FilmNation to Take Int'l Rights of Relativity Media Films

files/pictures/picture-35.jpgPress Release from FilmNation Entertainment & Relativity Media LLC

(Beverly Hills, CA) January 13, 2011 – FilmNation Entertainment and Relativity Media LLC. are in final negotiations to solidify an exclusive multi-year deal whereby FilmNation would oversee the international sales and distribution of Relativity titles, produced under their single picture business. The union is slated to begin prior to the Berlin Film Festival. Final details of the deal will be disclosed in the coming weeks along with the films that will fall into this new arrangement.

Relativity’s 2011 slate includes Season of the Witch, currently in theaters, starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman. After that is Take Me Home Tonight on March 4th, starring Topher Grace and Anna Faris. Following on March 18th, is the much-anticipated Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Oscar®-winner Robert De Niro. Relativity recently announced its acquisition of the Untitled David R. Ellis 3D Shark Thriller which will release in theaters on September 2nd.

The companies are currently collaborating on upcoming Relativity / Universal release, James Cameron’s Sanctum – with FilmNation handling the international sales.