09/03/2011

Tribeca Film, the distribution branch of New York's Tribeca Film Festival, announced that in 2011 it intends to release 26 films in theatres and through various multimedia distribution channels, including VOD and digital online distribution. The company’s line-up includes Essential Killing [+see also:
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Skolimowski's feature is one of nine titles recently acquired by Tribeca Film. In addition to Essential Killing, their slate includes Philip Gelatt’s The Bleeding House; Vincent D'Onofrio’s directorial debut Don't Go in the Woods; Neds [+see also:
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The latest projects by Agnieszka Holland and Lech Majewski also have good prospects for world distribution. Sony Pictures Classics, specialized in distribution of foreign-language films in the United States, bought the US rights to Holland's latest feature, In Darkness, a co-production between Poland, Germany, and Canada.

Sales agent Wide Management has sold Majewski's The Mill and the Cross [+see also:
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interview: Lech Majewski
film profile] in the US to Kino Lorber and has also announced that the film will be released in Spain, Japan, Argentina, and Australia.