All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 895
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Billion dollar baby: Avengers crosses threshold on Day 19
Marvel Studio’s The Avengers nudged past the $1bn worldwide milestone on Sunday (13) according to Disney estimates following another mighty international weekend that generated $95.4m and a $103.2m second session in North America.
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Bleiberg boards The Letter with Winona Ryder, James Franco
The Beverly Hills-based company will introduce the psychological drama to the Cannes market this week. Jay Anania directed the film, which will open in the US later this year through a distributor to be announced shortly.
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Avengers scores second biggest US weekend on $103m
Marvel Studios’ superhero soup has reached $373.2m after a mere two weekends and combines with the $628.9m international running total to reach $1,002.1m at the global box office. It is now the eleventh biggest global release in history.
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Breaking Glass Pictures hits Cannes with eclectic slate.
CEO Rich Wolff and the team have boarded sales rights to a roster led by serial killer thriller Cyrus: The County Line Cannibal. Anchor Bay holds US rights to the story of a reported on the case of missing students and Brian Krause and Danielle Harris star.
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Mandragora International Group to produce thriller with China Film Group
The parent company of Solar Pictures has signed a deal to produce the English-language The Girl Who Knew Too Much. Mandragora CEO and Solar Pictures co-founder Bobby Paunescu wrote and will direct the project.
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The Invitation to start production this summer
XYZ Films horror tale to star Luke Wilson, Zachary Quinto, Topher Grace and Johnny Galecki. Celluloid Nightmares to kick off pre-sales in Cannes.
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Danny DeVito wraps shoot on Jersey Films, Shangri-La’s thriller
The untitled project stars William Fichtner, Lance Reddick and Constance Zimmer. Locomotive’s Colleen Seldin will commence sales in Cannes next week.
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Visit Films to launch four new market titles in Cannes
Ryan Kampe’s slate features Ramona Diaz’s Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Nate Meyer’s See Girl Run, dinosaur documentary Dinotasia and previously announced The End Of Love from Mark Webber.
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Michelle Monaghan joins Owen Wilson on Crime Scene’s The Coup
Pierce Brosnan will also star in the thriller about an American family who move to Southeast Asia and get caught up in a violent uprising. Sierra / Affinity is handing international sales in Cannes next week.
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CEG launches fund, earmarks three projects
Capstone Entertainment Group (CEG) and private equity partners have launched Capstone Pictures to place approximately $18.5m into a trio of films that will shoot in Louisiana and Ontario in 2012-13.
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Red Sea Media adds two more to Cannes slate
CEO Roman Kopelevich has acquired international sales rights on the eve of the market to Singaporean sexual thriller Hotel De Sade and horror comedy Julia X 3D.
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Phase 4 takes North America on Electrick Children
Rebecca Thomas’ drama premiered at Berlin and stars Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken and Billy Zane.
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Production gets underway on Better Living Through Chemistry
Occupant Entertainment’s comedy has begun shooting in Maryland and stars Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan and Ray Liotta.
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Speranza13 adds Summer In February to Cannes slate
EXCLUSIVE: Camela Galano heads to the Croisette with three sales titles and will open preliminary discussions on the Unique Features development slate assembled by her former New Line colleagues Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne.
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Inferno lines up Pinocchio, Grace, Maggie for Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel’s LA-based outfit is Cannes-bound with a prestige slate that includes new work from Guillermo del Toro and Olivier Dahan.
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The Avengers target super-sized $1bn worldwide
As it heads into second and third international weekends Marvel Studios-Disney’s behemoth should have little trouble zipping past $600m from its $517.8m perch. The question is – will it cross $1bn at the global box office by the end of Sunday?
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Ed Pressman to adapt graphic novel Feeding Ground
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is set to direct and screenwriter Carlos Coto will adapt Archaia Entertainment’s celebrated werewolf story, which was originally published in hardcover simultaneously in English and Spanish.
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Radiant boards Madame Bovary with Mia Wasikowska
EXCLUSIVE: Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International will introduce Occupant Entertainment’s classic tragedy to buyers in Cannes. Paul Giamatti and Ezra Miller also star.
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Robert De Niro joins Michael Douglas on Last Vegas
Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane’s Good Universe handles international sales on the comedy and CBS Films will distribute in the US.
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Constantin Film enlists more cast members on Tarzan
Following the news that Kellan Lutz and Spencer Locke will play Tarzan and Jane in the Germany company’s 3D animated feature, it emerged on Thursday that Jaime Ray Newman and Trevor St John have come on board.