All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1198
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Rothstein, Kier step up to run TWC International as Basner departs
Harvey Weinstein has promoted Michael Rothstein and Jonathan Kier to fill the slot vacated by The Weinstein Company International chief Glen Basner, who as widely predicted has departed the company following a three-year tenure.Rothstein has worked with the Weinsteins for more than a decade and becomes executive vice president of ...
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Scott Parish promoted to COO at Alcon Entertainment
Scott Parish has been promoted to COO at Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment.Parish joined Alcon Entertainment in 2000 as vice president of finance and was promoted to CFO in 2004. He will retain the title of CFO and oversee all finance and operations duties for the company.The former New Regency vice ...
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Pam Postrel named svp of creative services at Universal Pictures
Pam Postrel has joined Universal Pictures as senior vice president of creative services, returning to the studio following a six-year stint as vice president and creative director of animation at Craig Murray Productions.In her new position Postrel will oversee all in-house creative audio-visual projects assigned by marketing executives within Universal's ...
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Paramount relaunches made-for-home-entertainment division
Paramount Pictures is relaunching its made-for-home entertainment production division under the banner Paramount Famous Productions (PFP).Since the division's launch in 2007, president Louis Feola has overseen operations and preparing the division for 2010, when it plans to release five or six titles based on a mix of sequels, prequels and ...
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Steve Friedlander named evp of theatrical distribution at CBS Films
CBS Films took a big step forward with its domestic distribution plans today [Aug 20] as it announced that Steven Friedlander has been named executive vice president of theatrical distribution.Friedlander arrives from the defunct Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) and will oversee the domestic theatrical distribution for the studio's films and ...
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AMPAS to preserve archives from UA/MGM library
MGM will present the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library with the UA photo archives including original still photography, publicity materials and paper documents relating to MGM and UA releases called the MGM/United Artists Collection.The Academy will review, restore, catalogue and exhibit the collection as part ...
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Gotham Award Tribute planned for Penelope Cruz
Penelope Cruz will receive a Gotham Award Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards in New York on Dec 2.Cruz currently stars in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, released in North American through The Weinstein Company, and Isabel Coixet's Elegy, which is being handled by Samuel Goldwyn Films.The Spanish actress ...
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Soundtrack nominees include Golden Compass, Kite Runner
Organisers at the World Soundtrack Awards announced the nominees in the three major categories of film composer of the year, best original score and best original song.Composer of the year nominees are: Alexandre Desplat for The Golden Compass; James Newton Howard (Charlie Wilson's War, Michael Clayton and I Am Legend); ...
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Jackson, Walsh & Boyens to work with Del Toro on Hobbit scripts
New Line has signed deals with Peter Jackson and his Lord Of The Rings screenwriting team Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to collaborate with Guillermo del Toro on the screenplay adaptations of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and its sequel.Del Toro will shoot simultaneously. Principal photography has been tentatively set for ...
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Watchmen rights spur legal debate between Warner/PPI and Fox
The fate of Warner Bros/Paramount Pictures International's scheduled spring 2009 release of Watchmen hangs in the balance after it emerged yesterday that Twentieth Century Fox may still hold distribution rights to the graphic novel adaptation.On Friday a US federal judge threw out a motion by Warner Bros to dismiss a ...
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Virtual studio Indiepix invests in first five documentaries
IndiePix Studios, the virtual studio and IndiePix production arm that launched in June, has unveiled the five films on its inaugural slate.IndiePix has invested more than $700,000 in the projects and will serve as executive producers on every title. IndiePix Studios chief Ryan Harrington said he planned to release the ...
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Virtual studio Indiepix invests in first five productions
IndiePix Studios, the virtual studio and IndiePix production arm that launched in June, has unveiled the five films on its inaugural slate.IndiePix has invested more than $700,000 in the projects and will serve as executive producers on every title. IndiePix Studios chief Ryan Harrington said he planned to release the ...
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Rena Ronson wins WIF Business Leadership Award
William Morris Independent co-head and William Morris Agency senior vice president Rena Ronson will receive Women In Film's (WIF) Business Leadership Award later this year.Ronson will receive the honour along with Lifetime Television Network consultant Susanne Daniels at the Business in Leadership Awards on November 1 in Century City.The second ...
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Former THINKFilm executive launches Variance Films
Former THINKFilm director of distribution and marketing Dylan Marchetti has launched Variance Films and will kick off with the domestic releases of Walking On Dead Fish and Smother.Variance will target small films that typically struggle to get into theatres in an increasingly overcrowded market place and Marchetti plans to be ...
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Tropic Thunder wins at domestic box office with $26m weekend
DreamWorks-Paramount's Tropic Thunder 'got some' at the weekend, to paraphrase the marketing slogan deployed on posters across the US, as the action comedy outgunned The Dark Knight to open top on an estimated $26m over three days.The story of a catastrophic film shoot in the South-East Asian jungle launched on ...
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The Dark Knight reconquers international with $42.4m weekend
The Dark Knight wrestled the overseas crown from The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor as it soared past $300m thanks to an estimated $42.4m weekend haul that raised the tally to $328.6m.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) chiefs said the Batman epicwas active on more than 7,700 screens in 60 ...
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Alcon acquires film rights to graphic novel Cryptozoo Crew
Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment has acquired rights to Jerry Carr and Allan Gross' graphic novel Cryptozoo Crew and the script adaptation from Joe Gazzam.Cryptozoo centres on a member of a secret organisation charged with protecting the identity of rare animals classified as cryptids who teams up with a beautiful doctor ...
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Davis, Harris, Fox attached to star in The Cellar
London and Los Angeles-based Cool Hand International has optioned the psychological horror script The Cellar from writer-director John Gary and has attached Lucy Davis, Jared Harris and Emilia Fox to star.Brian Cox is also confirmed for a cameo role in the tale of a group of wedding guests who get ...
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Danny Huston, Novakovic, Roberts join Edge Of Darkness
Danny Huston, newcomer Bojana Novakovic and Shawn Roberts have joined Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro in GK Films' thriller Edge Of Darkness, which is due to begin filming in Massachusetts later this month.Based on the BBC mini-series of the same name, Edge Of Darkness will be directed by Martin ...
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars launches in 22 international territories to chase Knight, Mummy
The Dark Knight will soar past $300m this weekend as it bids to reclaim the overseas crown from The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor - however the force may be with an entirely new release. Warner Bros Pictures International's crime epic The Dark Knight stands at $285.9m and ...