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IFC Films on Wednesday morning rolled out the first trailer for Skincare, the crime thriller starring Elizabeth Banks (A Mistake) that it will release across North America on August 16, as we were first to report. A fictional story inspired by true events, Skincare follows famed aesthetician Hope…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has snapped up North American rights to Skincare, a crime thriller starring Elizabeth Banks (A Mistake), on which we were first to report. Also starring Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Luis Gerardo Méndez (Charlie’s Angels), Nathan Fillion (The Rookie) and Michaela Jaé…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Memoir of a Snail, a stop-motion drama from Adam Elliot — the writer-director behind the Academy Award-winning 2004 short Harvie Krumpet. Marking the first lead voice role for star Sarah Snook (Succession), and Elliot’s second stop-motion…

IFC Films announced that Ghostlight, acquired by the studio out of this year's Sundance Film Festival where it made its world premiere, will open in New York City and Chicago on Friday, June 14, 2024 before expanding nationwide the following week.  The film is co-directed by Chicagoans Alex Thompson…

IFC Films and Sapan Studio announced today that they have acquired the North American rights to Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan’s Ghostlight out of the Sundance premiere section. The movie stars a real-life family of actors Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen, and their daughter Katherine Mallen Kupferer…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM’s Head of Specialty Theatrical Distribution, Mark Boxer, was among the notables cuts yesterday at the streaming theatrical studio. Among some of Boxer’s highlights at Amazon, he oversaw the specialty theatrical releases of such Oscar nominated titles as Being the Ricardos…

The groundwork was laid for Nicole Newnham's Oscar-contending documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite back when the director was just a girl. "I was 12 years old when I discovered The Hite Report in my mother's nightstand drawer," the filmmaker has written, "sneaking it to read for myself, to…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with BlackBerry, a biopic of sorts charting the rise and fall of the OG smartphone. Glenn Howerton, who is up for a Gotham Award tonight, and Jay Baruchel star in the pic written by Matt Johnson and…

EXCLUSIVE: In the mid-1970s most American women remained silent about their sexual feelings – how they achieved orgasms, what they liked to do in bed. It was a major taboo to explore such a topic. Shere Hite changed all that. The famed sex researcher, who published the runaway bestseller The Hite Repo…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks‘ genre streamer Shudder and indie distributor IFC Films have firmed up release plans for the Argentinian horror When Evil Lurks, ahead of its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section of the 2023 Toronto Film Festival. The latest feature from Demián Rugna, on the heels of his…

IFC Films is beefing up its depleted leadership ranks, naming Nicole Weis VP of Distribution. Judy Woloshen also joins as VP of Public Relations, managing national publicity efforts across IFC's three film brands (IFC, RJLE Films, Shudder). Weis, who will manage theatrical rollout for the film…

AMC Networks had made it official that Scott Shooman as been upped to Head of its Film Group which encompasses IFC Films, RLJE Films and the Shudder streaming service.   Shooman has been serving as the interim head in the wake of the shocking exit of IFC Films President Arianna Bocco back in March…