EXCLUSIVE: A young LL Cool J, a not so young Alfred Hitchcock. Photographer James Hamilton shot them all – Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicholson, Federico Fellini, Meryl Streep and more — capturing not only the famous […]
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Swan Song, the ballet-themed documentary that will open Lincoln Center’s 52nd Dance on Camera Festival Friday evening. The film – a Dogwoof, Visitor Media, Mercury Films, […]
EXCLUSIVE: FAST channel DOCUMENTARY+ has picked up worldwide rights to Ninety-Five Senses days after the film earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short. Ninety-Five Senses, produced by the “MAST” accelerator program of the Salt […]
Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to Maciek Hamela’s In the Rearview, winner of well over a dozen awards at film festivals around the world, including the top prize at Sheffield DocFest. The film, a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, a documentary about one of America’s foremost literary figures. The company plans to release the film on […]
Photo Credit: Rockaway Records Over 10,000 pieces of rare Rolling Stones memorabilia and vinyl items, including a 1977 promotional display designed by Andy Warhol, have been acquired by Rockaway Records. During the 60th anniversary of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. rights to Umberto Eco: A Library of the World, a documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any writer of his time. Cinema […]
Riz Ahmed, Dev Patel, Judd Apatow, Mira Nair, and Mark Duplass are among the many admirers of the Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen. Now you can add the people at Criterion […]
Photo Credit: AVRO / CC by 3.0 The V&A Museum in London has acquired a massive 8,000-piece archive of material from the David Bowie Estate containing handwritten notebooks, letters, costumes, instruments, awards, photos, set designs, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions, Grindstone Entertainment, and Lionsgate have picked up North American distribution for Charlie Day’s feature directorial debut Fool’s Paradise. Roadside Attractions The pic, previously entitled El Tonto, during its production, will get an […]
Photo Credit: Milo Bauman Jukebox heavyweight AMI Entertainment Network has just been acquired by Coral Tree Partners. Is a post-pandemic revenue boom ahead? Leading digital jukebox business AMI Entertainment Network has announced its acquisition by […]
Focus Features has picked up the Willem Dafoe psychological thriller Inside and set a theatrical release of March 10, 2023. Focus is handling Inside in the U.S. and Canada while Universal International will distribute overseas. […]
EXCLUSIVE: The international and indie distributor Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to A Creature Was Stirring, a previously unannounced Christmas horror-thriller, starring This Is Us alum Chrissy Metz. (Check out the first […]
Defected Records has been sold to its former CEO for an undisclosed sum. Wez Saunders has acquired the transformative house music label, which is home to many of the genre’s most venerated artists, like Jamie Jones, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has picked up North American rights to Gracie Otto’s Seriously Red, the Dolly Parton impersonator comedy which stars and was produced by Rose Byrne, that made its world premiere at SXSW. Gravitas plans […]
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star will play King Louis XV Johnny Depp is marking his return to the big screen. According to a Bloomberg report, Netflix has acquired the rights to “La Favorite” initiating […]
EXCLUSIVE: In an eye-catching acquisition, 42 has bought respected UK talent and literary agency Dalzell and Beresford, we can reveal. Veteran British agent Simon Beresford has joined the LA and London-based management and production company […]
EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to Renny Harlin’s actioner The Bricklayer from Millennium Films, slating the pic for release in theaters and on VOD next summer. The Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment […]
Swedish House Mafia‘s catalog of music has been purchased by Pophouse Entertainment, an entertainment investment company founded by ABBA member Björn Ulvaeus and EQT Founder Conni Jonsson in 2014. The acquisition includes the master recordings […]