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Myriad Pictures handles international sales on Fatima.

Picturehouse has set an August 28 theatrical and PVOD launch for faith-based drama Fatima and has been partnering on a pop-up drive-in US tour.

The film has been the focus of a pop-up tour in metro centres organised with events group A-List Communications that has staged July screenings at this year’s Super Bowl venue at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Simi Valley, California attended by Picturehouse’s Bob and Jeanne Berney, and a private event with the Hamptons Film Festival’s summer drive-in initiative.

Upcoming tour screenings include Soldiers’ Field in Chicago...

Bob and Jeanne Berney’s Picturehouse will open Marco Pontecorvo’s Fatima in theaters and direct to home (PVOD) throughout North America on Aug. 28.

The pic was last scheduled for an Aug. 14, 1,000-theater-plus run. The distributor has been having sold out pop-up drive-in previews recently as part of their grassroots word-of-mouth digital marketing campaign.

Picturehouse picked up the movie in October. The movie was first scheduled for April 24 before the exhibition Covid-19 shutdown. The movie is set during the Spanish Flu, and has echoes to what’s going on now.

“The response to Fatima at our Pop-Up Drive-In Premieres has been wonderful,” says Bob Berney, CEO. “Audiences and social media reactions have convinced us that we need to get this movie out now. We held out as long as possible for a traditional theatrical release, but given the national situation, we did not want to postpone the release of this...

Exclusive: Marco Pontecorvo’s Fatima, the first title to be released by Bob and Jeanne Berney’s revived Picturehouse, is going wide in 1,000 runs on Aug. 14, Deadline has learned.

The faith-based movie about the Virgin Mary’s appearance to a 10-year old shepherd and her two cousins in Fátima, Portugal, was acquired by Picturehouse back in October, in Bob Berney’s first big move post Amazon where he served as Head of Marketing and Distribution. Fatima was originally scheduled for an April 24 release, however, was delayed due to the exhibition shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic.

In the movie, the children’s revelations inspire believers but anger Church and government officials, who try to force them to recant their story. As word of their prophecy spreads, tens of thousands of religious pilgrims flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle, and what they experience changes lives forever. Interestingly enough...

Picturehouse to release in North America in April.

Myriad Pictures has picked up international sales on faith-based drama Fatima starring Stephanie Gil, Lúcia Moniz, Joaquim de Almeida, Goran Visnjic, Sonia Braga and Harvey Keitel and will launch sales at Efm this month.

Bob and Jeanne Berney’s revived distribution label Picturehouse will release the drama in North America on April 24 on more than 1,000 screens.

Marco Pontecorvo directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Valerio D’Annunzio and Barbara Nicolosi based on historical events about a 10-year-old shepherd and her two young cousins in Fátima, Portugal, who report seeing visions of the Virgin Mary.

Bob Berney and Jeanne R. Berney have relaunched their label Picturehouse and have acquired the North American rights to faith-based drama “Fatima,” the couple announced on Sunday along with James T. Volk, chairman and founder of Origin Entertainment.

The film is directed by Marco Pontecorvo and produced by Origin Entertainment along with Elysia Productions and Rose Pictures. Picturehouse has set a release date for the film on April 24, 2020.

Bob Berney was the head of marketing and distribution at Amazon Studios and left the company in June of this year. He headed Picturehouse in 2005 as a joint venture between HBO and New Line Cinema, and he and his wife relaunched the label in January 2013 as an independent distributor before he joined Amazon in 2015.

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“Fatima” is a feature film starring Stephanie Gil, Lúcia Moniz, Joaquim de Almeida, Goran Visnjic,...

In his first major move since exiting Amazon Studios, distribution executive Bob Berney has teamed with wife Jeanne Berney to reopen Picturehouse, the label he once headed. They have acquired North American distribution rights to Fatima, a feature film starring Stephanie Gil (Terminator: Dark Fate), Lúcia Moniz, Joaquim de Almeida (Queen of the South) and Goran Visnjic (Beginners) with Sonia Braga (Aquarius) and Harvey Keitel (The Irishman).

The Berneys are co-heads of Picturehouse and they made the deal with James T. Volk, chairman and founder of Origin Entertainment, which produced the film along with Elysia Productions and Rose Pictures.

Picturehouse was formed in 2005 as a joint venture between HBO and New Line, with Bob Berney at its head. The Time Warner subsidiaries acquired the theatrical distribution operation of Newmarket Films, which under Berney’s leadership had released such films as the record-breaking The Passion of the Christ; Monster,...

Faith-based film will open theatrically nationwide on April 24, 2020.

Former Amazon Studios head of theatrical marketing and distribution Bob Berney and Jeanne Berney’s revived Picturehouse has acquired all North American rights to the faith-based Fatima starring Stephanie Gil (Terminator: Dark Fate), Lúcia Moniz, Joaquim de Almeida (Queen Of The South), Goran Visnjic (Beginners), Sonia Braga (Aquarius), and Harvey Keitel (The Irishman).

Picturehouse co-heads the Berneys made the announcement on Monday with James T. Volk, chairman and founder of Origin Entertainment, which produced the film along with Elysia Productions and Rose Pictures.

Fatima tells the story of a 10-year-old shepherd and...

Us-Italy co-production expected to open in 2019.

Principal photography is underway in Portugal for Us-based Origin Entertainment and Italy’s Panorama Films on the drama Fatima starring Harvey Keitel and Sonia Braga, the Brazilian veteran who earned widespread acclaim in the 2016 drama Aquarius.

Goran Visnjic, Joaquim de Almeida and Lucia Moniz also star in the Us-Italy co-production based on the true account of three Portuguese shepherd children who during the First World War made a prophecy that the Virgin Mary (referred to as Our Lady of Fatima) would appear.

Despite doubting family members and the efforts of government officials to silence the children,...

Us-Italy production expected to open in 2019.

Principal photography is underway in Portugal for Us-based Origin Entertainment on the drama Fatima starring Harvey Keitel and Sonia Braga, the Brazilian talent who earned widespread acclaim for the 2016 drama Aquarius.

Goran Visnjic, Joaquim de Almeida and Lucia Moniz also star in the Us-Italy co-production based on the true account of three Portuguese shepherd children who in 1917 during the First World War made a prophecy that the Virgin Mary (referred to as Our Lady of Fatima) would appear.

Despite doubting family members and the efforts of government officials to silence the children, tens of...

Goran Visnjic is joining Harvey Keitel in the drama Fatima, the true story behind Our Lady of Fatima.

The story centers on three Portuguese children at the apex of World War I who witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary, who told them three secrets. Doubting family members and aggressive government officials tried to silence them from sharing these messages that would change the world, but the Roman Catholic Church validated the children’s visions establishing Fatima as a pilgrimage site.

Marco Pontecorvo is set to direct Fatima and will produce along with Rose Ganguzza, Natasha Howes, Richard I. Lyles and ...

Goran Visnjic is joining Harvey Keitel in the drama Fatima, the true story behind Our Lady of Fatima.

The story centers on three Portuguese children at the apex of World War I who witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary, who told them three secrets. Doubting family members and aggressive government officials tried to silence them from sharing these messages that would change the world, but the Roman Catholic Church validated the children’s visions establishing Fatima as a pilgrimage site.

Marco Pontecorvo is set to direct Fatima and will produce along with Rose Ganguzza, Natasha Howes, Richard I. Lyles and ...