All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 731
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NewsSierra/Affinity strikes Focus deal
Sierra/Affinity has formalised a relationship with the Focus Features fold that was hinted at during the AFM and will represent international rights to select titles going forward.
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NewsIMAX sets China record
Senior executives at the company have confirmed that Friday January 31 set the biggest single day’s box office for IMAX screens in China.
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NewsMagnolia Pictures takes Life Itself
The documentary profiling the life of the late film critic Roger Ebert documentary premiered at Sundance last month.
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NewsShoreline nabs Pardon for EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Shoreline Entertainment has acquired world sales rights heading into Berlin to Pardon starring John Hawkes and Jamie King.
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NewsSpike Lee backs NUHO
The filmmaker has got his weight behind the inaugural 2014 New Hollywood (NUHO) Online Film Festival.
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NewsGore Verbinski signs New Regency deal
The filmmaker’s Blind Wink has entered into a three-year deal for Verbinski to produce and direct.
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NewsArclight Films to launch Tell sales
The EFM crime thriller stars Milo Ventimiglia, Katee Sackhoff and Jason Lee. Separately, Spotlight Pictures has announced its Berlin sales slate.
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NewsMillennium takes The Humbling
Millennium Films has acquired world rights to Baltimore Pictures’ The Humbling starring Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig and Dianne Wiest.
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NewsExchange boards Men With No Fear
EFM: The Exchange has come on to finance and handle world sales on crime thriller Men With No Fear, which Nicolas Cage is understood to be circling. Separately, producers have announced the multi-director project Fear Paris.
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NewsVisit lines up busy EFM
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based Visit Films’ EFM slate includes the world premiere of Berlinale selection History Of Fear, Sundance award winner 52 Tuesdays and a couple of Rotterdam Tiger competition titles.
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NewsSynchronicity takes Bleed to EFM
Miles Teller, star of Sundance hit Whiplash, will play the lead alongside Aaron Eckhart in Bleed For This. Synchronicity will introduce to international buyers at EFM this week.
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NewsOn My Way to open Rendez-Vous
The 19th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema will run from March 6-16 backed by the Film Society Of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films.
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NewsGravitas takes Ping Pong Summer
Gravitas Ventures has picked up Michael Tully’s recent Sundance world premiere Ping Pong Summer.
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CommentIndie cinema’s new stars
By all accounts this year’s Sundance sparked relatively modest activity from buyers, although acquisitions teams still found plenty to enjoy.
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FeaturesEuropean Film Market 2014
The current market is focused on smart money and smart deals, not volume of product. Jeremy Kay examines the prospects for deals and new packages at Berlin’s European Film Market (Feb 6-14).
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CommentPalm Springs Directors Retreat
Around 18 filmmakers took time out from screening films to talk about their method and madness… and climate change.
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NewsExclusive pulls Hoffman project
In the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s sudden death, Exclusive Media will not present Ezekiel Moss at the Berlin market this week.
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NewsRide Along stays top in US on $12m
Superbowl Weekend allows Universal buddy comedy to make hay.
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NewsChina one-two rules int’l BO
UPDATE: The emerging might of China was plain for all to see once again as two films dominated the international box office over the Chinesen new year.
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NewsWGA, Annies, ASC hail winners
The Writers Guild Of America announced its winners in simultaneous bicoastal shows on February 1 and in the process shed some light on the two of the more inscrutable races of the season. Separately, animation and cinematography came under the spotlight in stand-alone shows.