The first big deal at the Berlin Film Festival goes to Alliance Films, which pre-bought multi-territory rights to the Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz-starrer Gambit from FilmNation Entertainment.
Relativity Media and Alliance Films have agreed to renew their distribution agreement through 2015.
Top film prizes and Oscar nominations have The King’s Speech reigning atop the Canadian box office.
Indie producer Rhombus Media has inked a first-look deal with Alliance Films to potentially release its film titles through the indie distributor’s Canadian, British and Spanish pipelines.
Montreal-based Alliance Films ended the year with a 7.4% share of the Canadian box office, or $75 million in ticket receipts, according to Rentrak.
Distributor of the decade Victor Loewy sees survival in staying one step ahead.
Alliance Films has picked up Canadian rights to Carl Bessai’s Repeaters from Rampart Films. The deal was negotiated by Andrew Herwitz, president of the Film Sales Company on behalf of the filmmakers, with Mark Slone working the deal for Alliance Films. Alliance plans a 2011 roll-out.
Don Carmody’s Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D has surpassed the $280 million worldwide box office mark, making it the most successful production in Canadian feature film history, ahead of Porky’s, the Ontario Media Development Corp. reported Monday.
IFC Films has acquired the U.S. rights to Wrecked, Michael Greenspan’s directorial debut from Vancouver-based producer Independent Edge Films.
Alliance Films has picked up the Canadian rights to Jason Eisener’s action film Hobo With a Shotgun, which stars Rutger Hauer, Gregory Smith and Robb Wells.