All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 687
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NewsSony buys The Eden Project
The studio has acquired the Material sci-fi spec script from Christina Hodson.
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NewsAtomic Fiction opens Montreal hub
The California-based effects studio has opened its flagship facility in Montreal.
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NewsBGP takes the wheel on Drive
EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Hammond and Daniel Hammond’s ambitious start-up Broad Green Pictures (BGP) will self-distribute Isabel Coixet’s recent Toronto world premiere Learning To Drive in the US.
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NewsRed Bull takes On Any Sunday sequel
Red Bull Media House in association with Freeride Entertainment will release motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter theatrically on November 7. Separately, Gravitas Ventures has taken VOD rights to As Night Comes.
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NewsA Better Place wraps shoot
Digital Jungle Pictures has completed post-production on its first feature marking the directorial debut of Dennis Ho.
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NewsPrincipal photography begins on Spotlight
John Slattery, Brian d’Arcy James Billy Crudup and Jamey Sheridan have joined Participant Media’s drama about the Boston Globe investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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NewsUS-China summit sets LA return
Guo Guangchang, chairman of Studio 8 backer Fosun International, will deliver a keynote speech on the future of Chinese capital in Hollywood at the fifth annual US-China Film Summit in Los Angeles on November 5.
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FeaturesKent Jones, New York Film Festival
The director and chair of the selection committee at NYFF talks to Jeremy Kay about why world premieres aren’t the name of the game, Martin Scorsese and a certain Edward Snowden documentary.
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NewsMillennium Entertainment takes The Humbling
The distributor has acquired US rights to Barry Levinson’s dark comedy starring Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig, following the world premiere in Venice and North American premiere in Toronto.
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NewsMagnolia takes US on Kill Me Three Times
Kriv Stenders’ comedic crime thriller starring Simon Pegg premiered in Toronto and will open theatrically in 2015. Cargo handles international sales.
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NewsDesert Dancer to open SBIFF
Relativity Studios’ Desert Dancer will open the 30th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, set to run from January 27-February 7.
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NewsSFFS, KRF unveil grant finallists
The San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (KRF) have selected 14 finallists for the latest round of SFFS / KRF Filmmaking Grants.
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NewsProduction wraps on Frankenstein
Candyman director Bernard Rose has wrapped production on a contemporary version of Mary Shelley’s classic novel for Summerstorm Entertainment and Bad Badger in association with Eclectic Pictures.
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NewsMillennium Ent closes $40m financing
The company led by Bill Lee has secured senior revolving credit facilities and a term loan facility as it seeks to grow the film slate and the business.
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NewsPatrick Wilson, Matthew Fox join Bone Tomahawk
The pair joins Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins on the Western. Celluloid Dreams represents international sales.
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NewsIFTA votes in new board
Independent Film & Television Alliance membership held their annual elections on September 24 for the executive committee and board of directors.
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NewsCitizenfour to screen in LACMA Film Series
The Citizenfour bandwagon rolls on as the anticipated Edward Snowden documentary will get what Film Independent top brass have called the West Coast premiere on October 14 for the members-only LACMA Film Series event.
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NewsLionsgate moves up Mortdecai
The studio has moved its Johnny Depp action comedy up from its original date of February 6, 2015.
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NewsAdam Fogelson to join Robert Simonds studio
In another coup, the new film and television studio led by Robert Simonds has named the former Universal Pictures chairman as its new chariman of the motion picture group.
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NewsHamptons Sloan prize for Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game will be honoured for its “sensitive and moving portrait” of the mathematician Alan Turing as portrayed on screen by Benedict Cumberbatch.