All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 534
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NewsUS Briefs: Rebecca Hall to star in 'Permission'
Plus: Former Relativity TV duo launch Critical Content; Surveillance producer Kent Harper makes directorial debut on Villainous; and more
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FeaturesDoron Weber, The Sloan Foundation
As Sundance prepares to announce the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, Jeremy Kay talks to the Sloan Foundation’s vice-president and programme director about his mission to further public understanding of science, technology and economics through grant allocation and partnership with film schools around the US.
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NewsSundance: Fox Searchlight in record $17.5m deal for 'Birth Of A Nation'
SUNDANCE: Fox Searchlight swooped on Monday night for worldwide rights to Nate Parker’s The Birth Of A Nation, reportedly paying $17.5m in what would be the biggest ever on-site deal in Park City.
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NewsSundance: The Orchard snaps up 'Wilderpeople'
Taika Waititi’s road movie has found a North American home as The Orchard paid in the region of $2m for Hunt For The Wilderpeople following its debut in Premieres last Friday.
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NewsSundance 2016 unveils shorts winners
The 2016 Short Film Grand Jury Prize, awarded to one film in the programme of 72 short films selected from 8,712 submissions, has gone to Thunder Road.
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NewsRelativity raises further $100m
Last week’s investment in Relativity by Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures is part of a new $100m-plus round of financing, it emerged on Monday.
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NewsSony acquires international rights to 'Blade Runner'
The studio will handle distribution outside North America on Alcon Entertainment’s follow-up to Ridley Scott’s widely acclaimed 1982 sci-fi.
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NewsSundance: 'Indignation', 'Equity' find US homes
UPDATE: James Schamus’ feature directorial debut has gone to Summit in a North American deal in the mid-$2m range.
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NewsAcademy explains rule changes
Following concern by members, leadership at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have explained the rationale behind last Thursday’s rule changes.
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CommentUCLA film school hosts annual Sundance event at Zoom
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television dean Teri Schwartz hosted the school’s annual Sundance reception on Saturday.
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NewsUS Briefs: FilmBuff to handle int’l sales on 'Truth And Power'
FilmBuff has licensed international rights to Participant Media’s 10-part investigative docu-series about corruption and civil liberties narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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NewsSundance: Amazon strikes $10m deal for 'Manchester By The Sea'
UPDATE: Amazon Studios bid $10m for Kenneth Lonergan’s drama. Separately, A24/DirecTV picked up Morris From America.
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NewsSundance: partners unite on 'Under The Shadow'
Vertical Entertainment and XYZ Films have partnered for global distribution on the Midnight selection and Farsi-language horror thriller.
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News'The Revenant' crosses $200m at global box office
The Revenant grossed an estimated $33.8m from 48 markets as the running total reached $104.5m.
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News'The Revenant' storms ahead in US on $16m
Fox/New Regency’s revenge drama reached to the top of the North American charts in its fifth weekend as Winter Storm Jonas ravaged the East Coast and according to some estimates knocked off 10% of potential overall earnings.
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News'The Big Short' wins PGA Award
Paramount’s financial crisis ensemble drama vaulted to the top of the Oscar best picture race following Saturday night’s Darryl F. Zanuck Award best picture triumph at the 27th annual Producers Guild Of America awards.
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NewsSundance director lambasts Chilean film support
EXCLUSIVE: Alejandro Fernández Almendras, whose Much Ado About Nothing plays in the World Cinema Dramatic section on Monday, said he feels he has no choice but to leave Chile to pursue his career “as a matter of survival.”
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NewsSundance: SPC takes world on Frank Zappa doc
UPDATE: Eat That Question – Frank Zappa In His Own Words has gone to the Sony fold in a sub-$1m worldwide deal with Submarine excluding France and Germany ahead of Monday’s world premiere.
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NewsUS Briefs: Daisy Ridley joins 'The Eagle Huntress' as EP
Plus: Lisandro Alonso’s Argentinean film Jauja wins at Cinema Tropical; Dell, Adrien Grenier launch short film contest; and more…
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NewsAcademy introduces diversity changes
In a unanimous vote, the Academy’s board of governors have approved what it called “substantive changes” designed to make the Academy’s membership, its governing bodies and voters “significantly more diverse”.