All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 638
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Newsmonterey media acquires The Living
The deal covers North American rights to the thriller starring Fran Kranz. Separately Sundance Selects has picked up The Search For General Tso, Image Entertainment has acquired Roadside and WellGo USA has set a US release date for Supremacy.
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NewsVincent Scordino joins Millennium Entertainment
One day after it emerged the executive was leaving Cinedigm, he is returning to the Millennium fold to assume the newly created role of svp of marketing.
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NewsBroad Green invests in Tugg
Gabriel and Daniel Hammond’s ambitious finance, production and distribution upstart has led a Series A investment round in the cinema-on-demand player.
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NewsIM Global moves into music
Stuart Ford’s company has launched IM Global Music in partnership with music industry executive and former Miramax colleague David Schulhof.
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NewsBirdman leads SAG nods
Birdman garnered four Screen Actors Guild nominations on December 10 for Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone and ensemble, while Norton and Benedict Cumberbatch earned three apiece. Fox Searchlight led the studios on six nods.
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FeaturesCreativity is GREAT reception
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge toasted the British creative industries at the private work collective NeueHouse in Manhattan on December 9 hosted by the British Ambassador to the US Sir Peter Westmacott and the British Consul General to New York Danny Lopez.Launched in 2012, the GREAT campaign promotes British ...
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CommentIFC Films debuts Boyhood featurette
The Making Of Boyhood - 12 Years On Film has debuted on Hulu.
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NewsMedellin launches tax rebate
UPDATED DECEMBER 10: The second largest city in Colombian has become the first in the growing Latin American territory to offer an incentive.
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NewsANEW, Wilco, Depth Of Field adapt Birthright
All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW), Japanese production company Wilco Co and Los Angeles-based Depth Of Field will adapt, develop and produce the Japanese horror thriller for the English-language market.
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NewsSundance unveils shorts roster
Top brass have announced 60 films culled from 8,061 submissions across four categories – US and international narrative, documentary and animation.
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NewsDOC Toronto names inaugural honourees
DOC Toronto’s The DOC Institute has announced its inaugural awards, giving the DOC Star Award to Elizabeth Klinck and the New Visions Award presented by Urban Post Production to Brett Story.
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NewsCinedigm reshuffles theatrical acquisitions
Top brass are restructuring theatrical acquisitions in light of the sudden departure of svp of theatrical releasing Vincent Scordino.
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NewseOne, Cimorelli sign content pact
eOne and YouTube stars Cimorelli – the six singing sisters from Malibu – have struck a multi-year output deal to create and distribute original content in all filmed entertainment media.
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NewsSamuel Goldwyn Films sets Bad Asses release
The distributor will release the action comedy in a theatrical and digital day-and-date launch on March 6.
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NewsBoyhood duo in SBIFF honour
Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke will collect the American Rivera Award at the 30th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), marking the first time two people will share the honour.
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NewsDave Fleming launches Atlas Artists
The manager has partnered with Charles Roven to form the subsidiary of Atlas Entertainment.
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NewsCast joins Substance Productions’ First Round Down
Jared Keeso, Lauren Lee Smith, Ennis Esmer and Gil Bellows will star star in the Butler Brothers’ sports comedy, which Marina Cordoni Entertainment will introduce to buyers in Berlin.
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NewsOddLot hires Kevin Garrett Monroe
The executive arrives as evp of business and legal affairs, OddLot Entertainment co-presidents Bill Lischak and Michael Nathanson announced on December 8.
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NewsAFI announces awards selections
For the first time the year-end list includes 11 as opposed to the usual 10 features - but Gone Girl and Inherent Vice fail to make the cut.
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NewsSundance: Premieres, Doc Premieres
Festival top brass have revealed a high-profile roster of out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres entries featuring many returning heroes, as well as a new Special Events section and panel participants including George Lucas.