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EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has found a sleepover home for Slumber Party Massacre, a contemporary reimagining of the cult 1982 feature film from Roger Corman and Amy Holden Jones. The new pic, directed by The Banana Splits Movie and Vagrant Queen helmer Danishka Esterhazy from a screenplay by Ash Vs. Evil Dead‘s Suzanne…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios and Studiocanal have made an exclusive deal to distribute the new animated family feature Little Vampire in North America. Directed by Joann Sfar (Little Vampire TV series, The Rabbi's Cat), the Annecy International Animated Film Festival winner is a production of On Animation (The Little Prin…

Shout! Studios has acquired North American rights to Language Lessons, the drama that marks the feature directing debut of Natalie Morales. She co-stars with Mark Duplass, who also penned the script. The pic, which had its world premiere at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and won an audience award at SXSW, will now…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired worldwide rights to Emmy-winning director Nancy Buirski's documentary A Crime on the Bayou, the third in her trilogy of films that explore vital stories from the Civil Rights era. Shout! Studios, the distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory, plans a theatrical release…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired Masquerade, a thriller written and directed by Shane Dax Taylor and starring Bella Thorne. The deal struck with XYZ Films is for North American, UK and Ireland rights, and the pic will now get a day-and-day release in the U.S later this year. Bleiberg Entertainment is handling…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios will team with 101 Films International to distribute Christian Sesma’s new action thriller Take Back. Directed by Sesma and written by Zach Zerries, the film stars Mickey Rourke, Michael Jai White, Gillian White and James Russo. Take Back follows Zara (White) and Brian (White), a couple…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Dorff, Trace Adkins, Scott Haze and Gavin Lewis have been added to the cast of Old Henry, a Western  actioner in the works from Shout! Studios and Hideout Pictures. They join Tim Blake Nelson, who was tapped to star last week. Principal photography is now underway on location in Tennessee. Old…

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Blake Nelson has signed on to star in Shout! Studios and Hideout Pictures’ action western Old Henry.  The movie, which is written and directed by Potsy Ponciroli, follows a widowed farmer and his son who warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. Shannon Houchins and Mike Hagerty…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios is teaming with Kirkpatrick & Kinslow Productions (KKP) and Scatena & Rosner Films (SNR) for an exclusive deal to distribute the James Kicklighter-directed The Sound of Identity in North America. The news was made by Jordan Fields, Vice President of Acquisitions at Shout! Studios, Russ…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios and Hideout Pictures have entered a long-term, multifaceted production partnership for a slate of new Western films that includes the titles Old Henry, Hardin and 4 Dead in 5 Seconds. Under the partnership, Shout! Studios and Hideout Pictures will jointly develop, finance, and produce new…

EXCLUSIVE:  Robert Schwartzman’s filmmaker-centric distribution company Utopia has launched Utopia Originals which will focus on the development, packaging, and sale of original narrative and documentary feature film as well as television content. For its first project, Utopia Originals has teamed with Norman Reedus…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios, the distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory, has hired Julie Dansker to the newly created role of Head of New Content Sales. Dansker joins having recently served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing at The Orchard, where she oversaw distribution and content strategy. In 2019, she…