All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1169
-
News
Clint Eastwood named director of the year at Hollywood Awards
Clint Eastwood will receive the Hollywood Director Of The Year Award at the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards Gala on October 27 in Beverly Hills.'Just when you think Clint Eastwood is about to take a breath, he shoots two films in a year and starts prepping a third ...
-
News
Pierre Morel to direct action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity
District B13's Pierre Morel is in talks to direct the action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity Media, who acquired the screenplay from producer Arne Schmidt based on the novel Firing Point by Don Keith and George Wallace.Kavanaugh will produce with Original Film's Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe. Relativity's Tucker Tooley will ...
-
News
Deepa Mehta to be honoured by LA's Loyola Marymount SFTV
Loyola Marymount University's School Of Film And Television (SFTV) will honour Deepa Mehta with the 2008 Infinite Power Of Story Lifetime Achievement Award.Mehta will receive the award during the univesity's Film Outside The Frame Festival on October 13 at the DGA in Los Angeles.. She will also be the first ...
-
News
David J Anderman named general counsel for Lucasfilm
David J. Anderman has been named general counsel for Lucasfilm Ltd and will now oversee all business affairs and legal issues for the privately held company.Anderman has been a key member of Lucasfilm's legal team since he joined the company in 1998 as associate director of business affairs. He was ...
-
News
Global Film Initiative has Getting Home, Mutum in 2009 series
The Global Film Initiative has announced its Global Lens 2009 series of touring films, a typically cosmopolitan selection that features entries from as far afield as Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Macedonia and Mozambique.The series includes three North American premieres for Nan Triveni Achnas' Indonesian drama about a struggling prostitute The Photograph, Teresa ...
-
News
Heaven On Earth to open eighth MIAAC Film Festival in New York
Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth will open the eighth Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival in New York on November 5 while Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is the centerpiece screening and Sooni Taraporevala's Little Zizou will close the event on November 9.Heaven On Earth references Indian mythology and magical ...
-
News
Paramount signs to handle worldwide on next five Marvel films
Buoyed by the $574m global success of the sumer tentpole Iron Man, Paramount Pictures has signed a deal to handle worldwide distribution on the next five films from Marvel Studios.The deal extends the original agreement between Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey and Marvel and covers territories previously served by ...
-
News
Rudin & Weinstein announce that The Reader will be released in 2008
Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin appear to have buried their differences over Stephen Daldry's Oscar contender The Reader starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet as The Weinstein Company announced it will release the film in North America on December 12.The move ends debate over whether the drama would get a ...
-
News
Hollywood mourns passing of screen legend Paul Newman
Tributes have poured in all weekend for Paul Newman, who died at his farmhouse home near Westport, Connecticut, on Friday [September 26] following a long fight against cancer. He was 83.'There is a point where feelings go beyond words,' Robert Redford, a longtime friend who famously starred alongside Newman in ...
-
News
Eagle Eye lifts Sept box office in North America with $29.2m opening
The paranoia thriller Eagle Eye starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan stormed to the top of the charts over the weekend, grossing an estimated $29.2m and helping overall box office climb 12.3% against the same weekend last year.Overall ticket sales amounted to $102m compared to $90.8m in the same weekend ...
-
News
DiLorenzo named evp of strategy and business development at FFE
Marc DiLorenzo has been named executive vice president of strategy and business development for Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE).DiLorenzo will take an active role in extending the brand of FFE properties into digital and other revenue channels both inside and outside the studio. He will also oversee deal analyses for all ...
-
News
UPI celebrates as Mamma Mia! stays top and passes $350m
Mamma Mia! swept past $350m as yet another dominant display saw Universal's musical adaptation exceed last weekend's gross by 1% and take an estimated $15.3m from 4,562 sites in 48 territories through UPI to raise the international running total to $356.4m.Combined with the $142.2m domestic gross the worldwide figure stands ...
-
News
PPI's Eagle Eye to challenge Mamma Mia! in international
Can Mamma Mia! keep the momentum going and stay atop the international charts for another weekend' Universal's musical arrives in three new markets including Russia on September 25 and currently stands at $340.2m through UPI.The biggest competition for Mamma Mia! will come from DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Eagle Eye when it launches ...
-
News
Roger Corman among new officers elected to IFTA board
The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) has announced the results of its board of directors election in which four industry leaders will join the global trade organisation's executive committee.Elected to two-year terms on the IFTA executive committee are: Roger Corman, vice chairperson (New Horizons Picture Corporation); Elisabeth Costa De ...
-
News
Wrestler, Good get gala screenings at Chicago Film Festival
Darren Aronofsky's Venice Golden Lion winner The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen as a gala presentation and Vicente Amorim's Good will close the 44th Chicago International Film Festival, which runs from October 16-29.Slumdog Millionaire gets a gala screening slot alongside the world premiere of Jada Pinkett Smith's The Human ...
-
News
Hypernia, Brave New Films team for online distribution of Moore film
Hypernia Hosting Corp has signed up as global online partner to distributor Brave New Films headed by activist and film-maker Robert Greenwald in the distribution of Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising.Earlier this week Brave New Films launched a free download of the Oscar-winning film-maker's latest feature, which it claims is the ...
-
News
Plum options feature rights to Harlan Coben's The Innocent
Plum Pictures has acquired feature rights to Harlan Coben's bestselling thriller The Innocent.Coben wrote Tell No One which Guillaume Canet adapted into the acclaimed thriller and went on to gross more than $27m in France and $5m in the US and earned four Cesar Awards including best director.The Innocent follows ...
-
News
Australians In Film launches Heath Ledger Scholarship
Los Angeles-based Australians In Film (AiF) has launched the Australians In Film Heath Ledger Scholarship.The scholarship will be awarded to an emerging Australian actor for up to US $10,000 plus a return airfare from Australia to pursue their career in the US. Applications will be accepted from October 1-November 28 ...
-
News
Robert Fisher promoted to evp at Warner Bros Pictures
Robert A Fisher has been promoted from senior vice president of financial investments at Warner Bros Pictures to executive vice president.Fisher held the post of senior vice president since 1994 and will continue to spearhead the studio's film financing activities and work with government agencies on policies that promote film ...
-
News
Regent continues Fortissimo ties with domestic deal for $9.99
Regent Releasing has picked up North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Tatia Rosenthal's comedy $9.99 following its world premiere at Toronto.Regent plans a limited spring 2009 release on the film, which uses stop-motion animation to portray the existence of apartment residents in Sydney searching for the meaning of life.The ...