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EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment’s Cranked Up Films has acquired North American distribution rights to the Irish supernatural comedy Extra Ordinary from Epic Pictures with an eye toward a fall 2019 theatrical release. Extra Ordinary, which premiered at SXSW in March, is the debut feature from co-directors Mike Ahern…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films has acquired the North American TV and streaming rights to Jenifer McShane's (Mothers of Bedford) Ernie & Joe. The documentary feature follows San Antonio police officers Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro, who are diverting people from jail and into mental health treatment. Ernie & Joe made…

Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Peanut Butter Falcon, the road trip comedy that stars Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson and Zack Gottsagen and won the SXSW audience award this year after its world premiere there. The pic will now hit theaters August 9. The film was written and directed by…

EXCLUSIVE: SXSX Special Jury Award winner Yes, God, Yes, starring Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things), Timothy Simons (Veep) and Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why), has been picked up for international sales by Highland Film Group. Writer-director Karen Maine's well-received (Obvious Child) comedy follows a Catholic teenager in…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, whose feature writing and directing debut The Peanut Butter Falcon won the SXSW Audience Award this spring when it had its world premiere in Austin, have signed with WME. Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson toplined Peanut Butter Falcon, a drama that centered on a young man…

The comedy-thriller Villains was a hit at SXSW earlier this year and Gunpowder & Sky took note. The global content studio announced today that it has acquired the U.S. rights to Villains from the BRON Studios genre arm The Realm. Gunpowder & Sky will partner with MoviePass Films to release the film on a…

Tiffany Tenille, the star of coming-of-age film Jezebel from writer/director Numa Perrier, has signed with APA in all areas. Premiered at SXSW, Jezebel is based on a true coming-of-age story that follows 19-year-old Tenille as she deals with extreme adversity during the last days of her mother's life in a small Las…

IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Lynn Shelton’s Sword of Trust, coming off the comedy’s world premiere earlier this month at SXSW. Marc Maron, Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins and Jon Bass star. The distributor plans a summer theatrical release. Co-written by Shelton and Mike O'Brien, the plot centers on…

Fresh off of its world premiere at SXSW, Ben Masters’ documentary The River and the Wall has released its first full trailer. Gravitas announced today that the film will be released in theaters in the U.S. and Canada and On Demand May 3 with a one night preview in nearly 100 theaters on May 2. As exclusively reported…

The celebratory mood Saturday night at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas ended in chaos, after a shooting erupted at the corner of 6th Street and San Jacinto, according to an eyewitness report from the scene. “There was loud pop that I heard. There was a pause of a second or two, then the people in the…

On stage in front of a South by Southwest crowd that had just been laughing, gasping and cringing to the wildly dark premiere of Pet Sematary, director Dennis Widmyer said, "What do you think? Feel good movie of 2019?" Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura had no use for sarcasm. He was blunt: "How f–ked up is this…

As SXSW comes to a close, the Austin-based festival unveiled the audience winners from this year’s film festival which includes the Shia LaBeouf-fronted drama The Peanut Butter Falcon as well as David Modigliano’s documentary Running With Beto. The winners for the Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature…