All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1157
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Empire takes North America on Thru The Moebius Strip
Empire Film Group has acquired North American rights from Fantastic Films International to the $16m CGI adventure Thru The Moebius Strip.
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Babelgum takes on Downstream and TheLinguists
Online content platform Babelgum has acquired internet and mobile rights to Leslie Iwerks’ big oil documentary Downstream and to language documentary The Linguists directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger.Downstream follows a doctor’s fight for the rights or aboriginalpeople in Alberta, Canada, whose lives are being jeopardised ...
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NewsInternational revenues now account for 65% of studios' box office pie
Global box office in 2008 surged 5.2% on 2007 from $26.7bn to a new high-water mark of $28.1bn, according to figures released by the Motion Picture Association of America, while international revenues climbed 7% to $18.3bn and accounted for 65% of the worldwide total.The statistics were part of a salvo ...
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Five US studios sign with Scrabble for digital screens in India
Indian company Scrabble Entertainment has signed a deal with five of the six US majors to deploy digital screens in India.
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IFC to handle US on Pattinson comedy How To Be via VOD platform
IFC’s VOD platform IFC Festival Direct will releaseUK comedyHow To BefeaturingTwilightstar Robert Pattinsonon April 29.
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Elberg, Canty launch online distributions services company
Former CinemaNow executives Bill Elberg and Jessica Canty have launched VLADICast to offer a portfolio of online distribution services.Among the new company's services is GoScreening Public, which allowsany company or film-maker to build and maintain a branded VOD huband/or an ad-supported video sharing site that enables film-makers toshowcase work to ...
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Fakir Of Venice to premiere at Indian Film Festival of LA
The World Premiere of Anand Surapur’s conmen drama The Fakir Of Venice and Megan Doneman’sYes Madam, Sir bookend the seventh Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, which runs April 21-26.
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Coproduction Office, Katapult Film Sales merge sales business
France-based The Coproduction Office and US-based Katapult Film Sales have merged their sales business and will operate together for the first time at MIPTV.Both entities will keep their catalogues and acquisitions separate andcontinue to nurture their respective profiles and brands. Coproduction’s strength is world cinema while Katapult focuses on English-language ...
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Katzenberg tells ShoWest: '3D is great and it's here'
As expected the slow roll-out of 3D across North America and the world dominated the agenda of the opening day of ShoWest as delegates looked ahead to a gradual easing of the credit crunch and DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg flew into town to deliver a triumphant rallying cry to ...
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Nuclear Mango and Eros to bring Indian legends to life
Govind Menon and William Keenan's Indian-US production consultancy Nuclear Mango is lining up a slate of features with Eros Entertainment based on mythological Indian creatures.The partners are jointly developing the initial roster and are talking to writers about character concepts. Eros will handle worldwide distribution on the slate.Menon said: 'It ...
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Lionsgate faces second round of job cuts
Lionsgate is believed to be slashing 8% of its workforce in a second round of redundancies after the Santa Monica-based studio cut 41 jobs last November. The studio did not return calls about the latest cull, which is understood will reduce the headcount by 45 to approximately 500 people.Studio sources ...
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Screen Actors Guild appoints new director of communications
Damon Romine has been appointed as director of communications at the beleaguered Screen Actors Guild. He will start work on April 1.He arrives at a difficult time for the Guild, which is locked in a stalemate with the studios over contract talks. The talks have focus on a number of ...
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Knowing takes international crownwith $9.8m from 10 markets
Summit International's sci-fi thriller Knowing finished the weekend as the biggest overseas Hollywood release in play as it launched in nine markets and grossed an estimated $9.8m including previews from 1,711 sites in ten markets. The film opened at number one in the UK on $3.6m from 390 sites including ...
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Monsters Vs Aliens scares up year's biggest domestic opener at $58.2m
DreamWorks Animation's 3D family release Monsters Vs Aliens stormed to the top of the North American charts through Paramount in a $58.2m three-day debut that marked the biggest launch of the year to date and delivered a ringing endorsement for the nascent digital 3D movement. The opening was in line ...
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Sundance and Skoll announce Stories of Change recipients
The Sundance Institute and Skoll Foundation have announced the final five grant recipients of the Stories Of Change: Social Entrepreneurship In Focus Through Documentary initiative.The initiative is a three-year partnership to create a total of ten documentaries highlighting social entrepreneurship as a way of meeting the challenges of contemporary times.The ...
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ShoWest Triumph Award for directing to go to Kathryn Bigelow
Hollywood's top female action director Kathryn Bigelow will receive the ShoWest Triumph Award For Outstanding Direction in Las Vegas on April 2.Bigelow's latest film The Hurt Locker, an Iraq-set thriller about abomb disposal unit that stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and BrianGeraghty, will open through Summit Entertainment on June 26.Her ...
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What willcinema-going look like in 10 years'
For an industry that finds itself in such flux, it is difficult to predict what Hollywood will be like in a year's time, let alone a decade. Yet it seems reasonable to ask what form the landscape may take in a decade. In fact, given the pace of change and ...
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Paramount and Abrams' Bad Robot extend deal til 2013
Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Productions have extended their first-look deal through 2013 ahead of the summer release of Abrams' Star Trek.The partners first collaborated on Cloverfield, which scored thebiggest January opening weekend in history when it took $40.1m overthree days. They are scheduled to begin production in ...
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Gran Torino poised to cross $70m internationally with Mexico launch
Gran Torino should march on towards the $70m mark this weekend through strong holdover business and a debut in Mexico on March 27 through Warner Bros Pictures International.Clint Eastwood's drama has reached $63.9m to date and crossed $210mworldwide and its prospects are looking formidable with roughlytwo-thirds of international markets yet ...
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IFC takes US rights to Unmade Beds from Protagonist
IFC Films has taken US rights from Protagonist Pictures to the romance Unmade Beds from Argentinean director Alexis Dos Santos and plans to release later this year via IFC In Theaters or IFC Festival Direct.Dos Santos wrote the screenplay about two ex-pats living in EastLondon who embark on journeys of ...