All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 762
-
NewseOne, Amaze sign first-look
eOne has signed an exclusive three-year first-look deal with Teza Lawrence and Michael Souther’s production company Amaze Film + Television.
-
NewsMonuments Men, Jack Ryan moved back
Sony and Fox have rescheduled The Monuments Men to open on February 7 2014.
-
NewsSubmarine Deluxe acquires Champion
Submarine Deluxe has acquired US rights to the Formula 1 documentary Weekend Of A Champion and will release the film theatrically on November 22 in New York followed by nationwide roll-out.
-
NewsIFP unveils Gotham nominees
12 Years A Slave has earned three nods in the 23rd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, while Blue Caprice, Concussion, Fruitvale Station, Inside Llewyn Davis and Upstream Color earned two apiece.
-
NewsSpotlight lines up Child Of God for AFM
Heading into AFM Spotlight Pictures has acquired international rights to the crime thriller Child Of God in its third collaboration with RabbitBandini.
-
NewsWeinsteins confirm Macbeth deal
The Weinstein Company has confirmed its acquisition of North American rights from StudioCanal to Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Macbeth, previously reported on Screendaily.
-
NewsTom Hardy to play Elton John
Focus Features has confirmed the in-demand star will portray Elton John and said it will distribute Rocket Pictures and Icon/AI Film’s biopic in the US after incoming CEO Peter Schelssel brought it over from FilmDistrict.
-
NewsTriStar, New Regency staff up
TriStar Productions chairman Tom Rothman has named his first production executives. Separately, New Regency president and CEO Brad Weston has appointed a production head.
-
NewsNotebook launches Hungarian fest
Hungary’s official foreign-language Oscar submission The Notebook will open the 13th Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, set to run from November 15-21.
-
NewsDCDC launches distribution platform
The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) has gone live with the launch of its North American satellite and terrestrial digital distribution platform to 17,000 screens across 1,200 venues.
-
NewsShooting underway on Pawn Sacrifice
Michael Stuhlbarg has joined the cast of Gail Katz Productions and Material Pictures’ drama directed by Ed Zwick. Production on the scheduled 41-day shoot has begun in Montreal and will wrap in Los Angeles.
-
NewsTFI, A+E back doc workshop
The Tribeca Film Institute today announced a feature doc workshop for five filmmaking teams in partnership with A+E Films.
-
NewsElectric’s Wannabe rounds out cast
Vincenzo Amato, David Zayas, Neal Huff, Mike Starr and Slaine have joined Patricia Arquette on the cast of The Wannabe and Dean Devlin’s nascent Electric Entertainment will commence pre-sales at the AFM next month.
-
NewsMonuments Men pushed to 2014
George Clooney’s film about a team of soldiers and art experts sent behind Nazi lines to recover priceless works of art is out of this year’s awards race.
-
NewsIFC buys Jimmy P
The distributor has acquired US rights from Worldview Entertainment to Arnaud Desplechin’s drama Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian starring Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric.
-
NewsAFI FEST rounds out programme
Festival top brass have announced the outstanding World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programmes.
-
NewsCatching Fire gets China release
The Hunger Games sequel has been approved for a November 21 release on more than 3,000 screens in China.
-
NewsSFFS launches Fall Celebration
Top brass at the San Francisco Film Society are seeking to get an early jump on awards season by staging the inaugural Fall Celebration, an annual event to honour “creativity, innovation, collaboration and inspiration in cinema.”
-
NewsCarl Icahn cashes in on Netflix
The self-styled activist investor has sold roughly half of his stake in the streaming service.
-
NewsAcademy selects Nicholl Fellows
Four individual writers and one writing team have been chosen as winners of the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.