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A24's Marcel The Shell With Shoes On hit the top ten in North America at no. 8 with an estimated $340k in week three at just 48 locations and a cume north of $963k – the latest hit for the distributor after powerhouse Everything Everywhere All At Once blasted off at the specialty box office. Marcel, based on a popular…

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have acquired North American rights to Eva Vitija’s documentary Loving Highsmith, which takes as its focus Carol and The Talented Mr. Ripley author Patricia Highsmith. Zeitgeist will release the film theatrically this September. Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life…

EXCLUSIVE: Dekanalog has picked up Streetwise, Anatolian Leopard and Fugue, three buzzy international films. The outfit, which launched in 2020 to focus on shopping international films to U.S. audiences, has taken global rights to the trio and plans to launch them within the calendar year. Cannes favourite Streetwise…

Few films released over 40 years ago can claim to be as relevant today as when they first came out. The Wobblies is one of them. The 1979 documentary, directed by Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer, recounts in oral history form the story of the Industrial Workers of the World union, otherwise known as the Wobblies. The…

Indie distributor Kino Lorber has hired Kate Patterson as its new Director of Press & Publicity. She joins from Metrograph, where she headed publicity and communications. Patterson will lead multi-pronged PR efforts to support Kino Lorber's continued growth in the digital space and manage campaigns for its 25+ yearly…

EXCLUSIVE: North American arthouse distributor Kino Lorber has hired indie cinema veteran George Schmalz as Director, Theatrical Sales & Business Development. Schmalz will be responsible for overseeing the Kino Lorber Repertory label and will report to the company's Senior VP of Theatrical and Non-Theatrical…

Director Nabil Ayouch spoke of the real story behind Morocco's Oscar submission Casablanca Beats, a musical drama about a teacher at a cultural center in the Moroccan city. "It is personal and autobiographical in a way," he said during Kino Lorber’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season…

Brighton 4th was a big winner at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, taking awards for Best International Narrative Feature, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Shot on location in New York, Kino Lorber's Oscar hopeful from Georgia tells the story of Kakhi, a former wrestler who travels from his native Tbilisi to Brighton…

When Kosovan writer-director Blerta Basholli met war widow Fahrije Hoti, the subject of her new feature film Hive, she was immediately struck by her strength of character and personality, which helped shape how she would approach making a feature film based on the story of Hoti’s life after the Kosovo War. Speaking at…

After Luzzu made history by becoming the first Maltese feature to compete in a major international festival, the pic now sails its way to the Oscar race as the nation’s International Feature submission. Helmed by debutant director Alex Camilleri (also the editor and writer), the film revolves around Jesmark (Jesmark…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Goldblum-narrated documentary Fiddler’s Journey To The Big Screen, about Norman Jewison classic Fiddler On The Roof, is getting U.S. distribution via Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber. The movie charts the story behind director Norman Jewison’s quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist…

Broadway is just beginning to return from Covid hibernation, a bleak period that saw the Great White Way shuttered for over a year. But the world's premier theater district has faced tough times before and rebounded, as revealed in the documentary On Broadway, directed by Oren Jacoby, which played as part of…