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EXCLUSIVE:  Former IFC Films Distribution Boss Justin DiPietro is heading to Cohen Media Group as their new Head of Marketing and Distribution. DiPietro arrives to Cohen Media Group from Netflix where he served as their Director of Sales and Distribution. DiPietro managed theatrical sales for half of the U.S.…

It's purely coincidental, but the new documentary The Meaning of Hitler was released in theaters and on-demand platforms Friday, the very day some Trump supporters (like the My Pillow guy) insisted their preferred president would magically re-take power. They woke up today to find Joe Biden still occupying the White…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has set a December 3, 2021, theatrical and VOD release date for Paul Verhoeven’s steamy Cannes hit Benedetta. The anticipated movie will open in New York at the IFC Center and Film Lincoln Center and in LA at the Royal and The Alamo Drafthouse. The French-language film debuted in Cannes and will…

IFC Films has unveiled a new trailer for its psychological thriller The Nowhere Inn, starring Grammy winner Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia) and Dakota Johnson (Our Friend), which it is releasing in theaters, on digital and VOD on September 17. In the metafictional feature, Clark and her…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired North American rights to The Novice, the first feature from writer-director Lauren Hadaway, which will debut in select theaters, digital platforms and VOD on December 17. The festival favorite follows queer college freshman Alex Dall (Orphan‘s Isabelle Fuhrman), who joins her…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has taken North American rights to Andrea Arnold’s well-received Cannes Film Festival documentary Cow.  Cow, which made its world premiere earlier this month in the newly created Cannes Premiere section, reps IFC and Arnold’s second teaming together after her award-winning Fish Tank, which starred…

IFC Film’s Werewolves Within saw the biggest debut in a weekend without many new limited releases. Directed by Josh Ruben and written by Mishna Wolff, the comedy-horror flick stars Sam Richardson (Veep) and Milana Vayntrub. In the Ubisoft game-based film, a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has your first look at documentary thriller Enemies of the State, which IFC Films is releasing in theaters and On Demand July 30. The film from investigative journalist and documentarian Sonia Kennebeck (National Bird, United States vs. Reality Winner) examines the strange case of Matt DeHart, an…

IFC Midnight has boarded U.S. rights to UK genre pic Burial. Principal photography has recently completed on the movie, the second feature from Ben Parker. The movie follows a small group of Russian soldiers on a secret mission to transport Hitler's body out of enemy territory and back to Russia. Starring are…

IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island, ahead of the film’s world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The acquisition marks IFC’s fourth collaboration with the writer/director, on the heels of the features Father of My Children, Goodbye First Love and Things to…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has your first look at IFC Film’s Holler. The coming-of-age drama, starring Jessica Barden (The End of the F***ing World), will be released in select theaters on Friday, June 11. Loosely based on the adolescence of writer/director Nicole Riegel, Holler centers on Ruth (Barden), a determined young…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Midnight is acquiring North American rights to The Feast, the first feature from BAFTA-winning TV director Lee Haven Jones. The company plans to release the supernatural revenge horror pic this fall. Rooted in the potent mythical fables of Wales, and filmed in the Welsh language, Jones's debut feature…