Variance Films Movie Updates

Variance Films has acquired all North American theatrical rights to Terence Nance's romancer An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, a year after its debut at Sundance.

Spike Lee is going the independent distribution route, partnering with New York-based Variance Films for the theatrical release of his latest movie, Red Hooker Summer, which will open Aug. 10 in New York City before expanding to the top 30 markets.

Variance Films has set a spring theatrical release for Anne Renton's dysfunctional family comedy The Perfect Family.

Variance Films has acquired U.S. theatrical rights writer/director Mark Wexler’s documentary How to Live Forever. Variance will release the film in conjunction with the filmmaker’s company Wexler’s World on May 13 in New York City before expanding it nationally.

Variance Films has acquired John Sayles’s Philippine-American War film “Amigo,” and will release the film with a dual-strategy theatrical release this summer. Tweaking the traditional release platform, “Amigo” will start off in NY and then expand to the Top 20 markets, but for opening weekend its also going to open theatrically ...

Well Go USA and Variance Films will distribute "Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen," the martial arts film by “Infernal Affairs” co-director Andrew Lau, opening the film in the U.S. and Canada April 15, 2011.