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UPDATED Mon. 2:42 PM: Universal’s The Fate of the Furious ended up right as expected Sunday to push its second three-day weekend to $38.4M. The film, similar to other films in the franchise, fell 61% in its sophomore frame as the studio has traditionally looked for a harder charge overseas, and they have been getting i…

South by Southwest has announced the feature film lineup for its 24th annual event which runs March 10-19 in Austin. This year’s crop includes 51 movies from first-time filmmakers, 85 world premieres, 11 North American premieres and five U.S. premieres. Titles were curated from 2,432 feature-length film submissions…

A number of specialty releases have made schedule changes in the near future. Sony Pictures’ Classics’ Oscar nominee for best foreign film, Martin Zandvliet’s Land of Mine will move its New York-Los Angeles opening up from Feb. 17 to Feb 10. Pic centers around a young group of German POWs who are made the enemy of a…

John Butler's Handsome Devil has been set to close the Audi Dublin International Film Festival, on February 26, 2017. It will mark the Irish premiere of the comedy-drama. The festival is kicking off next year’s edition in Ireland’s capital on February 16. Additionally, the fest has added Neasa Ni Chianáin's…

A24’s Free Fire, the shoot ’em up by British director Ben Wheatley and starring Best Actress Oscar winner Brie Larson, will hit theaters nationwide March 17. In addition to unveiling the release date, the distributor dropped a poster for the movie today. The pic made its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section…

Last year at the Toronto Film Festival, we saw Brie Larson as a single mother holed up with her small child in Room, the emotional drama that delivered the actress a Best Actress Oscar win after the film notched the festival’s People's Choice Award. Well, this year, Larson is locked up in a different kind of room…

With fall festival fever revving up, the Toronto International Film Festival has unleashed the offerings that will make up its Midnight Madness section in September. Several alumni are back this year, including Ben Wheatley whose Free Fire will open the program in its world premiere. Exec produced by Martin Scorsese…

Making its European premiere, Ben Wheatley’s anticipated Free Fire has been set as the closing night gala of the 60th BFI London Film Festival. The period action thriller is the latest from the Sightseers, A Field In England and High-Rise helmer. Martin Scorsese, who previously lent his name to the U.S. release of A Fi…

Protagonist Pictures has closed additional sales on its Cannes slate. The company now has sold out on Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, selling Canada to Elevation Pictures. Deadline previously broke news of the multi-territory deal struck by Focus Features at Cannes as well as sales to Diaphana for France, Cineart for…

EXCLUSIVE: As we’ve been hearing all along, there’s a fire sale going on at Alchemy with some of its festival acquisitions. Less than a month after A24 saved Alchemy’s Cannes pickup The Lobster from director Yorgos Lanthimos, the Gotham-based distrib —  coming off of a hot Oscar season with Room and Ex Machina — has…

In a sign of the changing landscape of pan-Arab TV, leading indie distributor Front Row Entertainment has inked a five-year first-run output deal for the Middle East and North Africa with Qatar’s beIN Media. Titles to come through the deal include Oliver Stone's Snowden, Mel Gibson’s thriller Blood Father, Cannes…

UPDATE, 9:57 AM: Alchemy has confirmed our scoop on the Free Fire deal and said it plans a U.S. theatrical release in 2016. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, WEDNESDAY AM: In one of the most competitive and splashiest deals out of an otherwise lukewarm American Film Market, Alchemy is closing on Ben Wheatley’s much-anticipated Free…