All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1206
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Sex defies predictions with $56m US opening
New Line's long awaited TV adaptation Sex And The City defied low-ball predictions and elbowed Indiana Jones off the top perch to launch at number one through Warner Bros on an estimated $55.7m.If the nay-sayers had been concerned about the breadth of the demographic that would turn out to support ...
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Europe goes Sex mad, but Indy still on top overseas
Knocked off its domestic perch, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull stayed on top overseas despite hot weather across Germany and central Europe as a muscular $71.5m haul from 8,439 sites in 60 territories boosted the score to $266m.This weekend's domestic champion Sex And The City came ...
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Europe joins Sex craze as Paramount pair cross $200m
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull will continue to dominate overseas this weekend and should soar past $200m.The adventure currently stands at more than $188.7m through Paramount Pictures International (PPI) and opens in India and several other key markets.Stablemate Iron Man will bring more good news for ...
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3D Journey to premiere at LA Film Festival
Walden Media and New Line's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 3D will receive its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Family Day on June 29.Eric Brevig directed the classic tale of adventure that stars Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, and Anita Briem.The occasion marks the first ...
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Cannes buyers snatch up Michael Moore's latest polemic
Michael Moore's follow-up to Fahrenheit 9/11 led a strong Cannes sales market for Paramount Vantage, solidifying its credentials as an emergent heavyweight supplier.Moore descended on the Croisette to personally introduce the project - which he is now understood to be filming at undisclosed locations - and described it as a ...
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CBS Films hires Sullivan as CFO
Reid Sullivan has been named CFO at CBS Films, the broadcasting giant's theatrical off-shoot that launched last year with the aim of making four to six films a year budgeted at up to $50m each.Sullivan arrives from First Look Studios where he also served as CFO.Prior to that he served ...
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Magnolia charmed by Great Buck Howard
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Bristol Bay Productions and Playtone Pictures' The Great Buck Howard starring John Malkovich, Colin Hanks and Emily Blunt.The drama about a mentalist who tries to revive his career with the help of a novice road manager was one of the high profile ...
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Cornish, Wasikowska honoured at Aussie Breakthrough Awards in LA
Abbie Cornish and Mia Wasikowska will be the centre of attention at the Los Angeles-based Australians In Film's (AiF) fourth annual Breakthrough Awards on June 5.AiF president Susie Dobson announced she has established the Heath Ledger Scholarship Fund, which will be presented annually to a young Australia-based actor to help ...
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Regent to handle release of Pendergast's Kabluey
Regent Releasing will partner with Whitewater Films to release first-timer Scott Prendergast's comedy Kabluey starring Lisa Kudrow, Teri Garr and Christine Taylor.Prendergast himself plays a man who helps his sister-in-law care for her unruly children while his brother is off fighting in Iraq.Rick Rosenthal, Gary Dean Simpson, Rhoades Rader, Jeff ...
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The Secrets to open Israel Film Festival in LA
The US premiere of Avi Nesher's The Secrets will open the 23rd annual Israel Film Festival, which is set to run from June 12-26 in Los Angeles, before moving to New York and Miami at the end of the year.The event, which is the largest showcase of Israeli cinema in ...
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Graphic novels get the Disney treatment through Kingdom Comics
The Walt Disney Studios has signed a multi-year deal with Ahmet Zappa, Harris Katleman and Christian Beranek's graphic novel imprint Kingdom Comics to create stories with adaptation potential.Kingdom Comics, a new wholly owned Disney company, will develop original graphic novels and reinvent live-action brands from the Disney's film library. Disney ...
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SPC confirms double acquisition from Match Factory
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up US and Latin American rights to Ari Folman's Cannes competition entry Waltz With Bashir and North American rights to Bent Hamer's Un Certain Regard screener O'Horten.For more Cannes sales click hereSPC negotiated both deals with The Match Factory.In Waltz With Bashir, Folman, a former ...
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Starz lays out Table For Three starring Routh
Filming began in mid-May in Los Angeles on the Starz Productions comedy Table For Three starring Brandon Routh, Sophia Bush, Jesse Bradford, Jennifer Morrison, Johnny Galecki and Liza Lapira.Michael Samonek is directing from his screenplay about a young man who invites a seemingly perfect couple to share his apartment. Nathan ...
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CineVegas honours career of Anjelica Huston
The 10th CineVegas Film Festival will honour the career of Anjelica Huston with the Marquee Award and present Don Cheadle, Rosario Dawson, Viggo Mortsensen and Sam Rockwell with a Half-Life Award for their careers-to-date.James Caan will receive the festival's Vegas Icon Award, presented to an actor 'who embodies the spirit ...
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Veteran publicist Friedkin dies at 81
John Friedkin, a veteran publicist and studio executive who started out as an adman and moved into publicity to represent Tony Bennett, died of respiratory failure on May 11 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81.Friedkin was born in New York on December 9, 1926, and graduated ...
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IFC makes another Cannes killing with Italian Mafia tale
IFC Films has swooped on US rights to Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's Cannes Grand Jury Prize winning Italian Mafia tale that drew wide acclaim following its competition screening.For more Cannes sales click hereThis is IFC's fifth acquisition of Cannes 2008 entry following last week's deal for Steve McQueen's Un Certain Regard ...
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Oscilloscope gushes over FLOW documentary
Beastie Boys founder Adam Yauch and ex-THINKFilm executive David Fenkel's Oscilloscope Pictures has picked up North American rights to Irena Salina's environmental documentary FLOW: For Love Of Water.The New York-based company, which was in Cannes scouting for titles for its inaugural slate and selling rights to Yauch's documentary Gunnin' For ...
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Indiana Jones is second biggest US Memorial Day hit ever
Indiana Jones' fourth outing scored the second biggest Memorial Dayholiday weekend launch in North America as Paramount's nostalgicadventure brand rang up $311.1m in worldwide ticket sales.The four-day $151.1m domestic haul has only been bettered over thesame holiday period by last year's $153m launch of Pirates Of TheCaribbean: At World's End, ...
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Lionsgate picks up Adam Sachs' satire
Lionsgate has picked up worldwide rights to Adam Sachs' satiricalscript Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.The story charts the unlikely friendship between an alcoholicmiddle-aged reporter and an outspoken teenage boy who bond whilefinding themselves somehow pitted against a group of fanaticalprotesters.Brooklyn Weaver of Energy Entertainment will produce along with ToddGarner of Broken ...
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SILVERDOCS announces 2008 programme
James Marsh's Man On Wire, Karim Chrobog's War Child and Yung Chang's Up The Yangtze are among the anticipated highlights of the SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, set to run in the Washington DC area from June 16 to 23.As previously announced, Adrian Wills' All Together Now and JohnWalter's Theatre ...