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The Orchard and Factory 25 has announced that they will partner for the comedy Sundowners starring Tim Heidecker (The Comedy, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie). The Orchard has acquired the U.S. and U.K. digital rights while Factory 25 has stepped up and will release the film theatrically in the U.S. Heidecker…

EXCLUSIVE: The controversial film Assholes from writer/director Peter Vack, who was an actor in Mozart in the Jungle has been acquired for theatrical release by Breaking Glass from Vack and producer Max Landis (Chronicle, An American Werewolf in London). Breaking Glass then pacted with Factory 25 to release the…

Videofilia, Peru’s entry into this year’s Foreign Language Oscar race, has been acquired by Factory 25, which will bow it December 2 at Brooklyn’s Spectacle Theater before expanding theatrically in Los Angeles (December 7) and San Francisco (January 6). It will hit digital in March. Written and directed by Juan Daniel…

FilmBuff and Orion Releasing have jointly acquired worldwide rights to Charles Hood’s romantic comedy Night Owls, which stars Adam Pally and Rosa Salazar and premiered this year at SXSW. The film will be released theatrically in select markets on December 4 and VOD the next day. Written by Seth Goldsmith and Hood, the…

Streaming service Fandor and indie distributor Factory 25 are teaming to jointly release seven films day-and-date, including this year’s SXSW Audience Award winner Uncle Kent 2 from filmmaker Todd Rohal and Charles Poekel’s Sundance pic Christmas, Again. As part of the deal, Fandor will release the films day-and-date…

Joel Potrykus‘ Ape nabbed Best New Director and Best First Feature honors at the Locarno Film Festival. Today Factory 25 announces it has acquired world rights to the ultra low-budget pic that looks at the troubled life of Trevor Newandyke, a struggling comedian and pryomaniac. The film, written and directed by…

Factory 25 has acquired U.S. rights to Joe Swanberg‘s All the Light in the Sky, the director’s follow-up to this year’s indie hit Drinking Buddies. Hung‘s Jane Adams co-wrote the pic with Swanberg and stars as Marie, an actress living in Malibu for whom roles are getting scarce due to her age. When her niece Faye (Gre…