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SnagFilms Raises $6M in Financing

January 17, 2013 By Brent Lang 17 weeks ago

Funding will be used to add to the company's film library and to fund technological improvements

  

Universal Exec Peter Kujawski Will Handle Acquisitions at Focus Features

January 16, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 17 weeks ago

Peter Kujawski already acquires movies for international territories at Universal

  

Independent Box Office: 'Amour' Starts Oscar Bouncing

January 13, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 18 weeks ago

Sony Pictures Classics will go up to 40 screens next weekend, 200 by end of the month for Best Picture nominee "Amour"

 

 

 

 

  

Adam Leon, Mynette Louie, Peter Nicks, Laura Colella Earn Film Independent Grants

January 12, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 18 weeks ago

Film Independent rewarded four indie filmmakers in advance of this year' Independent Spirit Awards

  

Film Independent Names Mary Sweeney as New Board of Directors Chair

January 11, 2013 By Greg Gilman 18 weeks ago

The independent filmmaker takes over chairman duties from "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" director Bill Condon

  

San Francisco Film Society Gets $1M Annually to Support Indie Filmmakers (Exclusive)

January 9, 2013 By Brent Lang 18 weeks ago

Funding from Kenneth Rainin Foundation will be used to support Filmmaker360 program

  

Sony Pictures Classics Nabs Rights to Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine'

January 8, 2013 By Brent Lang 19 weeks ago

"Blue Jasmine" stars Louis C.K., Alec Baldwin and Cate Blanchett

  

Salma Hayek, Jeremy Renner Named Honorary Co-Chairs of 2013 Independent Spirit Awards

January 4, 2013 By Greg Gilman 19 weeks ago

The co-chairs will announce Film Independent’s 2013 grant winners during the Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch on January 12

  

16 Really Good Things in the Indie Film Biz 2012

January 2, 2013 By Ted Hope 19 weeks ago

From the marriage of tech and film to VOD's first superstar

  

Independent Box Office: 'The Impossible' Surges in 2nd Week

December 30, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 20 weeks ago

Summit Entertainment's tsunami survival saga "The Impossible" jumps 28 percent. "Silver Linings Playbook" expands and raises per-screen average

  

Independent Box Office: 'Amour' Averages $23K in Debut

December 23, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 21 weeks ago

Michael Haneke's "Amour," a front-runner for Best Foreign Language Oscar, takes in $70K from three theaters

  

Relativity Forms Foreign Sales and Distribution Arm, Headed by Camela Galano

December 19, 2012 By Liza Foreman 21 weeks ago

Relativity Foreign is expected to broaden the company's scope

  

Independent Box Office: Strong Hold for 'Silver Linings Playbook'

December 16, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 22 weeks ago

The Weinstein Co.'s "Silver Linings Playbook" drops just 4 percent in its fifth week and averages $5.617 per screen

  

Anchor Bay to Handle Home Entertainment for Weinstein’s RADiUS Label

December 11, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 23 weeks ago

"Butter," starring Jennifer Garner and Olivia Wilde, will kick off the new deal

  

Tribeca, Focus Jointly Acquire 'Greetings From Tim Buckley'

December 10, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 23 weeks ago

Penn Badgley of "Gossip Girl" stars as Jeff Buckley in this father-son biopic

  

Independent Box Office: 'Hyde Park' Averages $20K Per Theater

December 9, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 23 weeks ago

"Hyde Park on Hudson," starring Bill Murray as FDR, starts fast in 4 theaters. "Rust and Bone" building momentum

  

Independent Box Office: 'Silver Linings Playbook,' 'Rust and Bone' Rolling

December 2, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 24 weeks ago

"Silver Linings Playbook" holds strongly in wake of 5 Spirit Award nominations. "Rust and Bone" averages nearly $13K in two theaters

  

Steve Nickerson Named President of Millennium Entertainment (Exclusive)

November 30, 2012 By Liza Foreman 24 weeks ago

Steve Nickerson was formerly Summit's home entertainment chief 

  

Sundance Feature 'LUV' Strikes Exclusive AMC Release Deal

November 29, 2012 By Liza Foreman 24 weeks ago

AMC Theatres and Indomina Releasing have struck a deal for the independent feature “LUV” to play exclusively at AMC locations around the country

  

Independent Box Office: 'Silver Linings Playbook' Averages $12K in Smaller Expansion

November 25, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 25 weeks ago

In 367 theaters rather than 2,000, the Weinstein Company's awards hopeful "Silver Linings Playbook" takes in $5.9M over five days at the box office

  

Millenium Buys Somali Pirate Script, Hopes for New 'Expendables' (Exclusive)

November 19, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 26 weeks ago

"High Value Target," a script by Spenser Cohen, follows a mercenary special operations unit that raids a Somali Pirate ship

  

Thanks, 'Twilight': Lionsgate Is First Indie Studio to Hit $1B Mark

November 19, 2012 By Brent Lang 26 weeks ago

With two young adult franchises in "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games," Lionsgate has a very good 2012

  

Paul Rudd Gives Tina Fey's Baby Back in 'Admission' Trailer (Video)

November 16, 2012 By Greg Gilman 26 weeks ago

The new comedy from Focus Features stars Tina Fey as a Princeton admissions officer who learns that a prospective student may be her son

 

  

CBS Secures U.S. Distribution for 'The Last Exorcism Part II'

November 15, 2012 By Liza Foreman 26 weeks ago

CBS Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to “The Last Exorcism Part II” from StudioCanal 

 
  

Independent Box Office: 'Searching for Sugar Man' Surges, Storm Closures Limit Openers

November 4, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 28 weeks ago

With several key indie theaters closed in NY, holdovers "Searching for Sugar Man" and "The Sessions" provide the good news

  

Party Photos: 'Good Evening' - 'Hitchcock' Opens AFI Fest 2012

November 2, 2012 By Mikey Glazer 28 weeks ago

"Celebrity" premieres of "Hitchcock" to follow in New York City (Nov. 18) and Los Angeles (Nov. 20)