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Alamo Drafthouse and fan-owned entertainment company Legion M have embarked on a strategic partnership to foster development and distribution of genre entertainment with an eye on features, shorts and virtual reality platforms. Alamo will service Legion M with scripts, projects and talent, while Legion M will provide…

Former Radius-TWC founders and co-presidents Tom Quinn and Jason Janego are teaming with Alamo Drafthouse founder and CEO Tim League to form a new distribution label — and they have made a splashy first deal for their first release: Michael Moore’s latest documentary Where To Invade Next, one of the highest-profile…

Circle, the indie sci-fi thriller co-written and directed by Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione that premiered at the Seattle Film Festival in May, has landed a deal at FilmBuff and will hit VOD beginning October 16. The pic follows 50 strangers brought together who are forced to choose the one person among them who…

Drafthouse Films has acquired North American distribution rights to writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen's Men & Chicken, a wacky family comedy that has its North American premiere Monday in the Vanguard section at the Toronto Film Festival. Mads Mikkelsen goes anti-Hannibal in the story of two brothers who, through…

Drafthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Karyn Kusama's The Invitation, which had its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Midnight section. The deal for the Girlfight director’s latest pic was low seven figures. No release date plans have been announced. Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus) stars in the thriller…

Drafthouse Films has acquired Tetsuya Nakasima’s ultra-violent Japanese thriller The World Of Kanako. The film, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, will get a platform and digital release later in 2015. Based on the novel by Akio Fukamachi, the film centers on an ex-detective (Kôji Yakusho) searching…

Period crime thriller The Connection (released in France as La French) stars Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin in the true story of the judge who tried to stop the French Connection, one of the most powerful drug organizations of its day. Directed by Cédric Jimenez and entirely shot on 35mm, it’s billed as the European…

EXCLUSIVE: Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision and Drafthouse Films are teaming up with Rook Films (Sightseers, The Duke of Burgundy) and Timpson Films (The ABCs of Death) to produce The Greasy Strangler, the feature directorial debut of British helmer Jim Hosking (The ABCs of Death 2). The Los Angeles-set tale follows…

Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence is the follow-up to 2013’s Oscar-nominated The Act Of Killing. It won the Grand Jury Prize in Venice this year and was jointly acquired by Drafthouse Films and Participant Media on the eve of that fest. At the time, I posted a clip from the film and above is the first trailer. A…

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s Italy-set horror romance Spring has been acquired by Drafthouse Films and FilmBuff in the first sale out of this year’s Fantastic Fest. The sophomore feature from Resolution co-directors Benson and Moorhead stars Lou Taylor Pucci (Thumbsucker, Evil Dead) as a troubled…

Drafthouse Films has sprung for Amira & Sam, an indie dramedy romance starring Martin Starr (Silicon Valley, Freaks and Geeks) and newcomer Dina Shihabi as an Army vet and an illegal Iraqi immigrant whose love is put to the test when she’s faced with deportation. Writer-director Sean Mullin helmed the pic, which is…

Gaumont Film Company and Drafthouse Films have just released an international teaser for Cédric Jimenez’s 1975-set crime thriller The Connection, starring The Artist Oscar winner Jean Dujardin. Inspired by true events and shot on 35mm, the film follows Dujardin as Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and kids…