All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1144
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Marcos De Oliveira named head of MPAA's Brazil operations
Marcos De Oliveira has been named managing director of the Motion Picture Association's Brazil operations, a role that will place him front and centre of the body's government relations and anti-piracy initiatives in the territory.De Oliviera will assume his new position on February 16 and will report to Motion Picture ...
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Keri Russell joins Fraser, Ford in CBS Films' first feature
Keri Russell has signed to star opposite Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford in The Untitled Crowley Project, CBS Films' first feature that is set to go before the cameras on April 6.In the drama Russell and Fraser will play parents of children with a rare genetic disorder who hook up ...
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Friday The 13th remake sets horror opening record with $42.2m
Horror has a new champion as remake specialist Marcus Nispel's Friday The 13th (2009) scored the biggest launch weekend in the history of the genre thanks to an estimated $42.2m three-day haul, breezing past the previous mark set by The Grudge on $39.1m in October 2004.That the number one launch ...
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ShoWest to honour Sienna Miller as supporting actress of year
Sienna Miller will be anointed as ShoWest 2009's supporting actress ofthe year when the annual convention runs from March 30-April 2 in LasVegas.Miller, who will star this summer in Paramount/Spyglass' spy actionpicture G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, will accept the accolade at thefinal night banquet and awards ceremony on ...
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Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhind-Tutt are Meant To Be for Corsan
Belgian production, finance and international sales company Corsanannounced that production began this week in Puerto Rico on theromantic comedy Meant To Be.Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhindt-Tutt, Mia Maestro, Santiago Cabrera andKris Marshall star in the tale of a guardian angel who risks becominga fallen angel when he comes to earth in ...
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Paramount scares up 30+ territory opening for Friday The 13th
Paramount and New Line's horror remake Friday The 13th will be the oneto beat when it opens day-and-date with North America in more than 30territories through PPI this weekend.Highlights are expected to come from France on February 11, Germanyand Russia on February 12 and the UK, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain,Brazil ...
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Dimension networks with Sara Rue, Robert Green
Dimension Films is developing an untitled thriller based on anoriginal idea about a social networking website from actress Sara Rueand producing partner Robert Green.Rue and Green will produce and T S Faull will write the script, whichis being kept under wraps and centres on high school students and issaid to ...
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Shoreline cleans up with The Maid deals at EFM
Shoreline has closed several key territories at EFM on SebastianSilva's Chilean drama The Maid (La Nana) on the back of its grand jury prize win in Sundance's world cinema dramatic section.Rights have gone to Golem Distribucion in Spain, Bolero Films inItaly, Ost For Paradis for Denmark, Action Film for Norway, ...
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IM Global sets sales for Hill, Miller movies
IM Global has reported strong initial sales on the upcoming Mickey Rourke thriller St Vincent and is close to selling out Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee following the drama's world premiere here in Berlinon Monday night. St Vincent reunites Rourke with his Johnny Handsome director Walter Hill ...
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Disney closes longterm distribution deal with DreamWorks, Reliance
The Walt Disney Studios and Steven Spielberg, Stacey Snider and Indian giant Reliance BIG's DreamWorks 2.0 have signed their exclusive long-term distribution deal to handle distribution and marketing on approximately six live-action films a year.Disney moved in after the distribution deal announced last October between DreamWorks and Universal fell apart ...
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The Ghost scares up deals for Summit
Summit International has announced major territory sales on a high-prestige EFM slate led by deals with Pathe in France, Kinowelt in Germany and Rai/01 in Italy on Roman Polanski's thriller The Ghost starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. Eagle Pictures in Italy, which had already taken rights on Twilight follow-up ...
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Buyers get Sympathy for Kimmel
Kimmel International has reported brisk sales on Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut drama Sympathy For Delicious about a paralysed man who gains the power to heal starring Christopher Thornton, Orlando Bloom, Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich and Ruffalo. The picture is currently shooting in Los Angeles and has gone to ...
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Mother Of Christ does business for Media 8
Media 8 Entertainment has closed a slew of sales here in Berlin on its Biblical drama Mary Mother Of Christ and the biopic Dali. Mary Mother Of Christ, which stars Camilla Belle, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Peter O'Toole, has sold to Eastern Europe (SPI), Portugal (Lusomundo) Middle East (Gulf), Turkey ...
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South By Southwestmakes deal with genre specialists Fantastic Fest.
The South By Southwest Film Festival will introduce its inaugural midnight programme when the event kicks off in March following a deal with genre specialists Fantastic Fest. The full SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest At Midnight will be unveiled towards the end of February. Festival organisers also unveiled that former Picturehouse ...
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Mangold to direct thriller for Bold Films
Los Angeles-based Bold Films is developing an untitled legal thriller with James Mangold and Cathy Konrad's Treeline Films in the vein of The Verdict and All The President's Men. Mangold is attached to direct the true story of a pair of New Orleans lawyer brothers who take on Big Oil ...
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Bleiberg picks up AIDS drama Pedro
Bleiberg Entertainment has picked up international rights to BMP Films' biopic Pedro written by the Oscar nominated Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Bleiberg is talking to buyers in Berlin about Nick Oceano's story on the life of Pedro Zamora, the young AIDS campaigner who dedicated his life to raise awareness ...
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Milk, Slumdog, Bashir march onwards with WGA Award wins
Milk and Slumdog Millionaire were the big winners at the Writers Guild Of America's 2009 awards at the weekend.Dustin Lance Black took the original screenplay prize for Milk while Simon Beaufoy kept the Slumdog Millionaire bandwagon going with a win in the adapted category based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q ...
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Bleiberg Entertainment closes raft of territories on Adam Resurrected
Bleiberg Entertainment has closed a raft of further territories on the Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected, including German-speaking territories to 3L Filmverleigh and Brazil to Flashstar.Deals have closed in Israel (United King Films), Portugal (Valentim), Greece (Village Roadshow), Turkey (Horizon), Iceland (Myndform), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and ...
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Shoreline is ata forkin the road
Morris Ruskin's Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Jim Kouf's comedy A Fork In The Road. Shoreline will seek to tempt buyers in Berlin with the story of an escaped convict and a murderous farmers wife who go on the run ...
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US sellers get tough on bad buyers
A group of leading rival US sales companies are plotting a post-EFM get-together to share information about - and take steps against - the rising tide of cash-starved buyers who are not honouring contracts. Frustrated by international buyers who they say renege on deals by failing to pay balances on ...