Distribution

The Weinstein Company(United States)
Lionsgate (United Kingdom)
StudioCanal Germany
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group
Mars Distribution
Vértigo Films
BIM Distribuzione


The Weinstein Company (TWC) is a multimedia production and distribution company launched in October 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films in 1979. TWC also encompasses Dimension Films, the genre label founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein. During Harvey and Bob’s tenure at Miramax and TWC, they have received 341 Oscar nominations and won 81 Academy Awards. The Weinstein Co. went  back into business with John Carney, paying an estimated $3 million for U.S. rights to the Irish filmmaker's next movie, Sing Street.
The Weinstein Co. is already distributing Carney's movie "Begin Again," which opens June 27 and stars Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine.

Harvey: 
No one captures this story more perfectly or with such honesty than director John Carney in his most recent film Sing Street. Music is the fabric of Carney’s films. First with his incredible film Once, which went on to win an Oscar for best song and became a Broadway hit winning eight Tony Awards, and then again Carney captured the spirit of New York City through film and music in Begin Again. With Sing Street he sums up the dream of a boy, his band, and the girl with warmth, humor, charm and all the awkwardness of being a teenager. Not since John Hughes has this been done so well on screen. I ran to see Pretty In Pink when it came out in the ’80s. I’m sure most people think I only watched John Ford and François Truffaut films, but John Hughes captured the ’80s generation. Molly Ringwald was that girl every boy picked up a guitar or microphone to impress. Lucy Boynton fills Molly’s shoes perfectly in Sing Street. Just as he did with Once and Begin Again, Carney creates magic and triumph — two things that we can all use in these times. Ask anybody who’s seen it, they’ll agree what a terrific movie this is.

So many musicians have fallen in love with the film, from Bono who said, “In truth, most films won’t touch Sing Street’s portrayal of awakening,” to Jay Z and Usher – all loved it. So even though my band never got a record deal, I can’t help but wish that I hung on to that guitar…but I think my mother Miriam would still give me a healthy dose of reality.

LionsGate UK
On October 17, 2005, Lionsgate acquired UK company Redbus Film Distribution for $35 million and became Lionsgate UK on February 23, 2006.


Ascot Elite Entertainment Group is a production and distribution of Swiss film company, founded in 1928 1 , based in Zurich and chaired by Erwin C. Dietrich 2 .
The production part was founded in 1952 3 , as the Elite Filmproduktion AG .
In 2005, Ascot Elite was in the first place independent distributors in Switzerland.


Vertigo Films is a UK Film and Distribution company founded in 2002 by Allan Niblo and James Richardson. The company’s mission is to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema and since inception it has produced 28 films and distributed a further 35.
The Films span a range of genres and audience taste and include the box office smash hit Streetdance 3D, the biggest independent UK DVD, smash hit family film Horrid Henry The Movie, audience favourite The Sweeney etc.
In 2013 Vertigo has eight films in production including Pudsey The Movie – a co-production with Simon Cowell’s company Syco, Walking on Sunshine – a feel good musical in partnership with IM Global and Monsters:The Dark Continent from hot new director Tom Green.



BIM Distribuzione Srl is a company distributing the film Italian based in Rome.