The film stars Hannah Marks, Liana Liberato, Addison Riecke and Dylan Sprouse and centers on two teenage girls developing a kindred spirit friendship, with one big problem: one of them is dating the other’s ex. Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to teen comedy “Banana Split.”

Hilary Brougher directed from her own screenplay. Balsam plays an artist and mother living in the Catskills who has devoted herself to everyone around her and has to deal with her husband leaving her for another woman with whom he has already fathered a child. The movie, which premiered last year at SXSW, will receive a theatrical release in March, followed by a DVD and VOD release in the second quarter. His tenure at AMC has seen AMC become the largest cinema operator globally, with 2,200 screens in 244 theatres in Europe and more than 8,200 screens in 661 theatres in the United States.īreaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the drama “South Mountain,” starring Talia Balsam and Scott Cohen, Variety has learned exclusively. The National Association of Theatre Owners will honor AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron with the marquee award during this year’s CinemaCon.Īron will be honored on March 30, the opening night of the 10th edition of CinemaCon at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.Īron has headed AMC Entertainment since 2016.

The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood. Her adaptation of the Joan Didion novel “The Last Thing He Wanted,” starring Ben Affleck and Anne Hathaway, premiered at Sundance and opens later this year on Netflix. Rees directed “Mudbound” and was nominated for the adapted screenplay Oscar. “Porgy and Bess,” set in an African American neighborhood known as Catfish Row, centers on the love story of the beggar Porgy and the beautiful Bess, who tries to escape a life of prostitution and drug addiction. The film rights were granted to MGM by the Gershwin Estate.

Irwin Winkler and Charles Winkler will produce. MGM has hired Dee Rees to write and direct a movie adaptation of George Gershwin’s 1935 opera “Porgy and Bess.” McCann also wrote “TransAtlantic,” “Let the Great World Spin,” “Zoli” and “This Side of Brightness.” Amblin’s president of production Holly Bario will oversee the project for the studio. “Apeirogon” explores the unlikely friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian who both lost a daughter to violence, and turned their grief into action and activism. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners has acquired the movie rights to “Apeirogon,” the upcoming novel from National Book Award winner Colum McCann.

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