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EXCLUSIVE: Trace Adkins, Thora Birch, Peter Facinelli, Anne Heche, Will Peltz,  Paz Vega and Davi Santos have been set to lead the cast of 13 Minutes, a tornado-driven drama that will mark the feature directing debut of Lindsay Gossling. Shooting starts next month in Oklahoma in the heart of Tornado Alley. Set in a…

The story of a hired hand (played by Dave Franco) who disrupts the lives of a Medieval nunnery is among the new Specialty titles out this weekend. Also starring Alison Brie, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza and John C. Reilly, The Little Hours was picked up by distribution outfit Gunpowder & Sky. The feature is among a…

Sony Pictures Classics acquired North and Latin American distribution rights to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Nazi-era drama 13 Minutes early on at the Berlin Film Festival. The story of Georg Elser, who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939, has its official screening out of competition today and was met with high praise…

With most of the Berlin Film Festival competition titles now screened, there are some standouts. But sentiment on the ground here is that it’s the out of competition titles that have clearer crossover appeal. That’s a switch from last year when the main section went user-friendly. In 2014, The Grand Budapest Hotel…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights to Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 13 Minutes from Beta Cinema. The film is playing out of competition at the Berlin Film Festival. Hirschbiegel directed the Oscar-nominated Adolf Hitler film Downfall, and 13 Minutes marks the director’s return to…

Beta Cinema market has announced its Berlinale line-up including one of the festival’s big premieres, the Nazi resistance drama 13 Minutes (Competition – Out of Competition) from director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Oscar-nominated Downfall).  In addition, among Beta Cinema’s pre-sale titles is the $15M Emma Watson-Daniel…

The Hunt director Thomas Vinterberg's The Commune sold well for TrustNordisk during the recently wrapped AFM. Deals concluded include the UK (Artificial Eye), Germany and Austria (Prokino), Benelux (September Film), Greece/Cyprus (Seven Films), Czech/Slovakia (Film Europe), Former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom Film), Poland…