The lengthy saga between former The Smiths bandmates Morrissey and Johnny Marr has reached a new boiling point, with Morrissey now claiming Marr has unilaterally acquired trademark rights to the group’s name. He also implied […]
EXCLUSIVE: Rise and Shine World Sales has acquired sales rights to the documentary A Sisters’ Tale ahead of its international premiere Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the documentary, Iranian filmmaker Leila Amini […]
EXCLUSIVE: Monument Releasing on Friday announced it has acquired rights spanning multiple English language territories to Rule of Two Walls, “a visceral and vital portrait of today’s Ukraine through the lens of artists.” The documentary […]
EXCLUSIVE: Limonero Films has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Blue Carbon, an innovative environmental-themed documentary produced by MAKE Waves Media that features the participation of Grammy-nominated music producer and DJ Jayda Guy, Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to the acclaimed documentary Obsessed with Light, which explores the influence of one of the most remarkable figures in American arts – dancer-choreographer Loïe Fuller. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has acquired North American rights to the romantic comedy The Zombie Wedding. The film is based on the eponymous interactive […]
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, […]