RLJE Films has scooped up rights to Plus One, Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer’s romantic comedy that will have its world premiere next month at the Tribeca Film Festival. The distributor, which recently released the Sundance revenge pic Mandy starring Nicolas Cage, acquired Plus One preemptively in a low-seven-figure…

RLJE Films announced today that they have acquired all North American rights to the upcoming adventure film The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot directed and written by Robert D. Krzykowski and starring A Star Is Born actor Sam Elliott. The film, which marks Krzykowski directorial debut made its World…

RLJE Films has acquired North American rights to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, the thriller written and directed by first-time feature director Henry Dunham that is making its world premiere tomorrow in the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section. An early 2019 theatrical and VOD release is planned. James…

RLJE Films has acquired U.S. rights to Galveston, the indie drama that bowed this year at SXSW adapted from True Detective writer Nic Pizzolatto’s 2010 novel. Mélanie Laurent directed the pic, which stars Ben Foster, Elle Fanning, Lili Reinhart and Beau Bridges. The deal comes as the pic landed a spot in September’s…

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…

Jonathan Watson’s dark comedy Arizona starring Danny McBride has landed at RLJE Films, which has acquired all North American rights to the film. Arizona marks another collaboration between Watson and McBride, who have worked together on the HBO comedy Vice Principals. The film was penned by Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s Luke…

RLJE Films has acquired North American rights to Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, the movie that serves as a reimagining of the 1989 Full Moon Features cult horror pic. Udo Kier toplines the new incarnation that co-stars Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Charlyne Yi, Michael Pare and Barbara Crampton…

The Last O.G. star Tracy Morgan and Aldis Hodge have come aboard the Taraji P. Henson-led comedy What Men Want, the gender-flipped iteration of the 2000 Mel Gibson-starring film, What Women Want from Nancy Meyers. Adam Shankman is directing the pic which centers on a female sports agent (Henson) who has been…

RLJE Films has acquired U.S. rights to Terminal starring newly minted Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie. Vaughn Stein directorial debut film is slated to open in theaters in spring 2018. "We're excited to work with Margot Robbie, who not only stars in, but also produced this amazing film," said Mark Ward, Chief…

The Anders Walter-helmed adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel I Kill Giants has been acquired by RLJE Films. The film, starring Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, and Madison Wolf, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and will be released theatrically in 2018. RLJE Films, a brand of RLJ Entertainment, acquired U.S…

RLJE Films has acquired all North American rights to writer-director S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99 starring Vince Vaughn as a former boxer turned-drug courier. RLJE Films, a brand of RLJ Entertainment, will release the film to theaters on Oct. 6. Brawl in Cell Block 99 will make its World Premiere at the…

EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films, a brand under the RLJ Entertainment umbrella, has acquired North American rights to The Houses October Built 2, a horror sequel to the 2014 found-footage haunted-house pic. Original director/co-writer/star Bobby Roe returns, as does his ensemble cast of Brandy Schaefer, Zack Andrews, Mikey Roe…