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Sean Patrick Flanery (a Daytime Emmy award winner for Amazon’s drama series The Bay) is set to star alongside Abigail Hawk (Blue Bloods), Weston Cage Coppola (Circus Kane), Mark Dacascos (John Wick 3: Parabellum) and Michael Jai White (Spawn) in Assault On VA-33, an indie action thriller directed by Christopher Ray…

Gravitas Ventures has obtained the North American rights to Katharine O'Brien's directorial debut film, Lost Transmissions, starring Simon Pegg, Juno Temple, and Alexandra Daddario. Based on a true story, the pic premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and will get a day-and-date release in theaters and on demand…

Cleopatra Entertainment has obtained the North American distribution rights to Get Gone, a thriller starring Lin Shaye (Insidious franchise), Rico E. Anderson (Apple TV+'s Truth Be Told), Robert Miano (Girls Trip), Adam Bitterman (Chicago P.D.), and Weston Cage Coppola (Lord of War). Written and directed by…

Warner Bros. has secured the global rights to the Bruce Springsteen performance documentary Western Stars ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. Springsteen co-directed the doc feature with Springsteen On Broadway helmer Thom Zimny. The film is titled after Springsteen's…

EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Entertainment is set for a Halloween VOD roll-out for Glenn Danzig’s directorial debut Verotika, the horror/thriller anthology that just made its world premiere at Cinepocalypse in Chicago and will follow that up next week (June 25) with a West Coast premiere at the Montalban Theatre in Los…

EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Entertainment announced today that they have acquired the North American rights to Amanda Kramer’s thriller Ladyworld which stars Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Annalise Basso (Captain Fantastic), Ryan Simpkins (Brigsby Bear), Ariela Barer (Marvel's Runaways), Odessa Adlon, Tatsumi Romano, Zora…

EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Entertainment has secured the U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to The Pretenders, an indie drama directed by James Franco. The drama, written by Josh Boone, stars Jack Kilmer (The Nice Guys), Jane Levy (Don’t Breathe), Shameik Moore (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), Tyler Alvarez (American…

Gravitas Ventures has acquired rights to Beers of Joy, a feature documentary directed by David Swift and Scott Owen that examines the history of brewing as the backdrop to tell four stories about the, er, craft. It will hit theaters in 10 cities day-and-date on March 1. The pic, done in a partnership with…

Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to What Haunts Us, Paige Goldberg Tolmach’s feature documentary debut that follows her own investigation into a sexual predator — a beloved teacher and coach who preyed upon boys from her own 1979 high school class at the prestigious Porter Gaud School in…

Gravitas Ventures has secured the U.S. distribution rights to the Adam Bhala Lough-directed documentary Alt-Right: Age of Rage, which had its world premiere at SXSW.  Gravitas will release the film in select theaters in August followed by a digital rollout October 30. The doc features activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins…

Cinema Libre Studio has acquired worldwide rights to Leslie Zemeckis’ (Behind The Burly Q, Bound By Flesh) documentary Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer, which follows female pioneer Mable Stark, the world's first female tiger trainer. Stark, whose career spanned over 57 years, has performed or provided animals for several…

EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Sheikh Jackson, the Michael Jackson-themed pic that Egypt has selected as its entry into the Oscar Foreign Language Film race. The movie was an official selection at last month’s Toronto Film Festival, and now an early 2018 theatrical release is…