I have to say I really admired Jason Bateman’s wickedly funny feature directorial debut, Bad Words and now he has followed it up with another winning indie, although the focus is on a dysfunctional family mystery this time around. He and Nicole Kidman play siblings whose childhood was unique to say the least. They…

Starz Digital gave an exclusive one-theater run to The Family Fang, Jason Bateman's second feature directorial, starring Christopher Walken, Nicole Kidman, Kathryn Hahn and Bateman himself over the weekend. The title had a decent start ahead of its expansion into 40 markets and VOD this coming week. Fang bit off the…

Fresh off its Tribeca Film Festival premiere, Jason Bateman's The Family Fang, starring himself along with Christopher Walken and Nicole Kidman, begins its theatrical run. This is Bateman's second directorial feature, following his 2014 debut, Bad Words. Fang joins a hefty crowd of Specialty newcomers this weekend…

Further solidifying his role as a multi-hyphenate in the wake of being an award winning actor and successful producer (The Identify Thief, $174M global), Jason Bateman makes his second directorial after 2013’s Bad Words with The Family Fang, a feature that the Arrested Development alum calls “equal parts comedy and…

Starz Digital Media has dropped the first official trailer for The Family Fang, director Jason Bateman’s film about adult siblings searching for their missing parents. He also stars alongside Nicole Kidman. The pair play Baxter and Annie, who are scarred from an unconventional upbringing but return to their family…

Starz has snapped up all U.S. distribution rights to the Jason Bateman-directed family drama The Family Fang with plans of a 2016 theatrical release through its multiplatform label Starz Digital.  Following a theatrical play and home entertainment release, Family Fang will play exclusively on Starz.  Family…

As the Toronto Film Festival gets underway, the shifting fortunes of distribution systems and players on the board has longtime observers scratching their heads over what kind of acquisition market this will be. For one thing, the premieres that would most likely follow with big distribution deals like Freeheld, the…

Here are some of the acquisition titles playing at the Toronto Film Festival that have the attention of buyers. Colonia Director-Writer: Florian Gallenberger. Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Emma Watson. When two German lovers get caught in the Chilean riots of 1973, they both end up imprisoned in the colony of a malicious cult…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Bateman's Aggregate label has been extended another two years at Universal Pictures. Bateman has had a first-look deal there since 2012 and in that time has grown into the role as producer as well as the director of Bad Words and then the Toronto Film Festival-bound The Family Fang. His new deal runs…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman will reunite with her Rabbit Hole scribe David Lindsay-Abaire on The Family Fang, the adaptation of the Kevin Wilson bestseller that Kidman will star in and produce. Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Rabbit Hole, which Lindsay-Abaire adapted from his Pulitzer-winning play about a…