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Exclusive: Premiere Entertainment Group has picked up international rights to the satirical comedy Nuked, starring Justin Bartha (The Hangover) and Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect). Premiere will be shopping the pic to international buyers at AFM.

The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and follows a group of friends who gather for a birthday party at a lavish remote estate free from cell phones and children only to learn of their impending deaths as a nuclear missile is headed their way. Lucy Punch, George Young, Ignacio Serricchio, Tawny Newsome, Maulik Pancholy, Stephen Guarino, and Natasha Leggero also co-star in the ensemble comedy.

Deena Kashper wrote and directed the film based on a story by her and Danny Kashper. The film was produced by Julie Christeas, Daryl Freimark, and Deena Kashper.

Premiere’s AFM lineup includes the action thriller Desert Dawn starring Kellan Lutz, the family comedy F Plus starring Randy Couture and Jennifer Esposito,...

The 2024 Tribeca Festival has added 11 new feature films to its lineup — including a Hannah Einbinder standup special from Max — and has also set a world premiere of Michael Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place: Day One on June 26 in partnership with Paramount Pictures and Imax just ahead of the film’s theatrical release. The red carpet event is for Tribeca members as part of the organization’s push into year-round programming. It’s after the festival, which runs June 5-16.

Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go, features the actress and comedian best known for her role as Ava Daniels in the HBO hit Hacks with Jean Smart.

Other new word premieres include sports documentaries Federer: Twelve Final Days, directed by Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia — a behind-the-scenes film of the 20-time Grand Slam tennis champion Roger Federer and his emotional decision to retire from the sport — as well as Power of the Dream,...

Hundreds Of Beavers Teaser Trailer: "In this silent supernatural epic, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness. Can he go from zero to hero, become North America's greatest fur trapper, and defeat hundreds of beavers?"

After a celebrated World Premiere at FantasticFest 2022, it took to the festival circuit, and will be screening at twelve different festivals in April alone, including Atlanta Film Festival where it's nominated for Best Cinematography, and Fantaspoa in Brazil. Hundreds of Beavers is from writer/director Mike Cheslik and producer Ryland Brickson Cole Tews.



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Abruptio at Panic Fest: "HellBent Pictures is excited to announce the next screening of Evan Marlowe's life-sized puppet horror Abruptio at Panic Fest, Kansas City's celebrated film festival now in its 10th year at the historic Screenland Theater. Comedy, mystery, blood, A-List voices, action, and puppets combine in the first-of-its-kind surrealistic horror/thriller.

Abruptio features the voice talents...

Limited theatrical release planned for May.

Cinedigm has acquired North American rights to Fantasia International Film Festival road movie Giving Birth To A Butterfly, which marks the feature directorial debut of Theodore Schaefer who produced Berlinale selection The Adults.

Annie Parisse plays a woman whose identity gets stolen and bonds with her son’s pregnant girlfriend (Gus Birney) as they search for the perpetrators on a dreamlike road trip. Paul Sparks, Owen Campbell, Jessica Pimentel, and Judith Roberts round out the key cast.

Cinedigm plans a limited US theatrical release in May ahead of a digital release on its indie...

Exclusive: Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) and Justin Bartha (National Treasure) are among the stars set for the upcoming comedy Nuked, which Deena Kashper wrote and is directing, in her feature debut.

The film watches as several couples gather at a luxurious estate for a cannabis-infused birthday dinner party — only to get sudden phone alerts about a nuclear missile headed straight for them. Their stress and panic unfolds into a wake-up call for everyone involved.

Others set for the pic, produced by Tandem Pictures and Hardball Entertainment, include Lucy Punch (Motherland), George Young (Falling for Christmas), Tawny Newsome (Star Trek: Lower Decks), Ignacio Serricchio (Lost in Space), Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock), Stephen Guarino (Eastsiders) and Natasha Leggero (Broke). The film being made with sustainable production practices is currently being shot in Arkansas.

Julie Christeas (Black Bear) is producing for Tandem, with Daryl Freimark (House of Darkness) of Hardball. Bartha is exec...

House of Darkness Trailer — Neil Labute‘s House of Darkness (2022) movie trailer has been released by Saban Films. The House of Darkness trailer stars Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Gia Crovatin, and Lucy Walters. Crew Neil Labute wrote the screenplay for House of Darkness. “Produced by Daryl Freimark, Tim Harms, Shaun Sanghani.” Plot Synopsis House of [...]

Continue reading: House Of Darkness (2022) Movie Trailer: Justin Long’s seduction of Kate Bosworth takes an Unexpected & Dark Turn...

Exclusive: Wondery, the podcast company behind series such as Dr. Death and The Shrink Next Door, has found its next strange audio tale.

The Amazon-owned company is launching Operator, which tells the story of the people behind American TelNet, the company that singlehandedly brought live phone sex into the mainstream.

The series is hosted by Tina Horn, host of sex, kink and gender podcast Why Are People Into That? and creator of sci-fi sex rebel comic book series Sfsx.

In the early 1990s, American TelNet brought together an army of phone sex operators that focused on fostering a human connection – an empathetic ear to the lonely and repressed – and in the process, grossed over $2B. Despite the staggering revenue and groundbreaking innovations in aural connection, the podcast series uncovers the truth behind how the operators themselves were left to struggle alone with the shame and stigma of providing these live sexual services,...

Starring Annie Parisse and Gus Birney (“Dickinson”), Theodore Schaefer’s “Giving Birth to a Butterfly,” one of the buzz titles at August’s Fantasia Intl. Film Festival, has released a first clip ahead of the film’s world premiere in Fantasia Underground section on Aug. 9.

Produced by Daryl Freimark, “Giving Birth to a Butterfly,” is executive produced by Hannah Dweck for Dweck Productions and by Benjamin Wiessner, who is additionally handling sales for Vanishing Angle.

Written by Schaefer and Patrick Lawler, the feature debut underscores how new generation of highly cine-literate filmmakers blend multiple styles not only over the course of a film but in single scenes.

In “Giving Birth to a Butterfly,” Diana Dent, a put-upon housewife and mother of two, married to a feckless husband, suffers credit card fraud from a company which is registered at an address a full-day’s drive from where Diana lives.

Diana drops...

Double feature are sequels to In The Family, The Grief Of Others.

Patrick Wang and Vanishing Angle announce don Tuesday that Tyne Daly, Janeane Garofalo, James Marsters, Nana Visitor, and Brian Murray have joined the cast of double feature project A Bread Factory (Parts One and Two).

The two films are currently shooting in Hudson, New York and are sequels to Wang’s In The Family and The Grief Of Others.

Matt Miller and Daryl Freimark are producing A Bread Factory (Parts One and Two).

Wang wrote the screenplays and directs the comedic dramas set in a small-town community arts centre, which he said created a good setting “for thinking about many big themes: art and commerce, globalization, gentrification, changing social institutions, and new technology.”

Additional key cast members include Glynnis O’Connor, Jessica Pimentel, Amy Carlson, and Trevor St. John, and opera star Martina Arroyo and real-life couple Taiwanese television personality Janet Hsieh and Singapore star George Young...

Tyne Daly and Janeane Garofolo are set to topline The Bread Factory (Parts One & Two), the latest feature from writer-director Patrick Wang.

James Marsters, Nana Visitor and Brian Murray are also set to star in the features, which are dramedies set at a community arts center.

The ensemble cast also includes Glynnis O’Connor, Orange Is the New Black's Jessica Pimentel, Blue Bloods' Amy Carlson and Trevor St. John, as well as opera singer Martina Arroyo, Taiwanese television personality Janet Hsieh and Singapore star George Young.

Matt Miller and Daryl Freimark will produce the sequels, which are currently filming in New York.

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Alumni on film and TV programme include producers of The Lunchbox, Bullhead and The Book Of Negroes.

Film and TV drama co-production training programme Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) has revelaed its 2016 line-up of 25 producers from across Europe, Canada, and the USA as well as India and South Africa.

Experts taking part in the scheme include producer René Bastian (Cold In July), Matthias Nitschke, senior vice president of business & legal affairs, Studiocanal, Germany, and producer Ilann Girard (Lebanon).

Tap provides case studies of successful trans-Atlantic projects, market intelligence, legal framework and information on sales and distribution. The programme is directed at producers at career mid-level who have produced at least one feature film or TV series.

The two training modules take place in Munich (June 24 – 29) and Halifax, Canada (September 12– 18) where Tap producers will also participate in the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners international co-production market.

Previous alumni of the scheme include Guneet Monga (The Lunchbox), [link...

Tribeca Films' Some Velvet Morning directed and written for the screen by Neil Labute, has a new poster in for the drama starring Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve. Michael Corrente, Daryl Freimark, Tim Harms and David Zander produce, and the film finds releae on December 13th. In Some Velvet Morning, Fred (Stanley Tucci) arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet (Alice Eve) after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession — and a dark history between the former lovers comes into focus.

Watch the trailer for Neil Labute's Some Velvet Morning starring Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve. Tribeca Film distributes the dramedy which opens on December 10th, 2013 in New York. Tim Harms, Daryl Freimark, Michael Corrente, Trent Othick and David Zander produce while Forrest E. Crisman, Jr. and Kevin Sisti Jr. serve as executive producers. Fred (Stanley Tucci) arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet (Alice Eve) after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession — and a dark history between the former lovers comes into focus.

Tribeca Film has acquired all Us rights to Neil Labute’s relationship drama Some Velvet Morning starring Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve.

Labute wrote and directed the film about a man whose efforts to rekindle an affair with his estranged lover dredge up their dark history.

Tim Harms, Daryl Freimark, Michael Corrente, Trent Othick, and David Zander produced Some Velvet Morning, which premiered at Tribeca last April.

The distributor plans to release on VOD and digital platforms on December 10 followed by theatrical on December 13.

Tribeca Film’s director of acquisitions Nick Savva negotiated the deal with Josh Braun and David Koh of Submarine Entertainment. International Film Trust handles international sales.

Once again, Tribeca Film’s Nick Savva doesn’t need to look too far to find some theatrical slate filler. Among the pile of unbought leftovers from the ’13 edition of Tribeca Film Festival, the U.S. rights to Neil Labute’s latest drama have been picked up by the indie distrib label. Some Velvet Morning will receive a digital then theatrical (16th) release in December.

Gist: Starring Stanley Tucci and (or versus) Alice Eve, Fred arrives at Velvet’s doorstep, suitcases in tow. He tells her that he has finally left his wife to be with her, news to Velvet since she has not seen him in years and is now friends with Fred’s recently married son. As Fred’s hopes crash to earth during a conversation brimming with passion, remorse, humor and anger, the twisted heart of a fascinating relationship is revealed.

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Tribeca Film has acquired all Us rights to Neil Labute’s relationship drama Some Velvet Morning starring Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve.

Labute wrote and directed the film about a man whose efforts to rekindle an affair with his estranged lover dredge up their dark history.

Tim Harms, Daryl Freimark, Michael Corrente, Trent Othick and David Zander produced Some Velvet Morning, which premiered at Tribeca last April.

The distributor plans to release on VOD and digital platforms on December 10 followed by theatrical on December 13.

Tribeca Film’s director of acquisitions Nick Savva negotiated the deal with Josh Braun and David Koh of Submarine Entertainment. International Film Trust handles sales outside the Us.n...

Tribeca Film acquired U.S. rights to Neil Labute’s Some Velvet Morning. Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve star in the relationship drama written and directed by Labute and produced by Tim Harms, Daryl Freimark, Michael Corrente, Trent Othick, and David Zander. Pic premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca plans a theatrical and on-demand release platform in December. Pic is about a man who shows up on the doorstep of his mistress after a four-year absence. He says he has finally left his wife, but she isn’t interested and he becomes obsessed with her and things get ugly. It’ll come out on multiple platforms December 10 and reach some theaters three days later. Submarine repped the film.