EXCLUSIVE: Shaun Sanghani’s SSS Entertainment, producer of films such as the upcoming, Al Pacino-starring World War II drama Axis Sally, has closed a $20 million revolving credit facility with Louisiana-based Red River Bank. SSS Film Capital, a newly created unit, will leverage the new funds for secured and unsecured…

What a weekend. Barry Jenkins' Moonlight full-on smashed the Specialty box office with the year's best opening per theater average, grossing $414,740 in four theaters. Michael Moore in TrumpLand came out of nowhere and opened Wednesday in two theaters, grabbing the year's best PTA for a non-fiction title with $25K…

International sales rights to King Cobra, Justin Kelly’s porn saga starring James Franco and Christian Slater, have been acquired by The Exchange, CEO Brian O’Shea announced today. The Exchange – which represented Kelly’s first film I Am Michael – adds King Cobra to a Toronto film festival line-up that also includes…

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Justin Kelly's King Cobra, the porn industry pic starring James Franco, Christian Slater, Garrett Clayton, Keegan Allen, Alicia Silverstone and Molly Ringwald. It premiered in the Midnight section at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Kelly wrote and directed the pic, which…

Director Justin Kelly reteams with his I Am Michael star and producer James Franco for King Cobra, the story about gay porn star Brent Corrigan aka Sean Paul Lockhart, played by Garrett Clayton, who created a turf war between feuding producers but never profited from his success. In King Cobra, Franco plays, along…

Once seen, you can’t unsee this exclusive clip from King Cobra, but you probably won’t mind. The Tribeca film charts the early rise of former gay porn star Sean Paul Lockhart, otherwise known as Brent Corrigan, leading up to his notorious falling out with the producer who made him famous. When he decides he’d be…

EXCLUSIVE: Add another movie to the prolific dance card of James Franco. He just wrapped King Cobra, starring with Christian Slater, Garrett Clayton, Keegan Allen, Molly Ringwald and Alicia Silverstone. The film, by writer-director Justin Kelly (Franco starred in his debut I Am Michael), focuses on a murder that…