All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1412
-
News
Sea Inside wins audience award at Palm Springs
AlejandroAmenabar's true life drama The Sea Inside won the audience award for best narrative feature at the16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, while Yaron Zilberman'schronicle of the Jewish Sports Club in Watermarks took corresponding documentary honours.Danielle Arbid'scoming-of-age story In the Battlefields won the New Voices/New Visions Award and first-timedirector ...
-
News
Bocco gets new independent role at Gersh
US talent agencyGersh Agency has hired former Miramax Films senior vice president ofacquisitions Arianna Bocco (pictured) to head up its new Independent Feature Packagingdivision.Based in NewYork, the division will seek to assemble financing for independent features andsell them in the global marketplace, while broadening Gersh's existing rosterof directing and producing ...
-
News
Buerling gets senior job at LA's Filmmates Co
Veteran producerJeanette Buerling has been appointed executive vice-president of production anddistribution at Los Angeles-based Filmmates Corporation.Buerling hasworked with Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros, Germany's Leo Kirch Network DSFand the Bertelsman Group, among others.Prior to herappointment with Filmmates she served as executive director of HollywoodInternational Finance, a film investment fund that ...
-
News
Keith named senior vp at Yari's Bull's Eye
Yari Film Group'sBull's Eye Entertainment has hired former DreamWorks executive Leah Keith tothe new position of senior vice president of development and production.Keith will focusprimarily on broadening Bull's Eye reach into studio films and will oversee asmall number of independent projects. The company has a first-look deal atParamount.She arrives atBull's ...
-
News
Huntsberry temporarily steps into Finkelstein's shoes at Universal
FrederickHuntsberry has been named interim president and chief operating officer atUniversal Pictures while Rick Finkelstein takes an undetermined leave ofabsence after sustaining injuries in a recent skiing accident.Huntsberry willreport to Universal chairman Stacey Snider and continues to oversee NBCUniversal Television Distribution in his role as executive vice president,reporting jointly to ...
-
News
Lewis named production president at Searchlight
In the latest senior appointment at Fox Searchlight as the studioprepares for its biggest ever year, company veteran Claudia Lewis has beenappointed president of production.Lewis (pictured) will oversee the slate including development,packaging, budgeting, casting and production. All production executives willreport to her.Fox Searchlight president Peter Rice called Lewis "hands-down thebest ...
-
News
International box office drives Alexander
Alexander grossed an estimated $14.5m from approximately 3,600screens in 51 territories through IS Film Distribution and Warner Bros PicturesInternational at the weekend, driving its international cumulative total to$88m.The picture scored a pair ofstrong debuts through Warner International in Italy and Brazil (see separatereport), and opened top in Romania on $74,995 ...
-
News
Laemmle and Zeller team up for new 'virtual' US distribution operation
California arthouse theatrecircuit Laemmle Theatres and marketing expert Steven Zeller of GS EntertainmentMarketing Group have joined forces on Laemmle/Zeller Films, a full-service"virtual" theatrical distributor based in Los Angeles.Without corporate offices,Laemmle/Zeller Films principals Greg Laemmle, who is president of LaemmleTheatres, and Zeller will work out of their respective headquarters, withLaemmle staff ...
-
News
Ladies In Lavender go Stateside via Roadside
Roadside Attractions has picked up US rights to Charles Dance'sdirectorial debut Ladies In Lavender, with Sundance Channel Home Entertainment simultaneously acquiringhome video rights.Written by Dance from a short story by William Locke, the picturereceived its premiere at Toronto last autumn and stars Judi Dench and Maggie Smithas elderly sisters who ...
-
News
PGA names eligible producers according to new rules
The ProducersGuild of America (PGA) Awards organisers have named the producers eligible ineach previously announced category of its 2005 PGA Awards.In the Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award fortheatrical motion picture, Michael Mann is named for The Aviator, Richard N Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower for FindingNeverland, John Walker ...
-
News
Vasquez, Tellis join IS in key marketing, distribution posts
Trish Vasquez (pictured) and DeborahTellis have joined IS Film Distribution as vice president of marketing andpublicity and director of distribution respectively.Based in Santa Monica,Vasquez will assume leadership of the marketing department, managing creative, promotionaland publicity campaigns for all theatrical releases. She will report to IS FilmDistribution president Kaye Cooper-Mead.Tellis will ...
-
News
Incredibles, National Treasure each add $10m for BVI
The Incredibles and National Treasure each took an estimated$10m for Buena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend, raising theirrespective international running totals to $335.5m and $120m.National Treasure scored a pair of number one debuts in Holland andGreece with respective $1.4m and $655,000 launches.After one month theadventure has amassed $12.6m in ...
-
News
Ocean's Twelve passes $150m for Warner Int'l; Alexander opens top in eight
Ocean's Twelve raised its international cumulative total to $152.5mfollowing an estimated $9.6m weekend haul through Warner Bros PicturesInternational on 4,600 prints in 55 countries.The caper sequel isscheduled to open in Japan on Jan 22 and in the UK on Feb 4.Alexander grossed $6.4m from 1,358 prints in 12 territories, powered ...
-
News
Hustle passes $50m, Closer storms Europe for SPRI
Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) opened Closer at number one in five out of sevenmarkets at the weekend as the picture's allure proved irresistible in Europe.The torrid drama ranked topin the UK on $3.1m on 276 screens, and the four other number one debutsoccurred in Germany on $2.3m on 474, the ...
-
News
Coach Carter benches Meet The Fockers in US
Paramount's true-lifebasketball drama Coach Carter knocked off Meet The Fockers toopen top over the three-day portion of Martin Luther King Day weekend on anestimated $23.6m.While Fockers slippedto second place for the first time in its record-breaking four-week run, WarnerBros' family comedy Racing Stripes opened in third place on $14m, andTwentieth ...
-
News
Coach Carter too strong for Meet The Fockers
Paramount's true-lifebasketball drama Coach Carter knocked off Meet The Fockers toopen top over the three-day portion of Martin Luther King Day weekend on anestimated $23.6m.While Fockers slippedto second place for the first time in its record-breaking four-week run, WarnerBros' family comedy Racing Stripes opened in third place on $14m, andTwentieth ...
-
News
Seven films shortlisted for makeup Oscar
The Aviator,De-Lovely, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Hellboy, Lemony Snicket'sA Series of Unfortunate Events, The Passion Of The Christ and The Sea Inside are the seven pictures that will beconsidered by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences for bestachievement in make-up.Ten-minute clips of each contender will ...
-
News
Film-makers and artists group together in Macrocosm production collective
A consortium of independent filmmakers and creative artists calledMacrocosm will launch at Sundance on Jan 24, with the aim of bringingindependent projects to stage, screen and television.The group's inaugural and self-financed project Hot Chicks, a live action feature based onreligious comic book tracts by Jack Chick and featuring segments by ...
-
News
Drake leads management buyout of Senator International
Senator International president Joe Drake announced yesterday (Jan13) that the company's senior management has bought out Senator's US operationsfrom parent Senator Entertainment and lender Deutsche Bank and named the newcompany Mandate Pictures.Drake, head of production Nathan Kahane and chief financialofficer Brian Goldsmith are the principal owners of the company, with ...
-
News
Independents should make more musicals, urges new coalition
A new coalition has called upon independent filmmakers to makemore musicals following a decision not to reactivate the Original Musical Oscarcategory at next month's 77th Academy Awards.The Coalition of the Musical's Indie Musical Challenge has alreadydrawn support from Team America: World Police co-creator Matt Stone, and thecoalition's Dan Mirvish wants ...