All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 626
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NewsFortitude to sell This Man, This Woman
EFM: Penelope Cruz and Diane Kruger are in final talks to star in the romance from Isabel Coixet, whose Nobody Wants The Night will open the Berlinale next week.
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NewsARC gets The Walking Deceased
ARC Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Scott Dow’s horror spoof.
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NewsUniversal starts Steve Jobs shoot
Danny Boyle has begun principal photography in San Francisco on Universal’s Steve Jobs starring Michael Fassbender.
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NewsGolden Globes date set for 2016
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has set the date for the 73rd annual Golden Globes.
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NewsImage to release Dark Was The Night
Image Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Caliber Media’s creature feature and will release theatrically this year.
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NewsColin Firth, James Marsh set sail for StudioCanal
EFM: StudioCanal has injected what is sure to become one of the hottest titles at the market, setting the Oscar winner to play amateur yachtsman Donald Crowhurst in James Marsh’s follow-up to Academy Award nominee The Theory Of Everything.
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NewsMagnolia takes world on Tangerine
A banner year in Park City continued to deliver the goods as Magnolia Pictures acquired world rights to Sean Baker’s comedy. Separately, Fox Searchlight closed a major deal for Brooklyn, while Alchemy, SPC and Lionsgate confirmed previously reported buys on Strangerland, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl and Knock Knock.
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NewsForesight to launch One Night Stan at EFM
Mark Damon returns to Berlin with a marquee title in the form of the Bobby Farrelly comedy and along with Tamara Birkemoe will commence pre-sales next week.
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NewsContent to spread Pandemic at EFM
Content Media will commence international sales in Berlin next week on John Suits’ sci-fi action-thriller starring Rachel Nichols, Mekhi Phifer and Missi Pyle.
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FeaturesSundance 2015: Meet The Brits Brunch
Pretty much everybody who was anybody in the UK film business and in Park City attended the casual gathering at High West Distillery.
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NewsSundance unveils Global Filmmaking winners
The Sundance Institute has named the winners of the 2015 Sundance Institute Global Filmmaking Award presented by the new digital-only news channel AJ+.
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NewsThe Exchange boards Seacole for EFM
Octavia Spencer is attached to star and will reunite with The Help producer Brunson Green on the biopic, which The Exchange will introduce to buyers next week.
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NewsThe Overnight, Knock Knock shine in Park City
SUNDANCE: The Orchard has taken North American rights to The Overnight as reports emerged that Lionsgate was closing on Chilewood psychosexual thriller Knock Knock.
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FeaturesRKSS Collective, Turbo Kid
Quebecois co-directors Anouk Whissell, François Simard and Yoann-Karl Whissell tell Jeremy Kay about their Sundance entry, a retro-fuelled, post-apocalyptic romantic action-adventure complete with classic 1980s 3D toy the View-Master.
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NewsArchstone picks up Slamdance pic Body
EXCLUSIVE: Brady Bowen said on Monday (January 26) the company had acquired international sales rights and will kick off business at the EFM next week.
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NewsSearchlight, Indian Paintbrush take world on Earl
An unusually busy first weekend of on-site deal-making in Park City continued into the week as Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush partnered on world rights to Me And Earl And The Dying Girl and The Orchard acquired The Overnight.
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NewsSelma team reunite on Hurricane Katrina project
Ava DuVernay and her Selma star David Oyelowo have teamed up with Participant Media to develop a romantic mystery set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina.
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FeaturesBenson Lee, Seoul Searching
The Toronto-born child of Korean parents who left their homeland in the 1960s returns to Sundance after 1998 selection Miss Monday with a unique spin on the teen movie genre based on his own experiences.
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NewsRadar Pictures to produce Origins
Ted Field will produce writer-director Cameron Romero’s zombie origins story.