All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 831
-
NewsO-Scope buys After Tiller
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired Sundance premiere After Tiller. Separately, Tribeca Film has picked up What Richard Did, The Cinema Guild has acquired Centro Historico and Viramundo and RBC Film Group and Alternate Ending Studios will release The Kill Hole.
-
NewsIFC Films buys The Canyons
Paul Schrader’s crowdfunded neo-noir thriller is based on a screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis and stars Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen.
-
NewsLansing, Friedkin in DIFF honour
The Dallas Film Society will present former Paramount CEO Sherry Lansing and her husband William Friedkin with Dallas Star Awards.
-
NewsFox unleashes Die Hard 5
The Bruce Willis action thriller arrives in 58 territories this weekend.
-
NewsAcademy urges quick vote
As questions remain over the effectiveness of online Oscar voting, the Academy on Thursday [14] urged members to return paper ballots well in advance of the Feb 19 deadline.
-
NewsWWE Studios goes Cruisin’
WWE Studios is developing the action comedy Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’, an action-filled comedy from writer-director Adam Bhala Lough.
-
NewsWell Go buys New World
Well Go USA Entertainment announced on Thursday [13] it had acquired all North American rights in Berlin to Hoon-jung Park’s South Korean action thriller.
-
NewsCinedigm hires Laura Sok
Sok arrives as director of theatrical publicity and most recently served as director of national and regional publicity at Oscilloscope Laboratories.
-
NewsMiami unveils Encuentros
Organisers at the 30th Miami International Film Festival announced the five selections on Wednesday [13].
-
NewsQED boards Ayer’s Fury
The preemptive move is based on a speculative script by David Ayer, with whom QED International collaborates on the upcoming Arnold Schwarzenegger action thriller Ten.
-
NewsFilm Movement buys Name
Film Movement has acquired Małgośka Szumowska’s Berlinale entry In The Name Of. Separately, O-Scope, Submarine Deluxe, Wolfe Releasing and National Geographic Cinema Ventures have all been in acquisitive mood.
-
NewsLincoln honour for Streisand
President Bill Clinton will present the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 40th Chaplin Award to Barbra Streisand on Apr 22 in New York.
-
NewsTLA takes Five Dances
TLA Releasing has acquired the US, UK and French-speaking Europe to Alan Brown’s contemporary drama.
-
NewsThe East to close SXSW
Zal Batmanglij’s The East will close the event in Austin, Texas, on Mar 16.
-
NewsParticipant, DFI in $100m fund
Participant Media and Doha Film Institute (DFI) announced a $100m revolving fund on Wednesday [13] to back what is expected to be 12-16 features over five years.
-
NewsSlim pickings for EFM buyers
A slow EFM punctuated by just a handful of commercial must-haves and a subdued reaction to the festival selection turned hopeful thoughts to France and the promise of Cannes.
-
NewsMyriad sells Inescapable
Myriad Pictures has closed key sales at the EFM on Ruba Nadda’s thriller Inescapable, which IFC will distribute in the US in March.
-
News
Cathleen Summers heads to Chapman
Producer Cathleen Summers has been named the Spring 2013 Marion Knott Filmmaker-in-Residence at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
-
NewsCinedigm, Tribeca buy Teacher
Cinedigm and Tribeca Film have teamed up to acquire US rights to Craig Zisk’s feature directorial debut The English Teacher.
-
NewsMagnolia buys Nymphomaniac
Magnolia Pictures confirmed on Tuesday [12] that it has acquired US rights to Lars von Trier’s hotly anticipated Nymphomaniac after TrustNordisk screened footage at the EFM.