All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1179
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Voltage enters The Bubble Factory's Tomb
Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures has boarded international rights to The Bubble Factory and Ringleader Studios' supernatural action title The Devil's Tomb starring Cuba Gooding Jr.Jason Connery directed the story of a team of mercenaries hired by a mysterious CIA operative to rescue a scientist from an archaeological site in the ...
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Warner strikes innovative digital VOD plan in China
Warner Bros announced that it will become the first Hollywood studio to release films digitally in China in a pioneering transactional VOD initiative that also marks the latest strike in the war on piracy.Studio titles such as I Am Legend, Fool's Gold and Speed Racer will be made available to ...
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Focus announces five film-makers selected for Africa First
Focus Features announced the first five film-makers to benefit from the company's Africa First initiative announced earlier this year.The five film-makers of African nationality and residence arrived in New York last weekend to take part in workshops with the likes of Focus CEO James Schamus and production chief John Lyons.The ...
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AFM: Artist View embraces Brothers War
Artist View Entertainment has taken on international rights heading into AFM to the action thriller Brothers War from producer Tino Struckmann.Jerry Buteyn directed the story set in the closing days of the Second World War as a German and a British officer join forces to save Europe from a new ...
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Cinemavault acquires international to The Hammer
Cinemavault has acquired international rights to the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival comedy The Hammer starring Adam Carolla and will introduce to buyers at AFM.Charles Herman-Wurmfeld directed the story of a 40-year-old underachiever who works on a construction site and lands a chance to try out for the US Olympic team.Heather ...
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HS Media launches sales arm Exclusive with Peter Weir film
HS Media, the parent company of Spitfire Pictures and Hammer Films formed by Dutch investment group Cyrte Investments that was announced in Cannes, has unveiled Exclusive Film Distribution as its in-house sales and distribution arm.The London-based division led by head of sales Peter Naish will be tempting buyers at AFM ...
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Basner's back with FilmNation, deals with MRC, Samuels, Endgame
Several months after leaving his post as head of international at The Weinstein Company, Glen Basner returns to the fray with his new sales and distribution company FilmNation Entertainment and will commence pre-sales at AFM on M Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller Devil.Backed by equity investors including Steve Samuels, New York-based ...
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AFM: Williams, Bonard launch ScreenOpus with US/French backing
Fledgling international film and television sales agency ScreenOpus, a joint venture between US-based Severance Pictures and Paris-based MK2 SA, arrives at AFM with launch titles The Hide and The Golden Age.Former MGM vice president of international sales and marketing Courtney Williams and former MTV International vice president of sales and ...
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Miramax to take slew of rights on Knightley-starrer Last Night
Miramax is believed to be closing a deal for North American, UK, Australian, New Zealand, South African and Latin American including Brazilian rights to the drama Last Night starring Keira Knightley.The story follows a married couple who are separated for one night while the husband goes on a business trip ...
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Arthouse Films acquires worldwide to Herb & Dorothy
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Megumi Sasaki's documentary film Herb & Dorothy.The distributor plans a theatrical release in early 2009 followed by a DVD release on the Arthouse Films label.The film premiered at AFI SilverDocs Festival where it won the Audience Award and was recently awarded the Golden ...
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Lightning takes international on Trailer Park Of Terror
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights to the comic book adaptation Trailer Park Of Terror heading into AFM this week.The Bogner Entertainment title is based on the Imperium Comics series about a group of students and their chaperone who are stranded in the mountains and left to ...
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Imagenation Abu Dhabi strikes $250m financing deal with Hyde Park
Ambitious Middle Eastern producer Imagenation Abu Dhabi has closed a $250m financing deal with Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment to develop, produce and distribute up to 20 films over seven years.The deal will cover broad Hollywood entertainment and the parties expect to announce the first titles within the next several ...
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High School Musical 3 leads lacklustre weekend at domestic box office
High School Musical 3: Senior Year stayed top of the class for Buena Vista in its second weekend as an estimated $15m raised the running total to $61.8m.The family musical was one of the few highlights of a muted weekend that saw overall box office take $75.2m and drop approximately ...
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MSNBC takes North American TV on documentary Witch Hunt
MSNBC Films has acquired North American television rights from Submarine Entertainment to Dana Nachman and Don Hardy's documentary Witch Hunt, which gets its US premiere at AFI FEST on November 2.Witch Hunt chronicles the story of eight parents in Bakersfield, California, who were falsely accused and convicted of child molestation ...
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Hemdale's John Daly dies at 71 after long battle with cancer
The British-born producer John Daly who made 13 Oscar winning films including Platoon and The Last Emperor has died. He was 71.Daly, who was chairman of Film and Music Entertainment Inc, died on Friday morning [October 31] at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from cancer, said his daughter Jenny ...
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Bond smashes UK opening record, takes $38.6m from three markets
Sony Pictures Releasing International chiefs were toasting a weekend rich in rewards last night as the division crossed $1bn in receipts for the year-to-date and the new James Bond release Quantum Of Solace dominated the overseas chart with a whopping $38.6m estimated gross from 2,123 screens in the UK, France ...
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Slumdog, Striped Pyjamas win Audience Choice Awards at Chicago
Danny Boyle's UK-US adventure romance Slumdog Millionaire and Mark Herman's UK-US Holocaust tale The Boy In The Striped Pajamas were awarded the 44th Chicago International Film Festival's Audience Choice AwardsAudiences chose the winners after more than 170 films from more than 45 countries screened at the festival.The festival ran from ...
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Wysocki to receive 2008 Sundance screenwriting fellowship
Sundance Institute Feature Film Programme has announced that Jonathan Wysocki will receive the 2008 Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship with his project All Fall Down.Wysocki developed All Fall Down in June at Sundance Institute's 2008 Screenwriters Lab. The story takes a satirical look at the post-9/11 zeitgeist and explores the fallout ...
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Rousselet launches Vendome Pictures with $115m credit facility
Longtime French producer Philippe Rousselet has formed Vendome Pictures to develop, produce and finance roughly 15 features over the next five years in the $10-40m range.Vendome is backed by a $115m revolving credit facility funded by a consortium of banks led by CIT and RBS Greenwich Capital, a mezzanine facility ...
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Cinemavault takes on sales for Where God Left His Shoes
Toronto-based Cinemavault has picked up from Paul Allen's Vulcan Productions the drama Where God Left His Shoes starring John Leguizamo.Salvatore Stabile directed the take of a down-and-out boxer who takes his young son on a journey around New York City to look for a home on Christmas Eve.The film premiered ...