films, XLrator Media

Open Road Films is teaming with XLrator Media to market and sell XLrator Media titles to pay TV and free television outlets and select … Read More »

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XLrator Media Acquires ‘Banshee Chapter’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 15, 2013 @ 11:35am PDTTags: The Banshee Chapter, XLrator Media

Los Angeles, CA (April xx, 2013) — XLrator Media has acquired all U.S. rights to writer/director Blair Erickson’s 3D horror-thriller THE BANSHEE CHAPTER starring Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), Katia Winter (“Dexter”) and Michael McMillian

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XLrator Media Acquires SXSW Pic ‘Holy Ghost People’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 4, 2013 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: Holy Ghost People, SXSW, XLrator Media

XLrator Media acquired North American rights to the Southern Gothic thriller Holy Ghost People which premiered last month at SXSW. The film centers on 19-year-old Charlotte (Emma Greenwell), who enlists ex-Marine Wayne, (Brendan McCarthy) to infiltrate a snake-handling … Read More »

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XLrator Media Acquires Horror Pic ‘American Mary’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 5, 2012 @ 10:41am PSTTags: XLrator Media

LOS ANGELES (Dec. 5, 2012) – XLrator Media has acquired all U.S. rights to the horror sensation, AMERICAN MARY, written and directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska (Dead Hooker in a Trunk). The female-centric surgical horror-thriller will be released

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AFM: XLrator Media Acquires Horror Pic ‘Under The Bed’ From ‘V/H/S’ Producers

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 31, 2012 @ 11:33am PDTTags: AFM, XLrator Media

LOS ANGELES (October 31, 2012) – On the eve of the American Film Market, XLrator Media has acquired all U.S. rights to UNDER THE BED, the new horror/thriller from the producers of V/H/S and director Steven C. Miller (The

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XLrator Media Debuts Genre Labels Screamfest & Macabre

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday October 19, 2012 @ 5:55pm PDTTags: XLrator Media

XLrator Media is launching multiplatform labels Screamfest and Macabre to handle horror and genre movies in North America. The first films under the Screamfest banner will be zombie actioner Outpost: Black Sun and the Norwegian thriller Thale which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and at Screamfest Horror Film Festival. Macabre banner will debut with Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes and the vampire tale The Thompsons.

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OUTPOST: BLACK SUN — From the filmmaking team behind 2008’s OUTPOST comes the sequel. Pursuing a notorious Nazi war criminal in present-day Eastern Europe, a young woman uncovers a deadly army of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on the rise of the Fourth Reich.

THALE — Part of the new wave of Scandinavian horror-thrillers exemplified by The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Let the Right One In, Norway’s THALE is a haunting tale based on a mythical character from Nordic folklore. Two crime-scene cleaners discover a mythical, tailed female creature in a concealed cellar. She never utters a word, unable to tell her story, but the pieces of the puzzle soon come together: she’s been held captive for decades for reasons soon to surface.

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XLrator Media Acquires Docu ‘Storm Surfers 3D’ For U.S.

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 10, 2012 @ 4:27pm PDTTags: Toronto Film Festival, XLrator Media

EXCLUSIVE: XLrator Media has acquired U.S. rights to the Aussie action documentary Storm Surfers 3D, which had its premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. The pic follows longtime pros Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones as they … Read More »

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Toronto: XLrator Acquires U.S. Distribution On Norwegian Thriller ‘Thale’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 12, 2012 @ 7:40am PDTTags: Toronto Film Festival, XLrator Media
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: XLrator Media has acquired U.S. rights to the Norwegian supernatural thriller Thale, which screens tonight in the Toronto Film Festival’s Vanguard section. The deal was sealed by the filmmakers and Barry Gordon, CEO of XLrator Media. The plan is to release early next year. Based on the stills from the film, featuring a hot naked woman with a tail, you can imagine this film will get attention and presents marketing opportunities.

Thale tells the story of a mythical “huldra,” a beautiful, tailed female forest creature, who is discovered in a concealed cellar by two crime scene cleaners. The creature is unable to speak so she can’t explain how she came to be there, but the pieces of the puzzle soon come together. She has been kept down there for decades, for reasons which will soon emerge. Someone is approaching from the outside. They want her back. The film stars Silje Reinåmo, Jon Sigve Skard, Erlend Nervold, Morten Andresen, Sunniva Lien, Roland Åstrand. Read More »

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XLrator Buys Military Thriller ‘Allegiance’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday September 9, 2012 @ 6:23pm PDTTags: XLrator Media

LOS ANGELES (September 9, 2012) – XLrator Media has acquired all domestic rights to the military thriller ALLEGIANCE, starring Shad “Bow Wow” Moss (Madea’s Big Happy Family, Lottery Ticket), Seth Gabel (Fox’s Fringe), Aidan Quinn (Unknown), Malik Yoba (Why Did I Get Married Too?) and Pablo Schreiber (HBO’s The Wire). ALLEGIANCE marks the directorial debut of writer-director Michael Connors, a former Army Officer. The film will be released in theaters in January 2013. The deal was announced today by XLrator Media CEO Barry Gordon.

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XLrator Media Imports Action On Turbo Label

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 21, 2012 @ 9:42am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, XLrator Media
Mike Fleming

LOS ANGELES (May 17, 2012) – XLrator Media, LLC announced the launch of the “TURBO by XLrator” multi-platform releasing label to bring the world’s best action films to North American audiences. The label will comprise a broad array of domestic and internationally produced films within the action genre. The first 3 films set for release under the “TURBO by XLrator” label this year will be NAKED SOLDIER from Hong Kong, BLOOD MONEY which was filmed in Sydney, Hong Kong and Miami, and BRAWLER, a U.S. production shot in New Orleans.

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XLrator Media Takes Worldwide Rights To Mario Van Peebles’ ‘We The Party’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday March 20, 2012 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: XLrator Media

XLrator will open We The Party in top urban markets in the U.S. beginning April 6th and expand its release April 13th. Recently, Van Peebles directed and acted in All Things Fall Apart alongside 50 Cent and Ray … Read More »

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AFM: ARC And XLrator Buy North American Rights To Thriller ’96 Minutes’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday November 6, 2011 @ 3:05pm PSTTags: ARC Entertainment, Brittany Snow, XLrator Media
Mike Fleming

LOS ANGELES (October xx, 2011) – ARC Entertainment and XLrator Media have acquired all North American rights to the urban thriller 96 MINUTES, which will be released theatrically early next year.

Starring Brittany Snow (Hairspray), Evan Ross (ATL), Christian Serratos (Twilight series), J. Michael Trautmann and David Oyelowo (The Help, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), 96 MINUTES is told in an interlocking structure centering around four young lives which collide in a shocking and terrifying moment with an acutely uncertain outcome. With acclaimed performances by a multicultural cast, this richly complex moral tale touches on the issues of race, class, friendship and our connections to the past.

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ARC And XLrator Acquire Rock ‘N Roll Comedy ‘Killing Bono’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 4, 2011 @ 2:45pm PDTTags: ARC Entertainment, Barry Gordon, Ben Barnes, Killing Bono, Krysten Ritter, Nick Hamm, Pete Postlethwaite, XLrator Media
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: ARC Entertainment and XLrator Media have teamed to acquire North American distribution rights to the rock and roll comedy Killing Bono, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival. They plan a VOD release in October and a theatrical … Read More »

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‘Knuckle’ Doc Acquired By ARC And XLrator

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 11, 2011 @ 11:12am PDTTags: ARC Entertainment, Film Acquisition, Ian Palmer, Knuckle, North American Rights, XLrator Media

EXCLUSIVE: ARC Entertainment and XLrator Media announced that they have acquired North American rights to the Sundance documentary Knuckle. Ian Palmer’s doc was filmed over 12 years and is about two Irish families who settle a longstanding dispute by periodically … Read More »

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