All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 580
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NewsCBS Films catches ‘Comancheria’
ROUND-UP: CBS Films has acquired US rights to David Mackenzie’s action heist thriller starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster. Sierra/Affinity commences sales in Cannes.
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NewsLionsgate greenlights ‘John Wick 2’
Patrick Wachsberger’s Lionsgate International team will commence sales in Cannes in select territories where output deals do not apply on the thriller that reunites Thunder Road with Keanu Reeves.
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NewsTed Sarandos to give Cannes talk
In what looks set to become the Marché’s hot-ticket equivalent of the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao bout, the Netflix chief content officer is scheduled to take part in an on-stage conversation on May 15.
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NewsSam Neswick named Participant CSO
Participant Media has promoted Sam Neswick to the newly created position.
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NewsCMG to sell ‘Loving Vincent’
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Noeltner is Cannes-bound with world sales rights to the prestige Vincent Van Gogh ‘painted animation’ starring Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan, Jerome Flynn and Chris O’Dowd.
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CommentNewport Beach Film Festival
PICTURE GALLERY: Filmgoers mixed with celebrities at the California festival’s 16th edition that ran from April 23-30.
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News'Ultron' soars to $664m global
MAY 5 UPDATE: Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron grossed $19.1m on Monday as the international running total climbed to $459.5m.
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News‘Ultron’ delivers $191.3m US debut
UPDATED MAY 5: Marvel Studios’ superhero tentpole erupted into 4,276 theatres across North America at the weekend to deliver the second biggest three-day debut in history.
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News'The Passion Of Augustine' triumphs at NBFF
Lea Pool’s drama went home with a handful of major honours as the 16th annual film festival concluded in southern California on April 30.
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NewsLotus Entertainment to sell ‘Magic City’
Jim Seibel and Bill Johnson will commence sales in Cannes on the Starz original TV series adaptation starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Danny Huston, and Kelly Lynch.
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NewsSamuel Goldwyn Films acquires ‘Franny’
The distributor has picked up writer-director Andrew Renzi’s feature debut and recent Tribeca selection starring Richard Gere. Fortitude International handles sales in Cannes on behalf of QED International.
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NewsContent saves 'Bullet' for Cannes
Content Media has added another tile to its market roster, taking worldwide rights to Adam Rehmeier’s action feature Save A Bullet For Me.
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News'Ultron' crosses $300m globally
MAY 1 UPDATE: Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron heads into its second weekend all but assured of continued supremacy on $287.3m internationally and $27.6m from North American Thursday previews.
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NewsIFT takes ‘Bleeding Heart’ to Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: International Film Trust heads to Cannes with sales rights to the recent Tribeca world premiere starring Jessica Biel.
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NewsBlue Box to sell ‘Stowaway’
The Red Granite International subsidiary has dropped a Marcus Nispel project into the Cannes market in the form of the maritime horror film.
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NewsPelican Point, Cassian Elwes launch Golden Gate Media
Pelican Point Capital Partners via its media arm Pelican Point Media has formed Golden Gate Media in association with Cassian Elwes.
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NewsRaven Banner flies with ‘Sky Sharks’
EXCLUSIVE: Toronto-based Raven Banner Entertainment has secured worldwide rights to the mutant shark-infested, Nazi zombie creature feature and will start sales in Cannes.
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NewsA24, Cary Fukunaga plot father-son drama
The New York-based distributor is moving into development on the project for the in-demand director of True Detective.
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NewsThe Solution to sell JK Simmons starrer 'The Runaround'
Lisa Wilson will kick off pre-sales in Cannes on the comedy package buoyed by the plum casting of recent Oscar winner JK Simmons alongside Emile Hirsch.
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NewsCinando, DFCN form alliance
The database managed by the Cannes market has partnered with Silicon Valley entrepreneur Ray Bell’s cloud-based marketplace.