All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1209
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Soderbergh to present Corrente's The Prince Of Providence
Steven Soderbergh will present Michael Corrente's upcoming political drama The Prince Of Providence starring Oliver Platt as Buddy Cianci, the colourful former mayor from Rhode Island who became one of the longest serving 'big city' mayors in US history.Adam Goldberg, Ed Burns, Dermot Mulroney and Bradley Cooper are also attached ...
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2929 will self-distribute What Just Happened' through Magnolia
Nearly five months after What Just Happened' premiered at Sundance, Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban have announced they will self-distribute the Hollywood satire through Magnolia Pictures on October 3.Magnolia would appear to be a logical and convenient outlet given that the film was co-produced by 2929 Productions, its sister company ...
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Sundance Institute names fellows for Documentary Lab in June
Sundance Institute has selected the Documentary Film Fellows representing four projects that will take part in the Documentary Film Edit and Story Laboratory set to run in Utah from June 21-28.The Laboratory offers one intensive week of creative feedback and the chance to work closely with a pool of creative ...
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Don Cheadle to receive LAFF's Spirit Of Independence Award
Don Cheadle will receive the Los Angeles Film Festival's (LAFF) Spirit Of Independence Award for his 'outstanding work and contributions to the film industry' at the awards ceremony on June 29.The inaugural Spirit Of Independence Award went to George Clooney in 2005 and only Charlize Theron and Clint Eastwood have ...
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here! Films acquires domestic rights to Cthulhu, Antarctica
here! Films has acquired North American rights to the occult thriller Cthulhu and worldwide rights to gay-themed Israeli romantic comedy Antarctica. Sister company Regent Releasing will release both titles in the US later this year.Cthulhu is adapted from HP Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth and re-imagines the story with ...
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Briana Evigan signs to star in Sobini's thriller Burning Bright
Step Up 2: The Streets lead Briana Evigan has signed to star in the thriller Burning Bright from Mark Amin's Sobini Films, which has a first-look deal with Lionsgate.Carlos Brooks, whose drama Quid Pro Quo starring Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga opens this week through Magnolia Pictures, will direct and ...
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Greetings From The Shore wins Staten Island Film Festival
Greg Chwerchak's opening night drama Greetings From The Shore won best feature at Staten Island's SINY Film Festival and star Kim Shaw was named best actress as the event came to a close at the weekend.Anthony Tarsitano was named best director for Calling It Quits and star Dennis Boutsakaris took ...
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Mandate backs feature of hit online short Jay And Seth...
Mandate Pictures has green-lit a feature based on the action comedy short Jay And Seth Vs The Apocalypse from co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.Mandate is in talks with directors and has earmarked a 2009 production start on the adaptation of the short, which starred Rogen and Jay Baruchel as ...
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Bruno wins HBO Documentary/Film Independent fellowship
Bruce Dern is among the Fellows and their projects selected by Film Independent for its 6th annual Fast Track film financing initiative.Fast Track connects participants with financiers, production companies and industry professionals during the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF), which takes place from June 19 - 29.Film Independent also announced ...
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Mark Waters to receive AFI's Franklin J Schaffner Alumni Medal
Mean Girls and The Spiderwick Chronicles director Mark Waters will receive the American Film Institute's (AFI) 2008 Franklin J Schaffner Alumni Medal in honour of his 'extraordinary creative talents' on June 12.Waters was a member of the AFI Conservatory's directing class of 1992 and graduated alongside Darren Aronofsky, Doug Ellin ...
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The Film Source picks up horror movie Deadwood Park
Alex Massis' Florida-based sales and marketing company The Film Source has acquired international rights to Eric Stanze's horror title Deadwood Park.William Clifton stars as a young man who returns to his home town in the hope of solving a decades-old mystery surrounding the killing of 26 children, one of whom ...
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Tribeca launches Reframe as system to find rare film and video
Tribeca Film Institute has launched the digitised one-stop shop Reframe to help the film community market and locate classic and rare film and video.Reframe converts all content to high quality digital files, returns a digital copy to the rights holder for free and allows them to make their content available ...
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Michele Garra promoted to svp of Asia Pacific at SPHE
Michele Garra has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president of Asia Pacific for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).Sony's former managing director of Australia and New Zealand will move from Sydney to the studio's Los Angeles headquarters in Culver City.Reporting to executive vice president of international ...
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Panda-monium at North American box office for DreamWorks
Kung Fu Panda ate up the competition as it shot to the top and left no doubt about what was the biggest comedy in North America over the weekend.The DreamWorks Animation hit grossed an estimated $60m through Paramount, approximately 50% more than Sony's Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess With ...
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Carrie Bradshaw kicks Indiana Jones off international perch
Sex continued to sell overseas as New Line's hit adaptation Sex And The City booted PPI's Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda into second and third place, respectively.The comedy saga about four Manhattan women added an estimated $38.1m from 25 new territories and robust holdovers to stand at $91.3m. Combined ...
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PPI's Panda kicks out in nine markets, Sex expands global seduction
Paramount Pictures International is in the enviable position of having two bona fide blockbusters in play as it prepares to launch a third this weekend.As Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull nears $300m and Iron Man consolidates its new status as an inductee of the $200m club, ...
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Irish Film Festival launched in Los Angeles this October
The inaugural Los Angeles Irish Film Festival will run from October 2-5 at the Clarity Theatre in Beverly Hills.Festival directors Lisa McLaughlin-Strassman and Niall McKay aim to develop the profile of Irish cinema and to this end will programme features, documentaries and shorts and stage on-stage interviews.The event is sponsored ...
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Kaczorowksi joins Grosvenor Park as partner, Alper as principal and COO
Los Angeles, London and Toronto-based film financing company Grosvenor Park has named Joseph C Kaczorowski partner and David Alper principal and COO.Kaczorowski most recently served as president of House Of Blues Entertainment, while Alper most recently managed Relativity Media's single-picture equity financing and production business.Backed by a New York-based alternative ...
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Jorge Camara re-elected as president of HFPA
Jorge Camara will serve his sixth term as president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) after he was re-elected to the post on Wednesday night [June 5].
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Russian thriller Magic Man to shoot entirely in US
Billy Zane and Russian action star Alexander Nevsky will star in the US-Russian co-production thriller Magic Man that will shoot entirely in the US.Stuart Cooper will begin directing this month in Los Angeles on the story of a famous magician who might also be moonlighting as a serial killer. George ...