All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1165
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Intrepid's Cold Light Of Day gets AFM launch from Essential
Essential Entertainment has boarded international rights to the thriller Cold Light Of Day from Intrepid Pictures, riding high following the success of the Rogue Pictures summer release The Strangers.Jere Hausfater will commence pre-sales at AFM next week on the story of a young man thrown into an international conspiracy when ...
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Adrien Brody cast as The Courier for Arclight Films
Gary Hamilton's ambitious Arclight Films has announced Adrien Brody as the lead in thriller The Courier based on a script by red hot writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas.Arclight sales chief Pascal Borno will commence worldwide sales at AFM next week on the story of a daredevil carrier who is ...
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Universal teams with Top Up TV for UK VOD service TVBox
Universal Pictures and Top Up TV have launched the UK VOD service TVBox offering current and library TV shows from the NBC Universal stable.The service will run within Top Up TV's Anytime package of services and marks the first brand extension of NBC Universal's PictureBox VOD service for features.The TVBox ...
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Kristin Scott Thomas to be feted at Santa Barbara festival
Kristin Scott Thomas will receive the 24th Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Cinema Vanguard Award on January 27, 2009.Scott-Thomas stars in Philippe Claudel's French drama I've Loved You So Long and currently appears on Broadway in Chekhov's The Seagull.'A masterful performance by a British actress in a French film and ...
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Goldcrest Independent picks up international on Portugal's Amalia
Goldcrest Independent has acquired international rights to VC Filmes' Amalia, a biopic about the celebrated Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues that it claims is the largest Portuguese production to date.Senior vice president of sales Pierre Weisbein will introduce the film at AFM next week. Carlos Coelho Da Silva directed from a ...
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Bela Tarr to start The Turin Horse next month with Werc Werk Works
Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Kunewa Walker's fledgling US production and finance company Werc Werk Works is putting together the international drama The Turin Horse that Hungarian film-maker Bela Tarr will direct.Werc Werk Works is collaborating with Hungary's T T Filmmuhely, France's Movie Partners In Motion FILM, Swiss producer Vega Film ...
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34 films from 24 EU countries to screen at AFI's European Showcase
AFI has unveiled the complete line-up for the 2008 edition of its AFI European Union Film Showcase, to run at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, from November 6-25.Thirty-four films from 24 EU countries, including 11 official foreign language Oscar submissions, will screen. The films are: Eldorado from ...
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High School 3 beats off Saw V in blockbusting US box office weekend
Hollywood served a timely reminder that film-going appears to be recession-proof as two mighty brands powered the box office to its biggest weekend of the last ten weeks.The top 12 films climbed 40% against the same period last weekend after grossing approximately $120m and were led by Disney Channel's phenomenally ...
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High School Musical dances to 22-country $40m opening
High School Musical 3: Senior Year finished top of the class overseas thanks to an estimated $40m haul from 3,100 screens in 22 countries through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International that set a new opening weekend record for an international launch in October.Dominant in North America as well with ...
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J Andrew Greenblatt and Eric Bresler join Philadelphia Film Society
J Andrew Greenblatt has been appointed executive director and Eric Bresler has been named managing director of the Philadelphia Film Society, which presents the Philadelphia Film Festival and the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.Greenblatt is the managing partner in OG Consulting and president of Film 101 Productions and ...
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Arclight picks up rights to The Red Baron
Arclight Films has acquired worldwide rights excluding German-speaking Europe and the Czech Republic ahead of AFM to the $23.3m (Eu18m) German aerial action title The Red Baron. Matthias Schweighofer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey and Joseph Fiennes star in the Niama Film tale of the legendary first world war German ...
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High School Musical ready to rock international marketplace
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI) will seek to mobilise the tweens this weekend as Disney Channel's smash High School Musical brand makes its first foray into theatres in the form of High School Musical 3: Senior Year.Zac Efron and his posse of all-singing, all-dancing friends step into more ...
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Summit picks up rights to romcom Kicked, Bitten And Scratched
Summit Entertainment has acquired feature rights to the romantic comedy Kicked, Bitten And Scratched, based on Amy Sutherland's books Kicked Bitten And Scratched: Life And Lessons At The World's Premier School For Exotic Animal Trainers and What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love And Marriage.Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky are ...
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New York Women In Film & Television honours Linney and Sedgwick
Laura Linney and Kyra Sedgwick will be among the honourees at the New York Women In Film & Television's (NYWIFT) 28th annual Muse Awards on December 9.Linney earned an Academy Award nomination this year for The Savages and won an Emmy for the HBO miniseries John Adams. She has wrapped ...
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Paramount pulls AFI opening night screening of The Soloist
Paramount has pulled world premiere of The Soloist from AFI Fest opening night, due to new 2009 release date for potential awards vehicle. Paramount has pulled its world premiere AFI Fest 2008 opening night screening of The Soloist that was due to screen next week, October 30, citing the new ...
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Joe Dante ready to enter the 3D Hole
Joe Dante will commence shooting the 3D supernatural thriller The Hole starring Teri Polo, Chris Massoglia and Haley Bennett for Bold Films and Benderspink in Vancouver on December 2. Bold Films International will commence pre-sales at AFM next month on the story of two brothers and their neighbour who ...
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I've Loved You So Long opens AFI EU film showcase
Philippe Claudel's drama I've Loved You So Long featuring an acclaimed turn by Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman blighted by a terrible secret will open the The 2008 AFI European Union Film Showcase in Washington DC on November 6. For the first time, the AFI EU Showcase will ...
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Scott Nemes takes production role at Film Department
The Film Department has appointed former Adelstein Productions film chief Scott Nemes as vice president of production and development. Nemes, who reports directly to The Film Department's president of production Robert Katz, previously set up projects at Adelstein with a range of studios and financiers. He also served ...
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Mike Gabrawy named head of production for ambitious Arclight
Constantin Film production executive Mike Gabrawy has been named head of production for Arclight Films as the company steps up its slate. Gabrawy will be based in Los Angeles and oversee development and production of the company's slate of eight-to-10 productions per year and co-ordinate Arclight's international productions in ...
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Lightning Entertainment picks up crime thrillerLa Linea
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights to the crime thrillerLa Linea starring Andy Garcia and Ray Liotta.Lightning Entertainment co-president Richard Guardian will commencesales at AFM next month on the story of a veteran assassin on thetrail of a Mexican cartel leader. Endeavor holds North ...