All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 575
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NewsCohen Media Group hires marketing, PR executives
Former IFC Films marketing director Michael Winton has joined as vice-president of marketing, while publicity consultant Laura Sok has been named vice-president of publicity.
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News'Black Mass' writer joins Chicago Mafia drama
Producer-financier Black Label has hired Mark Mallouk for the story based on the Kurt Calabrese life rights.
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NewsSales team takes shape on 'Viva'
EXCLUSIVE: The team representing Paddy Breathnach’s Havana-set drama has come together and will present the film to market buyers in Toronto next month.
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NewsARC acquires 'Garm Wars: The Last Druid'
The distributor has picked up US rights to Mamoru Oshii’s sci-fi and plans an October 2 day-and-date theatrical and VOD launch.
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News'Lost City Of Z' begins production
James Gray’s long-gestating adventure has commenced shooting in Belfast and stars Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland.
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NewsRegal Entertainment Group introduces bag checks
The biggest exhibitor chain in the US this week responded to the spate of deadly gun attacks inside US cinemas.
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Newstrinidad + tobago Film Festival unveils Panorama
Asif Kapadia’s Amy, Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother, Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu, John Maclean’s Slow West and Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood are among the fiction and documentary line-up.
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News'Neruda' wraps nine-week shoot
Pablo Larraín’s latest film starring Luis Gnecco and Gael García Bernal has completed principal photography in Chile, Argentina and France.
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NewsSeville International boards 'The Steps'
EXCLUSIVE: Anick Poirier and her team will commence world sales in Toronto on Quadrant Motion Pictures’ film about a dysfunctional family reunion.
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NewsShane Smith joins Hot Docs as director of programming
The new hire arrives from the Toronto International Film Festival and will start on October 5.
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NewsCasting: Sharon Stone joins 'Running Wild'
The star has joined the drama from Forrest Lucas and Ali Afshar’s recently launched ESX Entertainment. Separately, Ving Rhames is on board Alcon’s comedy Bastards.
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NewsMetro Int'l strikes North American deal on 'Kilo Two Bravo'
EXCLUSIVE: The London-based sales agent has struck a US and Canadian sale on the BAFTA-nominated war story ahead of next month’s North American premiere in Toronto.
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News108 Media boards 'Pinup Dolls On Ice'
EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto-based company has picked up US distribution and world sales rights to the second film in BGOI Film’s ‘On Ice’ slasher series.
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NewsAcort International to sell 'Excess Flesh'
EXCLUSIVE: The Phoenix-based sales agent will represent worldwide rights to Patrick Kennelly’s SXSW psychological thriller.
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NewsTIFF announces City To City, closing night
Potential awards season contenders Truth from James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham’s I Saw The Light starring Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams land world premiere slots, while Paco Cabezas’s Mr. Right will close the festival.
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NewsBud Yorkin dies aged 89
The film and television director, producer and writer died of natural causes at his Bel Air Home. He was 89.
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NewsSamuel Goldwyn Films buys 'Yakuza Apocalypse'
The North American rights deal for Japanese genre master Takashi Miike’s comedic vampire action thriller precedes the Midnight Madness screening in Toronto next month.
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NewsCohen Media Group acquires 'Rams'
Chairman and CEO Charles Cohen announced the North American deal for the Cannes Un Certain Regard prize winner on Monday.
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NewsO.D Welch named Digital Domain president
The new arrival previously served in senior executive roles at Cameron Pace Group, Prime Focus Limited and 525 Studios among others.
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News'Compton' soars to $60.2m on US debut
AUGUST 17 UPDATE: The year when Universal Pictures can seemingly do no wrong continued as the NWA biopic brushed Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation aside. Warner Bros’ The Man From U.N.C.L.E. flopped in third place.