March 11, 2010
Music Box Films has acquired the US rights to Michel Hazanavicius’ OSS 117 – LOST IN RIO, starring Jean Dujardin as suave but clueless spy Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath – better known as OSS 117. Read more
February 26, 2010
Music Box Films is pleased to announce the acquisition of all US rights to Jean-François Richet’s two part gangster epic MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT and MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1, starring Vincent Cassel. Read more
December 15, 2009
Yolande Moreau has won the LA Film Critics’ award for Best Actress of 2009 for her performance in the title role of Séraphine. Read more
December 15, 2009
Séraphine has been named Best Foreign Film of 2009 by the Women Film Critics Circle Read more
December 3, 2009
Industry veteran Brian Brown will lead sales operations for the new home video division, Music Box Films Home Entertainment. Read more
December 3, 2009
The real-life story of Rita Atria, who broke the mafia’s code of silence to testify against the men who murdered her father and brother. Read more
October 9, 2009
International box office hit based on best-selling novel by Steig Larsson is slated for US release in March 2010. Read more
October 7, 2009
SERAPHINE was selected as the Best Film at the 2009 Scottsdale International Film Festival by its audience.
July 7, 2009
Subtitled films from Europe are alive and well in U.S. theatres, as the roster and performance of Chicago-based Music Box Films, with the smash Tell No One and the just-released Séraphine, so compellingly suggest. A new kid on the specialized distributor block—at a time when others have been fleeing the block—Music Box, founded in 2007, is an offshoot of Chi-town’s popular art-house venue The Music Box Theatre. Read more
May 25, 2009
Music Box Films is pleased to announce the acquisition of all U.S. rights to two 2008 German productions: North Face (Nordwand) and Cloud 9 (Wolke 9) by Andreas Dresen. Read more
February 28, 2009
SÉRAPHINE was honored for seven Césars, including Best Film and Best Actress. Read more
January 12, 2009
Music Box Films is pleased to announce the acquisition of all US rights to Martin Provost’s biographical drama SÉRAPHINE starring Yolande Moreau and Ulrich Tukur. Read more
January 5, 2009
TELL NO ONE was picked as one of the top ten film releases of 2008 by numerous prominent critics. Read more
November 17, 2008
Over $6 million gross and still in theaters.
August 7, 2008
Music Box Films and Tell No One were the subject of an article in today’s Los Angeles Times. The article refers to Tell No One as “one of the summer’s more remarkable success stories.”. The entire article can be found at latimes.com.
July 11, 2008
The Music Box Theatre and Music Box Films were recently featured in an article written by Robert K. Elder for the Chicago Tribune. The article focuses on the growth of the company through the future acquisition of historic theatres, as well as the founding and expansion of Music Box Films. The full article can be found at chicagotribune.com.
April 28, 2008
The Torino GLBT Film Festival wrapped up its 23rd year Sunday with the jury announcing the festival’s winners. Argentinean film La Leon, directed by Santiago Otheguy, won best feature film. Read more at indieWIRE.
April 10, 2008
Tell No One has won the audience award for best international feature at the Florida Film Festival. The film is set for release this summer.
April 2, 2008
Based on the international best-selling novel by Harlan Coben, the film was a box office smash in France and was among the most popular recent French-language releases in the UK. Read more
April 2, 2008
Additionally, Music Box Films and Chicago-based MPI Media Group have announced a DVD output deal for upcoming Music Box Films. MPI’s Greg Newman said “we are very pleased to be working with the Music Box group. Together they represent decades of success in distributing and exhibiting foreign and independent film in the United States.” Music Box’s Schopf added “MPI was in the first generation of video distributors in the US and promises to be an excellent partner in allowing our label to reach US home video audiences.”
October 12, 2007
Tuya’s Marriage has won the Silver Hugo Award – Special Jury Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival for its “strong portrait of a woman struggling to survive a remote landscape.”
October 12, 2007
YU Nan has won the Silver Hugo Award – Best Actress at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival for her “delicate, natural performnce as a woman in crisis which is the soul of the film.”
May 24, 2007
Music Box Films, the recently formed distribution arm of Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, announced its first acquisition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the Chinese film Tuya’s Marriage directed by WANG Quan An and co-written by LU Wei (“Farewell My Concubine”). The award-winning film recently received the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
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