All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 543
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NewsMadRiver sets 'Six Minutes To Freedom' director
EXCLUSIVE: Marc Butan’s MadRiver Pictures and Laura Bickford Productions have partnered with Sesso Entertainment’s Samuel Franco on the action thriller Six Minutes To Freedom.
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NewsFilmSharks strikes further TIFF slate deals
Guido Rud’s Buenos Aires-based sales agent has announced another wave of sales from its Toronto slate.
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News'Beasts' director Cary Fukunaga lobbied for theatrical release
The Beasts Of No Nation writer-director personally lobbied for a theatrical component to the release of Netflix’s first original feature.
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News'Angry Indian Goddesses' closes key territory
EXCLUSIVE: Mongrel International has slotted another piece into its international distribution jigsaw on Jungle Book Entertainment and One Two Films’ Toronto Special Presentation selection Angry Indian Goddesses.
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NewsToronto wrap: market off pace after sluggish start
The arrival in Toronto of a hefty cluster of prestige titles with US distribution already in place presaged a sluggish buying scene and so it proved to be over the first five days.
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NewsIFC Midnight acquires US rights to 'Baskin'
The distributor has picked up Can Evrenol’s Turkish Midnight Madness favourite in Toronto.
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NewsParis Film, Zed Filmworks, Go Insane Films line up 'Numbskull'
Rob Paris’ LA-based Paris Film, Robert Menzies’ Ottawa-based Zed Filmworks and Canadian real estate developer Alphonse Ghossein’s Go Insane Films will co-finance and produce the drama.
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NewsMomentum Pictures buys TIFF entry 'Forsaken'
The distributor has pounced on its second title in Toronto, taking US rights from Minds Eye Entertainment to Jon Cassar’s Western.
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News'The Ardennes' goes to Satine Films
Attraction Distribution has licensed its Toronto world premiere selection to Satine Films for Italy.
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NewsAG Capital lines up 'Cruise'
Alex Garcia and Laura Walker of AG Capital have cast Emily Ratajkowski and Spencer Boldman in the 1980s-set youth culture drama.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires 'Glassland'
The distributor has acquired North American rights from Kaleidoscope Film Distribution to the Sundance 2015 entry.
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NewsDarclight to sell Li Bingbing starrer 'Nest'
The 3D sci-fi thriller reunites the Arclight team with the star of their $80m Chinese smash Zhongkui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal.
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NewsGolden Island Filmworks, Antigua plot $125m equity boost
A group of film industry veterans have teamed up with the government of Antigua on an initial slate of five features designed to boost the Caribbean island’s production ambitions.
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NewsTIFF buyers hear call of 'London Town'
EXCLUSIVE: Cargo Entertainment/Radiant Films International are handling international sales here via their new partnership on London Town starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Joe Strummer.
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NewsConquistador tempts TIFF buyers with 'Big Stone Gap'
EXCLUSIVE: Pascal Borno’s company has reported a strong response from buyers in Toronto to the film starring Ashley Judd, Whoopi Goldberg and Patrick Wilson.
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NewsFortitude International to sell 'Drunk Parents' in TIFF
Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek will star in the comedy which Fortitude International has been touting to buyers in Toronto.
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NewsNetflix eyes Robert Redford, Jane Fonda match
Netflix is reportedly weighing up whether to back a romance that would reunite Robert Redford and Jane Fonda on screen for the first time since The Electric Horseman in 1979.
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NewsRZA to direct Amasia's 'Breakout'
Amasia Entertainment principals Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo have signed RZA to direct the upcoming action feature.
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News'The Perfect Guy' edges 'The Visit' in US box office race
The Screen Gems thriller starring Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy and Morris Chestnut claimed the North American box office crown at the weekend thanks to a $26.7m estimated debut from 2,221 theatres.
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NewsSierra/Affinity, Good Films strike pact on 'The Infiltrator'
Political thriller stars Bryan Cranston and Diane Kruger.