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All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1138
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T&C Pictures Internationalpacks Black Dynamite
David Jourdan's fledgling sales agency T&C Pictures International has picked up Scott Sanders' Sundance blaxpoitation pastiche Black Dynamite, while celebrating a North American deal with Summit Entertainment on its first film comedy musical Lock And Roll Forever. Jourdan closed the Black Dynamite deal with Endeavor Independent's Graham Taylor and Mark ...
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Cast lines up for Werner Herzog andDavid Lynch horror
Oscar nominee Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny and Udo Kier have signed on to Werner Herzog and David Lynch's first collaboration, the psychological horror tale My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. Keith Kjarval's Los Angeles-based production, finance and sales company Unified Pictures is handling international sales with ...
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IM Global Acclaim seals 26 presales on Miller's Pippa Lee
As US specialty buyers prepare for the world premiere of Rebecca Miller's official selection comedy drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee on February 9, IM Global Acclaim has reported strong international sales.Icon has taken rights for the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Tri Pictures has acquired in Spain, CDI ...
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NewsBenjamin Button strides into major markets two weeks before Oscars
MGM/UA’s wartime thriller Valkyrie has been the leading Hollywood export through Fox International for the past two weekends and has raced past $40m, but without any new releases Fox Internationalwill look to strong holdover business to maintain momentum.
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Ewan McGregor, Carey Mulligan team for The Electric Slide
Myriad Pictures has come aboard to finance and handle international sales on Killer Films and Di Bonaventura Pictures' The Electric Slide with Ewan McGregor and Sundance discovery Carey Mulligan in talks to play the leads.Tristan Patterson will direct from his screenplay based on Timothy Ford's article The Yankee Bandit: The ...
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Kunath promoted to evp, general manager at Screen Gems
Screen Gems has promoted Pamela Kunath to executive vice president and general manager and charged her with overseeing all operations and administration across all areas of the studio's business.In her expanded role Kunath, who joined Screen Gems shortly after its inception in 2001, will continue to head the company's business ...
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Fichman to be key instructor at TAP in Berlin and Halifax
Canadian producer Niv Fichman (Blindness, Silk) will be on hand as the senior resource instructor at Trans Atlantic Partners International Coproduction: Focus Europe and Canada (TAP), scheduled for June and September in Berlin and Halifax.The two-part training program for Canadian and European producers is a joint initiative of Halifax's Strategic ...
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Robert Redford and TerryGilliam projects spark up at Voltage Pictures
Nicolas Chartier's high-flying Los Angeles financing and sales company Voltage Pictures arrives at EFM with its most prestigious slate to date led by new work from Robert Redford and Terry Gilliam.Chartier is in Berlin to introduce buyers to Robert Redford's romantic thriller The Company You Keep that is ready to ...
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Vantage International gets lucky with 13 sales
Paramount Vantage International has closed major sales on 13, Gela Babluani's star-studded English language remake of his 2005 French crime picture 13 Tzameti that just wrapped principal photography in and around New York.Senior vice president of international sales Alex Walton arrives at the EFM having completed sales to Icon for ...
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Sundance Channel buys packages of docs from Arthouse Films
The Sundance Channel has acquired a package of arts documentaries for broadcast from Arthouse Films' current and upcoming slate.David Koh, Lilly Bright, and Stanley Buchthal negotiated the deal on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment with Sundance Channel's senior vice president of acquisitions and programming Christian Vesper and ...
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Larry Levy to head theatrical distribution at Vivendi Entertainment
Vivendi Entertainment has hired Larry Levy as vice president and head of theatrical distribution at Vivendi Entertainment ahead of its maiden release of New York, I Love You.Levy will oversee all aspects of theatrical distribution for Vivendi Entertainment and joins from New Line, where he served as for 15 years ...
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Oscilloscope takes Stephen Kijak's Scott Walker - 30 Century Man
Oscilloscope has acquired North American rights to Stephen Kijak's music documentary Scott Walker- 30 Century Man, currently in release in US theatres. The company will take over the theatrical self-release orchestrated by the producers and expand the run. DVD, VOD and TV roll-outs will follow in the summer and autumn. ...
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Roadside Attractions takes North American rights to The September Issue
Roadside Attractions has picked up North American theatrical and home video rights to R J Cutler's Anna Wintour documentary The September Issue, a popular title at Sundance following its world premiere last month. The A&E IndieFilms production offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Vogue's iconic editor-in-chief in the run-up to the ...
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TV veteran Poul to direct CBS Films' romantic comedy Plan B
Alan Poul is in final negotiations to direct the romantic comedy Plan B, the first planned release from CBS Films that will star Jennifer Lopez.Shooting is set to begin in May with a theatrical release set for January 2010. The story follows a woman who goes through the process of ...
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Chris Pine named ShoWest Male Star Of Tomorrow
Chris Pine, who plays the young Captain Kirk in JJ Abrams' summer release Star Trek, will be the ShoWest Male Star Of Tomorrow when the Las Vegas event runs from March 30-April 2.Pine has also lined up a starring role in the viral outbreak thriller Carriers. His credits include Smokin' ...
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Melissa Anderson joins New York Film Festival selection committee
Film critic Melissa Anderson has joined The Film Society Of Lincoln Center's Richard Pena and Kent Jones and critics Scott Foundas and J Hoberman on the selection committee to choose the New York Film Festival's 2009 slate.Anderson has been a film critic in New York since 2000, when she began ...
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John Carpenter to direct The Ward for Echo Lake, A Bigger Boat
John Carpenter will direct the psychological thriller The Ward starring Amber Heard that Glen Basner's Film Nation will introduce to buyers at EFM this week.Echo Lake Productions and Peter Block's A Bigger Boat are collaborating on the story of a young woman in a mental institution who is plagued by ...
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Sony Pictures Classics acquires US rights to Whatever Works
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Woody Allen's Whatever Works, the director's first feature shot in New York since 2004's Melinda And Melinda. Ed Begley Jr stars in the romantic comedy alongside Patricia Clarkson, Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood. Sony ...
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Film Movement picks up Shane Meadows' Somers Town for US
Film Movement has taken US rights from The Works to Shane Meadows' comedy Somers Town and will release in theatres in July.Thomas Turgoose, the breakout star of Meadow's 2006 drama This Is England, and Piotr Jagiello play a pair of teenager newcomers in London who become firm friends one hot ...
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A Woman In Berlin, Skin win top prizes at Santa Barbara
Max Farberbock's second world war survival tale A Woman In Berlin was named best international film at the 24th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which came to a close at the weekend [February 1].The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema went to Poppy Shakespeare, Benjamin Ross' account of friendship ...