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Two experimental films executive produced by Steven Soderbergh — Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity and Godfrey Reggio’s Once Within a Time – join Neon’s anticipated Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall in theaters today, a bit of counterprogramming on a weekend dominated by Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.

Divinity, about a dark and creepy future populated by bodybuilders hooked on an elixir for eternal life, “was always made for the theater,” said Alcazar. “But it’s kind of a roll of the dice of what a distributor wants to do with it.” Utopia, which acquired the black-and-white romp — set mostly in a mansion on a desert that looks like the moon — after its Sundance premiere (see Deadline review), opens Divinity at Regal Union Square in NYC, expanding to Los Angeles next week, with a national rollout on 11/3.

There will be opening-weekend Q&As with Alcazar, Soderbergh, star Stephen Dorff and DJ Muggs.

Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Richie Adams’ “The Road Dance,” the Scottish adaptation of John McKay’s 2002 bestselling novel.

In the film, Kirsty MacLeod (Hermione Corfield) dreams of a better life away from the isolation that suffocates her in a small village on an island in the Outer Scottish Hebrides. Suppressing these aspirations, she sees her lover Murdo (Will Fletcher) conscripted for service in WWI, soon to set off and fight alongside the other young men from the village. A road dance is held in their honor the evening before they depart, and it’s on this fateful evening that Kirsty’s life takes a dramatic and tragic turn.

The film premiered at the 2021 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the audience award for best film, followed by the jury prize for best feature at the Manchester International Film Festival. It has since played...

Exclusive: Music Box Films has picked up U.S. rights to director Richie Adams’ well-reviewed drama The Road Dance, starring Hermione Corfield.

The Road Dance centers on Kirsty MacLeod (Corfield) who dreams of a better life away from the isolation that suffocates her in a small village on an island in the Outer Scottish Hebrides. Suppressing these aspirations, she sees her lover Murdo (Will Fletcher) conscripted for service in the First World War, soon to set off and fight alongside the other young men from the village. A road dance is held in their honor the evening before they depart, but it’s on that night that Kirsty’s life takes a dramatic and tragic turn.

The Scottish adaptation of John McKay’s 2002 novel premiered at the 2021 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Film, followed by the Jury Prize for Best Feature at the Manchester International Film Festival.

"Forget about the glory, remember the people you're fighting for back home." Watch the official UK trailer for this indie drama made in Scotland titled The Road Dance, from filmmaker Richie Adams. This already premiered at the 2021 Edinburgh Film Festival last year and opened in the UK in May; it'll also screen at the Heartland Film Fest + Newport Beach Film Fest in the US soon. Kirsty MacLeod (Hermione Corfield) dreams of a better life away from the isolation that suffocates her in a small village on an island in the Outer Scottish Hebrides. Suppressing these aspirations, her lover Murdo conscripted for service in the First World War. A road dance is held in their honor the evening before they depart, and it's on this fateful evening that Kirsty's life takes a dramatic & tragic turn. Also stars Morven Christie, Mark Gatiss, Will Fletcher, Ali Fumiko Whitney, and Sean Gilder. This...

Hermione Corfield as Kirsty Macleod in Eiff Audience Award winner The Road Dance Photo: Courtesy of Eiff The 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced that its Audience Award has been won by Richie Adams' The Road Dance.

The Scottish island melodrama, which is set against the backdrop of the start of the first World War had its world premiere at the festival, which screened 86 in person films to a total audience of 12,000.

Richie Adams, director of The Road Dance said: “When I first learned of our acceptance to the festival, I was ecstatic. Eiff is such a prestigious festival, and where better to launch a Scottish film than Edinburgh. It was wonderful to be with some of our cast and crew at the world premiere and getting the chance to see everyone’s hard work pay off on the big screen. It’s a huge honour to win the...

This feature debut from American director Richie Adams is firmly in the tradition of the likes of Catherine Cookson and Barbara Taylor-Bradford, although the novel source material here was written by a man, John Mackay, which unfortunately shows in its inability to truly get under the skin of its heroine. It has the well-made but familiar feel of a Sunday evening drama on ITV or the Beeb - a slot that it could well find itself occupying at some time in the future, especially after taking home the Audience Award after its Eiff world premiere.

Set in the run up to the First World War on the Hebridean Isle of Lewis, the story takes place in the tiny coastal village of Garenin. It is here that Kirsty Macleod (Hermione Corfield) lives on a croft with her mother (Morvern Christie) and sister Annie (Ali Fumiko Whitney) since the death of her.

It’s an awfully long way from Louisiana to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, but for Richie Adams, it was a journey worth taking. The American filmmaker, previously best known for U.S.-set indies “Of Mind and Music” and “Inventing Adam,” has made the most expansive, ambitious film of his career in “The Road Dance.”

Appropriately having its world premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival, the film is a sweeping rural melodrama centered on first love, the horrors of war and patriarchal oppression in a small Scottish village some years before the First World War. The change of pace has unleashed a burst of creative energy in Adams, who has two new features — an adaptation of the nonfiction book “Mr. Townsend and the Polish Prince” and an original screenplay, “Pedro Pan” — written and, in his words, “ready to go.”

Adapted from a 2002 novel by Scottish author John MacKay,...

Features world premieres of Cindy Jansen’s documentary Prince Of Muck and Richie Adams’ The Road Dance.

The 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has announced the full programme for its 2021 edition, which will run August 18-25 as a combination of in-person and online screenings.

It includes world premieres of Cindy Jansen’s documentary Prince Of Muck, about the retired patriarch of an Inner Hebridean island; and Richie Adams’ The Road Dance based on Stv News presenter John MacKay’s book. MacKay also stars in the film.

Further titles include the UK premieres of Leos Carax’s Cannes opening film...

Credit sequences may seem like a time for viewers to grab some popcorn before the show, but enjoying the complex packages — carefully fashioned to transition viewers into the world on-screen — will add to the enjoyment of a movie or a TV show, or even a video game.

Richie Adams, founder of River Road Creative, whose most recent credit work was on the Brad Pitt starrer “Ad Astra,” says part of good design is ensuring the credits reflect the production’s narrative, themes and style. While watching an early cut of the project, Adams picked up on the repeated use of camera flares in the cinematography and pitched the idea of setting the credits to an arrangement of those flares. “At times, that offers an unsettling feel,” explains Adams, “and at other times, they’re just beautiful.”

Adams used a typeface that reflected ancient Rome, since the movie draws its title from Latin,...

Read More: Monterey Media Acquires Award-Winning Drama 'Childless' Monterey Media has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights for the New Orleans-set drama, "of Mind and Music," based on the book "Una Vida: A Fable of Music and the Mind" by Nicolas Bazan. The film follows a street musician suffering from memory loss and the neuroscientist determined to help her the best he can. Directed by Richie Adams, "of Mind and Music" combines New Orleans' quintessential jazz scene with the element of hope in a seemingly hopeless situation to depict the unlikely bond that forms between the two. Aunjanue Ellis, Joaquim de Almeida, Bill Cobbs and Sharon Lawrence star. "I was enchanted by this film from the first moment. It resonates long afterward lyrically like a dance of the heart," said Ms. Jere Rae-Mansfield, Managing Partner of Monterey Media. The film has garnered acclaim on the festival circuit, including Jury.

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Arc plans a day-and-date theatrical and VOD on September 4.

Monica Ord produced and served as executive producer alongside Virgin overlord Richard Branson and Paul Mitchell founder John Paul DeJoria.

monterey media has picked up North American rights to Of Mind And Music, based on Nicolas Bazan’s novel Una Vida: A Fable Of Music And The Mind. Richie Adams directed and Aunjanue Ellis, Joaquim de Almeida, Bill Cobbs, Sharon Lawrence and Ruth Negga star. Producers Brent Caballero and Richie Adams negotiated with Monterey.FilmRise has acquired Us DVD and non-exclusive download-to-own rights from Content Media Corporation to Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief.