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EXCLUSIVE: European sales stalwart The Match Factory has taken international rights to intriguing Venice Competition entry The Mountain, starring Tye Sheridan and Jeff Goldblum. Rick Alverson (Entertainment) directs the drama, which also stars Hannah Gross (Netflix’s Mindhunter), Udo Kier (Downsizing) and Denis Lavant…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Gregg Turkington – best known for his “anti-comedian” Neil Hamburger persona – is reuniting with The Comedy director Rick Alverson on a new feature backed by Nomadic Independence and record label Jagjaguwar. Entertainment stars Turkington as a broken and aging comic, known only as “The Comedian,&#8221…

Tribeca Film acquired all North American rights to the Rick Alverson-directed The Comedy, a film that bowed at 2012 Sundance Film Festival and also played SXSW. It will be released in October. Jagjaguwar produced in conjunction with Greyshack Films and Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix, along with Mike S. Ryan and Brent…