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Dynamic international distribution company Lightning Entertainment has picked up international rights to two new feature films making their market premieres; the comedy Whole Lotta Sole starring Brendan Fraser (The Mummy franchise) and directed by Oscar winner Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) and Kikoriki: Team Invincible, the Russian 3D animated-adventure comedy film from the Riki Group and produced by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted), it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning Entertainment.

The dramatic comedy Whole Lotta Sole world premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and received rave reviews from critics, whilst Kikoriki comes to the market hot on the heels of its impressive $8.5 million box office run in its native Russia.

.Lightning continues to acquire top-notch material to present to international buyers with Whole Lotta Sole from the talented Terry George and the Russian animated adventure, Kikoriki: Team Invincible from powerhouse producer Timur Bekmambetov,. commented Beaumont. .Both films are highly accessible,...

Lighting Entertainment (.Lightning.), the Santa Monica-based sales, production and distribution company has acquired International sales rights in all media to the romantic drama Love And Honor (formerly known as Awol) starring Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games), it was announced today by Lightning President Robert Beaumont. Lightning will premiere the film for international buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.

Aussie thesp Hemsworth is joined by some of the most talented actors emerging in film right now including Austin Stowell (Dolphin Tale), Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies), Aimee Teegarden (Scream 4), Chris Lowell (The Help) and Wyatt Russell (Cowboys And Aliens). The film is directed by Danny Mooney who makes his directorial debut. Love And Honor is written by Jim Burnstein and Garrett K. Schiff, and is a love story in the tradition of films like The Notebook and The Lucky One, about a soldier who secretly returns home from the war...

Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights to five feature films and will present the slate of new titles, including the star-studded comedy Struck By Lightning written by and starring Glee.s Chris Colfer, to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market, it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning Entertainment.

Struck By Lightning will make its market premiere at the Marché du Film following its Tribeca Film Festival world debut where it received an overwhelmingly positive response. Servitude will also make its market premiere with promotional footage being shown for family film Heaven.S Door and South African thriller One Last Look. Black South-easter is currently in production.

.We are thrilled to present this eclectic slate of new titles featuring films from across the globe to our buyers at Cannes and we are incredibly excited that both Struck By Lightning and Servitude will be making their market premieres next month,...

Considering that Salmon Fishing in the Yemen stars Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, wouldn’t it be stranger if it didn’t get picked up? Well, it’s found a home with CBS Films, as THR tells us that the company has acquired the Lasse Halström comedy for distribution — and at a hefty price of $4-to-5 million. After premiering last night to mixed reviews, a bidding war started over the film that centers on a fish scientist asked by an Arab Sheik “to do the seemingly impossible – introduce British salmon to the wadis of the Yemen.”

Based on the novel by Paul Torday, it’s scripted by Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy. It sounds like a wholly inoffensive (if concurrently forgettable) affair, but the cast has me interested enough, so I think I’ll be willing to check the film out whenever it hits.

Another Toronto acquisition has occurred with Myriad,...

Sunday, September 11, 2011, Toronto….. Myriad Pictures will handle sales outside North America for Academy® Award-winner Bill Guttentag’s political drama Knife Fight, starring Rob Lowe (“The West Wing”, “Parks & Recreation”, Breakaway), Julie Bowen (“Modern Family”, Horrible Bosses, “Boston Legal”), Jamie Chung (Sucker Punch, The Hangover, Part II), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix trilogy, Disturbia, Chocolat), Eric McCormack (“Will & Grace”, Textuality, “The New Adventures of Old Christine”) and Richard Schiff (“The West Wing”, Solitary Man, The Lost World: Jurassic Park). The screenplay was written by Guttentag and prominent political consultant Chris Lehane who as a White House advisor to President Bill Clinton earned the reputation as “Master of Disaster” and later served as Al Gore’s Press Secretary. This is Lehane’s first feature film script. The film follows three political candidates running for public office. Rob Lowe plays a hard-ball political crisis manager in the middle of the dirty campaigns whose clients...

Sexting, a seemingly timely romantic comedy about love in the world of high-tech of personal communication devices, is coming to DVD from Screen Media on Aug. 23 for a list price of $24.98.

Jason Lewis touches the magic buttons in Sexting.

Originally entitled Textuality (which we kinda like more), the movie follows the love lives of two attractive twenty-somethings, Breslin (Jason Lewis, Sex and The City) and Simone (Carly Pope, S.W.A.T.: Firefight) as they try to get into a relationship while navigating the modern world of digital dating and all the emailing, Facebooking, roaming charges, Blackberrying and, yes, sexting, that it entails.

Directed by Warren Sonoda (who’s got a handful of comedies to his credit, including 2008’s Coopers’ Christmas) and co-starring Eric McCormack (TV’s Will & Grace), Sexting received a quick theatrical release in Canada last month, but is premiering in the U.S. on DVD.

This film reads like fun...

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By Karen Bliss

As the opening credits roll in the new Canadian film 'Textuality,' an entire relationship begins and ends, from courtship to proposal to wedding day to... being left at the altar.

The dumpee, Breslin (played by Jason Lewis of 'Sex and the City'), re-enters the dating world six months later with his head and heart still damaged. Carly Pope ('Young People F---ing') co-stars as Simone, a guy-juggling painter/blogger. She longs for the married Clive (played by Eric McCormack of 'Will & Grace'), but is intriguing and endearing enough to pull Breslin out of the dumps.

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Warren P. Sonoda's upcoming romantic comedy Textuality will be released in select theatres in Canada on April 22.

The story follows Breslin (Jason Lewis) and Simone (Carly Pope) two successful workers in their thirties. They try to get committed in a relationship. However, in this crazy digital age, will they manage to get out of the multiple love relations they were managing on their Blackberries?

The film also stars Liam Card, Kristen Hager, Eric McCormack, Holly Elissa Lamaro, Supinder Wraich, Jim Annan, Marcello Cabezas, Kelda Cummings, Marianthi Evans, Kris Holden-Ried and Anna Cyzon.