Cinema Epoch has taken the U.S. rights to “Cellar,” the Igor Voloshin movie that stars French-American actor Jean Marc Barr. Starline recently boarded sales on the Slovak-language picture.
In the film, Barr (“The Big Blue”) plays a jobbing rock musician. His marriage and life are put to the test as he has to decide whether to take the law into his own hands when his teenage daughter goes missing after heading to an all-night rave.
It is unusual for the first deal to be for the U.S. with a non-English-language title, but Cinema Epoch has a new Cinema Epoch Classics label for international cinema and has stepped up.
Cinema Epoch will launch “Cellar” on Amazon Prime in November followed by a cable and VOD rollout in January. “Jean Marc Barr brings a very calculated and intense performance in Voloshin’s strikingly photographed and edge of your seat directed thriller,...
In the film, Barr (“The Big Blue”) plays a jobbing rock musician. His marriage and life are put to the test as he has to decide whether to take the law into his own hands when his teenage daughter goes missing after heading to an all-night rave.
It is unusual for the first deal to be for the U.S. with a non-English-language title, but Cinema Epoch has a new Cinema Epoch Classics label for international cinema and has stepped up.
Cinema Epoch will launch “Cellar” on Amazon Prime in November followed by a cable and VOD rollout in January. “Jean Marc Barr brings a very calculated and intense performance in Voloshin’s strikingly photographed and edge of your seat directed thriller,...
- 11/3/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
L.A.-based indie distributor Cinema Epoch has acquired U.S. rights to “Penance,” the English- and Irish-language movie about a priest confronting his past as a firebrand preacher who promoted violence against British rule in Northern Ireland.
Tom Collins helmed the picture, which is produced by his Derry-based De Facto Films and Edwina Forkin’s Zanzibar Films. Broadcaster TG4, The Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen, and the Irish Language Broadcast fund supported the project. Collins’ Gaelic-language movie, “Kings,” was Ireland’s first foreign-language entry to the Oscars in 2007.
Peter Coonan (“Love/Hate”) plays the priest whose youthful support for violent resistance across a divided Ireland catches up with him in later life. Barry Barnes (“71”) and Gerard McSorley (“Omagh”) also star.
London-based Starline Entertainment is handling worldwide sales of “Penance” and did the Cinema Epoch deal. Julie Delaney, Starline’s director of worldwide distribution, negotiated the agreement with Cinema Epoch...
Tom Collins helmed the picture, which is produced by his Derry-based De Facto Films and Edwina Forkin’s Zanzibar Films. Broadcaster TG4, The Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen, and the Irish Language Broadcast fund supported the project. Collins’ Gaelic-language movie, “Kings,” was Ireland’s first foreign-language entry to the Oscars in 2007.
Peter Coonan (“Love/Hate”) plays the priest whose youthful support for violent resistance across a divided Ireland catches up with him in later life. Barry Barnes (“71”) and Gerard McSorley (“Omagh”) also star.
London-based Starline Entertainment is handling worldwide sales of “Penance” and did the Cinema Epoch deal. Julie Delaney, Starline’s director of worldwide distribution, negotiated the agreement with Cinema Epoch...
- 10/1/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
A half-century on, Detroit bears the scars of racial violence that racked it and other cities in the late 1960s.
Tensions boiled over in the summer of 1967 when Detroit Police raided an African-American speakeasy in the dead of the night on July 23. After the officers arrested all civilians found at the scene, the city began to riot in defiance, leading to a week of unrest and dozens of deaths.
Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Detroit dramatizes an incident at the Algiers Motel that occurred on the third night of the riots in which police and National Guardsmen, claiming to be looking for snipers,...
Tensions boiled over in the summer of 1967 when Detroit Police raided an African-American speakeasy in the dead of the night on July 23. After the officers arrested all civilians found at the scene, the city began to riot in defiance, leading to a week of unrest and dozens of deaths.
Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Detroit dramatizes an incident at the Algiers Motel that occurred on the third night of the riots in which police and National Guardsmen, claiming to be looking for snipers,...
- 8/4/2017
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: Home entertainment distributor will release the modern western, which features Kris Kristofferson and Beau Bridges.
London-based Precision Pictures has inked a deal with sales agent Starline Entertainment for Sean McGinly’s Texas-set, modern-day western Lawless Range.
Starring Austin Nichols (The Walking Dead) and Patrick John Flueger (Chicago Fire) alongside veterans Kris Kristofferson and Beau Bridges, the thriller focuses on two brothers who find themselves facing off against a dangerous group of criminals.
The Great Buck Howard’s McGinly directed the film from an Adair Cole script. Heath Ryan produced for his La-based outfit Pace Pictures. Beau Bridges exec produced.
Home entertainment label Precision Pictures, launched in December 2015 by UK distributor Signature Entertainment, is planning a Q1 2017 release for the film.
Starline’s director of worldwide distribution Julie Delaney commented: “We are absolutely delighted to see Signature’s Precision Pictures lassoing UK rights for Lawless Range; it’s a great team and wonderful to know Sean McGinly’s excellent...
London-based Precision Pictures has inked a deal with sales agent Starline Entertainment for Sean McGinly’s Texas-set, modern-day western Lawless Range.
Starring Austin Nichols (The Walking Dead) and Patrick John Flueger (Chicago Fire) alongside veterans Kris Kristofferson and Beau Bridges, the thriller focuses on two brothers who find themselves facing off against a dangerous group of criminals.
The Great Buck Howard’s McGinly directed the film from an Adair Cole script. Heath Ryan produced for his La-based outfit Pace Pictures. Beau Bridges exec produced.
Home entertainment label Precision Pictures, launched in December 2015 by UK distributor Signature Entertainment, is planning a Q1 2017 release for the film.
Starline’s director of worldwide distribution Julie Delaney commented: “We are absolutely delighted to see Signature’s Precision Pictures lassoing UK rights for Lawless Range; it’s a great team and wonderful to know Sean McGinly’s excellent...
- 9/26/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film4, HBO, Rialto and Sundance Channel among buyers of comedy-drama executive-produced by Barbara Broccoli and Rachel Weisz.
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has inked home entertainment deals on Tom Browne’s debut comedy-drama Radiator about an eccentric couple struggling to cope with the challenges of old age.
Film4 has picked up UK TV rights, while HBO has come on board for Eastern Europe and Krea Icerik has picked up for Turkey to broadcast on their Moviemax Festival Channel. Rialto has jumped in for New Zealand and Sundance Channel has secured rights for Middle East and North Africa.
The film, which debuted at the BFI London Film Festival in 2014 and went on to secure nominations at the London Critics’ Awards and Evening Standard Awards, stars the late Richard Johnson (The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas) and Gemma Jones (Last Tango In Halifax ) with Daniel Cerqueira () playing their middle aged son who turns up to try and bring...
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has inked home entertainment deals on Tom Browne’s debut comedy-drama Radiator about an eccentric couple struggling to cope with the challenges of old age.
Film4 has picked up UK TV rights, while HBO has come on board for Eastern Europe and Krea Icerik has picked up for Turkey to broadcast on their Moviemax Festival Channel. Rialto has jumped in for New Zealand and Sundance Channel has secured rights for Middle East and North Africa.
The film, which debuted at the BFI London Film Festival in 2014 and went on to secure nominations at the London Critics’ Awards and Evening Standard Awards, stars the late Richard Johnson (The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas) and Gemma Jones (Last Tango In Halifax ) with Daniel Cerqueira () playing their middle aged son who turns up to try and bring...
- 4/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film4, HBO, Rialto among buyers of comedy-drama executive-produced by Barbara Broccoli and Rachel Weisz.
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has inked home entertainment deals on Tom Browne’s debut comedy-drama Radiator about an eccentric couple struggling to cope with the challenges of old age.
Film4 has picked up UK TV rights, while HBO has come on board for Eastern Europe and Krea Icerik (Sinema TV) has picked up for Turkey to broadcast on their Moviemax Festival Channel. Rialto has jumped in for New Zealand and Sundance Channel has secured rights for Middle East and North Africa.
The film, which debuted at the BFI London Film Festival in 2014 and went on to secure nominations at the London Critics’ Awards and Evening Standard Awards, stars the late Richard Johnson (The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas) and Gemma Jones (Last Tango In Halifax ) with Daniel Cerqueira () playing their middle aged son who turns up to try and bring some order...
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has inked home entertainment deals on Tom Browne’s debut comedy-drama Radiator about an eccentric couple struggling to cope with the challenges of old age.
Film4 has picked up UK TV rights, while HBO has come on board for Eastern Europe and Krea Icerik (Sinema TV) has picked up for Turkey to broadcast on their Moviemax Festival Channel. Rialto has jumped in for New Zealand and Sundance Channel has secured rights for Middle East and North Africa.
The film, which debuted at the BFI London Film Festival in 2014 and went on to secure nominations at the London Critics’ Awards and Evening Standard Awards, stars the late Richard Johnson (The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas) and Gemma Jones (Last Tango In Halifax ) with Daniel Cerqueira () playing their middle aged son who turns up to try and bring some order...
- 4/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK sales outfit boards Marco Niemeijer’s documentary.
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has boarded rights to Marco Niemeijer’s Holocaust themed documentary, Little Angels.
Produced by Annemiek van der Hell for Windmill Film, the documentary charts the troubled relationship between a 97-year-old Auschwitz survivor and her one remaining daughter born just after the emancipation of the camps.
Premiering at Netherlands Film Festival on Saturday (Sept 26) and nominated for Prix Europe 2015, the film is set for transmission in May 2016 on Joodse Omroep (Jewish Broadcaster) in the Netherlands.
Starline is hoping to pursue a similar release pattern on the film to the one it achieved with Gerry Fox’s documentary Marc Quinn: Making Waves, which earlier this year showed at Picturehouse cinemas, Dochouse and Home Manchester.
Julie Delaney, partner and director of worldwide distribution at Starline, said: “We’re very excited to be enriching our carefully chosen collection of documentaries with Marco Niemeijer’s thoroughly moving...
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has boarded rights to Marco Niemeijer’s Holocaust themed documentary, Little Angels.
Produced by Annemiek van der Hell for Windmill Film, the documentary charts the troubled relationship between a 97-year-old Auschwitz survivor and her one remaining daughter born just after the emancipation of the camps.
Premiering at Netherlands Film Festival on Saturday (Sept 26) and nominated for Prix Europe 2015, the film is set for transmission in May 2016 on Joodse Omroep (Jewish Broadcaster) in the Netherlands.
Starline is hoping to pursue a similar release pattern on the film to the one it achieved with Gerry Fox’s documentary Marc Quinn: Making Waves, which earlier this year showed at Picturehouse cinemas, Dochouse and Home Manchester.
Julie Delaney, partner and director of worldwide distribution at Starline, said: “We’re very excited to be enriching our carefully chosen collection of documentaries with Marco Niemeijer’s thoroughly moving...
- 9/22/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK sales and distribution outfit adds TV and digital sales executive.
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has appointed Anna Brunelli as sales and acquisitions executive.
Italian, French and English-speaker Brunelli, who previously worked as production and distribution assistant for Italian companies Gabriele Albanesi Productions and as acquisitions and sales assistant at A-Pictures in Rome, will handle TV and digital sales to Southern Europe and Latin America.
Brunelli, who was also a production assistant for Les Films du Requin in Paris, recently started at the company.
Also new to the London-based outfit is marketing executive Tanya Lopes who will handle the company’s arrangements for film and TV markets and all marketing materials.
The English and Portuguese speaker began her career as an apprentice at High Point films, moving on to sales and marketing support before working in marketing outside the film and TV Industry.
Partner and director of worldwide distribution Julie Delaney said of the staff...
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has appointed Anna Brunelli as sales and acquisitions executive.
Italian, French and English-speaker Brunelli, who previously worked as production and distribution assistant for Italian companies Gabriele Albanesi Productions and as acquisitions and sales assistant at A-Pictures in Rome, will handle TV and digital sales to Southern Europe and Latin America.
Brunelli, who was also a production assistant for Les Films du Requin in Paris, recently started at the company.
Also new to the London-based outfit is marketing executive Tanya Lopes who will handle the company’s arrangements for film and TV markets and all marketing materials.
The English and Portuguese speaker began her career as an apprentice at High Point films, moving on to sales and marketing support before working in marketing outside the film and TV Industry.
Partner and director of worldwide distribution Julie Delaney said of the staff...
- 7/20/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Us, UK, France, Germany deals for Lgbt sports drama.
Newly revamped UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment – which recently merged with High Point - has finalised a slew of deals on Australian Lgbt sports drama Drown by Dean Francis, including to North America, UK, Germany, France, Poland and Benelux.
Centred around a surfing champion whose unexpected and confusing feelings towards a gay rival push him to the edge of sanity, the film has been scooped by Strand Releasing for all North America rights.
All rights have also gone to Germany (Salzbeger Entertainment), France (Epicentre), the UK (Peccadillo Pictures) and Benelux (ABC Distribution Rights). In Poland, Tongariro has picked up theatrical, VOD and DVD.
The film received its premiere at the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney and went on to pick up the audience award for most popular feature at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
Leap Frog Films are handling the Australian release.
“We’re continuing...
Newly revamped UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment – which recently merged with High Point - has finalised a slew of deals on Australian Lgbt sports drama Drown by Dean Francis, including to North America, UK, Germany, France, Poland and Benelux.
Centred around a surfing champion whose unexpected and confusing feelings towards a gay rival push him to the edge of sanity, the film has been scooped by Strand Releasing for all North America rights.
All rights have also gone to Germany (Salzbeger Entertainment), France (Epicentre), the UK (Peccadillo Pictures) and Benelux (ABC Distribution Rights). In Poland, Tongariro has picked up theatrical, VOD and DVD.
The film received its premiere at the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney and went on to pick up the audience award for most popular feature at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
Leap Frog Films are handling the Australian release.
“We’re continuing...
- 4/21/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Us, UK, France, Germany deals for Lgbt sports drama.
Newly revamped UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment – which recently merged with High Point - has finalised a slew of deals on Australian Lgbt sports drama Drown by Dean Francis, including to North America, UK, Germany, France, Poland and Benelux.
Centred around a surfing champion whose unexpected and confusing feelings towards a gay rival push him to the edge of sanity, the film has been scooped by Strand Releasing for all North America rights.
All rights have also gone to Germany (Salzbeger Entertainment), France (Epicentre), the UK (Peccadillo Pictures) and Benelux (ABC Distribution Rights). In Poland, Tongariro has picked up theatrical, VOD and DVD.
The film received its premiere at the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney and went on to pick up the audience award for most popular feature at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
Leap Frog Films are handling the Australian release.
“We’re continuing...
Newly revamped UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment – which recently merged with High Point - has finalised a slew of deals on Australian Lgbt sports drama Drown by Dean Francis, including to North America, UK, Germany, France, Poland and Benelux.
Centred around a surfing champion whose unexpected and confusing feelings towards a gay rival push him to the edge of sanity, the film has been scooped by Strand Releasing for all North America rights.
All rights have also gone to Germany (Salzbeger Entertainment), France (Epicentre), the UK (Peccadillo Pictures) and Benelux (ABC Distribution Rights). In Poland, Tongariro has picked up theatrical, VOD and DVD.
The film received its premiere at the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney and went on to pick up the audience award for most popular feature at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
Leap Frog Films are handling the Australian release.
“We’re continuing...
- 4/21/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Staff, slate segue to existing UK sales and production outfit.
UK sales and distribution outfit High Point Films & TV has merged with existing UK production and sales company Starline Entertainment in a bid to grow and bring fresh impetus to both companies.
Key staff to transition to Starline as part of the rebrand include High Point MD Carey Fitzgerald, Julie Delaney, who becomes director of worldwide distribution, and Piers Nightingale, who assumes the role director of acquisitions.
Industry veteran Fitzgerald will remain MD of High Point, whose catalogue will be managed by Starline, while Delaney and Nightingale will work closely with existing Starline MD Ronald de Neef, himself a non-executive chair of High Point. All four will be shareholders in Starline.
In its new guise Starline will continue to handle features for international sales but will also take on more alternative content such as transmedia and web series and will look to pursue more direct and event-based...
UK sales and distribution outfit High Point Films & TV has merged with existing UK production and sales company Starline Entertainment in a bid to grow and bring fresh impetus to both companies.
Key staff to transition to Starline as part of the rebrand include High Point MD Carey Fitzgerald, Julie Delaney, who becomes director of worldwide distribution, and Piers Nightingale, who assumes the role director of acquisitions.
Industry veteran Fitzgerald will remain MD of High Point, whose catalogue will be managed by Starline, while Delaney and Nightingale will work closely with existing Starline MD Ronald de Neef, himself a non-executive chair of High Point. All four will be shareholders in Starline.
In its new guise Starline will continue to handle features for international sales but will also take on more alternative content such as transmedia and web series and will look to pursue more direct and event-based...
- 4/15/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
High Point has confirmed the first acquisitions of Ed Boase’s urban myth-inspired horror, The Mirror.
Film Movement has acquired The Mirror for North America and Matchbox Films has taken the film for the UK and Australia/New Zealand.
The Frightfest pick is about friends who buy a supposedly haunted mirror on eBay.
The Mirror is already on release on DVD and on-demand through Matchbox Films in the UK, playing on Blinkbox, FilmFlex and iTunes Horror.
In Australia, the film is premiering on November 22 at Monsterfest, and is scheduled to come out on Bigpond and Quickflix, and iTunes, in February 2015.
The Us release through Film Movement is set for late January, with its Netflix release to follow in April.
“The festival roll-out and buzz among horror fans is beginning to pay off,” said High Point COO Julie Delaney who negotiated the deals.
“Both Film Movement and Matchbox Films are excellent distributors who understand the genre completely and we...
Film Movement has acquired The Mirror for North America and Matchbox Films has taken the film for the UK and Australia/New Zealand.
The Frightfest pick is about friends who buy a supposedly haunted mirror on eBay.
The Mirror is already on release on DVD and on-demand through Matchbox Films in the UK, playing on Blinkbox, FilmFlex and iTunes Horror.
In Australia, the film is premiering on November 22 at Monsterfest, and is scheduled to come out on Bigpond and Quickflix, and iTunes, in February 2015.
The Us release through Film Movement is set for late January, with its Netflix release to follow in April.
“The festival roll-out and buzz among horror fans is beginning to pay off,” said High Point COO Julie Delaney who negotiated the deals.
“Both Film Movement and Matchbox Films are excellent distributors who understand the genre completely and we...
- 11/10/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Bobby Boermans’s thriller about smartphone-addicted teens makes first sales to English-language territories.
High Point has sold rights to Dutch thriller App to Film Movement in North America. Momo Films has secured rights for Australia and New Zealand.
It marks the first time the film has sold to English-language territories. The North American sale follows the European Film Promotion Premieres NY Industry Screenings.
Since Cannes in May, High Point sold the film to Germany (Zdf), Japan (Nettai Museum), South Korea (Movement Pictures/Markers Entertainment) and China (Leomus Culture & Media).
App follows the story of psychology student Anna Rijnders (Hannah Hoekstra) who is addicted to her smartphone. Following an alcohol-fuelled party, she discovers the ‘Iris app’ installed on her phone, which begins to distribute Anna’s photographs, videos and text messages, exposing her deepest secrets.
App is the second feature directed by Boerman, following his 2011 release Claustrofobia, which was also handled by High Point and distributed in the...
High Point has sold rights to Dutch thriller App to Film Movement in North America. Momo Films has secured rights for Australia and New Zealand.
It marks the first time the film has sold to English-language territories. The North American sale follows the European Film Promotion Premieres NY Industry Screenings.
Since Cannes in May, High Point sold the film to Germany (Zdf), Japan (Nettai Museum), South Korea (Movement Pictures/Markers Entertainment) and China (Leomus Culture & Media).
App follows the story of psychology student Anna Rijnders (Hannah Hoekstra) who is addicted to her smartphone. Following an alcohol-fuelled party, she discovers the ‘Iris app’ installed on her phone, which begins to distribute Anna’s photographs, videos and text messages, exposing her deepest secrets.
App is the second feature directed by Boerman, following his 2011 release Claustrofobia, which was also handled by High Point and distributed in the...
- 9/10/2013
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Highpoint secures deals on Bobby Boermans’ interactive thriller.
UK sales outfit High Point has clocked up a raft of sales on interactive thriller App, which encourages audiences to engage with the film via their mobile phones.
Bobby Boermans directs the Dutch thriller about a young psychology student who is terrorized by a mysterious app.
Kees Abrahams, Edvard van’t Wout and Robin de Levita produce for 2CFilm. Hannah Hoekstra stars.
Sales were locked in during Cannes with Germany (Zdf), Japan (Nettai Museum), South Korea (Movement Pictures/Markers Entertainment), China (Leomus Culture & Media), Russia (Exponenta), Hong Kong (UA Films) and Taiwan (Cineplex Development Co).
Negotiations are in the latter stages for the UK, France, Italy and Spain.
Based on SyncNow audio digital watermarking by Civolution, the unique app allows viewers to see, directly on their phones, key events and character clues beyond what plays out on the big screen.
Buyers were directed by High Point to the...
UK sales outfit High Point has clocked up a raft of sales on interactive thriller App, which encourages audiences to engage with the film via their mobile phones.
Bobby Boermans directs the Dutch thriller about a young psychology student who is terrorized by a mysterious app.
Kees Abrahams, Edvard van’t Wout and Robin de Levita produce for 2CFilm. Hannah Hoekstra stars.
Sales were locked in during Cannes with Germany (Zdf), Japan (Nettai Museum), South Korea (Movement Pictures/Markers Entertainment), China (Leomus Culture & Media), Russia (Exponenta), Hong Kong (UA Films) and Taiwan (Cineplex Development Co).
Negotiations are in the latter stages for the UK, France, Italy and Spain.
Based on SyncNow audio digital watermarking by Civolution, the unique app allows viewers to see, directly on their phones, key events and character clues beyond what plays out on the big screen.
Buyers were directed by High Point to the...
- 6/12/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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