Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Green Border,” Agnieszka Holland’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winning refugee drama, has been acquired by Kino Lorber in the U.S. (“Scrapper”) and Modern Films in the U.K. (“Drive My Car”).
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Kino Lorber has launched a new subscription streaming outlet, Kino Film Collection.
The $6-a-month destination for recent theatrical releases and hundreds of other films drawn from the company’s vast library will be available in the U.S. on Prime Video Channels.
Kino Lorber also operates Kino Now, a platform for rentals and purchases of arthouse and specialty films. The company has made several streaming moves of late. In 2022, it acquired MHz Choice and installed AMC Networks veteran Ed Carroll and former IFC Films head Lisa Schwartz in key management roles. Schwartz, Kino Lorber’s Chief Revenue Officer, will oversee Kino Film Collection. Last spring, Kino Lorber also formed a joint venture with First Look Media to operate both MHz Choice and First Look’s streaming service Topic.
Films available on Kino Film Collection at launch include new 4K restorations of The Conformist as well as key works by contemporary filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), Jafar Panahi (Taxi) and Todd Haynes (Poison). Older classics from the vault include Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin.
The Kino Film Collection will be updated monthly with regular streaming premieres of films theatricals like Chile ‘76, Framing Agnes, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, The Super 8 Years, The Worst Ones and Costa Brava, Lebanon, plus a mix of library and cult-film selections. December streaming premieres will include a new 4K restoration of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Millennium Mambo as well as Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Close to Vermeer, Final Cut, Bacurau, Tokyo Pop and Two Small Bodies.
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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Green Border,” Agnieszka Holland’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winning refugee drama, has been acquired by Kino Lorber in the U.S. (“Scrapper”) and Modern Films in the U.K. (“Drive My Car”).
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Valerie Wu Intern Film distribution company Kino Lorber has launched Kino Film Collection, a new streaming service available via Prime Video. For an individual fee of $5.99 per month, subscribers will have streaming access to hundreds of films from the more than 4,000 titles from Kino’s library, in addition to newer Kino releases.
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