All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1216
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Samuel Goldywn picks up Pieces for US distribution
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Jeremy Podeswa's Holocaust drama Fugitive Pieces, which opened the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.The company plans a May theatrical release following the film's US premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on Feb 2.Fugitive Pieces stars Stephen Dillane, Rade Sherbedgia and Rosamund ...
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Arthouse picks up de Antonio's classic doc Painters Painting
Arthouse Films has picked up worldwide rights excluding Canada to the late Emile de Antonio's documentary Painters Painting - The New York School: 1940-1970.The film has never aired before on TV in the US and Arthouse will release a restored and remastered version for the first time on DVD through ...
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Supporting cast lined up for Kevin Smith's latest at TWC
Craig Robinson, Traci Lords, Katie Morgan, Ricky Mabe, Jeff Anderson and Jason Mewes have joined Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks on The Weinstein Company's (TWC) Zack & Miri Make A Porno, which begins principal production in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Jan 16.Smith wrote and is directing the film, which stars Rogen ...
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Scorsese's Stones documentary to open Berlin on Feb 7
Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert film Shine A Light will open the 58th Berlin International Film Festival on Feb 7 with the director and band in attendance.Scorsese used more than 16 cameras to capture more than half a million feet of footage when his crew filmed the veteran rockers over ...
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Persepolis, 4 Months fail to make Oscar shortlist
Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days and Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis both failed to make the cut as the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced its nine-film shortlist for the foreign language category.The films listed in alphabetical order by country ...
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Sue Kroll named worldwide marketing chief at Warner Bros
Sue Kroll has assumed the new role of president of worldwide marketing at Warner Bros Pictures following the departure last week of domestic marketing chief Dawn Taubin.Kroll's broad purview involves creating a seamless interaction between the domestic and international marketing divisions as she oversees strategic creation and implementation of worldwide ...
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Union Square changes its name to Berk-Lane Entertainment
Union Square Entertainment principals Jason Berk and Matt Lane, whose company produced the William H Macy and Meg Ryan comedy The Deal headed for Sundance, have changed the company name to Berk-Lane Entertainment.Berk-Lane will continue to finance and produce and aims to increase its involvement in feature development and expand ...
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Red Envelope, B-Side team for unusual US release of football doc
Netflix' theatrical distributor Red Envelope Entertainment and independent distributor B-Side Entertainment are to stage the day-and-date theatrical, DVD and internet streaming release of American football documentary Two Days In April.The film will launch as a DVD rental and 'instant view' through Netflix's web-based service and open the same day in ...
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IFC launches new VOD initiative for international films
IFC Entertainment has launched the video-on-demand package Festival Direct that will showcase for a limited time a selection of IFC films that premiered at international festivals.The initiative will launch on Feb 29 on local cable carriers' On Demand platforms across the US for $5.99 each. Titles include Ken Loach's It's ...
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Benso named to senior financial position at Paramount Home Entertainment
Gaspare Benso has been appointed senior vice president of international finance and planning at Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE).Benso is responsible for all international financial functions, including planning and forecasting, financial reporting and business support and will report to PHE president Dennis Maguire and executive vice president of finance and planning ...
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Gay drama Misconceptions starts shooting in Florida
Principal photography began on Jan 14 in St Petersburg, Florida, on the independent feature Misconceptions.Ron Satlof is directing from the script he co-wrote with Ira Pearlstein that examines the ongoing culture war between same-sex parents and Christian conservatives.Steven J Brown is producing and Ted Perkins and J A Bremont act ...
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Dark Matter finally gets domestic deal with First Independent
First Independent Pictures has picked up Dark Matter and will release it in North American in April.The drama premiered at Sundance 2007 and won the Alfred P Sloan Award for its portrayal of a brilliant Chinese cosmology student who is marginalized when he goes to the US to study for ...
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Maike Haas rejoins Sony in international production unit
Maike Haas has returned to Sony following an eight-year stint at Buena Vista International Germany and has been named vice president of international production, Europe, for Sony Pictures Entertainment's International Motion Picture Production division.Haas will oversee European operations from Berlin and identify and develop projects with a focus on German-language ...
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Media Rights Capital strikes interim deal with WGA
Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu's film, television and digital financing and production firm Media Rights Capital (MRC) has struck an interim deal with the Writers Guild Of America (WGA).The agreement is similar to the one signed by the WGA and The Weinstein Company late last week and earlier deals closed ...
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PGA's five finalists include Diving Bell, Juno, Michael Clayton
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood will contest the Darryl F Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award In Theatrical Motion Pictures at this year's 19th Annual Producers Guild Of America (PGA) awards ceremony.The PGA's animated nominees are ...
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Then She Found Me, Autism take audience honours at Palm Springs
Helen Hunt's first outing as director Then She Found Me won the Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Audience Award for best narrative feature as the event came to a close on Jan 13.Tricia Regan's Autism: The Musical earned the Audience Award for best documentary feature. The FIPRESCI award For ...
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Atonement, Sweeney Todd win best picture Golden Globes
No film dominated the 65th Golden Globes last night [Jan 13] as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association spread its largesse across a wide field in a drastically truncated news announcement due to the ongoing writers strike.
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Legend produces legendary international grosses in fifth weekend
Just as Will Smith's character repels hordes of infected assailants in I Am Legend, so the Warner Bros release has fended off wave after wave of competitors to maintain its status as the number one international film.Despite solid performances by National Treasure: Book Of Secrets, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Bee ...
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The Bucket List tops domestic box office with $19.5m weekend
Warner Bros' The Bucket List, which stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as terminally ill men who take the road trip of a lifetime,expanded wide and climbed 22 places to the top on an estimated $19.5m.The weekend haul raised the tearjerker's running total after three weekends to $20.9m and demonstrated ...
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HFPA to announce Globe winners in unpicketed news conference
Following discussions with NBC, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) president Jorge Camara has announced that the HFPA will assume complete control of its 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards Announcement on Sunday [Jan 13].The announcement is scheduled to take place at 6pm PST in the International Ballroom of The Beverly Hilton ...