All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1361
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Bauer Martinez lines up McTiernan for Crash Bandits
Bauer Martinezchief Philippe Martinez has revealed that John McTiernan is preparing to shootthe action adventure Crash Bandits for the company with Hayden Christensen set to star.Martinezconfirmed that production is set to begin on Feb 15 in Thailand on the story oftreasure seekers who target wrecked airplanes containing riches.The title makesit ...
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New teams with Woo, Chang for Bloody Numbers
BeverlyHills-based New Films International will co-produce the supernatural thriller BloodyNumbers with John Wooand Terence Chang's Lion Rock Productions.The productionis set to be one of the first to return to the French Quarter in New Orleans inthe wake of Hurricane Katrina and will get underway in the first half of 2006.Woo's ...
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Sevigny joins Malone, Sobieski in cast of Lying
Chloe Sevigny has joined the ensemble cast of Lying for PCHFilm/Catfish Productions and Periscope Entertainment's psychodrama Lying.As previously announced Jena Malone, Leelee Sobieski, HalleyWegryn Gross, Maya Goldsmith and Henry Gummer star in the project, which iscurrently filming in upstate New York.M Blash's directorial debut centres on a group of New ...
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GreeneStreet kicks off sales on comedy Pleasure
GreeneStreetFilms International (GSFI) has reported steady business on the Jason Biggs comedy The Pleasure Of Your Company, which begins production tomorrow in New York.Territories have gone to Video Filmes in Brazil, RCV in Benelux, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Castelo Lopes in Portugal, and Forum in Israel. Deals with the UK, Germany ...
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Chicken Little opens mighty with $40.1m weekend
Buena Vista's CG-animated romp Chicken Little soared to an estimated $40.1m number onedebut over the three-day weekend, ahead of Universal's Gulf War drama Jarheadon $28.8m.Meanwhile, Lions Gate and Twisted Pictures' horror sequel SawII dropped two places tothird on $17.2m for a superb $60.5m domestic running total that has alreadyovertaken the ...
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Concorde, Notro, Gussi among buyers for Myriad's Beethoven
Myriad Pictures has closed a raft of sales at the AFM on AgnieszkaHolland's romance Copying Beethoven starring Ed Harris and Diane Kruger.Rights have gone to Concordefor Germany, Notro for Spain, Gussi for Mexico and Lumiere for Benelux, as wellas Star TV for Asia and Jaguar for airlines.As previously announced, deals ...
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Canada's Atopia sells A Silent Love to Desert Mountain in US
Pascal Maeder's Canadianproduction and sales company Atopia is finalising a US DVD deal with DesertMountain Media for Federico Hidalgo's comedy drama A Silent Love. Vanessa Bauche and NoelBurton star in the story of a Montreal professor and a Mexican woman who meetthrough an online dating service and learn that the ...
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Berger Dagan gets senior vp publicity job at The Weinstein Co
Former Miramax publicist Liz Berger Dagan has reunited with theWeinsteins and joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) as senior vice president ofpublicity.Based in New York and reporting to executive vice president ofpublicity Liza Burnett, Dagan will work on the company's Academy Awardscampaigns as well as day-to-day publicity duties on the theatrical ...
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Zorro continues lead of international market
The Legend Of Zorro maintained its number one international status as an estimated$17.5m weekend haul on 6,150 screens in 60 markets raised the running total to$60.1m after two weekends.Handled in most territoriesthrough Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI), which licensed rightsfrom the picture's co-financier Spyglass Entertainment, the picture openednumber one in ...
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2929's Magnolia launches US home entertainment division
Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban have slotted in the home entertainmentpiece of their 2929 Entertainment distribution jigsaw with the launch ofMagnolia Home Entertainment (MHE).Former Miramax vice president of home entertainment Randy Wellswill head up the division, which will handle distribution for Magnolia Picturestitles, HDNet Films projects, select projects from HDNet ...
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Chris Davis adds Infection, Shock'n'Awe to slate
Chris Davis International (CDI) has added five new titles forbuyers at AFM, headed up by Filmwerks' bio-terror picture Infection from director Albert Pyun, which isclose to a domestic deal.Ron Perlman is attached to star in the $5m Shock 'n' Awe, a story of three brilliant teenagerswho test the boundaries of ...
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TLA picks up US rights to James Franco's The Ape
US independent TLA Releasing has picked up James Franco'sfilmmaking debut The Ape and will release the title on DVD in spring 2006.The company plans to place the surreal dark comedy in NorthAmerican festivals, and also holds broadcast and streaming rights to the storyof a frustrated writer who shares an apartment ...
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Sundance Cinemas names first US arthouse multiplex site
Sundance Cinemas, the specialized theatre chain concept which wasfirst abandoned by Robert Redford's Sundance Group in 2001, then revivedearlier this year, has set its first Sundance Cinema Centre multiplex forMadison, Wisconsin in autumn 2006.The six-screen theatre will be located in the Hilldale Mall andinitial stage of renovation is due to ...
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Dream picks up international on Sorry, Haters
Dream Entertainment has picked up international rights fromCinetic Media to Jeff Stanzler's psychological thriller Sorry, Haters starring Robin Wright Penn.The InDigEnt production was produced by Stanzler, Jake Abraham,Karen Jaroneski and Gary Winick, and received its world premiere at Toronto.The post-9/11 tale stars Penn as an anxious professional whoselife takes a ...
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Becker Films takes Control
Becker Films International (BFI) has picked up worldwide rights toControl, AntonCorbijn's project about the life of the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.The project is currently out to casting and is scheduled to beginshooting in early 2006 in Manchester, Macclesfield and surrounding areas innorthern England.Orian Williams and Todd Eckert are ...
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Cruz, DeVito join the cast of Paltrow's The Good Night
Penelope Cruz and Danny DeVito have joined the cast of InfernoDistribution's $15m New York-set romantic comedy The Good Night.As previously announced Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman and SimonPegg star in the story of a former pop star relegated to writing advertisingjingles who lives through his dreams.Cruz will play the female lead ...
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Paramount Classics goes North with nature doc
Paramount Classics has picked up US, UK and Latin American rightsto Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson's hot documentary Call Of The North, which follows a polar bear and a walrusover the course of five years as they battle for survival on a disappearingcontinent.The $7m National Geographic Feature Films production is ...
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Pressman horror duo goes to Voltage
Voltage Pictures has picked up worldwide sales on two horrorpictures to be produced by Ed Pressman, a remake of Brian De Palma's 1973 Sisters and The Hill.Both projects are set to begin production in February 2006 throughNew York-based Pressman & Company's No Remorse genre label and will beco-financed by Grosvenor ...
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Hopkins, Gosling star in Fracture for New Line
Anthony Hopkins and RyanGosling have signed to star in Castle Rock's crime drama Fracture that New Line is handling worldwide.Gregory Hoblit will directthe story of an assistant District Attorney who takes justice into his ownhands after an assailant tries to murder his wife and leaves her in a coma.New Line ...
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MK2, Rialto take Tsotsi from Little Film Company
Robbie Little's Little Film Company has closed more sales on GavinHood's Toronto Film Festival's People's Choice Award winner Tsotsi.Rights have gone to MK2 in France, Rialto in Australia and NewZealand, Castello Lopes in Portugal, and Rosebud in Greece.The picture will be released through Miramax in North America,Kinowelt in Germany, and ...