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It’s no secret that the box office space has been struggling to find life during the pandemic — and it seems to be even more difficult for the specialty box office space. As specialty films try to navigate the space by shifting to PVOD, digital, and virtual openings, some distributors continue to brave the landscape…

Update: Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they’re scheduling Michael Covino’s The Climb for a New York City and Los Angeles opening on Oct. 9. Hopefully movie theaters are open by then. Despite Warner Bros. moving Tenet temporarily off the release calendar as they they re-calibrate their global release…

Since its debut in Cannes, where it claimed a prize in Un Certain Regard, The Climb has been on an unexpected and steady ascent. Making its way to Telluride before landing at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Sony Pictures Classics pic has generated a raft of reviews so good, it's like they'd been written…

Topic Studios is staying in the the saddle with The Climb duo Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin, saying Wednesday it has inked a two-year, first-look deal with the pair behind the Cannes hit comedy that was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Under the pact, the pair will develop and produce feature films via…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Covino, whose movie The Climb is making its North American premiere at Telluride today, is boarding the cast of Paul Greengrass’ Tom Hanks pre-Civil War drama News of the World based on the bestselling Paulette Jiles novel. Covino wrote, directed, produced and starred in The Climb which made its…

The Cannes Film Festival's companion competition section, Un Certain Regard, unveiled its winners Friday night with the top prize going to tropical melodrama The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao from director Karim Ainouz. Set in 1950 Rio de Janeiro, it centers on inseparable sisters Euridice and Guida who each have…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights excluding France and German-speaking Europe to The Climb, the Michael Angelo Covino-directed buddy comedy that premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. The deal comes after SPC acquired Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor, another Cannes…

American Un Certain Regard entry The Climb has fast become one of the hits of this year’s Cannes, generating a raft of reviews so good it’s like they’d been written by the filmmakers themselves. No need for that, though, because Michael Angelo Covino’s directorial debut feature, which he co-wrote with his co-lead Kyle…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun first clip for Cannes buddy comedy The Climb, which has been among the best-reviewed movies in the Un Certain Regard strand so far. U.S. writer-director Michael Angelo Covino’s feature debut, sold by Memento and Endeavor Content on the Croisette, takes a look at the turbulent friendship between…

Topic Studios is set to finance and produce The Climb, a comedic drama from Kyle Marvin and Michael Covino based on their short film that debuted at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The film tells the story of the friendship between two lifelong friends (Covino and Marvin will also star) spanning several years…

EXCLUSIVE: I have learned that Amazon Studios has opted not to pick up any of the three comedy pilots that were part of the current fall 2017 pilot season. That includes Sea Oak, starring Glenn Close; Love You More, from Patti Cake$' Bridget Everett and Sex and the City's Michael Patrick King; and Diarra Kilpatrick's T…

Writer, actress, producer and Internet “Koko” queen Diarra Kilpatrick stopped by the New Hollywood podcast to talk about her ABC digital series American Koko and her Amazon pilot The Climb. Kilpatrick has joined the ranks of creators who have used the digital space to fashion unique stories that have crossed over into…