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EXCLUSIVE: Utopia, the newly launched sales and distribution company, has acquired world rights to Mickey and the Bear, the father-daughter drama written and directed by Annabelle Attanasio in her feature debut. Robert Schwartzman’s company plans a fall theatrical release timed to awards season. The pic, set in…

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Fogler and Emma Bell are leading the ensemble cast of The Argument, the third feature-length film from director Robert Schwartzman after Dreamland and The Unicorn. The comedy penned by The Chumscrubber scribe Zac Stanford just wrapped production, with Utopia coming aboard to handle international sales…

Filmmaker Robert Schwartzman is throwing his hat in the ring with his new distribution company, Utopia. The newly launched company co-founded by Schwartzman will take a “filmmaker first” approach and will venture to SXSW next week to look at new films for potential acquisition. David Betesh, former head of global…

Forget Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, here’s Caleb & Malory & The Unicorn, in this first trailer for director Robert Schwartzman’s comedy. The film, from The Orchard, stars Nick Rutherford and Lauren Lapkus as a newly engaged (if not newly involved – they’ve been together four years) couple whose eyes are opened when they…

EXCLUSIVE: The Orchard has taken the North American distribution rights to Robert Schwartzman’s romantic comedy The Unicorn with an eye on a theatrical and digital release during early 2019. Nick Rutherford and Lauren Lapkus star as engaged couple, Caleb and Malory who after spending a weekend in Palm Springs with the…

Following up his Tribeca-premiering directorial debut, 2016’s Dreamland, director Robert Schwartzman headed to the American South with his second feature, The Unicorn. Featuring an outstanding ensemble, the film stars comedians Lauren Lapkus and Nicholas Rutherford as a couple who, four years into their engagement and…

EXCLUSIVE: In his second feature directorial, The Unicorn, Coppola scion Robert Schwartzman continues his knack for painting funky relationships on screen. While his 2016 Tribeca Film Festival world premiere Dreamland centered around a cash-strapped piano player who aims to solve his financial problems via a…

EXCLUSIVE: Orion Pictures and Gunpowder & Sky have acquired world rights to the Tribeca Film Festival film Dreamland in the first deal since Gunpowder & Sky’s purchase of FilmBuff earlier this month. Orion Pictures and Gunpowder & Sky will release the pic in U.S. theaters and on demand on November 11. The film marks…

Johnny Simmons is doing double duty at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival as a struggling MLB pitcher in The Phenom and a cash-strapped piano player in Dreamland. The pic also marks the feature directorial debut of Coppola cousin and Jason Schwartzman’s brother, Robert Schwartzman, and like the Golden Globe-winning…

Robert Schwartzman has just begun shooting his directorial debut, a film entitled MF. He’s mum on the logline, but his stars are Johnny Simmons, Amy Landecker, Frankie Shaw and Beverly D’Angelo. Schwartzman, who has fronted the L.A. band Rooney for more than 15 years, wrote the script with Benjamin Font. He’s…