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Image Entertainment acquired the North American and UK rights to Criminal Activities, the Jackie Earle Haley-directed and Robert Lowell-scripted film that stars Haley, John Travolta, Dan Stevens, Michael Pitt, Christopher Abbott, Rob Brown and Edi Gathegi. Film will be released in the fall. Pic tells the story of four…

U.S. Rights have to the thriller Return to Sender, which stars Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and Nick Nolte, has been nabbed by Image Entertainment. Pike stars as Miranda, a small town nurse who gets attacked during a home invasion by a mysterious stranger (Shiloh Fernandez). Following his arrest, Miranda starts…

Image Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Some Kind Of Hate, the Caliber Media horror pic written by Mortimer and Brian DeLeeuw. Ronen Rubinstein and Disney Channel stars Sierra McCormick and Grace Phipps topline with Spencer Breslin, Lexi Atkins, Noah Segan and Michael Polish. It…

Joe Dante’s Burying The Ex debuted at the Venice Film Festival in September and was acquired by Image Entertainment in February (see trailer above). From the director of Gremlins, Ex stars Anton Yelchin as Max, a nice guy/horror buff whose relationship with Evelyn (Twilight‘s Ashley Greene) nosedives after they move…

Image Entertainment has acquired the Joe Dante horror comedy Burying The Ex and will give it a multiplatform release of theaters and VOD in the summer. Alan Trezza-scripted pic stars Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, and Alexandra Daddario. Pic premiered at Venice. Yelchin plays a nice guy with an overbearing girlfriend…

Image Entertainment has acquired the North American distribution rights for Caliber Media's Dark Was The Night, starring The Strain‘s Kevin Durand and Lukas Haas as local sheriffs battling an ancient evil. Jack Heller directed from a script by Tyler Hisel that made the 2009 Black List under the title The Trees. Image…

Richard Dreyfuss and Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany star in Cas & Dylan, the feature directorial debut from Jason Priestley. Entertainment One has taken all U.S. rights on the Canadian pic which sees Dreyfus as a dying doctor whose plans to check out on his own terms take a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds…

Image Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Digging Up The Marrow, a meta-fantasy flick from horror filmmaker Adam Green (Frozen). Green stars as himself along with a cadre of his genre pals in a story that begins when he receives a package from a mysterious man (Ray Wise) who claims he can prove that monsters…

EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival deals have taken a little while, but they are certainly piling up. RLJ/Image Entertainment is wrapping up a $3.5 million U.S. rights deal for The Cobbler, the Thomas McCarthy-directed comedy that stars Adam Sandler as a generational cobbler in New York who took over his father’s…

Stephen Sommers wrote and directed Odd Thomas, the adaptation of the Dean Koontz New York Times bestseller that is has sparked a seven-novel series and perhaps a film franchise. The film stars Anton Yelchin as a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities who encounters a mysterious man surrounded by dark, threatening…

Image Entertainment and The Film Arcade have teamed to pick up the fantasy actioner The Adventurer: The Curse Of The Midas Box. Jonathan Newman directed the $25M pic adapted from G.P. Taylor’s bestseller Mariah Mundi And The Midas Box. Michael Sheen, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, Ioan Gruffud, and Aneurin Barnard star in…

Image Entertainment has set the pay-per-view and VOD release date for comedian Lewis Black‘s ninth stand-up special, Lewis Black: Old Yeller – Live At The Borgata. The show will premiere live Saturday, August 24 at 9:30 PM ET and will be the first comedy special to air simultaneously on all cable, satellite and telco…