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EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired rights to Safer at Home, a pandemic thriller directed by Will Wernick that Voltage Pictures had introduced to buyers at last November at the virtual American Film Market. The pic, which went into production during the Covid pandemic, will now get a day-and-date release in…

In Miss Juneteenth, from first-time director Channing Godfrey Peoples, Nicole Beharie plays Turquoise Jones, a young, hard-working single mother and ex-beauty queen who enters her teenage daughter in the Miss Juneteenth pageant in hopes of preventing her from making the same mistakes she herself once made. The pageant…

Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to writer-director-actor Nate Parker's drama American Skin, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, winning the Sconfini Best Director award. Nate Parker (The Birth Of A Nation), Omari Hardwick (Kick-Ass), Theo Rossi (Luke Cage), Beau Knapp (Seven Sec…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Body Brokers, a new crime thriller written and directed by Run with the Hunted helmer John Swab and starring Jack Kilmer and Alice Englert. A release in select theaters nationwide is set for February 19, 2021. The film follows two junkies in Ohio…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has snatched up the U.S. distribution rights to Akilla’s Escape, Charles Officer's crime drama which had its world premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and now has a planned release for Q2 of next year. Saul Williams (A Midsummer Night's Dream) stars as Akilla Brown, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has picked up the North American rights to the If Not Now, When?, an ensemble drama co-directed by Meagan Good and Tamara Bass. The pic is slated for a day-and-date release on January 8. Written by Bass, the film follows four friends, who met in high school and are bonded by an event…

EXCLUSIVE: There have been many male-centered films about astronauts, but director Alice Winocour is here to change all of that with her drama Proxima. Vertical Entertainment has acquired the North American distribution rights to the space drama starring Eva Green and Matt Dillon. Proxima is set to hit VOD and digital…

UMC and RLJE Films are teaming for the release of Always and Forever, an indie drama starring Lauren London (ATL), Loretta Devine (P-Valley), Cynthia Addai-Robinson (Power), Robbie Jones (One Tree Hill), Wood Harris (Creed), and Rocsi Diaz (The Bounce Back). Directed by Chris Stokes, the pic will get a day and date…

Vertical Entertainment and Noriva, the distribution arm of The Forest Road Company, are teaming for the US distribution of the FBI spy thriller The Informer starring The Killing and Altered Carbon actor Joel Kinnaman. The feature will hit PVOD on Nov. 6 at a price of $19.99, available on Comcast, ATT, DIRECTV, Dish…

Vertical Entertainment has brokered a deal for the North American distribution rights to The True Adventures of Wolfboy, starring Knives Out and It actor Jaeden Martell (formerly credited as Jaeden Lieberher), Sophie Giannamore (The L Word Generation Q), Chris Messina (Away We Go), Eve Hewson (Bridge of Spies), and…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment and Redbox Entertainment have just closed a deal to acquire North American distribution rights to Shadow in the Cloud, the raucous Midnight Madness Toronto Film Festival title that might hold the distinction of being the first drive-in theater movie acquisition ever. Deadline hears…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures  has acquired the home entertainment and TV licensing rights to three Romulus Entertainment features films: Dreamland starring Margot Robbie, the Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell boxing movie Jungleland, and the Amber Heard-Jonathan Majors-Terrence Howard LA crime pic Gully.  All three…