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Damsels In Distress and We Have A Pope lead a new crop of specialty releases for the holiday weekend: Sony Pictures Classics’ Damsels averaging a robust $16,050 in four theaters and a total of $64,200 while Sundance Selects’ Pope averaged a solid $10,133 at three locations and total of $31,500. Director Whit…

St. Patrick’s Day weekend proved lucky for the Dardenne brothers’ U.S. debut of The Kid With A Bike. IFC Films opened the Belgian filmmakers’ picture in 3 locations with a robust $16,300 per screen. SXSW ’11 awards-winner Natural Selection opened at the Angelika in NYC with a decent $9,201. The Duplass Bros’ Jeff Who L…

Roadside Attractions opened Jennifer Westfeldt’s Friends With Kids at 374 theaters over the weekend, by far the widest roll out of the new specialty releases. The distributor noted its cast — including Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, Kristin Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Megan Fox, Ed Burns, and Chris O’Dowd — did a “firestorm…

When CBS Films paid a reported $5 million for distribution rights to Salmon Fishing In The Yemen after its successful world premiere last September at the Toronto Film Festival, the initial thought according to insiders was to try and release it in time for the 2011 awards season. The move that would have made sense…

Lasse Hallstrom’s Salmon Fishing In The Yemen will open the 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on Thursday, January 5, fest officials announced today. Closing gala presentation January 15 will be Almanya, Welcome to Germany. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen stars Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt and Kristin…

CBS Films Closes U.S. Deal On 'Salmon Fishing In The Yemen' Salmon Fishing In The Yemen will be released by CBS Films on March 2, 2012 in a limited run. It stars Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked (Syriana) in a tale of fly-fishing and political spinning, unexpected heroism, and…

UPDATE: Les Moonves has just released a statement on the exit of Amy Baer from CBS Films: "We thank Amy for her important role in building CBS Films. Going forward, we remain fully committed to the division's focus on a targeted slate of smart acquisitions and quality homegrown productions in all genres. CBS Films…

Harvey Weinstein just set a new air, land and sea world record for attending movie premieres. The Weinstein Company mogul managed to show up at three, count ’em, three different premiere events in two different countries all on Monday night. “Yeah, this was some fun wasn’t it?” he deadpanned when I asked him about…

UPDATE 2, 7:03PM: CBS Films has just issued a press release confirming the acquisition: TORONTO (September 12) – CBS Films announced today that they have acquired the U.S.distribution rights to SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN which made its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival this week. The…