Recent NBR and IFDA honoree, Oscar short-listed doc MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA, picked up for US release.

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I have to admit my interest (such as it was) in Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora starring Rachel Weisz cooled somewhat  as the luke warm reviews started to waft in at Cannes, but I was a little surprised it took so long to pick up a US distributor. Now it has one.
Perhaps encouraged by the box office [...]

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A look at an AFI Fest entrant, Argentina’s official foreign language Oscar submission and a recent Sony Pictures Classic pickup all at once: The Secret in Their Eyes

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The Weinstein Co picks up Tom Ford’s Venice Film Festival award winning A Single Man starring Colin Firth

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Valhalla Rising have been picked up for US distribution at Toronto.

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Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (Un Prophéte), one of the current favorites among the bloggering class to win the Palme d’Or, has been picked up for distribution in North America, South America and Australia by Sony Pictures Classics.
Check out the trailer here or read what some of the critics have been saying here.
No word yet on [...]

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Talk continues to swirl around Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and reviews continue to trickle in as Variety announces that the film has been picked up for US distribution by IFC along with Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric.
At SpoutBlog, I think Karina Longworth’s review benefits from coming after the initial wave of hype. There’s a sobriety [...]

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