Oscilloscope acquires Evan Glodell’s directorial debut BELLFLOWER; In Theaters this Summer

Oscilloscope acquires Evan Glodell’s directorial debut BELLFLOWER; In Theaters this Summer

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired Evan Glodell’s directorial debut BELLFLOWER, which screened in the NEXT category at 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Oscilloscope plans a U.S. theatrical release this summer. The film was written and directed by Glodell and stars Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson, Rebekah Brandes, and Vincent Grashaw, who also produced the film through Coatwolf Productions, his company with Glodell. An apocalyptic love story for the Mad Max generation, Evan Glodell’s impressive feature debut paints […]

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network add Yoav Potash’s documentary “Crime After Crime” | Trailer

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network add Yoav Potash’s documentary “Crime After Crime” | Trailer

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced that it has acquired Yoav Potash’s documentary “Crime After Crime.”  Crime After Crime screened at 2011 Sundance Film Festival in U.S. Documentary Competition category. In 1983, Deborah Peagler, a woman brutally abused by her boyfriend, was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for her connection to his murder. Twenty years later, as she languished in prison, a California law allowing incarcerated domestic-violence survivors to reopen their cases was passed. Enter a pair […]

17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®; Hail to "The King's Speech"

17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®; Hail to “The King’s Speech”

Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2010 at the “17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®” in ceremonies attended by film and television’s leading actors, held Sunday, Jan. 30, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Honored with individual awards were Christian Bale, Colin Firth, Melissa Leo and Natalie Portman for performances in motion pictures and Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, […]

Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards for 2010; Tom Hooper Wins for The King's Speech

Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards for 2010; Tom Hooper Wins for The King’s Speech

The winners of the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards for 2010 were announced over the weekend and Tom Hooper won the DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for The King’s Speech. The DGA’s Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has traditionally served as a near-perfect barometer for the Academy Award for Best Director. Only six times since the DGA Award’s inception in 1948 has the winner not gone on […]

2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards; Like Crazy Wins Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards; Like Crazy Wins Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

The Jury, Audience, NEXT! and other special award-winners of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival were announced last night at the Festival’s Awards Ceremony The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D. Richardson. In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. How to Die in Oregon gently enters the lives of terminally ill Oregonians to illuminate the power of death with dignity. The Grand […]

Sundance Film Festival: Focus Features Acquires 'Pariah'

Sundance Film Festival: Focus Features Acquires ‘Pariah’

In their first 2011 Sundance Film Festival acquisition, Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to writer-director Dee Rees’ ‘Pariah.’ Pariah screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category and featured a cast that includes Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, and Aasha Davis. At the club, the music thumps, go-go dancers twirl, shorties gyrate on the dance floor while studs play it cool, and adorably naive 17-year-old Alike takes in the scene with […]

Sundance Film Festival: Roadside Attractions Acquires Miranda July’s second feature The Future

Sundance Film Festival: Roadside Attractions Acquires Miranda July’s second feature The Future

In their third pick-up of Sundance 2011, Roadside Attractions has acquired all North American rights to Miranda July’s second feature THE FUTURE. ‘The Future premiered at 2011 Sundance Film Festival and features a cast including Hamish Linklater, Miranda July, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres, and Joe Putterlik. In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her Camera d’Or winning debut, internationally acclaimed artist and author Miranda July writes, directs and stars alongside Hamish Linklater in the story of […]

Sundance Film Festival: New Video Acquires 'The Flaw' Documentary

Sundance Film Festival: New Video Acquires ‘The Flaw’ Documentary

New Video announced that the Company has acquired THE FLAW , a new documentary directed by British filmmaker David Sington (In the Shadow of the Moon) which made its U.S. premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and will be released under New Video’s Docurama Films brand later this year. The film’s title was inspired by former U.S. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s acknowledgment that he’d found a flaw in his model of how the world […]

Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter

Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter

Sony Pictures Classics announced that they have acquired the rights in North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand to Take Shelter. The film is written and directed by Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories) and stars Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon and Kathy Baker. The film is in dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Take Shelter is produced by Tyler Davidson under his Strange Matter Films banner, and Sophia […]

Sundance Film Festival: Lionsgate Acquires Lee Tamahori’s thriller 'The Devil’s Double'

Sundance Film Festival: Lionsgate Acquires Lee Tamahori’s thriller ‘The Devil’s Double’

Lionsgate has reportedly closed the deal for North American rights on Lee Tamahori’s thriller ‘The Devil’s Double’ where premiered at 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film centers on Dominic Cooper’s breakout role as Uday Hussein and his body double Latif Yahia. The cast also includes Ludivine Sagnier, Mimoun Oaissa, Raad Rawi, and Philip Quast Based on actual events, The Devil’s Double recounts the remarkable tale of Latif Yahia, an Iraqi army lieutenant who was summoned […]

Sundance Film Festival: IFC Films Acquires romantic thriller PERFECT SENSE

Sundance Film Festival: IFC Films Acquires romantic thriller PERFECT SENSE

IFC Films announced from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival that the company is acquiring North American rights to director David Mackenzie’s romantic thriller PERFECT SENSE, which had its world premiere in the Premieres section this week. Directed by Sundance alum Mackenzie (who was at the festival in 2009 with Spread), with a screenplay by Kim Fupz Aakeson, the film reunites Mackenzie with star Ewan McGregor (who he directed in the critically acclaimed Young Adam).  The […]

Sundance Film Festival: IFC Films and Sony Pictures Acquire 'Salvation Boulevard'

Sundance Film Festival: IFC Films and Sony Pictures Acquire ‘Salvation Boulevard’

IFC Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) announced from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival that the companies are partnering to acquire North American rights to George Ratliff’s ‘Salvation Boulevard’, which premiered this week in the festival’s Premieres section. The film, with a screenplay by Ratliff (whose previous films include Hell House and Joshua) and Doug Max Stone, based on the novel by Larry Beinhart, stars Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear, Jim […]