At Sony, I worked with a team of lawyers and business team members from multiple studios to create a business model for replacing physical film use in theatrical
feature film distribution, with the use of digital projection.
Not exact matches
This would be a big shift in the business model of
feature -
film distribution for both the major studios and the theater chains.
About Condé Nast Entertainment: Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) is a division of Condé Nast that focuses on the development, production, and
distribution of original television,
feature film, and digital video offerings based on the company's iconic media brands, which for more than one hundred years have created the world's greatest content for the world's most influential audiences.
Lee's latest
film went to the festival with
distribution already in place — in April, Focus
Features set the fact - based
feature for an August 10 theatrical release date, picked to reflect the one - year anniversary of the Charlottesville protests, which took place on August 12, 2017.
The Internet Movie Database credits over 700
filmed properties to Buena Vista Pictures, a
distribution company that encompasses shorts and
feature films from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures.
Meanwhile, Finley's
film debuted at the 2017 Sundance
Film Festival and was subsequently picked up by Focus
Features for
distribution, so one supposes that there actually are consequences — namely, that the unproven and overprivileged get to keep enjoying unfettered success.
Since GATW's departure, he's programmed for the Alamo Drafthouse, Fantastic Fest, Rooftop Films and the Sundance
Film Festival, worked in
film distribution for Cinedigm in New York, and his reviews, interviews, and editorials have been
featured on websites including Twitch,
Film.com, MTV,
Film Threat, Indiewire's The Playlist, We Got This Covered, Latino Review, Dallas Observer, Culture Map, Central Track, Hammer to Nail, Denton Record - Chronicle, and the Dallas Morning News.
Two of the more high profile
films featured at this year's Sundance Film Festival have now secured
distribution.
The below list only includes domestic (U.S. and Canada only, unless otherwise indicated) grosses for specialty
films — which we define to include independent, foreign (including Bollywood
films), and / or documentary
films — that opened in limited release (599 screens and under) in 2018 AND / OR were acquired or produced for 2018
distribution by an independent distributor (including STX
Films, Annapurna, A24, Entertainment Studios, Amazon, Netflix, Aviron, Global Road, and Bleecker Street) or a studio or its specialty division (including Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, and Focus
Features).
But unless this
film gets major
distribution by some place like Focus
Features, Turner's extremely worthy Oscar - bait - y performance may go unseen.
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, Cianfrance's upcoming release, is currently having its world premiere at the Toronto International
Film Festival and news has come in that Focus
Features have bought up the US
distribution rights for the
film.
Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of all North American
distribution rights to director / writer Richard Bates, Jr.'s debut
feature film,...
Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of all North American
distribution rights to director / writer Richard Bates, Jr.'s debut
feature film, Excision (review), which made its world premiere at the Sundance
Film Festival last month.
One of the reasons the
film's producers opted for Netflix's $ 12 million
distribution offer is that they saw the potential for more viewers than specialty labels like Sony Classics or Focus
Features would deliver.
Thankfully, Gravitas Ventures picked up the
film for
distribution this fall, and now the first poster has arrived
featuring Wilson and Raphael all decked out in their best pageant dresses.
«Paul always puts himself into his
films, but this especially so,» said Focus
Features president of
Distribution, Lisa Bunnell.
Wildcard
Distribution have launched the brand new teaser trailer for Michael Inside, the latest
feature film from writer - director Frank Berry (I Used to Live Here).
In a highly competitive acquisitions market at the Toronto
Film Festival, Focus also recently acquired worldwide
distribution rights to Bad Words in which Jason Bateman stars and makes his
feature film directorial debut.
According to Deadline, the
film distribution company has officially acquired the U.S. rights to Adam Smith's
feature debut Trespass Against Us.
Film festivals mostly tend to
feature a wide collection of upcoming indie
films, including many of which that are seeking out major studios for
distribution to audiences around the world.
The morning after the premiere of «Everybody Knows,» the news broke that Focus
Features had acquired the
film for U.S.
distribution, beating out Netflix, Variety reported, «because Farhadi and company wanted a traditional theatrical release.»
Dogwoof recently launched a
film investment fund - TDog Productions - focusing on the development and production of
feature docs and docu - series, gearing up the company towards vertically integration of production, sales and
distribution.
The only qualification to being classified as an «up and coming» filmmaker is that he / she could only have directed a maximum of three
featured length
films (note: exceptions were made for people whose fourth
film has not received
distribution yet).
Since GATW's departure, he's programmed for the Alamo Drafthouse, Fantastic Fest, Rooftop
Film and the Sundance
Film Festival, worked in
film distribution for Cinedigm in New York, and his reviews, interviews, and editorials have been
featured on websites including ScreenAnarchy,
Film.com, MTV's Next Movie,
Film Threat, Indiewire's The Playlist, We Got This Covered, Latino Review, Dallas Observer, Culture Map and Central Track.
Although the China
Film Archive launched the
distribution of foreign and local arthouse titles through National Arthouse Cinemas Alliance in Oct. 2016, «On Body and Soul» will mark the first foreign
film licensed by China
Film Archive and the first European
feature film to be screened through the National Arthouse Cinemas Alliance.
Handling as always the
film's domestic
distribution, Paramount grants Titanic a rare Monday release in a new DVD that divides the
film across two lightweight discs and four - disc combo packs comprised of movie and bonus
feature Blu - rays plus a two - disc
film presentation in either Blu - ray 3D or DVD, each also including a downloadable digital copy.
HollywoodNews.com: The Weinstein Company (TWC) acquired U.S.
distribution rights, along with Pan Asian TV rights, to Paul Andrew Williams»
feature film SONG FOR MARION starring Terence Stamp (THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT), Gemma Arterton (PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME), Academy Award ® winner Vanessa Redgrave (CORIOLANUS)-LSB-...]
Unfairly disposed to doomed
distribution prospects and perhaps unfortunate dismissal during its initial reception comes Lucrecia Martel's long - awaited fourth
feature, Zama an epically staged period piece, which premiered out - of - competition at the 2017 Venice
Film Festival after over four years in the making and arriving nearly a decade after her last
film, 2008's The Headless Woman.
This led to his
feature directorial debut, 1953's Fear and Desire, a
film he disowned and later tracked down and acquired prints of to prevent
distribution.
The Red Turtle, Ghibli's latest and their sixth
film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated
Feature, sees the studio collaborating with Wild Bunch, a Germany - based
film sales and
distribution company.
To date, Cine - O - Matic has helped support over 3,000
feature films, documentaries, and TV series and has recently begun licensing and producing their own content for
distribution.
Filmmaker alum Andrew Okpeaha MacLean has received many avenues of support from the Institute from Labs and grants to three Festival premieres including his first
feature On the Ice, but he too found himself uncertain about the
distribution of his
film.
To be eligible, a
film must be a director's first or second
feature and without US
distribution at the time of selection.
Focus
Features VP of domestic
distribution Jim Orr told Deadline: «We're convinced that we have the potential for a successful
film with London Has Fallen and we want to give it all the time it needs in its production and put it in the strongest possible release window.»
The streaming service has completed a worldwide
distribution rights deal worth around $ 30 million for Next Gen, an animated
feature film that is directed by Kevin R. Adams and Joe Ksander and has a voice cast including Charlyne Yi, Jason Sudeikis, David Cross, Michael Pena and Constance Wu.
The company was the number one independent
feature film theatrical
distribution company on the west coast representing MGM, Rank, and hundreds of well - known titles.
Seibel advanced through the executive ranks, becoming responsible for the company's development and foreign
distribution of
feature films and scripted television series.
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The most defining
feature of the Kobo Glo is the ComfortLight technology, which utilizes nano - printed fiber optic
films along the display to spread the light
distribution across the screen.
When is the last time your brand appeared in a
feature length
film with national
distribution?
Joanne made a career move into the
film business, where she served as founder and President of a worldwide multimedia and
distribution company; she was an Executive Producer / Producer of eleven
feature films and multiple television and educational programs, including the acquisition and international licensing of a 60 title
film library.
- coming from Japanese studio Marza Animation Planet - will
feature Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield and Rebecca Chambers - computer - generated - worked on by a crew whose credits include Ju - On (The Grudge), Ghost in the Shell, Death Note - domestic and international
distribution for the
film
According to Game Informer, some video on demand
distribution channels are opting to show the movie episodically instead of as a
feature - length
film.
You may have seen the star - studded voice cast announcement this morning, but we are also thrilled to announce the Ratchet & Clank movie will be released in US theaters nationwide on April 29, 2016, with Focus
Features (The Box Trolls, The Theory of Everything, Dallas Buyers Club) handling the US
distribution of the
film.
Although their debut
feature film project was scuppered by the economic downturn of 2008, Oddworld games were made available on digital
distribution services, eventually forming the Oddboxx collection of all four existing titles.
DHC / ART in association with Métropole Films
Distribution are pleased to present the Montreal premier of acclaimed artist Shirin Neshat's first
feature film.
Her five
feature films - Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving Ada!Women Art Revolution: A Secret History, and Tania Libre are all in worldwide
distribution and have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival, among others.
Increasingly, contemporary artists work with cinema's scale and
distribution formats: collaborating with Hollywood actors, as artist Candice Breitz has done, or making mainstream
feature films themselves (such as Omer Fast's Remainder, 2016).
She is developing Conscious, a
feature length
film for both gallery presentation and theatrical
distribution.
In Re Erin
Features No. 1 Ltd., 8 the British Columbia Supreme Court held that an agreement made by Erin
Features, which was in bankruptcy, granting exclusive marketing rights in Canada to Modern Cinema could not be characterized as an executory contract because the
film company had»... alienated its property in the
film for the purpose of
distribution in Canada «9 through a valid conveyance.