Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to the drama De Gaulle, with plans to release it in theaters and on digital platforms on October 22.
De Gaulle is a biopic centered on Charles De Gaulle (Lambert Wilson), the French military officer and statesmen who led government-in-exile Free France against…
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Held For Ransom (aka Daniel), a hostage thriller based on the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye, who was abducted by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for more than a year before he was released. An October 15 theatrical and digital release is…
EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions have acquired North American rights to writer/director Evan Jackson Leong’s Snakehead.
The crime thriller center on Sister Tse (Shuya Chang), who travels from China to New York via a human smuggler known as a snakehead. In the process, she gains favor with the…
EXCLUSIVE: Twenty-year Sony Pictures executive Peter Calvin Nelson is joining Samuel Goldwyn Film as the Head of Production.
At Sony, Nelson served as SVP of Production Stage 6 Films and oversaw development and production on more than 125 motion pictures during his tenure with the Culver City lot.
Initially, during…
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Jan Philipp Weyl's debut feature, Running Against the Wind, and is releasing the film on Digital and VOD July 9.
The Ethiopian thriller, starring newcomers Mikias Wolde, Ashenafi Nigusu, and Joseph Reta Belay, centers on two 12-year-old boys who grow up…
EXCLUSIVE: Cheryl Ladd is headlining the country-music-driven feature A Cowgirl’s Song that Samuel Goldwyn will distribute worldwide. The pic, the fourth installment in the Cowgirls 'N Angels series, begins filming Tuesday in Chickasha, OK.
A Cowgirl's Song is a coming-of-age drama that follows an aspiring but adrift…
EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Night Raiders, a dystopian sci-fi feature executive produced by Oscar winner Taika Waititi.
The debut feature of writer/director Danis Goulet is set in 2043, exploring a future in which a military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North…
Nominated in both the International Feature Oscar and the Best Director Oscar categories, Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round is a life-affirming film that uses an experimentation with alcohol as a means to propel the drama. Throughout, there are elements of tragedy and comedy in a story Vinterberg has called an…
Certainly one of the most original and unusual movies to be nominated in any category at the Oscars this year is International Film contender The Man Who Sold His Skin from Tunisia. The film merges the world of Syrian refugees and the tony world of high art in a unique mix of drama, comedy, thriller and social…
Thomas Vinterberg achieved that rare honor with this year’s Oscar nominations, not only receiving one for Denmark’s Best International Film entry, Another Round, but also one for him as Best Director category — the only nominee there for a film not also competing for Best Picture. This is something true icons…
With Oscar nominations for Best International Feature and Best Director, Another Round's Thomas Vinterberg today joined an elite, yet growing, group of overseas filmmakers to score simultaneous mentions in those categories. Speaking to Deadline from his home in Denmark just minutes after the announcement — and with…
"We're not doing hope today," actor Brian Tyree Henry says, in the trailer for The Outside Story.
For his lovesick character, this might be true. But for Henry, the world today appears to be full of possibilities. After landing a Tony nomination for Lobby Hero—and his first two Emmy nominations, for turns in…
