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EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA Entertainment (Synchronic, Freaks) has inked a deal to distribute and exec produce the rodeo crime drama Ride, alongside Conor Allyn and Jake Allyn’s Margate House Films—the company behind modern western No Man’s Land, the Tribeca-premiering I’m No Longer Here and the historical biopic Edge of th…

EXCLUSIVE: Fledgling Georgia-based production outfit Southern Stories will produce and finance rodeo drama Ride from Conor and Jake Allyn, whose most recent feature No Man’s Land was picked up by IFC Films last month. Based on an original screenplay from Jake Allyn and Josh Plasse (The Baxters), the feature will be…

RLJE Films and UMC have acquired the North American rights to the Jeremy Ungar-directed thriller Ride starring Bella Thorne (Famous in Love), Jessie T. Usher (Shaft), and Will Brill (The OA). Ride is the feature debut for Ungar, who also wrote the script. The film is set to open nationwide in theaters and will also be…

Hal Sparks has joined Mitchel Muso, James Maslow and recently announced Renee Olstead in indie comedy Bachelor Lions from River Rock Films. Written and directed by Paul Bunch, the pic follows two young men who, like bachelor lions in the wild, live in the shadows just barely surviving. They buddy up to become Bachelor…

Australian born actor Brenton Thwaites has been cast as the lead in Entry Level, an action thriller from director Franck Khalfoun. The film is set to begin shooting early next year and 13 Films is handling international sales on the project at AFM this week. Written by Benjamin Hurley, the pic follows a young man who…

For me one of the real discoveries of the 2015 movie year to date is the heartfelt independent Ride written and directed by Helen Hunt. She also stars as an overprotective mother (with reasons slowly revealed from her past) who follows her son (Brenton Thwaites) from New York City to the beaches of Southern California…

New special titles this weekend seduced moviegoers beyond the hoards heading en masse to Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Alchemy had a surprisingly robust start with Kristen Wiig starrer Welcome To Me, which has the highest per theater average among limited releases while Fox Searchlight’s debut Far From The Madding Crowd…

Helen Hunt returns as both filmmaker and star in her latest project, Ride, co-starring Brenton Thwaites and Luke Wilson. The Screen Media Films surf comedy will open in L.A. and New York, both locales where the film shot, before going to well over a dozen theaters. The late Albert Maysles’ second-to-last film, Iris…

Screen Media Films has closed a deal for North American distribution rights to Ride, the film Helen Hunt wrote, directed and produced, and stars in alongside Brenton Thwaites, Luke Wilson, and David Zayas. Pic is Hunt’s follow-up to her helming debut Then She Found Me. In this comedy, she plays an editor from The New Y…