All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1307
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Lumina sells thriller Straightheads to Sony
Sony PicturesEntertainment has acquired the majority of worldwide rights including NorthAmerica to revenge thriller Straightheads from London-based Lumina Films.The fllm whichstars Gillian Anderson (pictured) and Danny Dyer, is the feature directingdebut of documentary film-maker Dan Reed and tells the story of a coupleattacked on their way home from a party ...
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MGM picks up worldwide rights to Two Weeks
MGM has picked up worldwide rights to the bittersweet comedy TwoWeeks starring SallyField, Ben Chaplin, and Tom Cavanagh.MGM has set a Dec 1 domestic release for Steve Stockman's featuredirectorial debut about four siblings who rush home for what they think is afinal goodbye to their dying mother.When the matriarch refuses ...
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2006 Academy Award winners
Crash turned the tables on popular wisdom when it was named best picture at the 78th annual Academy Awards last night as it took three Oscars, while the pre-ceremony favourite Brokeback Mountain also took home three awards including best director for Ang Lee.Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon won the ...
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Beatty to receive Cecil B DeMille award from HFPA
Warren Beatty will receive the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.
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Gothams honour Winslet and Norton
Kate Winslet and Edward Norton will receive 2006 Gotham Tributes at the upcoming 16th Annual Gotham Awards in New York on Nov 29.The Gotham Awards will also honour multiple filmmakers with its first annual World Cinema Tribute. This year, the tribute will be presented to the Mexican trio of Alfonso ...
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Fox, Dune renew co-financing commitment for 16 new films
Buoyed by the ongoing success of Borat and The Devil Wears Prada, Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE) and DuneEntertainment have extended their movie co-financing deal.Dune is investing another $325m in 16 additional Fox filmsto be announced in due course. Fox retains worldwide distribution rights on alltitles. Dune originally invested $325m in ...
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TWC, IFC team to buy domestic rights to New Zealand's Blue
The Weinstein Company (TWC) and IFC Entertainment havejointly acquired all North American rights to Out Of The Blue, the true story of the New Zealand mass murdererDavid Gray.IFC will release the film through its First Takeday-and-date label and TWC will handle DVD roll-out through Genius Products.Out Of The Bluecentres on ...
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Perfume to open Santa Fe Festival in Dec
Tom Tykwer's period thriller Perfume: Story Of A Murderer starring Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman and AlanRickman will open the 7th Santa Fe Film Festival on Dec 6.Miss Potter starringRenee Zellweger is the centerpiece gala screening on Dec 8 and the event closeson Dec 10 with Roger Michell's Venusstarring Peter O'Toole.The ...
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Pollack, Winslet, Field join Palm Springs honours roll
Sydney Pollack, Kate Winslet and Todd Field will be honouredat the 18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) in January.Pollack will receive the Screen Actors Guild Foundation'sfirst Patron Of The Arts Award, while Winslet will collect the Desert PalmAchievement Award, and Field will receive the Sonny Bono Visionary Award.The ...
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AMPAS names 15 films on documentary feature Oscar shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 documentaries that will advance to the voting process for the 79th Academy Awards.The documentary branch screening committee viewed all 81 films that originally qualified in the category, and will now narrow the list down to the final five ...
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Sundance/NHK name 12 finalists for 2007 Awards
The Sundance Institute and Japanese broadcaster NHK haveannounced the 12 finalists for the 2007 Sundance/NHK International FilmmakersAwards.The annual award, now in its 11th year, honours emerging directorsfrom four global regions. One winner from each of Europe, Latin America, the USand Japan will be chosen by an international jury and presented ...
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SPRI wins big with Bond, taking $42.2m from 27 markets
Bondis back and then some as Casino Royalelaunched at number one in all its 27 markets on an estimated $42.2m throughSony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Thestirring result - powered by a franchise record in the UK and anastonishing Indian debut - vindicates the producers' decision to slip therough-hewn Daniel Craig into ...
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Ballhaus to receive ASC International Achievement Award
Michael Ballhaus will receive the 2007 American Society ofCinematographers (ASC) International Achievement Award for 'the artful andenduring contributions that he has made to advancing the global art offilmmaking.'Ballhaus will collect the honour at the 21st Annual ASCOutstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Feb 18, 2007.Ballhaus has been nominated three ...
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Feet shuffles past Casino at US box office
Warner Bros' animated feature Happy Feet pipped Sony's James Bond epic CasinoRoyale to the post as the two top films ofthe weekend unusually grossed more than $40m each.Happy Feet, a storyabout a tap-dancing penguin featuring the vocal talents of Hugh Jackman NicoleKidman and Robin Williams, opened on an estimated $42.3m ...
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Cunningham takes over from Smith as UPIE president
Eddie Cunningham has been appointed president of UniversalPictures International Entertainment, effective Jan 1, 2007.Cunningham will continue to be based in London and willreport to Universal Pictures' Burbank-based vice chairman Rick Finkelstein andco-chairman David Linde. He succeeds Peter Smith, who was recently appointedpresident of NBC Universal International.UPIE has directly-owned operations in ...
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Former Toys R Us executive to produce The Dakar Run
Warren Kornblum, former chief marketing officer at Toys'R' Us, has acquired film rights to Clark Howard's novelette TheDakar Run for his Shadow EntertainmentGroup.Miranda Kwok, who won Slamdance's Sparky Award for bestscreenplay for Song Of Silence in 2004,wrote the screenplay and the feature is currently in development.Kornblum is serving as producer ...
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Perfume to open Santa Fe Film Festival in Dec
Warren Kornblum, former chief marketing officer at Toys'R' Us, has acquired film rights to Clark Howard's novelette TheDakar Run for his Shadow EntertainmentGroup.Miranda Kwok, who won Slamdance's Sparky Award for bestscreenplay for Song Of Silence in 2004,wrote the screenplay and the feature is currently in development.Kornblum is serving as producer ...
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Magnolia, Truly Indie & Red Envelope team for Maxed Out
Magnolia Home Entertainment, Truly Indie and Netfilx's RedEnvelope Entertainment are teaming up to release James Scurlock's documentary MaxedOut, which won the Special Jury Prize atSouth by Southwest this year.Maxed Out exploresthe workings of the US credit card industry and examines the credit culture,explaining among other things the true definition of ...
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Quinn to win emerging film-maker award from IDA for God Grew Tired Of Us
Christopher Quinn will receive the International Documentary Association's(IDA) Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award for God GrewTired Of Us.God Grew Tired Of Us won both the Sundance grand jury prize and audience awards andchronicles the experiences of three Sudanese war refugees as they adjust to anew life in the US.Quinn ...
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Borat marches into France, Spain for Fox International
The Boratinvasion spreads to five new territories this weekend as Fox Internationallooks forward to the comedy sweeping past $50m.Borat iscurrently on $48.6m and approaches its third weekend with openings scheduled infive territories.Anti-American sentiment in France should ensure a robust debutthere when Boratlaunches on Nov 15, and studio executives are also ...