All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1202
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Dark Knight is now fastest film to $200m in box office history
The Dark Knight has become the fastest release in history to cross $200m after it reached the milestone in five days, smashing the previous mark of eight days set by Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in 2006.The comic book sequel stands at $203.8m and would have overtaken Batman ...
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US PGA signs cooperation agreement with Spanish Producers Group
The Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) international committee has signed a deal with the Spanish Producers Association (FAPAE) following months of talks.The semi-formal arrangement will allow PGA and FAPAE members to exchange information and ideas and seek assistance on projects.The international committee recently signed similar agreements with Jordan, Denmark, Singapore ...
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Lionsgate signs three-year first-look deal with Tyler Perry
Lionsgate has signed a three-year first-look deal with Tyler Perry, whose warm-hearted family comedies launched with Diary Of A Mad Black Woman in 2005 and fuelled one of the studio's biggest success stories in recent years.Perry will provide at least three additional films to Lionsgate following the fiscal 2009 release ...
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Netflix closes down Red Envelope Entertainment
Netflix has closed down its all-rights acquisitions venture Red Envelope Entertainment (REE) and feature production activities, citing a desire to focus on its core business of online distribution.REE's key staff of four including acquisitions and distribution chief Liesl Copland will be moving on.The division bought more than 120 films during ...
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Shine Group, New Regency team for new UK-based Shine Pictures
UK-based Shine Group and US producer-distributor New Regency have formed Shine Pictures, a UK-based company that will develop and produce broad commercial films for the global marketplace.Shine Group CEO and chairman Elisabeth Murdoch and New Regency's co-chairmen Bob Harper and Hutch Parker will head the jointly owned venture while Shine's ...
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Impact Film Festival to launch in US during political conventions
Fair trade, the national debt, stem cell research and Hurricane Katrina are among the topics covered in the upcoming Impact Film Festival, a four-day event that will take place during each of the Democratic and Republican Conventions in Denver and Minneapolis.Screenings include the world premiere of Jessica Gerstle's stem cell ...
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Oscilloscope buys domestic rights to Wendy And Lucy
New York-based Oscilloscope Pictures has picked up North American rights to Kelly Reichardt's road movie Wendy And Lucy, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Oscilloscope plans a December 10 release at Film Forum in New York City followed by a national expansion in early 2009.The film is based on ...
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Shoreline starts 3-D animated feature The Living Corpse
Sales and production company Shoreline Entertainment has commenced production in Los Angeles on its first 3-D animated feature The Living Corpse.The film is financed by Shoreline and independent investors and based on Buz Hasson and Ken Haeser's cult comic book of the same name about a zombie who embarks on ...
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Garcia, Margulies, Mortimer, Arkin journey to City Island
Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer and Alan Arkin will star in Raymond De Felitta's dysfunctional family comedy, City Island.Dominik Garcia-Lorido and Ezra Miller round out the key cast on the production, which began shooting this week in City Island, a fishing village in the Bronx where the ...
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Jenna Dewan, Luke Goss to star in Magdalena
Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, Platinum Studios and Top Cow Productions have hired Jenna Dewan and Luke Goss to star in Magdalena.The project is based on Top Cow's comic book about a young woman who learns she belongs to a line of female warriors descended from Mary Magdalene and ...
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Maizel leaves Sarasota to take over at Newport festival
Jennifer Maizel has left her post as managing director of the Sarasota Film Festival and joined the Newport International Film Festival (NIFF) as executive director.Maizel had a prior stint with NIFF in 2006 as director of guest services and becomes the fifth director in the festival's 11-year history.Co-founder Christine Schomer ...
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Polson's Tropfest NY separates from Tribeca Film Festival
Short film festival Tropfest NY has cut free from the Tribeca Film Festival family and will run as a stand-alone outdoor event in Manhattan on September 26.The event previously operated as Tropfest@Tribeca in association with Tribeca and will now be presented independently by Tropfest and its founder John Polson.Approximately 15,000 ...
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Summit acquires rights to Virgin Comics' graphic novel The Leaves
Summit Entertainment has acquired the film rights to Virgin Comics' graphic novel The Leaves and hired the property's author Kevin J Walsh to adapt the screenplay.Virgin Comics founder, chief creative officer and editor-in-chief Gotham Chopra will produce with company CEO Sharad Devarajan.The Leaves is an action thriller about a New ...
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Stewart Wade's Tru Loved gets North American home with here!
here! Films has acquired North American rights to Stewart Wade's gay-themed drama Tru Loved that sister company Regent Releasing will distribute this autumn.Tru Loved follows a 16-year-old girl who is moved by her lesbian mothers from their tolerant San Francisco community into a conservative environment in Southern California where she ...
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CineTel acquires international to Lundgren-directed Icarus
Production and distribution company CineTel Films has acquired international rights to the upcoming action title Icarus that Dolph Lundgren will direct and star in.Production is scheduled to begin this autumn in Vancouver on the story of a former Soviet hitman whose past catches up with him as he lives with ...
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VIZ Productions launched to film Japanese graphic novels
San Francisco-based publishing, animation and licensing company VIZ Media has launched the wholly owned Hollywood-based film and television company VIZ Productions to adapt Japanese graphic novel properties.The new company will specialise in manga and will draw on a large library of manga properties owned by its Japanese parent companies Shogakukan ...
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Film Movement buys Berlin prize-winner In Love We Trust
Film Movement has acquired Wang Xiaoshuai's Silver Bear winning Chinese family drama In Love We Trust and plans a limited theatrical run.The story centres on a divorced couple that learns the only way to save their ailing daughter is to have another child.The film won the Silver Bear for best ...
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Nowak promoted to COO at New Wave Entertainment
Rick Nowak has been promoted to COO at New Wave Entertainment, while Alan Duke has been promoted to executive vice president and general counsel and Greg Woertz has moved up to executive vice president and CFO.The executive trio will oversee operations for all New Wave services and brands, which include ...
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Dark Knight's domestic opening was bigger than expected
The Dark Knight grossed considerably more than Warner Bros distribution chiefs originally thought at the weekend as actual results confirmed today [July 21] reveal the film set a three-day opening weekend record of $158.4m.The Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures superhero sequel also broke records for Thursday midnight screenings ($18.5m), opening ...
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Hancock leads international but Dark Knight arrives with a bang
Sony Pictures Releasing International's Hancock returned to the top of the international arena thanks to an estimated $44.8m haul from 8,286 screens in 71 markets, however the superhero that will capture the headlines is Batman.The Dark Knight stormed out of the gates day-and-date with North America and in far fewer ...