VOD acquisitions
Trailer: Netflix unveils Team Foxcatcher documentary for April
March 16, 2016 | David FarnorIt’s just over a year since Bennett Miller’s Oscar-nominated Foxcatcher hit UK cinemas and now, Netflix is taking us back behind the ring for more on the wrestling tragedy of the Schultz brothers.
The film uses home video footage and … Read More
88:88 gets exclusive global release on MUBI this March
March 14, 2016 | David Farnor88:88 will be released exclusively on MUBI on Friday 18th March.
The experimental debut feature from Canadian director Isiah Medina is described by MUBI as a “densely layered montage that is both formally rigorous and emotionally raw [and] explodes … Read More
Netflix to release Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru in July
March 10, 2016 | David FarnorNetflix has acquired Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru for global distribution this July.
The documentary, from director Joe Berlinger (Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, the Paradise Lost Trilogy, Brother’s Keeper), follows world-renowned life coach, business strategist and best-selling … Read More
Streaming giants continue Sundance deals, despite Berlin’s brick wall
February 18, 2016 | David FarnorSundance may be a distant memory, but Netflix and Amazon continue to snap up films from the festival.
Netflix has bought the worldwide SVOD rights to White Girl, starring Dana Brody off Homeland. Morgan Saylor plays the titular college … Read More
Trailer: My Beautiful Broken Brain gets March Netflix release
February 7, 2016 | David FarnorNetflix has unveiled the trailer for documentary My Beautiful Broken Brain, which is released in March.
The VOD giant has snapped up the rights to the documentary, which is exec-produced by David Lynch and follows the story of Lotje’s Sodderland’s … Read More
Netflix’s Brahman Naman deal completes Sundance VOD shopping spree
February 1, 2016 | David FarnorComing-of-age flick Brahman Naman, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, will be released on Netflix worldwide later this year.
Set in Bangalore in the 1980s and directed by Q, the Indian comedy follows the exploits of Naman, a high-school … Read More
Arabian Nights to hit MUBI in May following April cinema release
January 28, 2016 | David FarnorArabian Nights will be released exclusively on MUBI this May, following an April cinema release.
Miguel Gomes’ epic, which was a hit at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, was snapped up for UK distribution by MUBI and New Wave Films … Read More
Amazon buys Sundance comedy Wiener-Dog
January 27, 2016 | David FarnorAmazon has bought another title at Sundance, snapping up the rights to Wiener-Dog.
Todd Solondz’s comedy, which stars Greta Gerwig, Danny DeVito, Kieran Culkin and Julie Delpy, tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by … Read More
Sundance streaming: Amazon buys Manchester by the Sea and Author: The JT LeRoy Story
January 25, 2016 | David FarnorAmazon has bought the domestic rights to Manchester by the Sea, which is screening at Sundance, as well as Author: The JT LeRoy Story.
Kenneth Lonergan’s follow-up to Margaret stars Casey Affleck as a man who is forced to go … Read More
Netflix Sundance shopping spree continues with Iranian horror
January 22, 2016 | David FarnorNetflix’s Sundance shopping spree continues with another indie film in its basket: Iranian horror movie Under the Shadow.
The idea of a horror film entirely in Farsi might sound like an unexpected item in the VOD giant’s bagging area, but … Read More