A federal judge has ruled that Syria is responsible for the 2012 death of A Private War subject Marie Colvin and ordered Bashar al-Assad’s regime to pay more than $300 million in a civil judgment today. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia unsealed a $302 million judgment…

If there's a takeaway from this awards season, it's that true stories are back with a vengeance. For proof, look no further than Rosamund Pike as war reporter Marie Colvin in A Private War, Sam Rockwell as President George W. Bush in Vice, Mahershala Ali as Don Shirley in Green Book, Melissa McCarthy as forger Lee…

During a recent conversation promoting his awards season contender, A Private War, Jamie Dornan talked about the importance of being timely, especially with this pertinent story (the first narrative film from documentarian Matthew Heineman) of journalists on the front lines of reporting and photographing major…

Director Matthew Heineman said his film A Private War pays tribute to journalists and journalism — both of which are under assault. The film chronicles the life of Marie Colvin (Rosamund Pike), an American-born expat working in London as a war correspondent for The Sunday Times, who covered some of the deadliest…

Growing up with a journalist for a mother and making his name as an Oscar-nominated documentarian — behind the likes of Cartel Land and City of Ghosts — Matthew Heineman makes his narrative feature debut with Aviron Pictures' A Private War. As an artist with a journalist's eye for meaningful, real-world stories and a…

Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK and Irish distribution rights to A Private War, the Matthew Heineman film about American-born war correspondent Marie Colvin who was killed on assignment in Syria while working for the Sunday Times. The film will be released in the territories in February 2019, which follows…

November's first weekend is usually a crowded one at the Specialty box office, and this year is no different. Lucas Hedges stars with Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and director Joel Edgerton in Boy Erased from Focus Features. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman's A Private War from Aviron Pictures is the first narrative feature…

After premiering A Private War at the Toronto Film Festival, Aviron brought stars Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan together for a panel to discuss the legacy of famous war correspondent Marie Colvin (played by Pike in the film), who was killed in 2012 after illegally crossing the Syrian border into the city of Homs with…

EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has sealed a U.S. distribution deal for Under the Wire, the feature documentary by Chris Martin that tells war photographer Paul Conroy’s story of he and Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin's fateful 2012 mission in Syria, where Colvin was killed while they were covering the siege of…

EXCLUSIVE: Music icon Annie Lennox has written and recorded an original song entitled “Requiem For a Private War” for the Aviron Pictures film A Private War which will make its World Premiere as a Gala Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival Sept. 14. David Dinerstein, President of Aviron Pictures…

“At this time when journalism is under attack, it's quite an important story to be told,” said director Matthew Heineman speaking with Deadline about his narrative directorial feature film, A Private War, a biopic on famed American-born British war correspondent Marie Colvin. “It spoke to me in a way that I just felt…

She traveled to the most dangerous places on Earth to risk her life for the truth. “Once you go crazy,” the grizzled war correspondent tells her exasperated new photographer, “it’s not something you get used to.” Here’s the new trailer for A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike as fearless, eyepatch-sporting…