Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 5, 2009 under drama | 
Sony Pictures Classics has reportedly picked up U.S. rights to Rodrigo Garcia’s ensemble drama “Mother and Child” that features strong performances from Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Samuel L. Jackson. The film is centered around three women and the choices they’ve made concerning children, and is scheduled for a May 2010 opening.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 2, 2009 under Box Office |
Michael Jackson’s documentary “This Is It” was king of the box office, opening to $68.5 million at the international box office and to a more modest domestic haul of $32.5 million in its first five days. The big opening convinced the distributor Sony to announce it is extending the film’s two-week run by three weeks in North America. Overseas, the decision to extend will be made on a territory-by-territory basis.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 6, 2009 under drama |
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the North and Latin American rights to Telluride Film Festival hit, Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station. It’s based on Jay Parini’s 1990 biographical novel about famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and reportedly made with the support of the Tolstoy family.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 21, 2009 under Foreign Film |
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner Lebanon for U.S. distribution. Lebannon from director Samuel Maoz, is also a strong contender to be Israel’s submission for the Oscars.
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Aaron Schneider’s feature directorial debut, “Get Low” starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black, will be distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classics.
“Get Low” which screened at the just closed Toronto Film Festival with heavy buzz, tells the true story of a hermit who lived for forty years in the Tennessee woods, played by Duvall.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 2, 2009 under Fantasy |
You can watch Heath Ledger’s final big-screen performance, in Terry Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” when it arrives in theaters Dec. 25, 2009 after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival.
The Sony Pictures Classics release stars Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law , Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield and Verne Troyer.
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Sony Pictures Classics has grabbed the U.S. and Latin American rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Micmacs,” which will debut at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
“Micmacs” is described as, “a fantastical comedy about a video store clerk with a bullet lodged in his brain. Knowing he could drop dead at any time, he bands together with an odd collection of outsiders – a mechanical genius, a con man and a contortionist among them – to devise a plan to take down the weapons manufacturer that made the bullet.”
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 23, 2009 under Film Festival, Foreign Film |
Sony Pictures Classics will distribute “A Prophet,” now screening in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. “A Prophet” has topped various critics polls, making it a favorite to win the coveted Palme d’Or trophy.
The French-Arabic-Corsican-language thriller, directed by Jacques Audiard is set in a prison, where 19-year-old inmate Malik (played by Tahar Rahim) is tested by a Corsican gang and learns to survive.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 14, 2009 under Film Festival, Foreign Film, Industry, Thriller |
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
On the first day of the Cannes Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics snapped up the U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to the historical thriller “The White Ribbon,” directed by Michael Haneke, and the Jan Kounen’s closing night love story “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky.”
- The White Ribbon
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is set in 1920s Paris and charts a passionate affair between the fashion icon and Russian émigré. The film is based on Chris Greenhalgh’s book Coco And Igor and stars Chanel model Anna Mouglalis alongside Mads Mikkelsen. The White Ribbon is set just prior to the start of WWI, where the quiet life of a small German village is mysteriously eroded by a series of inexplicable events.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 11, 2009 under Coming Soon, Industry |
“Tyson“
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights to the documentary “Tyson,” which will have its North American premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. The film is the first of NBA all-star Carmelo Anthony’s Krossover Productions. In the film, Mike Tyson examines his own life in and out of the ring with a candor, eloquence and vulnerability that is by turns poignant, funny and never less than brutally honest. Read more …
“The Necessities of Life”
IFC Films has snapped up the US rights to the Canadian film “The Necessities of Life.” Set in 1952. An Inuit hunter named Tiivii, who suffers from tuberculosis, ends up in a sanatorium near Quebec City, far from home and his loved ones. Read more …