All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 458
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NewsSundance: Searchlight buys 'Step', closing on 'Patti Cake$'
The distributor was at the centre of two major worldwide deals on Tuesday.
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NewsSundance: Kino Lorber picks up 'Pop Aye'
The distributor has acquired North American rights to Singaporean writer-director Kirsten Tan’s debut feature.
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FeaturesOscar nominations 2017: predicting the winners
La La Land is the film to beat, but it faces stiff competition for all the big prizes.
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NewsSundance: Netflix in $8m deal for 'To The Bone'
Streaming giant picks up Sundance drama starring Lily Collins and Keanu Reeves.
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NewsUS Briefs: 'Marjorie Prime' wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature prize
Michael Almereyda’s Park City selection has claimed the award for best feature about an elderly woman whose handsome new A.I. companion resembles her late husband.
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NewsIce Cube, AID Partners strike development pact
The entertainer’s film production company Cube Vision has signed a strategic partnership with the media investment company founded by Hong Kong entrepreneur Kelvin Wu.
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NewsSundance: FBI launches review into cyberattack
Festival organisers confirmed to Screen on Monday that the authorities were looking into the unprecedented incident over the weekend.
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NewsSundance: Gravitas Ventures acquires US on 'Legion Of Brothers'
Passion Pictures and CNN Films produced the war documentary and Park City premiere.
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NewsSundance: Refinery29, TNT strike anthology deal
The partners on Monday announced at Sundance a new season of the Shatterbox Anthology film series that backed Kristen Stewart’s directing debut Come Swim.
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NewsFilmNation unveils more Sundance sales on comedy 'The Big Sick'
EXCLUSIVE: Further international sales on the hit Sundance comedy have emerged following Sunday’s $12m deal with Amazon Studios.
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NewsSundance: Netflix buys 'Jessica James', 'Joshua', in talks for Hulk Hogan doc
The streaming giant struck twice as a busy Monday drew to a close and interest mounted on Geremy Jasper’s directorial debut Patti Cake$ starring Danielle MacDonald.
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News'The Blind Christ' among Cartagena festival line-up
Christopher Murray’s Venice entry will screen in the fiction category of official selection when the 57th edition of the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI) gets underway on March 1.
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NewsBreaking Glass acquires Chilean festival hit 'Jesús'
The distributor has picked up North American rights to Fernando Guzzoni’s thriller, which premiered in Toronto last autumn.
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News'Split' earns M Night Shyamalan US box office crown on $40m (update)
JANUARY 23 UPDATE: Universal’s horror film starring James McAvoy as a kidnapper with multiple personalities soared to number one on its debut.
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NewsScreenings rescheduled after Redstone Cinemas power cut
UPDATE: Festvial programmers have found new slots for The Mars Generation, Landline and Dolores.
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NewsBleecker Street picks up 'Nostalgia' starring Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn
The New York-based distributor anounced in Sundance it has acquired North American rights to Mark Pellington’s film starring Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn and Catherine Keener.
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NewsSundance: SPC takes world on 'Novitiate'
The distributor is understood to have paid mid-seven figures for Maggie Betts’ U.S. Dramatic Competition entry in a deal that closed early on Sunday morning.
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NewsSundance: Amazon swoops on Judd Apatow-produced 'The Big Sick' in $12m deal
EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: The company stamped its name on Park City for the second year in a row following a Saturday night negotiation for Michael Showalter’s crowd-pleaser.
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News'La La Land' wins London Critics' Circle best film
The Oscar frontrunner and BAFTA nominee charmed the UK’s leading critics to win top prize at the 37th Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Sunday night at The May Fair Hotel.
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NewsSundance: Deals for 'Thoroughbred', 'Ingrid Goes West', 'The Hero'
A flurry of deals emerged on Sunday evening as the snow smothered Park City and insiders predicted an imminent buy on Amanda Lipitz’s documentary crowd-pleaser Step.