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A federal guilty plea agreement was entered today by William Sadleir, the former chief executive of Aviron Pictures, who admitted that he applied for and received $1.7 million in loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). That while the entire Aviron operation was being shuttered as a result of his…

The ousted chairman of Aviron Pictures was arrested Friday on federal fraud charges for using $1.7 million in the federal government’s coronavirus-relief Paycheck Protection Program funds for his personal use. William Sadleir was taken into custody without incident by FBI agents and other federal officials, the…

EXCLUSIVE: As we step foot on the ground at the Sundance Film Festival today, we’ve confirmed that 12 people of the near 30-person staff at Aviron Pictures were pinkslipped on Friday and issued their final paychecks. Domestic theatrical distribution president Greg Forston and his team were eliminated, in addition to…

Updated with more details: Aviron Pictures Chairman and Founder William Sadleir has been replaced as the operating manager of Aviron Pictures, a subsidiary of Aviron Group, a company which he still presides over and is the founder of. Apparently, Sadleir was pushed out of the division due to a contractual provision…

UPDATED: Though Aviron initially declined comment on this story about it not honoring the P&A spend its execs said they would make on Serenity, the distributor has now asked to comment. Here is that comment: "We had the best intentions for Serenity. We were excited for the opportunity to release this uniquely original…

With A Private War, Oscar-nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman took on the story of real-life war correspondent Marie Colvin for his narrative feature debut. Onstage at Deadline's first The Contenders New York, Heineman discussed how, with Rosamund Pike giving what he calls an “unbelievable” performance as Colvin…

Rosamund Pike knew when she met Matthew Heineman that the director-producer of A Private War would not create “the sort of adrenaline junkie version” of war correspondent Marie Colvin. Pike stars in the film as famous war correspondent Colvin, who was killed while covering the siege of Homs in Syria while working for T…

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…

A Private War is shedding light on the truth of war reporting according to Jamie Dornan and Rosamund Pike. The film tells the story of war correspondent Marie Colvin, played by Pike, who was killed in 2012 after crossing the Syrian border into the city of Homs with photographer Paul Conroy, played by Dornan. Speaking…

Although flawed and fraught with demons and PTSD of her own, Marie Colvin was unquestionably a fearless and great war correspondent whose story serves as an antidote to all those currently trying to denigrate journalists and their profession with cries of “fake news.” She consistently risked her life, and finally lost…

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…