Gravitas Ventures Acquires U.S. Rights to Franka Potente’s ‘Home’

J. Kim Murphy administratorHBO has acquired the rights to “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off,” a feature documentary about the skateboarding legend.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorAnthem Sports & Entertainment has acquired Gravitas Ventures’ 3,000-title content library from ProSieben’s Red Arrow Studios for $73 million in cash.The transaction also includes an undisclosed amount of Anthem stock.

Gravitas Ventures, the indie film and documentary distributor founded and run by Nolan Gallagher, has been acquired by Canadian media giant Anthem Sports & Entertainment.Anthem bought Gravitas from Germany-based Red Arrow Studios as part of a multimillion dollar deal that includes Gravitas Ventures’ library of 3000 titles. Anthem’s transaction was based on a cash purchase price of $73 million along with an additional common stock consideration component.

Red Arrow Studios has agreed to sell Gravitas Ventures, the prolific narrative film and documentary distributor with a 3,000-title catalogue, to Anthem Sports & Entertainment, a multi-platform media company with offices and studios in Los Angeles, Denver, Nashville, New York, Kansas City and Toronto.

UK indie pioneer David Frank, who was CEO of Zodiak Media and founded RDF Media, has died aged 63, his brother and long-time business partner Matthew Frank confirmed today. Frank died suddenly at home over the weekend and arrangements for his funeral are yet to be made.

Manori Ravindran International EditorBritish TV industry veteran David Frank, the trailblazing former CEO of Zodiak Media, has died. He was 63.His death was confirmed by the executive’s brother and long-time business partner, Matthew Frank, who said David died at home suddenly over the weekend.

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Yo-Yo Ma spent the better part of the pandemic playing cello to an online audience seeking solace in his music.On Friday, he marked his return to San Francisco by playing an energetic Bach cello suite before a live audience to inaugurate the opening of a new performance center designed to increase public access to classical and jazz music.Ma praised the top-notch acoustics in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Bowes Center for Performing Arts and the “safe space that

certainly the world’s longest-running transgender film festival.”The 24th annual festival runs through this weekend and will mark the second year it is solely available virtually across the United States.The collected films, says Virago, “are centered on transgender and gender non-conforming experiences, and are also created by gender-nonconforming and transgender filmmakers, so the content can sometimes be larger than issues of gender.”The festival is comprised of seven programs, each

Love Island star Faye Winter has revealed an exciting new project with her fans on Instagram.

Boygenius have detailed their first performance as a band since November of 2018, locking in a one-off benefit show to take place in San Francisco later this month.The indie-rock supergroup – comprising Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus – will perform at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society on November 19, with all proceeds from the event going to the Bay Area nonprofit Bread & Roses.

Last month, Bleecker Street acquired the North American rights to “Sundown,” the latest film from Mexican director Michel Franco that stars Tim Roth and premiered at the Venice and Toronto film festivals this year.Next up for Bleecker Street on the release slate is “India Sweets and Spices,” a family comedy from director Geeta Malik.

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to iGilbert, the feature directorial debut of actor Adrian Martinez (The Guilty, I Feel Pretty), in which he also stars alongside Dascha Polanco (In the Heights, Orange Is the New Black) and Raùl Castillo (Army of the Dead, We the Animals). The indie distributor will release the drama in theaters and on demand on December 31.

Vera Farmiga is an actress, producer, and director, known for her various performances in movies like the 2006 Boston-set gangster flick The Departed and the 2013 horror film The Conjuring (plus its numerous spinoffs). What fans may not know about the 48-year-old is she grew up in a large Ukrainian-American family — one that includes seven children!

Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to the dramatic feature Home—starring Jake McLaughlin (Savages, ABC’s Quantico), Oscar winner Kathy Bates (Fox’s American Horror Story, Misery) and more—from production company augenschein Filmproduktion, setting it for a day-and-date release on December 3rd.

TheWrap’s critic out of Venice referred to “Sundown” as Franco’s latest example of how Mexico’s “economic and social tensions sometimes explode,” comparing Franco’s work to the films of Michael Haneke and saying that Franco allows the film to “unfold incrementally and mysteriously,” further praising Roth’s “enigma” of a performance. The film was produced by Michel Franco, Cristina Velasco L.

EXCLUSIVE: Dolphin Entertainment CEO and founder Bill O’Dowd announced that visual designer Anthony Francisco joins the company as Creative Director. 

Katie Song Gravitas Ventures has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to “Wild Game,” an action adventure film directed by Brock Harris and starring Creed Garnick, Charlie Barnett, Allison Paige, Matthew Daddario, Harris, Golden Garnick, Jared Bonner, Kyle Robinson, Matthew Paetz, Adrianna Leonard and Vicki Garnick.

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has set an Academy-qualifying U.S. theatrical run for the Jason Pollock doc Finding Kendrick Johnson.