All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1333
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New Films Int'l taps Kessler as business affairs chief
Craig A Kessler has joined Beverly Hills-based New FilmsInternational as vice president of business and legal affairs.Reporting to New Films executive vice president Ron Gell, Kesslerwill be responsible for negotiating production and co-productions for NFI'sexpanding slate.Kessler previously served at Doug Liman's production companyHypnotic, and prior to that he served in ...
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Motocross legend David Bailey to get big screen treatment
Rodney Wilson's Todd Gilmer Productions has secured the liferights to Motocross and Supercross legend David Bailey.Bailey started riding at 10 and went on to win every major pro Motocrossand Supercross event in the early 1980s before he was paralysed in a freakaccident and became a triathlon champion.'Bailey's real life is ...
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Weinstein Co brings Knight Rider to big screen
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is bringing the 1980s hit television seriesKnight Rider to thebig screen after acquiring rights from show creator Glen A Larson.Larson will write the screenplay and serve as executive producer throughGlen A Larson Productions.Knight Rider is a revenge story about a police investigator who survives ashooting and ...
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Blessed By Fire, War Tapes triumph at Tribeca
Tristan Bauer's Argentina-Spain co-production, the wartime drama BlessedBy Fire won the bestnarrative feature at the fifth annual Tribeca Film Festival, which endedyesterday, while Deborah Scranton's War Tapes won the documentary award.Jurgen Vogel won best actor in a narrative feature for Germany's FreeWill and the CzechRepublic's Eva Holubov won corresponding best ...
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Perlman, Rea, Furmann join cast of Mutant Chronicles
Ron Perlman, Stephen Rea and Benno Furmann have joined JohnMalkovich and Thomas Jane in Ed Pressman's upcoming sci-fi project TheMutant Chronicles.Pressman Film Corp, Grosvenor Park and Isle Of Man Filmfinanced the project and Voltage Pictures is handling international sales atCannes.Shooting is set to begin this summer in London and the ...
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Weitz returns to directing chair on New Line's Compass
Anand Tucker has exited the job of directing New Line's children'sfantasy epic The Golden Compass, and he has been replaced by the project's original directorChris Weitz.Weitz relinquished his director's role in December 2004 citingtechnical challenges but stayed on as screenwriter.Now he gets a second bite of the cherry following the ...
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Hopkins' Dead Sheep wins international prize at Hot Docs
The awards for the 2006 Hot Docs Canadian InternationalDocumentary Festival were handed out in Toronto on May 5, with best Canadian documentarygoing to Shelley Saywell's Martyr Street.Best International Documentary went to Ben Hopkins' UK title 37Uses For A Dead Sheep,while best documentary short was awarded to Ibtisam Ma'arana's Badal from ...
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Hyde Park to start Death Sentence for Fox
Ashok Amritraj's LosAngeles-based Hyde Park Entertainment will fully finance and produce thethriller Death Sentence under itsfive-year first-look deal with 20th Century Fox.Fox willdistribute domestically and Hyde Park International will commence overseassales at Cannes on thefirst project to be greenlit under the deal,announced last summer.Saw creator James Wan is directingbased on ...
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Gold Circle recruits Samuell for My Sassy Girl remake
BeverlyHills-based Gold Circle hashired Belgian filmmaker Yann Samuellto direct the remake of South Korean romantic comedy hit My Sassy Girl.Jae-Young Kwak's 2001 filmwas a huge success in South Korea and the English-language versionis being fast tracked for an autumn shoot.Theproject marks Gold Circle's firstcollaboration with Maverick Films and its ...
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Mission III goes global on 9,500 screens
The spectre of Tom Cruise looms over the world this weekend as Paramountlaunches Mission: Impossible III in its biggest ever day-and-date release.The third instalment in the action franchise is set toopen through UIP in 55 territories on approximately 9,500 prints.M:i:IIIgoes out on May 3 in France, South Korea and Hong ...
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Chinese film Father wins first feature award at San Francisco
Ying Liang's Chinese picture Taking Father Home won the Skyy prize for first narrativefeature at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival Golden GateAwards ceremony.The Golden Gate Award for documentary feature went to MichaelGlawogger's Workingman's Death (Austria), and the Golden Gate Award for Bay Area documentaryfeature went to Stanley Nelson's ...
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Riklin sets up foreign remake company Bridge Films
Former Showtime executive Matt Riklin has launched Bridge Films, acompany devoted to acquiring remake rights to non-English language pictures andsetting them up with US studios and financiers.Funded by private equity, Bridge Films employs a staff of 10 'agents'who will operate throughout the world to source promising material, A Bridgecontingent is ...
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Ganz joins cast of Irreverent's Canadian comedy Restaurant
Bruno Ganz has singed to star in Vancouver-based IrreverentMedia's romantic comedy The Best Restaurant In The World. Ever.Ganz, who won plaudits for his role as Adolph Hitler in OliverHirschbiegel's German 2005 best foreign language Oscar nominee Downfall, joins Marc-Andre Grondin in the cast.Monica Mitchell directs from a screenplay by Rick ...
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Peckos exits Tartan, sets up niche US distributor
Distribution executive M J Peckos has left Tartan Films USA aftertwo years to launch the niche distributor Mitropoulos Films."The distribution business is changing at its core. Nicheproduct will require new venues and marketing strategies and Mitropoulos Filmsplans to explore this ever changing marketplace," Peckos said. "As filmmakers continue to face ...
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Saw III to start on Monday in Toronto for Lionsgate, Twisted
Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures will start production on Saw IIIwill in Toronto on May 8and are expected to wrap in June.Lionsgate International president Nick Meyer and LionsgateInternational Sales president Stephanie Denton will commence sales at Cannes.As previously reported, the third instalment in the lucrativehorror franchise is set to open this ...
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Zeta Jones nears deal to star in Death Defying Acts
Catherine Zeta Jones in final talks to join Guy Pearce in theAustralia-UK co-production Death Defying Acts, a drama about Harry Houdini.Filming is scheduled to begin later this summer in the UK withGillian Armstrong set to direct from a screenplay by Tony Grisoni and BrianWard.The Australian Film Finance Corporation, BBC Films ...
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Posey, Poupaud take leads in Cassavates drama
Production is set to begin in New York on May 5 on HD Net Films'romance Broken Englishstarring Parker Posey and Melvil Poupaud.Japan's Phantom Films and France-based Back Up Films areco-producing the story based on a screenplay by John Cassavetes' daughter ZoeCassavetes, who makes her feature directorial debut.Posey plays a high-flying ...
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Strangers to open New York's NewFest on June 1
Paul Dinello's Strangers With Candy will open the 18th Annual NewFest, NewYork's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival that runs from Jun1 to 11.Strangers With Candy stars Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert and Dinello and was written byDinello and Colbert as a prequel to the Comedy Central series of the ...
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Alliance Atlantis, Arclight team for US distribution joint venture
Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) and ArclightFilms are launching the US-based distribution joint venture Union Station Media.Former Lionsgate acquisitions executive Paul Gardner will run theLos Angeles-based company, which will initially release 12-18 titles a year onthe DVD, television, cable, internet, VOD, PPV and electronic sell-thruplatforms.The first three pictures are ...
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Danielak's Arsenal picks up Rosario Dawson thriller
Yarek Danielak's fledgling international sales house ArsenalPictures has picked up international rights to the psycho-thriller Descent starring Rosario Dawson.City Lights Pictures' Danny Fisher, MEGA Films' Morris SLevy and Dawson's Trybe Films are producing the story of a rape victim whoreinvents herself as a seductress in order to gain revenge.'Descent is ...