All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 549
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NewsAsif Kapadia to direct 'Silver Ghost'
The British director of Oscar-nominated documentary Amy, whose romance Ali & Nino premiered in Sundance this week, is lining up a drama about the iconic car manufacturer for producer Martin Scorsese.
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CommentWe Are UK Film brunch, Sundance 2016
The British Film Commission and the BFI hosted their annual get-together in Park City.
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NewsKathryn Bigelow to direct Detroit crime drama
Annapurna is financing a reunion project featuring the Oscar-winning duo of Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal.
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NewsKen DuBow launches Bob’s Your Uncle
EXCLUSIVE: The film and TV veteran heads to the EFM with his new worldwide sales and distribution venture, kicking off with two projects.
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NewsContent to sell Manolo Blahnik doc at EFM
The production, financing and sales company will introduce buyers in Berlin next month to the film about the celebrated shoe designer.
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FeaturesNate Parker talks Sundance hit 'The Birth Of A Nation'
You may know the name Nate Parker from his roles in The Great Debaters, Non-Stop and Arbitrage. Then Monday afternoon happened at the Eccles in Sundance.
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NewsThe Solution touts 'Official Secrets'
Paul Bettany, Natalie Dormer, Martin Freeman, Anthony Hopkins and Harrison Ford will star in the spy thriller that looks certain to get buyers buzzing ahead of the EFM next month.
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NewsUS Briefs: Open Road seals development financing pact
Plus: Santa Barbara International Film Festival to honour five directors
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NewsSundance: 'Embrace Of The Serpent' wins Sloan prize
An extraordinary year for the Colombian Oscar nominee continued as Ciro Guerra’s drama was announced on Wednesday as winner of the 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize.
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NewsSundance: Magnolia takes 'Lo And Behold'
The distributor has acquired worldwide rights from Submarine to Werner Herzog’s Sundance premiere Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World and will commence international sales at the EFM in Berlin next month.
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Comment‘Eddie The Eagle’ leaps into Sundance
Park City locals got a surprise on Monday night when Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton turned up for a screening of the biopic about one of Britain’s pluckiest Olympians.
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NewsHulu strikes IFC streaming deal
The digital service has ramped up its portfolio with a deal for exclusive first streaming window on all documentaries under the IFC Films label that includes recent Sundance pick-up Weiner.
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NewsSundance: Netflix acquires 'Audrie & Daisy'
Netflix has picked up worldwide SVOD rights from UTA Independent Film Group to the US Documentary Competition entry Audrie & Daisy.
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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.