A
film distributor is a company that brings movies to the public by handling their release and making them available to theaters, streaming platforms, or home video. They ensure that the film reaches its intended audience by organizing marketing campaigns and coordinating distribution logistics.
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Strand Releasing is opening André Téchiné's Being 17, the latest in a number
of films the distributor has worked on from the French filmmaker, while Cinestaan is rolling out Indian director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's modern folklore tale Mirzya.
It's one of the best - reviewed films of 2016 — currently 97 % Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes — and another instance where Amazon's exclusive partnership with the
indie film distributor A24 is paying major dividends for film lovers.
Last year, Moonlight — another sensitive, quasi-autobiographical film from prestige
film distributor A24 — rode a $ 402,075 opening weekend and $ 100,519 per four theater average all the way to Oscar gold.
AIP also established working relationships with
international film distributors introducing American audiences to foreign films by Federico Fellini, Mario Bava and Ishirō Honda.
Our friends at The Film Stage picked up on a mention on the website
for film distributor Wild Bunch that indicates Terrence Malick's long - awaited other film Voyage of Time will feature a score by legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone.
I wish the Tribeca Film Festival could interest foreign
film distributors in showing abroad what new and upcoming American directors are doing.
The nation's first J - Pop mall is in the works in San Francisco, created by
Japanese film distributor Viz Pictures, and will feature a Japanese - only film theater, bookstore, cafà © and fashion boutiques with the U.S.'s first boutique for Gothic Lolita fashion.
In mid-2008, eOne made a blockbuster four - part deal largely engineered by Lantos: it bought three TV companies, two in Canada and one in the U.S., plus Lantos's
boutique film distributor Maximum Films.
The very first theatrical release of New York -
based film distributor Bleecker Street, Danny Collins grossed a somewhat respectable $ 5.6 million, despite a max theater count of just 739 and only a single top ten finish at the weekend box office.
The American Film Market kicks off tomorrow and there are a number of high profile projects
foreign film distributors could go after like Michael Winterbottom's latest, The Emperor's New Clothes, J.C. Chandor's Deepwater Horizon and The Hateful Eight from Quentin...
Miramax — on its way to becoming the dominant
independent film distributor of the 1990s — scooped up the rights, and though the film underperformed at the U.S. box office (but still made back more than twice its $ 1,200,000 budget), it did quite well overseas.
Ava DuVernay - American Writer, Director, Producer Nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe and winner of the BAFTA and EMMY, Ava DuVernay is a writer, director, producer and
film distributor known for the historical drama Selma (2014), the criminal justice documentary 13TH (2016) and the recent Disney's cinematic adaptation of the classic children's novel A wrinkle in Time.
PROGRAM 1: Legendary experimental
film distributor Canyon Cinema celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a national tour of programs that represent...
Back in the mid-1950s some enterprising
American film distributors saw potential in a Black & White Japanese monster flick named Gojira about a giant fire - breathing reptile that goes on rampage destroying much of Tokyo in the process.
Netflix has pulled its films from the Cannes Film Festival following a rule change that would bar its movies from competition, in the latest battle between streaming services and
traditional film distributors.
12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by
Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.
Even critics of last year's Amores Perros have admitted that an insurgence of Mexican productions into the highly populated art house distribution crowd is increasingly inevitable (the best simile that could be imagined is that the rise of Mexican cinema is like the push for Germany and Japan's permanent inclusion on the UN Security Counsil — hey, as
art film distributors are saying, we're still working with the inclusion of Iran and Taiwan).
Meridian develops and finances TV / film projects in the Chinese market and is the controlling majority owner of United Entertainment Partners, one of China's
largest film distributors whose hits include the wildly successful Wolf Warrior 2.
Past Faculty for the Artistsin - Residence Program have included composer Carter Burwell, writer - director Atom Egoyan, producer Nicolas Gonda, producer Ted Hope (Amazon Studios), indie
film distributor Kevin Iwashina, producer Michael de Luca, executive producer John Sloss (Cinetic Media) and producer Christine Vachon (Killer Films).
It's the kind of publicity angle that
film distributors dream about, particularly as their prestige project is jockeying for position in the forthcoming Oscar race.
Veteran indie
film distributor Jeff Lipsky began working with U.K. based film production / financing / distribution company Great Point Media after contacting them last October.
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genre film distributor Arrow Video US are returning as Texas Frightmare Weekend 2018 Presenting Sponsor!
After Chan's many long meetings with
various film distributors and investors, Wong's debut film, «As Tears Go By», was finally released in 1988 by In - Gear Film Production.
In December, Yu Dong, CEO of
Chinese film distributor Bona Film, told Film Business Asia that «The Grandmaster» — at one time tentatively slated to hit theaters at the end of 2011 — «will be released some time between next summer and Christmas 2012.»
When
superstar film distributor Michael Schlesinger introduced 1934's «Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back» at TCM Fest 2016 as the greatest movie we in the audience had never seen, I was inclined to be skeptical.
The
growing film distributor hasn't yet had a major taste of Oscar pie, having nibbled around the edges with Morgan Spurlock's nominated doc «Super Size Me» back in 2004.
Three whole years after launching a so - called digital locker service for the cross-platform synchronization of its own motion pictures, The Walt Disney Company has (almost) pulled off the impossible, convincing four fellow
major film distributors to join the Movies Anywhere initiative.
Long been a big fan of A24 Films, the best of the arty
boutique film distributors («Ex Machina,» «Lady Bird,» «The Florida Project,» «The Disaster Artist,» etc.).
Leading films distributor, Plasfilms, will be showcasing their extensive range of high barrier films at the Packaging Innovations event at the NEC, Birmingham later this month.
They would also need to secure deals
with film distributors to get same - day releases on both physical media formats and thier DD service.
It is clear to the members of the Boston Society of Film Critics (and other reviewers of our acquaintance) that an increasing number of
independent film distributors are foregoing theatrical press screenings and DVD screeners for streaming files.
Ava DuVernay — American Writer, Director, Producer Nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe and winner of the BAFTA and Emmy, Ava DuVernay is a writer, director, producer and
film distributor known for the historical drama Selma (2014), the criminal justice documentary 13TH (2016) and the recent Disney's cinematic adaptation of the classic children's novel A Wrinkle in Time.
Prior to that, Halperin had her hand at Hollywood for more than 30 years, where she worked as an agent,
film distributor, and on many television shows as a writer, director, and producer.
Among the critics» favorites were the terrific Snowpiercer (
a film the distributor only reluctantly released in its original form) and the Oscar - nominated documentary Citizenfour.
Ava is a filmmaker, marketer and
film distributor.
Maria Lynn has been to dozens of film festivals in her 10 years as
a film distributor but remembers few events as moving as the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival premiere of «Big Eden.»
Management of the creation, distribution, and, if necessary, extension and reissue of security keys (also known as KDMs) must be carefully undertaken and constantly monitored to ensure that a cinema is able to play digital content when
the film distributors have authorized them to do so.
On
a film distributor's dime, when an actor rolls up in a sleek black SUV for an interview it's usually in the vicinity of a red carpet at a big film festival or in front of a swank hotel laden with free - loading junket journalists.