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CBS Films and Lionsgate's crime drama Hell or High Water bowed in 32 theaters Friday, easily floating to the top per theater average among the weekend's Specialty newcomers at $18,500, though Anthropoid from Bleecker Street handily cashed in as the biggest opening gross at over $1.2 million in 452 theaters. IFC Films…

Specialty distributors targeting adult audiences have had some success this summer with "alternative" offerings including Eye in the Sky, Love and Friendship, Café Society, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and others. Bleecker Street and IFC Films are hoping to tap those audiences with new releases this weekend Anthropoid…

Though its title sounds vaguely sci-fi-ish, Sean Ellis’ Anthropoid is anything but fantasy, as this new trailer makes clear. With a tagline “Resistance has a code name” spelling things out pretty clearly, Anthropoid is based on the true story of a Czechoslovakian anti-facist operation during World War II. Led by the…

Bleecker Street has dated the Sean Ellis-directed World War II film Anthropoid for release on August 12. Anthropoid is based on the true story of "Operation Anthropoid," the code name for the Czech operatives' mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution…

Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Sean Ellis' World War II drama Anthropoid from LD Entertainment. The film is based on the true story of "Operation Anthropoid," the code name for the Czech operatives' mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. It stars Peaky Blinders‘ Cillian Murphy…

Mickey Liddell's LD Entertainment has boarded as a financier and producer on Sean Ellis’ Anthropoid, starring Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades Of Grey) and Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders).  Also joining the previously announced cast is Charlotte Le Bon (Yves Saint Laurent). Ellis (Metro Manila) also co-wrote the script with…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Clarke’s Altitude Media and Barry Cunningham’s Chicken House Publishing have secured their first joint deal and acquired film and book rights to Gemma Fowler’s novel Moondust. The companies’ first deal since their partnership was announced  at the London Book Fair earlier this year, it was negotiated…