All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1361
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Echo Bridge picks up domestic rights to Beer League
Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquired all North American rightsfrom Ckrush Entertainment to Frank Sebastiano's comedy Beer League.The company plans a spring 2006 release for the story of adown-and-out softball team that rallies to avoid permanent expulsion from thelocal league.Artie Lange stars in the Identity Films project, which he co-wrotewith Sebastiano. ...
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Fonda, Shore get special honours from National Board Of Review
Jane Fonda will receive theNational Board of Review (NBR) of Motion Pictures' 2005 Career AchievementAward and Howard Shore will collect the 2005 Career Achievement For Film MusicComposition.Both awards will bepresented at the annual awards gala in New York on Jan 10, 2006.Fonda won two best actressOscars for Klute in 1972 ...
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Weinstein Co forms US DVD venture with Genius
The Weinstein Company (TWC)has formed a new US DVD releasing venture with home entertainment productionand distribution outfit Genius Products.Under the terms of the dealGenius will raise $32m in equity funding to finance the new entity, which willrelease on DVD all feature and direct-to-video titles controlled by thebrothers, as well as ...
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Harry has stunning third weekend in international with $92.6m
In a stunning third weekenddisplay that underlines the might of the international arena, Harry PotterAnd The Goblet Of Fire added anestimated $92.6m from more than 11,600 prints in 57 markets for a $330.6mrunning total.Combined with the estimated$229m domestic tally the family picture's worldwide gross now stands at morethan $560m.Goblet Of ...
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Italian composer Francesco De Masi dies aged 75
Francesco De Masi, the Italian composer whose credits include LoneWolf McQuade, documentaries and numerous spaghetti Westerns, has died. He was75.De Masi was born in Rome on Jan11, 1930, and studied composition at the Neapolitan Conservatory under thedirection of Achille Longo. He moved on to study orchestra direction at theChigiana Academy ...
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...and beats Aeon Flux at US box office
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire stayed on top of the domestic box officefor a third weekend, with an estimated $20.5m haul that raised the runningtotal to $229.8m.The family film is slowing down but still had much for thecompetition, including the only new title to break into the top ...
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DuBow named executive vp of worldwide sales at First Look
Kenneth DuBow has joined First Look Studios as executivevice president of worldwide sales.Reportingdirectly to First Look Studios chief executive officer Henry Winterstern andchief operating officer Bill Lischak, DuBow will manage US sales, includingexpansion into syndication, as well as expanding and managing internationalsales.DuBow mostrecently served as president and chief executive officer ...
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Weinsteins acquires film rights to 80s TV series Equalizer
The Weinstein Company has acquired feature rights to the hit 1980stelevision series The Equalizer, about a veteran spy who quits his agency and offers his servicesfor hire to the general public.The company picked up the rights from the series' original creatorsMichael Sloan and Richard Lindheim.Mace Neufeld, TonyEldridge and Sloan will ...
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Former Miramax exec Steinberg joins Universal as senior vp of production
Former Miramax senior vice president of production Erica Steinberghas joined Universal Pictures in the same capacity.Steinberg will report to the studio's presidents ofproduction Jon Gordon and Donna Langley and will be based at the studio'sUniversal City headquarters.She served 16 years at Miramax, where her highlights includeoverseeing production and serving as ...
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Exclusive GoldenEye Film Festival set for Dec 7-13 in Jamaica
The 2nd annual GoldenEyeFilm Festival and Retreat will run from Dec 7-13 at the former home of IanFleming in Oracabessa Bay, Jamaica. Highlights include a mediaconference and retrospectives covering James Bond, the history of Jamaican andHong Kong cinema, martial arts, surf cinema, Westerns and programmers'favourites under the title Guilty Pleasures. ...
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Clark's Wassup Rockers to open Slamdance on Jan 19
The Slamdance Film Festival 2006will open on Jan 19 with the US premiere of Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers. The story centres on a groupof Latino skateboarders from the East Los Angeles ghettos who venture out toexplore the rarified environs of Beverly Hills. The picture received itsworld premiere at Toronto; First ...
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Foxx to star in Universal's Middle East actioner The Kingdom
Jamie Foxx will star in The Kingdom for Universal Pictures based on anoriginal idea brought to the studio by Peter Berg and Michael Mann.As previously announced,Berg will direct the thriller based on a screenplay by Matthew MichaelCarnahan. Mann will produce through his company Forward Pass, along with ScottStuber. Mary Parent ...
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Potter continues reign with France, Korea, Australia openings
Harry Potter And TheGoblet Of Fire remains the runawaychampion at the international box office and nothing will challenge itssupremacy this weekend. Heading into its thirdweekend the family adventure has already sold more than $236.9m in ticketsoutside North America and opens in several major territories this weekend. Warner Bros PicturesInternational (WBPI) ...
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Gondry, Demme, Cassavetes among Sundance premieres
The Sundance Film Festival hasunveiled its Premieres section, the final major featureprogramme of the upcoming 2006 jamboree with 17 titles featuring a glitteringarray of Hollywood movie stars such as Bruce Willis, Jennifer Aniston, SharonStone, Winona Ryder, Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Justin Timberlake and JoshHartnett.World premieres of films byMichel Gondry, Terry ...
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Palm launches new US DVD label Arthouse Films
PalmPictures has launched DVD label Arthouse Films and kicks off with the Feb 142006 releases of William Eggleston In The Real World and new acquisition Henri Cartier-Bresson:The Impassioned Eye.Thelabel is targeted at art enthusiasts and collectors and will utilise Palm'straditional retail distribution network (Universal Music and VideoDistribution) and non-traditional sales ...
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Capote takes best feature prize at Gothams
Capote stole an early march on its awards seasonrivals by winning best feature at IFP's annual Gotham Awards in New York lastnight.Director BennettMiller also scooped the breakthrough director award. His film is released inthe US through Sony Pictures Classics and is regarded as one of the strongcontenders for Academy Awards ...
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Pang brothers sign to direct The Darkness for Platinum
LosAngeles-based Platinum Studios and Blue Star Pictures have signed Danny andOxide Pang to direct The Darkness, based on the Top Cow Productions comic book.Platinumwill finance 50% of the production that is at Miramax with a progress toproduction clause through January 2006. The project is currently out towriters.Platinum is alsoteaming up ...
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Sundance creates new Spectrum section with 24 titles
Work by Anders ThomasJensen, Bent Hamer, Stewart Copeland, Matthew Barney and Larry Clark will playin the out-of-competition Spectrum, Frontier and Park City at Midnightcategories at Sundance.Encompassing the strandspreviously known as American Spectrum and Special Screenings, the 2006 theSpectrum programme has expanded to include international titles.Its line-up of 24 entriesincludes Jensen's ...
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Sundance unveils US and world competition sections for 2006
The Sundance Film Festivalunleashed a typically challenging American and world cinema competition line-uptoday [Monday] that bore the festival's hallmarks of eclectic,socially-conscious story-telling.The American dramatic andcompetition each feature 16 titles from more than 1,760 submissions, and arematched this year by their world cinema counterpartsSince launching in 2005 thenumber of entries in ...
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Squid, Brokeback lead Spirit nominations
Brokeback Mountain, Capote,Good Night, And Good Luck, TheSquid And The Whale and The ThreeBurials Of Melquiades Estrada willvie for best feature honours at Film Independent's 2006 Independent SpiritAwards on Mar 4.Noah Baumbach's TheSquid And The Whale leads the packwith six nominations for Samuel Goldwyn Films including best director andscreenplay for ...