EXCLUSIVE: Indican Pictures has picked up Poor Boy out of the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Michael Shannon, Justin Chatwin (Shameless), Amanda Crew (Silicon Valley), Dale Dickey (Claws), Pat Healy (Hap and Leonard) and Lou Taylor Pucci (Thumbsucker). Indican will open in a short-city run theatrically in July…

EXCLUSIVE: Indican Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to action thriller Jet Trash, with plans for a theatrical release in 10-15 cities this spring. Based on Simon Lewis’ 1999 novel Go, it’s directed by Charles Henri Belleville and stars Robert Sheehan (Fortitude, Mortal Engines), Osy Ikhile (Legend Of Tarzan, Black Mir…

EXCLUSIVE: Indican Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to music video director Chris Hicky's debut film The Grace Of Jake and is planning for a limited theatrical release in the first week of February. The faith-based film, starring Jordin Sparks and Jake La Botz, follows ex-inmate and musician Jake Haynes (La…

EXCLUSIVE: Never, which marks the starring feature debut of Zelda Williams (daughter of the late Robin Williams) and the project she was filming at the time of her father death, will go into theaters in limited release on August 19, courtesy of boutique distribution company Indican Pictures. The distributor will bow…

Indican Pictures has acquired Kill Me Deadly, a spoofy noir comedy based on playwright Bill Robens’ staged satire. Robens adapted the feature which was directed by Darrett Sanders and produced by the group behind the NOTE theater, which originally produced the play in 2009. The indie distributor plans an extremely…

EXCLUSIVE: Indican Pictures has snapped up the film rights to This Last Lonely Place, a noir thriller executive produced by the Santana film division of the Humphrey Bogart Estate. Pic is eyeing an early 2016 debut on VOD in 180M homes worldwide as well as rental stores and chains. The film will also be opening…

Indican Pictures acquired North American rights back in August to the late Ernest Borgnine's final film The Man Who Shook The Hand Of Vicente Fernández, which will be released in LA on December 7. The date provides an awards-qualification behind Borgnine’s final performance; the Oscar-winner died in July at age 95…

In a couple of distribution deals that were just announced, the Magnolia Pictures’ genre arm Magnet Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to John Dies At The End, described as a “phantasmagoric new sci-fi/horror film” directed, produced and written for the screen by auteur and cult legend Don Coscarelli (Bubba Ho-Tep…

This coming weekend’s specialty releases include Samuel Goldwyn Films’ Bad Ass, starring Danny Trejo as a Vietnam veteran who takes matters into his own hands to solve a murder, while Indican Pictures’ Falling Away takes a look at a Los Angeles inner-city neighborhood reeling from the aftermath of a devastating school…