In a competitive weekend for specialty movies, a couple of newcomers shined. Well Go USA opened Lost In Hong Kong in over two dozen theaters attracting good crowds, while Broad Green Pictures closed escrow on 99 Homes in a pair of theaters with decent returns. And A24 bowed Mississippi Grind in an exclusive run…

Early fall traditionally welcomes the onslaught of awards contenders and wannabes to theaters, and this weekend's heavy slate of newcomers continues the tradition. The frame features new narratives and documentaries, many with star wattage attached to — hopefully — excite <img class="alignleft wp-image-1201309680 size-…

It certainly seems like staggering progress has been made in an extremely short amount of time – just under seven years after the passage of California’s notorious proposition 8, full marriage rights were finally extended to gays and lesbians earlier this year. But that progress is the result of a painful, 46-years lon…

Roadside Attractions will bow Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall about the 1969 Greenwich Village riots that started America's LGBT rights movement on Sept. 25.

Back in March, Roadside announced that they acquired U.S. rights. For Emmerich and screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz, Stonewall is a passion project, and its release…

Roadside Attractions has snapped up U.S. distribution rights to Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall and is planning a fall release for the drama that stars Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman and Jonny Beauchamp. Goldcrest Films is handling international rights. Emmerich’s Centropolis Entertainment produced Stonew…

Atlantic Productions has signed a distribution deal with Entertainment One Television for <img class="alignleft wp-image-1201353658" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" alt="eone-logo__131105165023" width="150" height="172" data-lazy-src="https://pmcdeadline2.files.w…

EXCLUSIVE: Roland Emmerich's independently-produced drama Stonewall has made its first big international sale. Warner Bros Germany has acquired the just-wrapped film in Emmerich's native country. The Jon Robin Baitz-scripted drama tells the story of a young man's political awakening set against the backdrop of the…

Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated Sarah Paulson has joined Nicolas Cage in The Runner, about an idealistic but flawed New Orleans Congressman Colin Price whose dysfunctional life and career are destroyed by a sex scandal. Paulson, last seen in the Oscar-winner 12 Years A Slave, will play a PR consultant Price hires to…

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