Monterey Media has picked up the U.S. rights to TIFF film The Levelling, and is planning a theatrical release for early spring.  Starring Ellie Kendrick (Game Of Thrones), David Troughton, Jack Holden and Joe Blakemore, the film follows Clover Catto (Kendrick), who returns to the farm where she grew up after hearing…

Monterey Media has secured U.S. and Canada rights to Maggie Greenwald’s Sophie And The Rising Sun and is planning for a theatrical launch in early 2017.  Based on the novel by Augusta Trobaugh, the  forbidden love story stars Julianne Nicholson (August: Osage County), Margo Martindale (August: Osage County), Lorraine…

Exclusive: A Beautiful Now follows a beautiful, tempestuous dancer who, on her birthday, has locked herself inside her bathroom with a bottle of champagne and a loaded gun and threatens to kill herself. Her formerly close-knit friends are forced to reunite for the evening, holding an all night vigil as they try to…

Australian actor Nicholas Hamilton has joined the production of It, New Line Cinema's Andy Muschietti-directed adaptation of the Stephen King bestseller. Barbara Muschietti, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith are producing. Nicholas will play Henry Bowers in the film, which stars Bill Skarsgard…

Monterey Media has acquired U.S. rights to Andrew Currie's The Steps, a comedy starring Jason Ritter, Emmanuelle Chriqui, James Brolin and Christine Lahti. The pic, which premiered last fall at the Toronto Film Festival, is scheduled for a release in June. The deal was inked with Entertainment One's Seville…

Monterey Media has acquired North American distribution rights to indie drama Memoria starring Sam Dillon, Thomas Mann, and James Franco. The film, written and directed by Nina Ljeti and Vladimir de Fontenay and based on a short story by Franco, had its world premiere today at the Austin Film Festival, with Franco in…

ARC Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights for the global warming-themed drama Chloe And Theo. The film will hit theaters and VOD simultaneously on September 4, 2015. The story follows an Inuit man named Theo who travels to New York as part of an effort to draw attention to the destructive effects of global warming…

Monterey Media has acquired U.S. and Canada rights to The Pardon, which follows the true story of Toni Jo Henry (Jaime King), a woman tried three times and executed in 1942 Louisiana.  After her dashing boxer husband Cowboy Henry (Jason Lewis) is sent to prison, Toni Jo embarks on an ill-fated mission with Cowboy’s…

Monterey Media has acquired U.S. rights to Like Sunday, Like Rain, the indie drama written and directed by Frank Whaley and starring Leighton Meester and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. The pic is coming off its premiere at the Raindance Film Festival. An early 2015 theatrical release is planned. The story…

Clara Mamet‘s debut feature Two-Bit Waltz has been acquired by Monterey Media, which plans a fall theatrical release. Mamet — the daughter of David Mamet and Rebecca Pidgeon — wrote, directed and stars in the indie comedy alongside Jared Gilman, David Paymer and William H. Macy. It centers on Maude, who is suspended…

Monterey Media plans an October theatrical release after acquiring U.S. rights to Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes For Young Ghouls, which has played Tribeca and was one of the Toronto fest’s top 10 Canadian films of the year. The pic is set on the Red Crow Mi’gMaq reservation in 1976 and centers on an Aboriginal teenager guided…

Fort McCoy had a run on the festival circuit in 2011 and 2012 and has been acquired by monterey media, which nabbed North American rights and plans a late summer theatrical release. Eric Stoltz, Kate Connor, Lyndsy Fonseca, Andy Hirsch, Camryn Manheim and Seymour Cassel star in the pic based on the true story of a…