Three years after Palme d’Or-winning Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami passed away at the age of 76, Janus Films is rolling out a wide-ranging and lovingly designed touring retrospective of ...

Indian Paintbrush founder Steven Rales has purchased Criterion and Janus Films. The mission and leadership of the companies will not change following the private transaction. Screen Daily was ...

William Becker, who with a partner acquired Janus Films in 1965, expanded its catalog of arthouse and Hollywood classics and broadened the distribution of that catalog to audiences at universities ...

Janus Films, founded in 1956, boasts a library of over 1,200 films including works from some of cinema’s greatest masters—among them Agnès Varda, Michelangelo Antonioni, ...

Janus Films has acquired all North American rights to writer/director Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,” which won the Prix Spécial Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

“FIFTY Years of Janus Films,” holding court weekends at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is more than just a celebration of the eclectic distribution company -- it’s akin to a film ...

Janus Films has picked up the North American rights to Sergei Loznitsa's Cannes competition drama Two Prosecutors. The Ukrainian director's Soviet-era thriller set during Stalin's Great Purge in 1937 ...

Merchant Ivory says it entered into a ten-year license agreement with Janus Films in 1999. The license was purportedly extended on all but four of the company’s 25 films until the end of 2010, ...

Sideshow and Janus Films are eying a fall theatrical release for the movie. SBS is handling international sales for the film, with a deal negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with WME Independent.

Since 1984, Criterion has issued a continuing series of important films in editions boasting both high technical quality and award-winning accompanying supplements. They pioneered the letterboxing ...

EXCLUSIVE: Janus Films has acquired North American rights to the documentary Faya Dayi, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jessica Beshir. Janus is planning a theatrical release later in ...