All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1402
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SPC finally completes deal to buy 2046
Sony PicturesClassics (SPC) has finally completed its acquisition of US and English Canadianrights to Wong Kar-wai's epic romance 2046, which first played in competition at Cannes last year.The film, whichhas already opened in the UK, France, Japan, Germany and most otherinternational markets, was recut after its Cannes screening by the ...
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When Do We Eat' to open Palm Beach festival in April
The worldpremiere of Salvador Litvak's comedy When Do We Eat' and the US premiere of Jeff Hare's dramaChecking Out bookendthe 10th annual Palm Beach International Film Festival, which runs in Floridafrom Apr 14-21.Festivalorganisers unveiled a line-up yesterday [22] of 150 US and international titlesincluding 11 world premieres and six US ...
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Atmosphere, Relativity team up for new Chiller
Mark Canton's production companyAtmosphere Entertainment and financing outfit Relativity Media have formedChiller Films, a joint venture to produce several films a year budgeted at upto $20m each. Canton andRelativity principal Ryan Kavanaugh will produce with Atmosphere's SteveBarnett and Relativity's Lynwood Spinks serving as executive producers. The partners arein talks with ...
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Paramount confirms talks with Berman
Brad Grey'santicipated revolution at Paramount Pictures appeared to be underway yesterday[22] as it emerged that the studio was holding talks with Fox Entertainmentpresident Gail Berman.While a NewsCorp spokesman declined to comment on the development, Paramount confirmed thattalks had begun, throwing into uncertainty the current status of the leadingtelevision executive, who ...
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US broadcaster, critic Mitchell brought on to guest curate LAFF
Broadcaster andcritic Elvis Mitchell has been named guest curator of the 2005 Los Angeles FilmFestival, which runs from Jun 16-26.Mitchell, alongtime unofficial supporter of the festival, will select a number of specialscreenings and moderate panel discussions. He joins festival director RichardRaddon and director of programming Rachel Rosen.The festivalincludes competitive strands ...
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Katapult takes on Fessenden's Winter
LA-basedKatapult Film Sales has taken on international rights to Larry Fessenden's $7msupernatural thriller The Last Winter, which stars Ron Perlman and is currently shooting inIceland.The story is setin Northern Alaska, where an oil crew succumbs to a mysterious fear after oneof their team is found dead. James LeGros, Connie Britton ...
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Lions Gate Family Entertainment joins Foodfight!
The fledgling Lions GateFamily Entertainment has announced its first feature project Foodfight!, a 3D animated story about the after-hours antics ofa supermarket that features the voices of Hilary and Haylie Duff.Lions Gate is co-producing with Larry Kasanoff's Threshold Animation Studiosand has acquired North American rights for an autumn 2006 release.Kasanoff ...
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Hitch, Constantine close in on $100m
Hitch remained the top international picture for the thirdweekend in a row and should pass $100m on Monday after adding an estimated $23mon 5,160 prints in 48 markets for a $98m running total through Sony PicturesReleasing International (SPRI).Highlights were a number one $4.4m debut in France on 569 prints despite ...
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New Line announces Final Destination 3 leads
RyanMerriman and Mary Winstead have been cast in the leads for New Line's upcomingthriller franchise instalment Cheating Death: Final Destination 3.An Apr 1 production start has been slated for the story, which takes place sixyears after the events of Final Destination 2 and centres on a high school senior who ...
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The Ring Two scares off the competition
DreamWorks' horror sequel TheRing Two dominated the NorthAmerican box office over the weekend, opening top on an estimated $36m.Fox's animated champion of last weekend, Robots, fell to second place on $21.8m for a $66.9m runningtotal, while Buena Vista's family hit The Pacifier fell one to third on $12.5m and has ...
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The Ring Two dominates the field
DreamWorks' horror sequel TheRing Two dominated the NorthAmerican box office over the weekend, opening top on an estimated $36m.Fox's animated champion of last weekend, Robots, fell to second place on $21.8m for a $66.9m runningtotal, while Buena Vista's family hit The Pacifier fell one to third on $12.5m and has ...
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HDNet Films readies drama One last Thing
HDNet Films has greenlightedthe drama One Last Thing, whichrecounts the struggle of a terminally ill young boy and his mother and willstar Cynthia Nixon and Michael Angarano.Barry Stringfellow wrote the screenplay and Alex Steyermark will direct, withHDNet Films co-presidents Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente serving as producersalong with Susan Stover.Todd ...
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Robots set to storm across major markets
Fox International gives itsanimated picture Robots a massivepush this weekend, with major debuts scheduled for a number of leading marketsahead of the Easter break.Blue Sky/Fox's follow-up to 2002's Ice Age was due to open in Germany on a huge 900 prints and Russia on 279 onMar 17, followed a day ...
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Hooligans dominates SXSW narrative prizes
Lexi Alexander'sadrenaline-charged drama Hooligans starringElijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani and Marc Warren won both thenarrative jury prize and narrative feature audience award at the 2005 SXSW FilmFestival at the weekend.US distributors are circling the picture, which stars Wood as a Harvarddrop-out who visits his sister in London and endears ...
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ThinkFilm snaps up Protocols Of Zion
ThinkFilm has picked up US rights to Marc Levin's stirringSundance documentary Protocols Of Zionand plans an autumn release.The picture premiered in the Special Screenings programme in Park City back inJanuary and screened in Berlin last month, and explores anti-semitic claimsthat the Jews were responsible for the 9/11 attacks.In particular Levin ...
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Aniston joins Universal comedy The Break-Up
Jennifer Aniston has joined Vince Vaughn inUniversal's comedy The Break-Up,which is set to begin production in early June and is scheduled for release onFeb 17 2006.Jay Lavender and Jeremy Garelick are writing the screenplay, which is based onan original idea by Vaughn, who brought the project to the studio and ...
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ThinkFilm prepares launch of international division
ThinkFilm has announced itwill launch its new international sales division at Cannes headed up by veteraninternational executive Mark Horowitz.Horowitz and his team will arrive on the Croisette with a slate that includesthe Sundance documentaries Murderball, about quadriplegic rugby players, The Aristocrats, which focuses on stand-up comedians, and LieWith Me, an ...
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Landmark-Sony Electronics deal ushers in digital age
Landmark Theatres has signeda deal with Sony Electronics whereby every theatre in the chain will be equipped withSony's new digital SXRD projectors, the first commercially available 4Kprojectors on the market.The arthouse chain will begin its digital cinema roll-out this summer with sixSXRD projectors, and plans to fully enable all its ...
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Singapore moves ahead on digital delivery plans
Delegates from theSingaporean government's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) are negotiatingwith Hollywood studios for the first cross-continent digital transmission (CCTx)of a full-length feature.IDA officers and a host of partners including projection pioneer Christie,Dell, Texas Instruments, University of Southern California's EntertainmentTechnology Centre, Thomson Technicolor, and 1-Net recently transmitted digitaltrailers for Elektra, The ...
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Echo Bridge picks up US rights to Bailey's Billion$
Los Angeles-baseddistributor Echo Bridge has bought all US rights from Devine Entertainment toDavid Devine's family comedy Bailey's Billion$ starring Tim Curry, Jennifer Tilly, Dean Cain andLaurie Holden.The picture centres on a talking dog voiced by Jon Lovitz that inherits abillion dollar fortune and sparks extreme envy among his ...