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EXCLUSIVE: Nunsploitiation horror St. Agatha, directed by Saw filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman, is getting a U.S theatrical bow after Uncork'd Entertainment acquired North American rights. The female-driven psychological thriller will be released theatrically and on digital in the first quarter of 2019, having premiered…

EXCLUSIVE: Uncork’d Entertainment and Lantern Lane Entertainment have secured the US distribution rights to Leena Pendharkar’s drama 20 Weeks, which premiered at last year’s L.A. Film Festival. Uncork’d will handle the theatrical bow and will team with Lantern Lane on the VOD release. The pic will get a ten-city…

David Cronenberg's classic horror film Rabid is getting remade after Shout! Studios acquired the U.S rights to the reboot, which is being made by Dead Hooker In A Trunk filmmakers Jen and Sylvia Soska. The remake of the film, which they adapted with John Serge and tells the story of a woman who feeds on people's blood…

Uncork'd Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to the western thriller Five Fingers For Marseilles. Uncork'd will release the film theatrically in September, 2018, with a winter 2018 home video release. Five Fingers For Marseilles is the story of  young men (the ‘Five Fingers’) who stand up to…

XLrator Media has acquired North American rights to Destined, the Cory Hardrict-starring drama written and directed by Qasim Basir that bowed at last year’s Los Angeles Film Festival. It will bow in theaters in the fall via XLrator’s Pace label. Hardrict (All Eyez On Me, American Sniper) plays both lead roles in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Uncork'd Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to horror fantasy Flay from director Eric Pham. Pham, who is known for his special effects work on Grindhouseand Sin City, directs a cast including Violette Beane, A. Michael Baldwin, Elle LaMont, Dalton Gray, Johnny Walter, Aaron Spivey-Sorrells, Peggy…

EXCLUSIVE: Uncork'd Entertainment and Home Entertainment have picked up worldwide distribution rights to Brad Douglas' Besetment, in a deal inked ahead of the European Film Market in Berlin. Uncork'd President Keith Leopard made the deal with Douglas, who writes and directs the thriller. Project stars Abby Wathen (The…

Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired director Glenn Douglas Packard’s horror film Pitchfork, with a theatrical and VOD release in the works for early next year. From a screenplay by Packard and Darryl F. Gariglio, the film follows Hunter who, after having recently shared a life-changing secret with his family, recruits…

Exclusive: Uncork'd Entertainment has acquired US and Canadian rights to John Fallon’s survival horror pic The Shelter, with plans for theatrical and digital release this fall. Starring Michael Paré (Eddie and the Cruisers, The Virgin Suicides), the story follows widower and homeless man Thomas Jacobs (Paré), who…

Newly established distribution outfit Grasshopper Film has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Portrait of a Garden. Directed by Rosie Stapel and produced by Daan van der Have, the documentary follows two long time friends, 85 year-old pruning master and the gardener on a country estate, tracking one year in…

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Uncork'd Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The Hollow, written and directed by Miles Doleac (The Historian). The cast includes James Callis (Bridget Jones), Christiane Seidel (Boardwalk Empire) Jeff Fahey (Lost), William Sadler (Freeheld), William Forsythe and David Warshofsky (Now…