All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 756
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NewsRutger Hauer joins Sights Of Death
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Italian development, finance and production company AMBI Pictures has announced key casting on its upcoming action thriller.
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NewsSundance: I Origins wins Sloan
Mike Cahill’s story of an eye researcher who uncovers profound truths has won the $20,000 Sundance Institute’s Alfred P Sloan Feature Film Prize – making it two for two for the filmmaker.
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NewsSundance: Sepideh sparks int’l sales
Berit Madsen’s Sundance World Documentary competition entry has sparked a number of key sales outside North America.
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NewsSundance / Mahindra winners unveiled
Sundance Institute and Mahindra have announced the winners of the 2014 Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award.
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NewsUTA's Dreyfus joins Ride Along producer
Ride Along producer Will Packer has hired UTA motion picture literary agent Barbara Dreyfus as head of motion pictures for his new Will Packer Productions.
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NewsCooties, Skeleton, Calvary sell
As the industry heads home from Park City, Lionsgate acquired North American rights to Cooties and teamed up with Roadside Attractions for US on The Skeleton Twins while SPWA took international. Fox Searchlight has acquired US and select territories to Calvary.
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NewsMaiden Voyage lines up Mediterranea
Jonas Carpignano will direct the feature version of his Venice 2011 award-winning short A Chjana, one of several films backed by new company Maiden Voyage Pictures.
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NewsFortitude Int'l heads to EFM
International sales agent Nadine de Barros, financier-producer Daniel Wagner and veteran producer Robert Ogden Barnum have teamed up to launch the LA-based sales and financing venture.
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FeaturesIgor Shteyrenberg, Miami Jewish Film Festival
On the eve of the 17th annual Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF), director Igor Shteyrenberg talks Woody Allen and Ida.
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NewsWild Bunch moves on Babadook
SUNDANCE: In the most high-profile piece of European business thus far at the festival, eOne and Wild Bunch have struck a deal over Jennifer Kent’s buzzy genre film.
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NewsCAS to honour Edward Zwick
The veteran filmmaker will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 50th Annual CAS Awards on February 22.
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NewsSundance: I Origins, Night sell
SUNDANCE: Amid a flurry of Park City announcements, Fox Searchlight has paid around $3m for world rights to I Origins. Separately, RADiUS-TWC has picked up The Night Comes For Us and A24 has closed its second deal of the festival.
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NewsSlave, Gravity split PGA vote
12 Years A Slave and Gravity advance to the Oscars on March 2 as the frontrunners on paper following the PGA awards ceremony on January 19.
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FeaturesTimo Tjahjanto, Killers
Timo Tjahjanto – one half of the Mo Brothers with (non-sibling) Kimo Stamboel – talks to Jeremy Kay on the eve of the Sundance world premiere of Killers and explains why the filmmakers are going their separate ways.
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NewsFocus takes Zach Braff drama
SUNDANCE: The new-look Focus Features led by Peter Schlessel has made its first high-profile acquisition in Park City, reportedly paying around $2.8m for North America, Poland and South Africa on Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here.
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NewsSundance: Green Prince sales
The first two deals have closed on the Day One documentary from producers Simon Chinn of Red Box Films, John Battsek of Passion Pictures and director Nadav Schirman of A-List Films.
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NewsMPI Pictures gets Kink
Christina Voros’ documentary will open theatrically in late summer following the deal, which concluded in Park City.
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NewsRide Along sets MLK record
Universal executives were celebrating as the Ice Cube-Kevin Hart comedy grossed an estimated $41.2m to set a three-day holiday weekend record.
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NewsWolf rules int'l BO on $27m
Red Granite’s The Wolf Of Wall Street used a mighty UK debut through Universal to power its way to an estimated $27m weekend that dethroned Frozen at the international box office, according to latest results.