All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 542
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NewsVisit Films takes trio to SXSW
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kampe’s New York-based sales agency is in Austin, Texas, with three new titles for buyers.
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FeaturesAmy Hobby, TFI Latin America Fund
Tribeca Institute recently unveiled the 10 projects selected to receive support in its drive to nurture distinctive voices from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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FeaturesAnne Hamilton, 'American Fable'
Jeremy Kay talks to the first-time feature director and former Terrence Malick intern about her SXSW selection, which premieres in Visions on Sunday.
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News'Dheepan' and 'Paulina' triumph in Miami
Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan won the Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize and Argentine filmmaker Santiago Mitre’s Paulina won the Lexus Ibero-American Feature Film Prize at the 33rd edition of Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival.
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NewsFox International crosses $1bn
Powered by Deadpool, The Revenant and Kung Fu Panda 3, the studio has reached the milestone in its second fastest time.
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News'Zootopia' stays top in US on $51m
MARCH 14 UPDATE: Disney’s latest animation juggernaut held on to pole position in its second session as a confirmed $51.3m boosted the running total to $143.9m.
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News'Zootopia' hits $439m worldwide
MARCH 14 UPDATE: Zootopia continued to decimate the Hollywood competition and earned a further $89.3m in a rousing session thanks in large part to a $56.5m haul in China that propelled the international running total to $294.9m.
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NewsNapster co-founder’s first-run film service draws fire
Sean Parker’s The Screening Room is shaping up to be a controversial proposition as exhibitors and celebrated film-makers including Peter Jackson line up on opposite sides of the release window divide.
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NewsKevin Spacey passes on Relativity chairman role
The actor has stepped away from the position announced in January as the company continues to wade through a restructure process, according to court documents.
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News'Room' sweeps Canadian Screen Awards
The Canada-Ireland drama dominated the awards show on Sunday night, picking up nine honours including best film.
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NewsIM Global names trio of new hires
The Los Angeles-based production, sales and financing venture, whose upcoming slate of releases includes Free State Of Jones, has bulked up its finance, business and legal affairs, and marketing and publicity divisions.
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NewsUS Briefs: Paramount pulls out of US release of 'The Little Prince'
Plus: Imax, UN in programme to effect change.
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NewsJohn Goodman joins 'Patriots Day'
The star of March 11 new release 10 Cloverfield Lane joins previously announced J.K. Simmons and Mark Wahlberg on CBS Films and Lionsgate’s Boston Marathon bombing drama.
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FeaturesAlex Taylor, 'Spaceship'
The British director’s SXSW short Kids Might Fly won a special jury prize in 2010 and he returns to Austin, Texas, with a story of alien abduction and teen angst.
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FeaturesAdam Pinney, 'The Arbalest'
Mike Brune stars in the SXSW Narrative Feature Competition selection as Foster Kalt, a toy inventor who reflects on his lifelong obsession with one Sylvia Frank.
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FeaturesMike Flanagan and Trevor Macy, 'Hush'
Director Mike Flanagan and producer and Intrepid Pictures principal Trevor Macy talk to Jeremy Kay about their latest horror film and Netflix acquisition ahead of its world premiere at SXSW on Saturday.
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NewsMarketing exec Christine Birch rejoins Sony
The executive previously served at the studio in senior positions for 12 years and returns in the newly created role of evp of domestic creative marketing strategy.
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NewsA24 picks up 'Free Fire' for the US
The cutting-edge distributor, fresh from its recent three-Oscar haul, has acquired US rights to UK wunderkind Ben Wheatley’s thriller.
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NewsNetflix buys SXSW premiere 'Hush'
The digital platform is understood to have paid low to mid-seven figures for global streaming rights to Mike Flanagan’s follow-up to Oculus ahead of Saturday’s world premiere in Austin, Texas.
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NewsChristina Kounelias lands Participant marketing role
The executive arrives from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences and will serve in the newly created role of evp of worldwide marketing and communications.