Sentences with phrase «to acquire the film»

This initiative would have been more noble if it had come as a precondition for acquiring the film rights.

Focus Features, who acquired the film for US distribution, has announced that Dee Rees» indie drama Pariah will be opening in limited theaters (in New York, Los Angeles, San Fran only) starting Sunday, December 25th, Christmas Day later this year.

The streaming service acquired the film from Paramount Pictures less than two weeks ago, and the first footage of the secret Cloverfield movie only made its debut last night during the Super Bowl.

Amazon Studios and Netflix pretty much ghosted this year's Sundance Film Festival — acquiring no films just one year after dominating the indie marketplace with big - dollar acquisitions films like «Mudbound» and «The Big Sick.»

«Ghost Team» is set to be released at the end of 2016, adding to The Orchard's slate of recently acquired films «Demon» and «Southbound.»

She has used 16 mm film to picture subjects who are, more often than not, elderly men, from the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz, in 2002, to her fellow Angeleno David Hockney RA in 2016 (the NPG and RA have jointly acquired her film of Hockney).

But, again, it depends on who acquires the film.

That studio acquired film rights to Pulitzer - winning journalist Glenn Greenwald's upcoming book No Place To Hide: Edward Snowden, The NSA, And The U.S. Surveillance State.

Kino Lorber acquired the film last October and will be releasing the film shortly.

Instead of hitting festivals and looking to fill out their slates with acquired films, they're getting involved at the script stage.

Good news for horror fans who are excited to see this, as Magnolia Pictures acquired the film here at Sundance just yesterday, which means it'll hit VOD and theaters sometime later this year.

Meanwhile, Hope and his team have also brought their wallets to film festivals acquiring films like Kenneth Lonergan's «Manchester By the Sea» and «The Big Sick» for $ 10 million a pop.

In DOUBLE DOWN, Heilemann and Halperin told the inside story of Barack Obama's reelection over Mitt Romney; that book, too, was a NEW YORK TIMES bestseller to which HBO acquired the film rights.

This past February, though, Anchor Bay Films acquired the film.

Stone Village Productions acquires film and TV rights to Cassie Beasley's Circus Mirandus (The Wrap).

Devilworks acquired the film at AFM 2016.

UPDATE: Open Road Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired the film Sunday for $ 7 million.

Lionsgate bested at least four other bidders to acquire the film out of Sundance, where the cops / civilians conflict has been explored in narratives ranging from «Fruitvale Station» to «Monsters and Men.»

Singh acquired film rights to the book in 1996 when it was published, and now the film has come to fruition.

«The Skeleton Twins» won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at this past Sundance Film Festival, where Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate acquired the film.

At the Sunday afternoon premiere of Chappaquiddick, Entertainment Studios executive Byron Allen — who had paid $ 4 million to acquire the film about 48 hours earlier — enthused about how much this retelling of Ted Kennedy's famous scandal could tell us about the current moment.

The Weinstein Company acquired the film back in September 2011, showed it at Sundance 2012, and eventually released it to just a handful of US theaters last fall, conceding this was too strange for a wide release and not good enough to warrant an awards campaign (at least not at the risk of the studio's three genuine contenders).

After acquiring the film rights earlier this month, Summit Entertainment has made a couple of changes to the upcoming swords and sandals flick.

Blumhouse acquired the film for just under $ 1 million.

TriStar acquired the film from Big Beach (Little Miss Sunshine, Loving).

Alcon Entertainment acquired the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to «Blade Runner» in 2011 from the late producer Bud Yorkin as well as Cynthia Sikes Yorkin with the intent to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic science - fiction thriller.

Netflix acquired the film at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and recently launched its limited theatrical release, in the hopes of the streaming service's first major Oscar breakthrough.

Magnolia purchased «The Guilty» and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg doc «RBG» with Participant Media, while The Orchard bought the rights to «American Animals» with MoviePass, which announced it would begin acquiring films with established distributors and promote them via its movie ticket subscription program.

The museum has since acquired the film and Johnson serves on its foundation board.

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles recently acquired the film «Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright» by the Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari.

The studio acquired the film rights to the novel in early 2011 several months before the book Divergent was published.

The two companies partnered to acquire the film last month after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

Universal Pictures has acquired the film from Jason Blum's Blumhouse and Matt Kaplan's Chapter One

So I was happy to hear that Walden Media has just acquired the film rights to produce this classic holiday story.

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.»

IFC Films is currently in talks to acquire the film, with a theatrical release late this year a possibility.

In another declaration of the perceived limited commercial prospects, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, acquiring the film for its Stage 6 direct - to - video label, recently released The Calling to DVD without a Blu - ray counterpart.

Amazon has acquired the film, which is being produced by Escape Artists» Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch.

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content has acquired film rights to the David Barclay Moore novel The Stars Beneath Our Feet, which will be developed as a vehicle for Creed star Michael B. Jordan to make his feature directorial debut.

«Ingenious genre films are and always will be a specialty at Lionsgate,» explained Drake of the choice to acquire the film.

Fox 2000 has acquired the film rights to Jeffery Toobin's unreleased and as - yet - untitled book about Patty Hearst, the heiress to the Hearst fortune who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 and brainwashed into becoming a bank robber.

MoviePass Ventures will acquire film rights and build out their offerings, and they have started scouting at the festival.

The company then sweetened an earlier proposal to acquire the film, starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney and Steve Coogan.

The company announced in February 2009, a month after the premiere, that they'd acquired the film for $ 5.5 million, only for Harvey Weinstein to claim that he» d already struck a deal.

Gunpowder & Sky loved it too, having acquired the film for release in theaters on October 20, 2017.

Last month, Legendary Pictures announced it acquired the film rights to Pokemon and would begin production on a Detective Pikachu film in 2017, so this game must be coming to the West.

The first venture into film production by «Twilight» author Stephenie Meyer, it drew fairly lukewarm reviews (including ours), but seems to be among the more commercial prospects on offer, and newcomers Exclusive Releasing (a division of financiers Exclusive Media) are partnering with FilmDistrict, who had success last year with Sundance flick «Safety Not Guaranteed,» to acquire the film.

Allen's production banner, Entertainment Studios, paid $ 4 million to acquire the film and has promised over $ 16 million for an aggressive campaign in the upcoming awards season.