AMBI Distribution and Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions have teamed to acquire rights to Here and Now, the drama produced by and starring Sarah Jessica Parker that bowed at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival under the title Blue Night. The film is directed by Fabien Constant in his feature helming debut and co-stars…

Samuel Goldwyn Films and AMBI Group will partner on the domestic release of Lavender, the Ed Gass-Donnelly thriller starring Abbie Cornish that bowed last year at the Tribeca Film Festival. The pic will bow exclusively on Dish Network on February 3, 2017, one month before a March 3 theatrical and VOD bow. The movie…

Development, production, finance and distribution consortium AMBI Group has announced partnership with Beijing-based film financing and licensing company SinoLicensing on a new company, AMBI-Sino, which will finance, produce and distribute content in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The partnership is also being touted…

Dionne Warwick was in Cannes this morning to tubthump an upcoming biopic based partly on her autobiography, My Life as I See It. Turns out, the film isn’t exactly how the folks who announced it this morning see it. Lady Gaga was a big element of the unveiling this morning in the role of Warwick nemesis Cilla Black…

Lili Taylor, Alex Sharp and Brooke Smith have joined the cast of Marti Noxon's feature directorial debut To The Bone, the dark anorexia comedy that already stars Lily Collins, Carrie Preston, Keanu Reeves and Liana Liberto. Noxon wrote the pic inspired by her own personal experience with anorexia. Meanwhile, AMBI Group…

For the first time in cinematic history, the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church will play himself in a big screen feature. Pope Francis is due to appear in family adventure film Beyond The Sun from AMBI Pictures. The casting came about after the pope asked the filmmakers to make a movie for children that…

AMBI Group, the finance, production and distribution company that already has in the works a remake of Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, has optioned life rights to another Italian icon, carmaker Ferruccio Lamborghini, and will finance and produce a feature biopic. Based on a book and input from Lamborghini's son…

To kick off a new slate of star-driven feature films, development, production, finance and distribution consortium AMBI Group has launched a $200 million fund that will fully finance five mid-budget range films, and at least ten smaller budgeted features. AMBI Group owners Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino serve as…

Jamie Foxx has signed on as the voice of the lead character in Groove Tails, a new CGI animated family movie on which he will also serve as co-producer. The story, set in the world of competitive street dancing competitions, but for mice, follows “Biggz”, a mouse deep in debt to a local club hoping to clean up the…

The same day former Exclusive Media Group sales title Black Mass starring Johnny Depp took the Venice Film Festival by storm, the library of the producer-financier has been majority sold to AMBI Group. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, was made in partnership with private equity firm Raven Capital…