Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up US rights from Bleiberg Entertainment to Jesse V. Johnson’s gangster thriller Avengement featuring a predominantly British cast led by Scott Adkins and Craig Fairbrass.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Michel Ocelot’s animated Dilili in Paris, which is part of SGF’s plan to expand into distributing more family entertainment films. A 2019 theatrical release is in the works.

“I’m an artist. I would’ve been a painter but the camera was invented.” That’s how Robert Mapplethorpe describes himself in Mapplethorpe, a biopic following the life of the provocative photographer from his early days as a visual artist and Patti Smith’s lover through to his 1989 AIDS-related death.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken domestic rights to Joseph Cross’ feature directorial debut Summer Night for a release next spring. Cross is the star of such films as Lincoln, Milk and the HBO Emmy-winning limited series Big Little Lies. 

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Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up US rights to Jesse Sweet’s documentary City Of Joel, on which Halloween director David Gordon Green and Visit Films chief Ryan Kampe served as executive producers.