All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 893
-
News
XLrator Media pledges January 2013 release for Allegiance
XLrator Media has acquired all domestic rights to the military thriller Allegiance starring Shad ‘Bow Wow’ Moss, Seth Gabel, Aidan Quinn, Malik Yoba and Pablo Schreiber.
-
News
Raven Banner, 108 Media forge genre alliance
Busy Toronto sales company 108 Media has struck a partnership with Toronto and Las Vegas-based genre specialist Raven Banner Entertainment to acquire genre titles for worldwide sales.
-
News
Buyers circle Cargo Entertainment's Booster
Cargo Entertainment is deep in talks with buyers here on the crime drama following its recent Deauville screening and has licensed rights to Italia for the Middle East and Pinema in Turkey.
-
FeaturesDavid Ayer & Nigel Sinclair, End Of Watch
Screen talks to End Of Watch director and producer ahead of its world premiere in Toronto.
-
NewsToronto awaits the acquisitions avalanche
Sources close to Thanks For Sharing were confident the comedic drama might generate the second major US deal of the festival on Sunday night (9) as buyers and sellers waited for the acquisitions avalanche to come.
-
News
Obit: Geoffrey Ammer
UPDATE: The former president of worldwide marketing at Sony and top executive at some of the biggest studios in Hollywood died from a heart attack on Sunday in Santa Monica. He was 62.
-
News
Submarine, Music Box to team up on cult pair
Submarine Entertainment and Music Box Films have partnered on the release of two cult films celebrating their 30th anniversary release – Wild Style by Charlie Ahearn and Downtown 81 by Edo Bertoglio.
-
News
Hyde Park Imagenation, Troika, Merced team on Careful
Hyde Park Imagenation, Troika Pictures and Merced Media Partners will finance and produce the thriller Careful What You Wish For.
-
NewsThe Possession leads dismal US box office weekend
The weakest session in years saw Lionsgate’s horror film anchor its status as the number one film as the running total climbed to $33.3m
-
NewsThe Dark Knight Rises crosses $600m internationally
Warner Bros Pictures International’s The Dark Knight Rises ruled the box office for the seventh consecutive weekend thanks to an estimated $13m haul that saw the Batman epic cross $600m.
-
NewsSierra/Affinity touts The Way, Way Back in Toronto
Nick Meyer and his team have begun talks with buyers in Toronto on OddLot Entertainment, Sycamore Pictures and The Walsh Company’s The Way, Way Back marking the feature directorial debuts of Alexander Payne’s Oscar winning screenwriting partners Jim Rash and Nat Faxon.
-
NewsHyde Park International starts talks on Every Secret Thing
Diane Lane and Elizabeth Banks will star in Likely Story’s crime drama Every Secret Thing to be financed by Merced Media Partners, Palmstar Media Capital and Hyde Park Entertainment.
-
NewsCargo Entertainment talks up Tony Kaye's Attachment
EXCLUSIVE: Sales chief Mark Lindsay is introducing buyers here to the Sharon Stone and Tom Felton thriller about a married woman who has a one-night stand with a student who goes on to terrorise her family.
-
NewsFocus Features acquires US rights to Pines
UPDATE: In the first major on-site domestic deal of Toronto the distributor concluded US negotiations for The Place Beyond The Pines early on Sunday morning (9), paying in the mid-$2m range. Focus will release Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine follow-up in 2013.
-
NewsAtlas International picks up sales rights to Yellow
Nick Cassavetes’ surreal drama premiered here at the weekend (7) and tells of a substitute teacher with a vivid imagination who takes a road trip to confront her family on a range of personal issues.
-
NewsCMG boards found footage spoof Paranormal Movie
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has commenced talks with Toronto buyers on the story of a disturbed middle-aged man who resolves to film a poltergeist in his new house.
-
News
MPI Media, Fantastic Films strike genre deal
MPI Media Group and its Stitches producing partner Fantastic Films from Ireland have struck a three-film deal to make and distribute genre films.
-
NewsExclusive Media notches up key sales on The Green Inferno
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Roth’s new horror thriller will open in Germany through Constantin, Russia and the Baltic States through West Company and Latin America through IDC.
-
NewsWell Go USA takes US rights to Dangerous Liaisons
The distributor negotiated the deal with Arclight Films’ Asian arm Easternlight ahead of the romantic thriller’s North America premiere in Toronto on Monday (10).
-
NewsPrivate equity fund Outsource Media acquires great Expectations
The new Los Angeles and New York-based buyer has snapped up all North American rights to Mike Newell’s Charles Dickens adaptation. Hanway is handling international sales.