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All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 615
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NewsSloan honour to Stanford Prison Experiment
Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment has received the Alfred P Sloan Feature Film Prize and a $20,000 cash award as the Sundance Institute announced Science-In-Film honourees.
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NewsCharlie Hunnam to star in Lost City Of Z
The British star will play Col Percival Fawcett opposite Sienna Miller and Robert Pattinson in James Gray’s adventure that Sierra/Affinity represents at the EFM.
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NewsSamuel Goldwyn nabs The Farewell Party
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired all North American rights from Beta Cinema to Sharon Mammon and Tal Granit’s euthanasia comedy. BOND/360, Zeitgeist Films and Image Entertainment have all been active in separate deals.
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NewsSXSW 2015 unveils feature roster
Top brass at the 22nd South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival have announced the feature line-up for the upcoming festival, set to run from March 13-21 in Austin, Texas.
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NewsEFM: Conquistador boards Phenom
EXCLUSIVE: On the back of its marquee sales title and awards contender Cake starring Jennifer Aniston, Conquistador Entertainment will kick off sales in Berlin on the drama starring red-hot Ethan Hawke, Paul Giamatti and Johnny Simmons.
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NewsXYZ, Distant Corners team up on Holidays
XYZ Films has teamed up with John Hegeman’s new genre label Distant Corners Entertainment to produce the collection of subversive holiday tales from multiple directors including Kevin Smith.
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NewsAlchemy, The Orchard in Sundance buys
In a pair of late-breaking North American deals from Sundance, Alchemy has acquired political thriller Zipper while The Orchard has taken Finders Keepers.
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NewsFifty Shades generates huge pre-sales
EXCLUSIVE: Advance international ticket sales on Fifty Shades Of Grey, set to open day-and-date worldwide via Universal on February 11, have sky-rocketed to 2.75 million across 39 markets.
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NewsMyriad heads to EFM with In The Lost Lands
Milla Jovovich is in advanced negotiations to star as a sorceress in Myriad Pictures’ fantasy adventure based on short stories from the creator of Game Of Thrones.
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NewsCinema Management Group launches European hub
EFM: The Beverly Hills-based sales agency has launched a full-time office in Paris named CMG Europe SAS.
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NewsGood Universe sells The Forest
EFM: Good Universe has closed a host of international sales heading into the EFM on Lava Bear’s supernatural thriller led by a major deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA).
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NewsMarina Cordoni to sell Fall at EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Industry Pictures and Lentin/Odette Productions announced on Monday (February 2) the multiple Canadian Screen Awards nominee will premiered at the market in Berlin.
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NewsChinese Running Brother rules int’l BO
BOX OFFICE: Chinese Running Brother stormed to the top of the international box office charts at the weekend thanks to an estimated $35m haul.
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NewsThe Exchange boards Breaking The Bank
EXCLUSIVE: Brian O’Shea and his team head to Berlin with world sales rights to Vadim Jean’s caper staring Kelsey Grammer.
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NewsAmerican Sniper claims Super Bowl weekend record
Clint Eastwood’s war film held on to number one for the third consecutive weekend as an estimated $31.9m looks to have set a new record for the weekend and boosted the running total through Warner Bros to $248.9m.
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NewsSpotlight lines up Chloe & Theo for EFM
EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Spotlight Pictures heads to Berlin with two new titles on its sales roster.
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NewsAwards round-up: Annies, ADG
The Art Directors Guild and ASIFA-Hollywood handed out their major honours over the weekend.
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NewsMe And Earl triumphs at Sundance
SUNDANCE: The 2015 festival approached the end on Saturday (January 31) as Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me And Earl And The Dying Girl capped a sensational 10 days by scooping both the US grand jury prize and audience awards.
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NewsBleecker Street falls into Dreams
SUNDANCE: The new distributor has acquired worldwide rights to Brett Haley’s I’ll See You In My Dreams following the world premiere on January 27. Separately HBO has taken US TV rights to 3 1/2 Minutes.
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NewsAMBI lines up In Dubious Battle for EFM
James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride will star in In Dubious Battle, which AMBI Distribution is bringing to the EFM.