Screen Media Films

  • Deadline: Sam Rockwell Comedy ‘Blue Iguana’ Gets Screen Media Deal

    • Posted on 2nd Mar
    • Category: Acquisition

    EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired U.S. rights to Blue Iguana, the comedy written and directed by Hadi Hajaig that stars Sam Rockwell, Ben Schwartz and Phoebe Fox. The company plans a day-and-date release this year sometime in the third quarter.

    The deal comes with Rockwell a frontrunner to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar on Sunday for his role in Fox Searchlight’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

    Blue Iguana, meanwhile, is a black comedy that revolves around ex-jailbirds Eddie (Rockwell) and Paul (Schwartz), on parole and working in a New York diner, They are enlisted by and English lawyer Katherine Rookwood (Fox) to go to London and steal a gem called the Blue Iguana. Usually able to wriggle out of danger with a wisecrack, a weapon and a smile, this time a psychotic small-time crime boss (Peter Ferdinando) is in their way, and the unexpected consequence of Eddie and Katherine’s quest is true love.

    Hajaig produced with Tom Lassally. Iain Coventry, Martin Muncaster, Crispin Corfe and Nasser Hajaig are executive producers. The film was produced by UK Film Studio Productions.

    “Sam Rockwell and Ben Schwartz exhibit great comedic chemistry together and Hadi Hajaig is a filmmaker to take notice of,” said Screen Media’s SVP Worldwide Acquisitions Seth Needle.

    He negotiated the deal with James Norrie at AMP International on behalf of the filmmakers.

  • Deadline: ‘Change In The Air’, Starring ‘Mrs. Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan, Floats To Screen Media – Berlin

    • Posted on 20th Feb
    • Category: Acquisition

    Screen Media has picked up worldwide rights to Change In The Air, a drama from first-time director Dianne Dreyer and starring recent Golden Globe-winning actress Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Mary Beth Hurt, Aidan Quinn, Macy Gray, M. Emmet Walsh, Seth Gilliam, and Olympia Dukakis. After finalizing the deal during EFM in Berlin, Screen Media will release the pic in theaters sometime this year.

    Written by Audra Gorman, the story follows a beguiling young woman (Brosnahan) who moves in next door, and awakens a quiet neighborhood, bringing people face to face with their secrets and, ultimately, themselves.

    Benjamin Cox’s Red Square Pictures produced the film in association with M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, Fish Hook Media, and Home Plate Pictures. Dreyer, who worked as a script supervisor on titles like The English Patient, Air Force One, and You’ve Got Mail, served as exec producer on the film, along with Gorman, Margarethe Baillou, and Allan Neuwirth.

    The deal was negotiated by Seth Needle from Screen Media, and by Cox on behalf of the filmmakers.

    Kevin Iwashina and Preferred Content repped sales on the film.

  • Deadline: Screen Media Acquires Sophie Turner-Starring ‘Josie’

    • Posted on 12th Jan
    • Category: Acquisition
    Screen Media Films has nabbed North American distribution rights to director Eric England’s thriller Josie, toplined by Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner, Dylan McDermott and Jack Kilmer. The film, based on the Black List script Huntsville by Anthony Ragnone, will be released day-and-date in theaters in March. It follows the tattooed, sweet-talking stranger Josie (Turner) who, upon arriving to a small, southern town, strikes up relationships with local young punk Marcus (Kilmer) and her loner neighbor Hank (McDermott). She quickly becomes a hot topic of local gossip, but her true intentions for arriving in town are far more sinister when her dark past comes to light. Luisa Iskin, Jeff Kalligheri, Kevin Matusow, and Johnny Wunder produced the pic, while Candice Abela, Karam Abulhusn, Stephen Bowen, Carissa Buffel, Fouad Mikati, Steven Chester Prince, Ash Sarohia and Lauren Russell served as exec producers. The deal was negotiated by Screen Media’s Seth Needle with Gersh and CAA on behalf of the filmmakers. Lightning Entertainment is handling foreign sales.

  • Hollywood Reporter: AFM: Screen Media Buys 'Curvature' for North America (Exclusive)

    • Posted on 9th Nov
    • Category: Acquisition

    Screen Media will also take over international sales on the time travel thriller, starring Lyndsy Fonseca and Linda Hamilton.

    Screen Media Films have picked up worldwide rights to Curvature, a time travel thriller starring Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick-Ass).

    Screen will release Curvature in North America, with a bow planned for early 2018. The company is also handling international sales on the feature and will be shopping the project to foreign buyers at AFM.

    “Diego and Julio have crafted a really smart and tense film that audiences will really respond to,” said Seth Needle, senior vp worldwide acquisitions at Screen Media Films, who negotiated the deal with Scott Freije at XYZ Films on behalf of the filmmakers. “We can’t wait to bring it to genre fans across the world.”

    Diego Hallivis directed Curvature in his feature debut and produced the film, together with brother Julio for their 1inMM Productions banner. The plot of the film, from a script by Brian DeLeeuw, has Fonseca playing an engineer who travels back in time to stop herself from committing a murder. Terminator actress Linda Hamilton and Glenn Morshower (Bloodline) co-star.

    Curvature had its world premiere last month at Spain's prestigious Sitges fest dedicated to genre cinema.

  • Bloody Disgusting: Screen Media Films Entering ‘Temple’ (Exclusive)

    • Posted on 26th May
    • Category: Acquisition

    Screen Media Films has acquired the North American rights Temple out of Cannes, Bloody Disgusting has learned.

    Directed by Michael Barrett, and starring Logan Huffman, Brandon Tyler Sklenar, and Natalia Warner, Temple follows three Americans on a trip to Japan are fascinated by a haunted temple, and, despite warnings from the villagers, decide to spend a night there.

    Bloody can announce that Temple will be released in theaters and VOD day-and-date on September 1, 2017.

    Red Sea Media is handling worldwide sales for the film at the current Cannes market. The deal was negotiated Seth Needle, SVP Worldwide Acquisitions at Screen Media Films, and the filmmakers.

    “Temple is a great current homage to J-Horror classics, while remaining unique and scary as hell,” said Needle.

    Producers include The Ring‘s Neal Edelstein, with Mike Macari, Eric Bassett and Shinya Egawa.

  • Deadline: Ryan Eggold’s Tribeca Film ‘Literally, Right Before Aaron’ Lands At Screen Media

    • Posted on 24th May
    • Category: Acquisition

    Screen Media Films has secured the North American rights to Ryan Eggold directorial debut film Literally, Right Before Aaron, which had its world premiere at last month’s Tribeca Film fest. Starring Justin Long, Cobie Smulders, Ryan Hansen, John Cho, Kristen Schaal, Peter Gallagher, Dana Delany, Lea Thompson, and Luis Guzmán, the film will bow in theaters later this year.

    The comedy follows Adam (Long) who, not ready to let his engaged ex-girlfriend Allison (Smulders) go, decides to attend the wedding in hopes of convincing himself and everyone else that he is truly happy for her. After a series of embarrassing, hilarious, and humbling situations, Adam discovers the comedy in romance, the tragedy of letting go and the hard truth about growing up.

    Eggold wrote the pic, based on a short he filmed six years ago. The Blacklist star also produced along with Cassandra Kulukundis, Alexandra Rizk Keane, Nancy Leopardi, and Ross Kohn.

    The deal was negotiated by Screen Media’s Seth Needle with Jay Cohen at Gersh on behalf of the filmmakers.

  • Deadline: Screen Media Twists Up ‘Ripped,’ Sets June Bow For Russell Peters-Faizon Love Stoner Pic

    • Posted on 4th May
    • Category: Acquisition

    Screen Media Films is ready to party with Ripped, bogarting North American and UK rights to the time-travel stoner comedy starring Russell Peters and Faizon Love. The red-eyed pic will get a day-and-date release June 23.

    Directed by Brad Epstein from a script he co-wrote with Billiam Coronel, Ripped tells the story of Harris (Peters) and Reeves (Love), a pair of free-spirited stoners in 1986 who upload some CIA-created secret pot that knocks them out for 30 years. Coming to in 2016, they try to fathom the societal changes that have occurred since the Reagan years. The Ripped Van Winkles might have lost three decades but not their uncomplicated enthusiasm for getting their lives back on track and figuring out the crazy modern world. Epstein also produced the pic with Ike Suri and Suzanne Weinert.

    The deal was negotiated between Seth Needle, SVP Worldwide Acquisitions at Screen Media Films, and Mark Padilla, SVP of Sales at Double Dutch International. DDI will handle worldwide sales for Ripped at the Cannes market this month.

    “Ripped is a great laugh-out-loud movie, and we’re happy that Screen Media shares our sense of humor,” Padilla said. “We are definitely glad of their involvement and believe that Ripped has found a good home.”

  • Screen Daily: Screen Media enters 'The Void'

    • Posted on 4th Jan
    • Category: Acquisition

    The distributor has acquired US rights to Cave Painting Pictures’ horror title directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski.

    Screen Media has earmarked a theatrical and VOD day-and-date launch for the first quarter of 2017.

    Aaron Poole, Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Stephanie Belding, and Kenneth Welsh star in The Void, about a series of transformations at a rural hospital.

    The Void premiered at Fantastic Fest earlier this year. Screen Media negotiated the deal with XYZ Films and CAA.

    • Appropriate Behavior creator and star Desiree Akhavan, is set to direct Chloë Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane of American Honey in The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, based on Emily Danforth’s coming-of-age novel set in 1993 about a girl forced into gay conversion therapy. John Gallagher Jr and Jennifer Ehle will also star in the Beachside and Parkville Pictures drama, which Beachside is fully financing. UTA Independent Film Group represents US rights.
    • FilmRise has acquired worldwide rights from Submarine and Preferred Content to Michelle Sinclair’s debut documentary Chicago: The Terry Kath Experience.
    • BOND/360 has acquired North American rights from DR Sales to Syrian conflict documentary The War Show. Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon directed and BOND/360 plans a 2017 launch.
    • The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will present La La Land stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling with the 2017 Outstanding Performers of the Year award on February 3. The 32nd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival will run from February 1-11.
    • Grasshopper Film has picked up all US rights from Ruda Cine to Argentinian filmmaker Eduardo Williams’s feature debut and Locarno Golden Leopard winner The Human Surge,
    • Toronto-based 108 Media heads to IDFA in Amsterdam with a slate that includes Cold Love, Exodus, Footprint, and The Great Sasuke.

  • Screen Daily: Screen Media Ventures boards 'Bokeh' for AFM

    • Posted on 9th Nov
    • Category: Acquisition

    The company has acquired worldwide rights to the Iceland-set sci-fi from Zealous Pictures in association with Vintage Pictures and Kansha Films and is introducing to AFM buyers this week.

    Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan directed Maika Monroe and Matt O’Leary in the story of an American couple on a romantic getaway to Iceland who wake up to discover every person on earth has disappeared.

    Their struggle to survive and reconcile the mysterious event leads them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.

    Screen Media Ventures has set Bokeh for US theatrical and VOD release in the second quarter of 2017.

    Doug Daulton, Kent Genzlinger and Briene Lermitte produced and Dirk Junge and Sullivan served as executive producers.

    “Andrew and Geoffrey have created a beautiful and haunting film,” said Seth Needle, senior vice-president of worldwide acquisitions at Screen Media Ventures, who brokered the deal with Adam Galen and Marc Bortz at Preferred Content on behalf of the filmmakers.

  • Hollywood Reporter: AFM: Screen Media Picks Up 'Stray Bullets' (Exclusive)

    • Posted on 8th Nov
    • Category: Acquisition

    The indie distributor will do a multiplatform release for the crime drama in the U.S. and will handle international sales.

    Screen Media has picked up worldwide rights for Stray Bullets, a low-budget crime drama from 16-year-old Jack Fessenden, son of indie-film vet Larry Fessenden.

    The younger Fessenden stars in the film alongside Asa Spurlock. The two play a pair of teenage boys tasked with cleaning out their father’s old mobile home on an abandoned property, only to find that three cons on the run (James Le Gros, John Speredakos, Larry Fessenden) are using the trailer for a hideout.

    The movie, produced through the Fessendens' New York shingle, Glass Eye Pix, premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany earlier this year.

    Screen Media is planning a multiplatform release for Stray Bullets in the U.S. in February of next year. The company also has taken on international rights and will be selling the title to foreign buyers at AFM.

    “We have a great track record working with Screen Media, and we’re delighted they’ve shown such enthusiasm for Jack’s movie,” said Larry Fessenden. “We look forward to building on that to make an impact with this humble but resonant film.”

    The deal for Stray Bullets was negotiated by Seth Needle for Screen Media, with Larry Fessenden and Jenn Wexler at Glass Eye Pix on behalf of the filmmakers.

    Screen Media's recent releases include Michel Gondry’s Microbe & Gasoline and the South American horror thriller Colonia, starring Emma Watson and Daniel Bruhl.

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