All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1006
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NewsDisney seeks to build on Tangled rollout
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International top brass will be looking for another strong weekend as rival The Green Hornet hits key territories.
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Krumm, Josephson line up Wikileaks founder project
Harvey Weinstein’s former top buyer Michelle Krumm is bringing the story of the controversial Julian Assange to the big screen in partnership with Barry Josephson.
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Exclusive Films International taps acquisition fund, promotes Brunner
Exclusive Films International (EFI) has launched a film pick-up fund and has also announced that longtime executive Alex Brunner has become EFI’s new co-president.
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Relativity flies for Intrepid's The Raven
Relativity Media has acquired US rights to Intrepid Pictures’ The Raven starring John Cusack.
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SPWA takes US and Canada on Spurlock Sundance doc
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) made the announcement today [20] over US and Canadian rights to The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, which is set to premiere in Sundance this weekend [22].
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Visit Films to handle foreign sales on Sundance premiere Jess + Moss
Visit Films has acquired international sales and festival rights to Clay Jeter’s directorial debut Jess + Moss ahead of its world premiere in Sundance on Sunday [23].
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Joe Matukewicz resurfaces as head buyer at Relativity Media
Relativity Media has found its top acquisitions person as the company announced the arrival of the former Paramount buyer.
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Hathaway to play Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises
Anne Hathaway, currently starring opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Love And Other Drugs, will play the villain Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Dark Knight Rises.
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MoMA / Lincoln Center unveils first six in New Directors / New Films
The Museum Of Modern Art and the Film Society Of Lincoln Center announced today six official selections for the 2011 New Directors/New Films Film Festival.
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NewsBAFTA /LA re-elects Lythgoe as chairman
BAFTA / LA has re-elected Nigel Lythgoe as chairman and announced its board of directors for the new year which includes an expanded executive committee now with a fifth member.
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Zou, Grinder join DDA as company expands domestic reach
Alice Zou and Alyssa Grinder have joined DDA Public Relations’ domestic publicity division in Los Angeles.
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Bruckman wins FIND Sloan Producers Grant for Valley Of Saints
FIND has awarded Nicholas Bruckman its fourth annual Sloan Producers Grant for his feature film project ValleyOf Saints.
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Alliance, Rhombus Media sign first-look deal
The arrangement follows previous collaborations on such films as Sundance world premiere Hobo With A Shotgun, The Red Violin, Blindness and Passchendale.
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International Film Circuit acquires North American rights to Into Eternity
International Film Circuit has acquired US and Canadian theatrical rights to the nuclear storage documentary IntoEternity.
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Goldwyn takes US rights to Roland Joffe's There Be Dragons
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to the epic adventure starring Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Derek Jacobi, Charlie Cox and Rodrigo Santoro.
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NewsIncendies, Biutiful on Oscar foreign language shortlist
The Academy has announced the nine-film shortlist selected from 66 eligible titles, although France’s Of Gods And Men, China’s Aftershock and Germany’s When We Leave are notable omissions.
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NewsFilm Collaborative, Recreation pact for We Were Here sales
The Film Collaborative’s Orly Ravid in partnership with Ariel Veneziano’s Recreation will handle international sales on David Weissman’s Sundance and Berlinale entry We Were Here.
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FeaturesTchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope, Joyce Mandell, Michael King
At the inaugural film-maker retreat at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Jeremy Kay talks to the film-making teams behind two documentaries. Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope’s who made The Desert Of Forbidden Art and Michael King and Joyce Mandell whose project is The Rescuers.
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NewsA Bigger Boat hires UK's Shankland to direct Dark Corners
British director Tom Shankland will direct horror project Dark Corners for Peter Block’s A Bigger Boat in association with GreeneStreet Films.
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Sundance Selects takes North America on Morris doc Tabloid
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Errol Morris’ documentary Tabloid following its world premiere in Toronto last autumn.