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Chip and Joanna Gaines have issued a teasing video for their new Magnolia Network, which is expected to debut next summer and replace the existing DIY Network in the Discovery empire. The video shows the easy-going couple teasing each other about the story possibilities of the new network, whose offerings remain under…

UPDATED, 4:45 PM: Hulu said today that it has moved back the premiere date for Ask Dr. Ruth by three weeks, from May 10 to June 1. Its theatrical release via Magnolia Pictures remains set for May 3. PREVIOUSLY, November 29: One day after the Ask Dr. Ruth documentary was unveiled as one of the high-profile premieres at…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures International has finalized deals for movies on its American Film Market sales slate, including TIFF horror-western The Wind, U.S. box office hit doc RBG, and Sebastian Silva's suspense-drama Tyrel. Well-received female-fronted genre pic The Wind, which tells the story of a settler in the…

SeaWorld and its former CEO, James Atchison, have agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle federal charges that they covered up the negative impact of the documentary film Blackfish on the company. The 2013 Magnolia-CNN Films release took viewers behind the scenes of SeaWorld’s popular killer-whale shows to expose…

A&E IndieFilms announced today that Magnolia Pictures has acquired domestic rights to Alexis Bloom’s documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes about the late Fox News Chairman and CEO.  Magnolia will open the movie on Dec. 7 after a fall festival run. A&E Network has television rights to the film. Take…

Japan has selected Hirokazu Kore-eda's family drama and Cannes Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters as its submission for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar category. The story of a family of small-time crooks who take in a child they find on the streets has been a box office winner at home, becoming the acclaimed…

Revolving doors at two of Italy's leading television production companies as Endemol Shine Italy and Banijay-owned Magnolia appoint new bosses. The 21st Century Fox-backed business has hired Leonardo Pasquinelli as Chief Executive to succeed Paolo Bassetti. He will oversee the company, which produced over 40…

EXCLUSIVE: The Hunt helmer Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year and is being released by Magnolia this weekend in New York and Los Angeles. The period drama is loosely based on Vinterberg’s childhood experiences growing up as part of a collective in 1970s Copenhagen. Above is…

After stoking audiences and critics at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Janicza Bravo’s  feature directorial comedy debut Lemon has been picked up by Magnolia Pictures for North American distribution. The film plays SXSW tonight and Magnolia will open the film later this year. Bravo co-wrote Lemon with her husband B…

Looking at some street poetry on a sign in the San Fernando Valley—it was a half-haiku that said "Magnolia Blvd. DEAD END"—I got to wondering, how did we get from Magnolia to La La Land? I can find the line from Magnolia, in 1999, when it rained frogs, back to Short Cuts, with its tremors, six years before. Paul…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Blumhouse’s aptly titled swing-dancing documentary Alive and Kicking, with an eye on release this year. From director Susan Glatzer, Alive and Kicking gives audiences an intimate, inspirational insider's view of the culture of the current swing dance world…

Politics was again front and center in Berlin this morning as Alex Gibney discussed his documentary Zero Days, which unspools in competition later today. The Oscar-winner is here along with New York Times chief Washington correspondent David E Sanger and former Haaretz intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent…