Mickey Liddell Launches Indie Distribution Company With Vital Classics Co-Founder David Dinerstein At Helm

BREAKING: After making pricey festival purchases recently including Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Biutiful after which finding marketers to place them out, Mickey Liddell has released their own distribution operation headed by David Dinerstein to produce films like his Toronto acquisition Killer Joe, directed by William Friedkin. Here’s the announcement: HOLLYWOOD, CA, December 12, 2011 Liddell Entertainment, the innovative production and distribution financier is starting a brand new theatrical distribution entity, LD Distribution, and named indie veteran David Dinerstein as mind from the new company. The companys initial slate includes: William Friedkins significantly acclaimed Killer Joe starring Matthew McConaughey the lately wrapped production, Disconnect, starring Jason Bateman and Alexander Skarsgard in the Oscar nominated director Henry-Alex Rubin and also the horror film, The Gathering, from Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, the authors of Saw lV, V and Vl that is presently in publish-production. The organization intends to release four to six films in the initial year. LD Distribution will positively acquire films and supply distribution for Liddell Entertainments growing production slate. Liddell Entertainment is striving to create 4 to 6 movies annually with budgets as high as $25 million. We're thrilled to create David Dinerstein aboard to operate our new distribution operation. He is among the leading independent entrepreneurs within our business and that we are confident that he's the best person to guide the charge with this remarkable slate of films, stated Mickey Liddell. LD Distribution intends to take a cutting-edge and forward thinking method of the marketing and distribution in our films. Mickey and that i anticipate creating a effective company on an innovative and economic level, stated David Dinerstein. With this degree of production, coupled with our current acquisition and financing activities, full-fledged theatrical distribution becomes the apparent next thing, states Chad Reineke, Liddells mind of economic matters. Dinerstein will even help manage the approaching releases of Liddell productions and purchases by current distribution partners, such as the Gray starring Liam Neeson and directed by Joe Carnahan that is being written by Open Road Academy contender, Albert Nobbs starring Glenn Close and Jesse McTeer, with Kerbside Points of interest and Quiet House starring Elizabeth Olsen, also with Open Road. In the last couple of years, Liddell Entertainment acquired or created several films such as the Academy Award nominated Biutiful, starring Javier Bardem and directed by Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu I Really Like You Phillip Morris starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor Good Hair starring Chris Rock approaching release The Particulars starring Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney and Ray Liotta (The Weinstein Company acquired at Sundance 2011) along with the genre movies, The Haunting Of Molly Hartley and also the Collector. Before opening Liddell Entertainment in 2006, Mickey Liddell created Go, Damaged Hearts Club, Lying in the usa and tv shows Everwood and Jack and Bobby. David Dinerstein joins as Leader of LD Distribution and brings a lot more than two-and-a-half decades of promoting, distribution and purchases experience to the organization. Dinerstein comes with an esteemed history and it has built and handled several independent companies using their beginning. He's labored with plenty of filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Justin Lin, Sofia Coppola, Baz Luhrmann, Jane Campion and Kevin Cruz. His films have received over 72 Academy Award Nominations and 15 Oscars. Most lately Dinerstein was Leader of D Squared Films. Formerly he was Leader of Lakeshore Entertainment, and Leader and co-founding father of Vital Classics. He was among the original designers of Fox Searchlight as Senior V . P . of promoting and was mind of promoting at Miramax Films. Just before Lakeshore, Dinerstein co-founded and offered as co-Leader of Vital Classics where he acquired, created and distributed 50 plus films such as the Academy Award champion, Hustle & Flow starring Terrence Howard, and also the award-winning Mad Hot Ballroom, among the greatest grossing documentaries ever. While at the organization younger crowd produced and oversaw campaigns for that Virgin Suicides, You Are Able To Rely On Me, which received two Oscar nominations, and also the Golden Globe nominated epic, Sunshine. At Fox Searchlight, film campaigns Dinerstein oversaw include: The Siblings McMullen, the champion from the 1995 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and probably the most lucrative films of 1995 Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty Al Pacino’s Searching For Richard Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm and Peter Cattaneo’s The Entire Monty, among the greatest independent films of 1997. The Entire Monty made over $45 million locally and $240 million worldwide. It had been nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture. Previous films Dinerstein handled the marketing for include: the highly acclaimed and award-winning Pulp Fiction, The Illusionist, The Entire Monty, Hustle & Flow, The Piano, The Ice Storm, Red-colored Condition, The Virgin Suicides, You Are Able To Rely On Me, Cinema Paradiso, Like Water For Chocolate, Mad Hot Ballroom, Reservoir Dogs, and Clerks.