Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Rlj Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Paul Schrader’s action thriller “Dog Eat Dog.” Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, the film was written by Matthew Wilder and stars Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook. The film first premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Festival and will have its North American premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival in September.
The film “tells the story of three ex-cons who botch a kidnapping. They not only lose a rich payoff, but they get on the wrong side of the mob and become the city’s most wanted fugitives. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, things get completely out of...
– Rlj Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Paul Schrader’s action thriller “Dog Eat Dog.” Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, the film was written by Matthew Wilder and stars Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook. The film first premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Festival and will have its North American premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival in September.
The film “tells the story of three ex-cons who botch a kidnapping. They not only lose a rich payoff, but they get on the wrong side of the mob and become the city’s most wanted fugitives. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, things get completely out of...
- 8/26/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The distributor has picked up Matthew Newton’s award-winning SXSW Narrative Spotlight audience award-winner.
Newton directed From Nowhere from a screenplay he wrote with Kate Ballen about three undocumented high school students in the Bronx who dig into their past when a teacher connects them with a lawyer to help them achieve legal status.
FilmRise struck the deal with Ryan Kampe of Visit Films and plans a winter 2017 theatrical release.
India Eisley and Jason Isaacs have joined psychological thriller Behind The Glass for Ace In The Hole Productions, Primary Wave Entertainment and Dana Lustig Productions. Making his English-language feature debut is Assaf Bernstein, whose Mossad spy thriller The Debt was adapted by Miramax into a Us version starring Jessica Chastain and Helen Mirren.The Vancouver International Film Festival will honour X-Files creator Chris Carter with the Viff Impact Builder Award. As part of the Impact stream, the Builder Award is presented to a key contributor to British...
Newton directed From Nowhere from a screenplay he wrote with Kate Ballen about three undocumented high school students in the Bronx who dig into their past when a teacher connects them with a lawyer to help them achieve legal status.
FilmRise struck the deal with Ryan Kampe of Visit Films and plans a winter 2017 theatrical release.
India Eisley and Jason Isaacs have joined psychological thriller Behind The Glass for Ace In The Hole Productions, Primary Wave Entertainment and Dana Lustig Productions. Making his English-language feature debut is Assaf Bernstein, whose Mossad spy thriller The Debt was adapted by Miramax into a Us version starring Jessica Chastain and Helen Mirren.The Vancouver International Film Festival will honour X-Files creator Chris Carter with the Viff Impact Builder Award. As part of the Impact stream, the Builder Award is presented to a key contributor to British...
- 8/24/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Following the film’s successful South By Southwest Film Festival debut, From Nowhere director Matthew Newton has signed with Varun Monga, Martin To and Paul Alan Smith’s Equitable Stewardship For Artists (Esa) for representation in all areas. Co-written by Newton and Kate Ballen, From Nowhere follows three undocumented teenagers in the Bronx approaching their high school graduation. While they otherwise live like most teenagers, navigating romance and thinking…...
- 3/21/2016
- Deadline
From Nowhere.
Matthew Newton's latest film as a director, his first since Three Blind Mice in 2008, has won an audience award at Austin's annual SXSW festival.
Three Blind Mice starred Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz and Newton himself as buddies on a night out in Sydney..
By contrast From Nowhere.takes place in a Bronx high school and stars relatively unknown actors..
Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree and Octavia Chavez-Richmond play students about to graduate who are also undocumented immigrants.
A clip from the film can be watched here.
The hot-button feature was praised by Variety's Joe Leydon as a "compelling indie drama".
"Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, .From Nowhere. feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments", Leydon said.
"Writer-director Matthew Newton neatly...
Matthew Newton's latest film as a director, his first since Three Blind Mice in 2008, has won an audience award at Austin's annual SXSW festival.
Three Blind Mice starred Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz and Newton himself as buddies on a night out in Sydney..
By contrast From Nowhere.takes place in a Bronx high school and stars relatively unknown actors..
Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree and Octavia Chavez-Richmond play students about to graduate who are also undocumented immigrants.
A clip from the film can be watched here.
The hot-button feature was praised by Variety's Joe Leydon as a "compelling indie drama".
"Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, .From Nowhere. feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments", Leydon said.
"Writer-director Matthew Newton neatly...
- 3/21/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
From Nowhere.
Matthew Newton's latest film as a director, his first since Three Blind Mice in 2008, has won an audience award at Austin's annual SXSW festival.
Three Blind Mice starred Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz and Newton himself as buddies on a night out in Sydney..
By contrast From Nowhere.takes place in a Bronx high school and stars relatively unknown actors..
Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree and Octavia Chavez-Richmond play students about to graduate who are also undocumented immigrants.
A clip from the film can be watched here.
The hot-button feature was praised by Variety's Joe Leydon as a "compelling indie drama".
"Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, .From Nowhere. feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments", Leydon said.
"Writer-director Matthew Newton neatly...
Matthew Newton's latest film as a director, his first since Three Blind Mice in 2008, has won an audience award at Austin's annual SXSW festival.
Three Blind Mice starred Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz and Newton himself as buddies on a night out in Sydney..
By contrast From Nowhere.takes place in a Bronx high school and stars relatively unknown actors..
Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree and Octavia Chavez-Richmond play students about to graduate who are also undocumented immigrants.
A clip from the film can be watched here.
The hot-button feature was praised by Variety's Joe Leydon as a "compelling indie drama".
"Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, .From Nowhere. feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments", Leydon said.
"Writer-director Matthew Newton neatly...
- 3/21/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
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