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EXCLUSIVE:  IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Robert Connolly's atmospheric mystery thriller The Dry, starring Eric Bana. A May 21 theatrical and on-demand release date is planned for the Made Up Stories feature. The pic is the actor’s first Australian film in over a decade. As we told you at the start o…

IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Gia Coppola's sophomore feature Mainstream which made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. IFC will open the movie on May 7 in select theaters and on demand. In Mainstream, a young woman (Maya Hawke) thinks she's found a path to internet stardom when she…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has back-tracked on its decision to commission a second season of Victorian-era comedy crime caper Year Of The Rabbit after the coronavirus pandemic forced the British broadcaster into £150M ($205M) of content cuts. Channel 4 renewed Matt Berry’s Year Of The Rabbit in February last year, funding…

BBC America is merging the beauty of nature with the majesty of music for the four-network television event Planet Earth: A Celebration. The special will premiere on BBC America, AMC, IFC and SundanceTV on August 31 at 8pm ET. It will debut on the same day in the U.S., UK and China. From lions to giraffes to dolphins…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Christine Lubrano has signed with Buchwald for scripted and unscripted programming. She is the former SVP of Original Programming & Development for IFC with over 20 years of experience producing and developing television with deep knowledge in both scripted and unscripted programming across…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Midnight we have learned has acquired North American rights to the Joe Marcantonio psychological drama Kindred which they’re planning to open on Nov. 6. Kindred follows mother-to-be Charlotte. She collapses upon receiving the news that her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident. She wakes up in…

MONDAY AM UPDATE: Below is the full chart for this past weekend, per industry estimates. While The Rental is slightly lower, it’s still a commendable showing by a new independent feature to best all these catalog titles that have been dominating the box office during the pandemic. I hear that the theaters which are…

Talk about box-office drama. As the July 4 weekend unwinds, IFC’sThe Truth might be slugging it out with Homewrecker from Dark Star and The Outpost from Screen Media for the honor of ranking somewhere in the 300s, near IFC's own Wiener-Dog, among all-time Independence Day performers. (Who can say for sure, as release…

Sketch comedy series Sherman's Showcase is returning for a second season and will be simulcast across IFC and sister network AMC. This comes ahead of the launch of its one-hour Black History Month Spectacular, which launches on June 19. The six-part series, which features half-hour episodes, is slated to air in 2021. S…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired North American rights to A Call to Spy, the feature directorial debut of Oscar nominated documentary producer Lydia Dean Pilcher about the unsung female heroes of WWII. IFC plans a fall release, Deadline has learned. Produced, written by and starring Sarah Megan Thomas (Equity), who…

EXCLUSIVE: From what we’ve been able to pull together, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour continues to reign with $300K in its ninth weekend at the domestic box office from a theatrical marketplace that remains largely shut down coast to coast. Our sources believe that the sequel has made slightly more…

Day 2 of ATX TV… from the Couch!" featured a conversation with the cast and executive producers of the forthcoming Sherman's Showcase Black History Month Spectacular special. It is set to air on June 19, which is also known in the African American community, especially in the South, as Juneteenth, a day that…