All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 793
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NewsRio Film Festival unveils line-up
Titles include Alfonso Cuaron’s acclaimed Gravity and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
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NewsWell Go buys TIFF drama McCanick
Well Go USA has acquired all US rights from Bleiberg Entertainment to the crime drama McCanick starring David Morse and the late Cory Monteith.
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NewsTWC buys Rigby, Railway Man
Sources confirmed that The Weinstein Company had paid $3m for North America, the UK and France on The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby and $2m for US on The Railway Man. Both will open in 2014.
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NewsCMG closes Khumba sales
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has licensed rights on the animation and Toronto selection to Transmission in Australia, Kaleidoscope in the UK and Eagle for Italy.
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NewsGary Sanchez on Sleeping With Other People
Leslye Headland to direct Kirsten Dunst in their follow-up collaboration after Bachelorette.
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NewsFSC takes world on Filthy Gorgeous
The Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide sales rights to Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story, Barry Avrich’s documentary that premiered on Monday night (September 9).
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NewsVirgil Films finds Foreclosure
Virgil Films has closed a US deal in Toronto on the horror tale Foreclosure starring Michael Imperioli from The Sopranos.
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Cohen takes Unjust doc
Cohen Media Group has acquired all North American rights to Shoah director Claude Lanzmann’s Toronto entry The Last Of The Unjust.
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NewsCBS Films confirms F Word deal
UPDATED SEPT 10: CBS Films top brass said on Tuesday evening (September 10) they had acquired US rights to Michael Dowse’s The F Word in a deal understood to fall between $2.5m and $3m.
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NewsNonStop finds When Jews Were Funny
EXCLUSIVE: NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavian, Icelandic and Baltic rights from The Film Sales Company to Alan Zweig’s documentary When Jews Were Funny.
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FeaturesDaniel Brühl and Niki Lauda, Rush
After Sunday’s (September 8) gala presentation North American premiere at Roy Thompson Hall, Rush star Daniel Brühl and Niki Lauda sat down with Jeremy Kay to talk about the film. Lauda flew in to attend the premiere.
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NewsFogelson out at Universal
In a stunning development Adam Fogelson has left Universal Pictures as chairman and Jeff Shell has been named chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.
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NewsBAFTA/LA to honour Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen will receive the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award For Excellence In Comedy on November 9 in Los Angeles.
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NewsIFC Midnight enters The Station
The distributor has acquired US rights to Marvin Kren’s Midnight Madness entry about a group of scientists at a German Alpine research lab who encounter a horrifying biological force.
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NewsMillennium acquires Fading Gigolo
Millennium Entertainment has paid in the region of $3m for US rights to Fading Gigolo in the latest Toronto deal to emerge at the festival.
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NewsFilmBuff makes beeline for Buzz
FilmBuff has acquired US rights to TIFF Docs entry Burt’s Buzz and will release in theatres and on VoD in 2014.
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NewsFilmSharks continues 2+2 sales
FilmSharks has closed further deals on Diego Kaplan’s swingers drama 2+2 (A Couple With A Couple).
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NewsTIFF momentum set to stay high
With two major $7m deals in the can and interest in Fading Gigolo, Horns and All Is By My Side, the Toronto momentum showed no sign of letting up heading into a busy Sunday night.
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FeaturesEmanuel Michael and Cassandra Kulukundis, Unison Films
The Unison Films principals talk to Jeremy Kay about their Toronto premiere The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her [pictured].
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FeaturesPaul Haggis, Third Person
It took two-and-a-half years before Paul Haggis was happy with the script for Third Person, he tells Jeremy Kay.