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Film Movement has secured all U.S. rights to Jasper Jones, an Australian drama from director Rachel Perkins. Adapted from Craig Silvey’s novel, the film will be released this winter. Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller, Angourie Rice, Dan Wyllie and Aaron McGrath co-star in the pic that follows Charlie Bucktin, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement has picked up U.S. rights to Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise which is shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The Russian-German co-production is set during WWII and looks at the Holocaust from the perspective of three characters. Paradise debuted at the Venice Film Festival last…

Deal-making in Toronto may be moving slowly but that hasn't stopped New York-based speciality distributor Film Movement, which has picked up US and English-speaking Canadian rights to Bulgarian tragicomedy Glory. The film, which is directed by The Lesson filmmakers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, is described…

New York-based distributor Film Movement has snapped up North American rights to French filmmaker Clément Cogitore's feature directorial Neither Heaven Nor Earth, formerly known as The Wakhan Front. The France-Belgium production was nominated for a César in the Best First Film category, and it played Cannes Critics…

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Cosmos, the first feature film in 15 years from Polish director Andrzej Żuławski, whose horror pic Possession starring Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani played at Cannes in 1981. The indie distributor plans a theatrical release this summer before a VOD rollout in the…

Film Movement has usurped U.S. rights to My King, director Maïwenn’s pic that is up for eight Cesar Awards including Best Film. The company plans a 2016 theatrical release for the drama, which premiered at Cannes and will make its Stateside bow at NYC’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in March. In My King, Tony…

Since the early 70s, the San Francisco-based art music collective The Residents has made a name for itself practically by not making one at all. Releasing dozens of albums and various performance art projects the members have hid their identities behind masks and costumes (typically eyeball helmets, top hats and…

Lionsgate and Chinese online video platform iQIYI have entered a long-term output deal for movies from the studio as well as third-party titles. The pact gives iQIYI an exclusive SVOD and TVOD window on the films and includes a major promotional commitment. Under the deal are such upcoming movies as The Hunger Games: M…

Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to Glassland, the Irish drama starring Toni Collette, Jack Reynor and Will Poulter that premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The pic, the second feature from Gerard Barrett (Pilgrim Hill), will get a theatrical and VOD release next year. The film centers on a young…

Film Movement has snatched all North American rights to the Tribeca success Men Go To Battle, the debut feature from director Zachary Treitz. Set during the American Civil War, the dark comedy follows two brothers, Henry and Francis Mellon, living on a struggling farm in rural Kentucky, who pass the time with an…

Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Take Me To The River, the debut feature of Matt Sobel that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. A theatrical release is planned for January 2016. Sobel's coming-of-age drama follows a California teen (Logan Miller) who travels to a family reunion in…

Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to Justin Lerner’s The Automatic Hate. The distributor plans a winter theatrical release for the film, which world premiered at SXSW. The Automatic Hate stars Joseph Cross, Adelaide Clemens, Richard Schiff, Ricky Jay and Deborah Ann Woll. The film's screenplay is…