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Exclusive: Nagra-kudelski’s myCinema digital content distribution system has announced its full slate of films a year after it’s launch, teed off by the James Franco feature Zeroville, which the actor both directed and headlines.

Originally, Alchemy took domestic rights at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival to Zeroville months before the company capsized due to bankruptcy. Since its pick-up at Tiff, Zeroville unfortunately became entangled in Alchemy’s financial woes and was thrown into distribution limbo until the Us distribution rights were recently acquired by Nagra. The pic will hit cinemas in September. The comedy based on Steve Erickson’s novel about a young actor who arrives in Hollywood during a transitional time also stars Seth Rogen, Megan Fox, Joey King, Will Ferrell, Dave Franco, Danny McBride, and Jacki Weaver. myCinema delivers films over the internet which individual theaters can then licenses for any number of weeks of play.

It is coincidental that just after the passing of R.A. Montgomery, co-founder of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books, that we are writing about a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a Choose Your Own Adventure Film Musical out of jolly ol' England! Montgomery's legacy shall live on... line! On-line! In a short film format. The project is an ambitious one called Altern-i-Life, created by filmmaker Theo Davies and composer Joss Holden. And they seem to be headed in the right direction. The Kickstarter page describes the project as, "Imagine the cold feel of This is England and the absurdity of Hot Fuzz, mixed with the stylised and symmetrical world of Wez Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel". All of this with a bevy of musical numbers, including one below...

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