EXCLUSIVE: As the 2019 Sundance Film Festival begins tonight with a number of promising acquisition titles including opener After the Wedding, we can report that the opening-night film of September’s Los Angeles Film Festival, Echo in the Canyon, has just been picked up for distribution by Greenwich Entertainment. It…

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group is acquiring U.S. rights to The Public, the drama written, produced and directed by Emilio Estevez. He also stars in the film, which first screened at last year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival before having its official world premiere in September at the Toronto Film…

Greenwich Entertainment has acquired distribution rights to Wild Nights With Emily, the dramatic comedy about Emily Dickinson that premiered at SXSW this year. Directed and penned by Madeleine Olnek, the pic stars SNL alum Molly Shannon and will be released in theaters in early 2019. Shannon portrays the vivacious…

Greenwich Entertainment has secured U.S. distribution rights to the Billy Corben-helmed documentary Screwball, which explored the 2013 Alex Rodriguez doping scandal. The docu had its world premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, and Greenwich is aiming for a theatrical release in the spring of 2019 to coincide…

The Bookshop, which played in Berlin and was the winner of three Goya awards in Spain, was just acquired for U.S. distribution by Greenwich Entertainment. Written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive) and based on a Man Booker Prize short-listed novel by Penelope Fitzgerald, the film…

Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, Sasha Waters Freyer’s documentary on the famed photographer that just won the Special Jury prize at SXSW after it world premiered there. A 2018 theatrical release is in the works, and the docu will have its…

Outside of the fashion world, Vivienne Westwood isn’t necessarily a household name, but after Lorna Tucker’s documentary Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist is released, it very well might be. Greenwich Entertainment announced that it has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the first documentary that puts the…

Distributor Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Mountain, the latest documentary from Sherpa helmer Jennifer Peedom. Narrated by Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe, Mountain is described as a vertiginous juxtaposition of image and music that explores the powerful force that mountains hold over our…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment, which is prepping next month’s release of its first film Itzhak, has hired Cary Jones to oversee theatrical distribution at the indie company. Jones comes from IFC Films, where he most recently was VP National Sales. At IFC for the past 11 years, Jones handled sales for the likes of…

Itzhak, the Alison Chernick-directed documentary that served as the opening-night film at the most recent Hamptons Film Festival, has been acquired by newbie distributor Greenwich Entertainment. The plan is for a theatrical release nationwide beginning March 9 in New York. It will also be broadcast as part of PBS'…

Greenwich Entertainment announced today that the Film Arcade’s Andy Bohn will join the newly formed indie distributor as Co-Managing Director. He joins Ed Arnetz and Edmondo Schwartz, who launched the New York-based company in September. In his position, Bohn will work alongside Arentz to open Greenwich's operations…

NYC-based distributor Greenwich Entertainment has picked up the North American distribution rights to Matt Tyrnauer's documentary Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood, which recently screened at TIFF.  The film, which is slated for a theatrical release in April, centers on Scotty Bowers, a World War II Marine…