{"id":2228849,"date":"2026-01-09T20:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2228849"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:52:28","slug":"sundance-dead-mans-wire-theatrical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sundance-dead-mans-wire-theatrical\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance, Dead Man&#8217;s Wire, Theatrical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-alias=\"gutenberg-content__content\">\n<p>This week\u2019s episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/screen-talk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_screen-talk\" data-tag=\"screen-talk\">Screen Talk<\/a> welcomes two guests to help us make sense of the current scrambled theatrical universe: Megan Colligan and Steve Garrett, the president and head of acquisitions\/distribution, respectively, behind Row K Entertainment. (That name? It comes from what\u2019s understood by filmmakers as the best row in a movie house.)<\/p>\n<p>The rising distributor launched in August 2025 ahead of the Venice <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/film\/\" id=\"auto-tag_film\" data-tag=\"film\">Film<\/a> Festival, where it acquired <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/features\/interviews\/gus-van-sant-on-dead-mans-wire-interview-1235148536\/\">Gus Van Sant<\/a>\u2018s 1970s-set hostage thriller \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/criticism\/movies\/dead-mans-wire-review-gus-van-sant-1235148582\/\">Dead Man\u2019s Wire<\/a>\u201d and since has announced acquistions of films by Maude Apatow (\u201cPoetic License\u201d), Jaume Collet-Serra (a \u201cCliffhanger\u201d remake), and Tom Dean and Mac Eldridge (TIFF breakout \u201cCharlie Harper\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"pmc-polymarket\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" title=\"pmc-polymarket\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.polymarket.com\/market.html?market=will-one-battle-after-another-win-best-motion-picture-musical-or-comedy-at-the-83rd-golden-globes-986&amp;features=volume&amp;theme=light&amp;width=Infinity&amp;features=volume&amp;theme=light&amp;height=170pxl\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 170px;margin-top: 15px !important; border: 0px;&#10;&#9;padding: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We have known Megan for years as a marketing executive at Searchlight, Paramount Pictures, and IMAX. Garrett previously served as an SVP of distribution at IMAX after years at Paramount Pictures and as head of sales for the former Paramount Vantage.<\/p>\n<p>On the episode, they discuss why they chose Gus Van Sant\u2019s latest film as their flagship title, what opportunities they see for indie narrative movies, their commitment to theatrical-first releases, and what their plans are for the Sundance Film Festival. As we know, the acquisition markets at festivals have dwindled, making way for festivals to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/news\/analysis\/independent-film-new-reality-10-inflection-points-2026-1235170195\/\">return to their original function<\/a>: network- and relationship-building. Colligan and Garrett\u2019s hopeful views, as you\u2019ll hear in the podcast, are refreshing relative to the disruption and chaos wrought upon the industry in the past year. Even the past month.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the episode, Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio count down the 15 new movies they\u2019re most excited for in 2026; our criteria, for the most part, were films with guaranteed release, i.e., distribution and a date. We also look back at the week in the awards season, from the Critics Choice Awards to the New York Film Critics Circle gala.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Listen to this week\u2019s podcast episode below or via your favorite podcast platform.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"pmc-protected-embed-2\" class=\"pmc-protected-embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=PMC4235835148\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.indiewire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s episode of Screen Talk welcomes two guests to help us make sense of the current scrambled theatrical universe: Megan Colligan and Steve Garrett, the president and head of acquisitions\/distribution, respectively, behind Row K Entertainment. (That name? It comes from what\u2019s understood by filmmakers as the best row in a movie house.) 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