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EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope has acquired North American rights to Marq Evans' Claydream, which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Marq Evans' feature documentary revolves around claymation icon Will Vinton's legal fight with Phil Knight. The Nike founder in the late 1990s came in as an investor and eventual took…

EXCLUSIVE: Ori Segev and Noah Dixon's debut feature Poser, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, is getting a U.S. theatrical release, after Oscilloscope said Tuesday that it acquired North American rights. Set in the real-life underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio, the pic centers on Lennon Gates…

Focus Features is looking to flood the specialty box office with their latest title Dark Waters from director Todd Haynes. The film, which stars Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, is based on a true story about attorney Rob Bilott (Ruffalo) who uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to the critically acclaimed immigration feature The Infiltrators. Directed by Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra, the film made its world premiere earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival where it went on to won the Audience Award: NEXT and the NEXT…

EXCLUSIVE: After the warm reception it received at its world premiere at Sundance in January, Justin Chon’s sibling drama Ms. Purple has found a home. Oscilloscope Laboratories announced today that it has acquired North American rights to Ms. Purple which features breakout performances from Tiffany Chu and Teddy Lee…

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to On Her Shoulders, the Alexandria Bombach film that won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it had its world premiere. It will also play at the upcoming SXSW before a planned theatrical release later in…

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to Madeline’s Madeline, Josephine Decker’s latest pic that had its world premiere in the NEXT section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It later bowed in Europe at Berlin. A theatrical release later in the year is planned. The film written and directed by Decker…

Oscilloscope has acquired North American distribution rights to Ingmar Bergman – Legacy Of Defining Genius documentary, which will get a theatrical run this year.  The doc hails from Margarethe von Trotta's collaboration with co-director Felix Moeller, made with the participation and inclusion of Bergman's family and…

Oscilloscope Laboratories has made a safe and sane pickup at Cannes, lighting up North American rights to the fireworks documentary Brimstone & Glory. The distributor plans a 2017 theatrical burst. The details of director Viktor Jakovleski’s film: The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico, is a site of…

New subscription-based digital service Premo, set to launch in February, has signed content partnership deals with Gravitas Ventures, Oscilloscope and Cinedigm as it plans to become a major source for digital entertainment aimed at multicultural millenial viewers. The service will stream content on multiple platforms…

FilmBuff announced today it licensed worldwide rights to Uncle John, the dramatic thriller co-written and directed by cinematographer and first-time helmer Steven Piet that had its world premiere this year at SXSW. John Ashton (Beverly Hills Cop, Gone Baby Gone) stars. The plan is to open the pic in select theaters…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories acquired North American rights to the Dylan Southern/Will Lovelace-directed Shut Up and Play The Hits, which documents the final days of LCD Soundsystem. The film premiered at Sundance and then played SXSW. I’m told it will l be released in special one-night-only engagements in…