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After 14 years at IFC Films, longtime exec Lisa Schwartz is exiting the independent film distributor at the end of the year. As co-president, Schwartz guided IFC Films’ business strategy, distribution and strategic partnerships. Most recently, she led IFC Films' foray into streaming by creating and successfully…

There is a reason The Nest won acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It’s good. Really good. Coming from writer-director Sean Durkin, whose only previous turn behind the camera was nearly a decade ago with 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene — a well-regarded debut that still left me at arm’s length in my…

IFC Films said Tuesday that it acquired North American rights to MLK/FBI, the Sam Pollard-directed documentary that premiered today at the Toronto Film Festival and will play at the New York Film Festival too. IFC Films will release the film on January 15, 2021, ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and the…

IFC Films is getting into the holiday spirit a little early as it has acquired the North American rights to documentary Dear Santa directed by Dana Nachman (Pick of the Litter, Batkid Begins). The family-friendly Christmas feature docu takes a look at Operation Santa, a 100-year-old program of the United States Postal…

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to David Bowie road-trip film Stardust, starring Johnny Flynn (Emma) as the music icon alongside Marc Maron (Glow) and Jena Malone (Antebellum) as Bowie's wife Angie. The film chronicles the young David Bowie’s first visit to the U.S. in 1971 – a trip that inspired the invention of…

The new family dramedy Made In Italy seems made to order for stars Liam Neeson and his own real-life son Micheál Richardson. But in fact this feature debut from writer-director James D’Arcy has actually been in development for a decade and survived several different scenarios before finally landing the father-son…

UPDATED, Monday PM with exclusive chart: IFC’s horror movie The Rental came in a little lighter than expected but still was big enough to remain atop the pandemic-impacted weekend box office for a second week. The distributor reported a three-day gross of $290,300, down 28% from its first frame. Dave Franco’s feature…

Amazon Studios brings the story of Marie Curie to the screen with Radioactive starring Oscar-nominated actress Rosamund Pike as the pioneering scientist. Directed by Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and written by Jack Thorne, Radioactive is based on the 2010 graphic novel Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love…

Dave Franco is also ambitiously looking for a career behind the camera as well, and with his sharp B-movie feature debut The Rental, he makes a good case for it. As a director and writer (here working with Joe Swanberg on the script) he isn’t quite on the level of Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning debut with Get Out, which…

IFC Films is celebrating the birthday of Nikola Tesla by dropping the trailer for Tesla, the biopic of sorts about the pioneering scientist that stars four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke and is written and directed by Michael Almereyda. The film is aiming for a theatrical and on-demand release August 21. The period…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to Blithe Spirit starring Leslie Mann (This is 40, The Other Woman), Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast, Legion), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum, Confessions of a Shopaholic) and Judi Dench (Philomena, Skyfall). Edward Hall (Downton Abbey, Restless) directs a…

IFC Films has secured the North American distribution rights to Shithouse, the SXSW entry that picked up the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative. Written, directed, and starring Cooper Raiff, in his feature debut, the pic will be released sometime in the fall. The college romance follows Alex, a lonely, friendless…