Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions has partnered to acquire and release J.C. Chandor’s “Margin Call” which is playing at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. “Margin Call” tells the story of key players at an investment firm during a 24-hour period in the beginning stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Sundance Selects grabbed the North American rights to the movie, “Buck,” which is playing in the U.S. Documentary Competition section at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Weinstein Company (TWC) acquired US rights to Jesse Peretz’s new film “My Idiot Brother,” which had its world premiere Saturday at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The comedy stars Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Hugh Dancy, and Rashida Jones.
IFC Films announced that the company acquired the U.S. rights to The Ledge, which is playing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Ledge, directed and written by Matthew Chapman, stars Charlie Hunnam (Sons Of Anarchy), Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Terrence Howard, and Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty). The film is produced by Mark Damon and Michael Mailer.
Alain Terzian, the president of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma announced this year’s César Awards aka French Oscars. Terzian also confirmed that Quentin Tarantino will receive the ceremony’s honorary award, and will accept the award in person.
Launching a new chapter with a new executive director, the official lineup of the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), produced and presented by Miami Dade College (MDC), was announced today replete with Red Carpet Gusman Galas, Premieres, Competition Categories and Awards, REEL Education Seminars and other special presentations that make up the Festival,s showcase of more than 100 films from 40 countries during the 10-day event, which runs March 4-13, 2011.
Twenty-nine films will vie for three Knight Grand Jury prizes in March at the 2011 Miami International Film Festival.
The Gary International Black Film Festival (GIBFF), a three-day cultural event that brings independent Black film to Gary audiences, returns February 11 – 13, 2011.
The 34th Portland International Film Festival opens Thursday, February 10, at the Newmark Theater in the Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA) with the French film Potiche from director François Ozon (Under the Sand, Swimming Pool, 8 Women). This light-hearted, sharp-tongued comedy stars two of the most acclaimed and beloved French actors of all time, Catherine Deneuve (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Belle de Jour, Indochine) and Gérard Depardieu (The Last Metro, Jean de Florette, Cyrano de Bergerac). The film tells the story of a submissive wife who successfully takes over the running of her husband’s factory when he is forced out by his employees.
One day before the start of the Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, and its gathering of independent filmmakers from around the world, the Ford Foundation announced a five-year, $50 million initiative to help find and support a new generation of filmmakers whose works address urgent social issues.
The Sundance Film Festival hasn’t even started yet and another documentary film has reportedly been acquired. Reelmovienews is reporting that the documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold which is set to premiere Saturday at the festival has been acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions for distribution in U.S. and Canada.
The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the six official selections for the 2011 New Directors/New Films Film Festival running March 23 – April 3,2011.