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While distribution deals for some Toronto-premiered films percolate slowly, distributors continue to lock down films that premiere at earlier festivals. Anchor Bay Films has acquired distribution rights to Meet Monica Velour, a comedy that stars Kim Cattrall, Brian Dennehy and newcomer Dustin Ingram. It played at the Seattle and Tribeca festivals. Pic was written and directed by Keith Bearden and financed/produced by Gary Gilbert's Gilbert Films.
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Anchor Bay Entertainment is teaming up with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to release the Gina Carano action movie In the Blood.
Anchor Bay picked up the North American rights to the thriller, planning a limited theatrical release in 2014 plus a Blu-ray/DVD/VOD release to be jointly distributed with Fox.
I hope she's taken acting lessons since her first movie because she really needed them.
Ouch aly...just ouch. She wasn't that bad. Then again, she didn't have all that many lines considering she was the lead.
She was bad even with the lines she had and the facial expressions and everything. She's a good fighter but she needed to learn how to act and express the character....sooooo bad
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The company acquires the rights before the action thriller is to premiere at SWSW.
The movie, which will screen as part of the festival’s Midnighter program, is described as being in the spirit of the 1980s canon and in the vein of A History of Violence but with the teens as the heroes, taking on four hitmen over $500,000 in stolen cash.
This is another one that is filled with drama, suspense, and you just don't know from one minute to the next what is happening. It looks interesting and depressing at the same time. I don't know that I would see this one but it's not completely out.
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The "Aliens" actor also co-wrote and stars in the thriller.
Anchor Bay has picked up the North American rights to The Victim, a suspense thriller starring Aliens and Terminator actor Michael Biehn. Biehn also wrote the script and made his directorial debut with this pic.
The story sees a woman’s life put in jeopardy when she witnesses a violent act by two deputies. When feeling her pursuers, she stumbles across a recluse (Biehn) living in the woods, upending his solitary life.
They say this is going to be like a grindhouse film and it reads like a typical one and the story is pretty basic but might be okay but I'll not be paying for it until it's out on dvd probably.
