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EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed filmmaker David Robert Mitchell. Mitchell's first feature, The Myth Of The American Sleepover, premiered at SXSW in 2010 and won the Special Jury Prize. His follow-up It Follows, which he wrote, directed and produced, was one of the best reviewed horror films in recent years following its…

BREAKING: Coming on the heels of COO David Glasser’s exit this fall, Radius-TWC heads Tom Quinn and Jason Janego are headed for the exits. News was broken by our sister publication Variety that they left. It doesn’t seem entirely that cut and dry, but Quinn and Janego want to start a different company releasing small…

The Weinstein Company’s multi-platform distribution sibling RADiUS-TWC has made a deal that gives Amazon Prime limited exclusive streaming rights to Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth relatively quickly after the movie’s theatrical opening in December. Michael Fassbinder stars as the title character…

In an era when horror films are built to profit off their shoestring budgets, the genre’s titles often live fast and quick lives at the box office. Then there’s David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, from Radius-TWC and Dimension, an art house/horror hybrid that has re-imagined the classic horror tropes with an auteurish…

David Robert Mitchell’s horror film It Follows has been such a sensation in its limited release over the last two weekends, that RADiUS and Dimension Films are now going wide with the film in 1,200 theaters. Originally, the film was scheduled for VOD this coming Friday, however, given its success the distributor has…

The Kirby Dick-directed documentary The Hunting Ground premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to strong reviews about its investigation of sexual assaults on campus, and the difficulty victims encounter when school bureaucrats try to handle disputes internally. Radius-TWC just opened it in limited release on Friday…

Salma Hayek says “Yippee-ki-yay” to Japanese mobsters and hired killers in the international trailer for Everly, director Joe Lynch’s ode to Asian cinema and the action classic Die Hard. The Oscar nominee stars as a Yakuza prostitute-turned-informant who must find her inner John McClane and fend off assassins before…

The International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards were announced during a ceremony last night on the Paramount Pictures lot.  Given the challenges in drawing attention to the throngs of feature docs submitting to the Oscars each year, the org’s kudos are a vital stop for non fiction films, looking to…

Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer has brought in a combined box office of nearly $11 million from on-demand and theatrical revenues, RADiUS-TWC said. The company also updated VOD revenues for Charlie McDowell’s quirky comedy The One I Love, adding more than $200K in on-demand to totals reported two weeks ago. RADiUS…

As the center of the specialty film world shifted to Toronto, a sizable number of new releases nonetheless hit theaters this weekend. American Experience/PBS Films appears to have one of the best non-fiction bows of the year, with Rory Kennedy’s Last Days In Vietnam, while China Lion’s But Always had a solid…

Radius-TWC has acquired North American rights to the Richard LaGravenese-directed pic The Last Five Years. It’s the screen adaptation of the 2002 off-Broadway musical by Tony-winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown. Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan star. The film premieres Sunday at the…

If this was a typical Sunday morning, I’d report that The One I Love, the latest quirky quasi-comedy exec-produced by the Duplass Brothers, had a solid but not scintillating debut weekend at the specialty box office. But this has not been a typical Sunday morning. When I opened my email from RADiUS-TWC, I found not…