"Sony Pictures Classics has nabbed all North American and Latin American rights to "Quinceanera," the recent winner of the Grand Jury prize and audience award in the Sundance Film Festival's dramatic feature competition. Writer-directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's coming-of-age drama centers on a Mexican-American girl (Emily Rios) who discovers she is pregnant while planning her eponymous 15th birthday party. Rejected by her family, she moves in with her great-great-uncle and a similarly outcast gay cousin only to face another challenge with the landlords in the quickly gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park..." (full details)
"Lionsgate has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Victor Salva's drama "Peaceful Warrior." Much like its protagonist, the film has taken a long and winding journey from its origin as Dan Millman's 1980 best-seller "Way of the Peaceful Warrior". The tale of a college gymnast on a spiritual journey proved difficult to bring to the screen until the "Jeepers Creepers" helmer got onboard. Scott Mechlowicz ("Eurotrip", "Mean Creek") stars..." (full details)
"Danny Bigel's production company has bought the film rights to mommy lit novel "Play Dates" by Leslie Carroll. Story is about a twentysomething Gotham mom whose husband leaves her for an older woman. Struggling to adjust to her new life as a single mother, she finds that her six-year-old has a more active social life than she does. Bigel Entertainment is shopping for a scribe to adapt the novel..." (full details)
