All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 896
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Hyde Park International to sell Elmore Leonard crime tale
EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj continues to bulk up his Cannes sales roster and will introduce Untitled Elmore Leonard Project to star Jennifer Aniston, Dennis Quaid, John Hawkes and Ty Burrell.
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Provincetown to open on Jun 13 with Bachelorette
Roger Corman will receive the 2012 Filmmaker on the Edge Award and will take part in an on-stage conversation with John Waters at the Provincetown International Film festival in Massachusetts.
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Producers eye summer start on Paganini – The Devil’s Violinist
Joely Richardson in talks to join violin maestro David Garrett on cast with Bernard Rose set to direct.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung-Hun Lee join cast of Red 2
UPDATE: Lionsgate will commence pre-sales in Cannes on Summit Entertainment’s action-comedy sequel to the $200m worldwide box office hit as it emerged the sales force will also commence talks with buyers on its Dirty Dancing reboot.
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Content acquires international sales rights to All Is By My Side
André Benjamin will star in the Jimi Hendrix biopic from Darko Entertainment, Subotica Entertainment and Matador Pictures.
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Arclight acquires international sales to While We Were Here
Kat Coiro’s Ischia-set romance premiered at Tribeca and stars Kate Bosworth, Jamie Blackley and Iddo Goldberg. Gary Hamilton will commence talks with buyers in Cannes. WME Global represents North American rights.
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Exclusive boards Agent: Century 21 action-comedy for Cannes
Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro will star in the caper, which Exclusive will produce and finance. Alex Walton will introduce to buyers in Cannes and CAA represents North American rights.
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The Glass Man among Spotlight Pictures market slate
Announcing the company’s biggest Cannes line-up yet, president of international Scott Bedno said the Neve Campbell thriller centres on a man whose seemingly normal life slowly descends into madness.
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Film Sales Company closes deals on Bones Brigade
Hopscotch/eOne has acquired rights in Australia and New Zealand and King Records will handle Japanese distribution on Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary.
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David Jourdan to move to London for IM Global as Tim Grohne departs
EXCLUSIVE: IM Global CEO Stuart Ford is moving David Jourdan from the company’s LA headquarters to run the European base in London as former UK office head Tim Grohne moves on to a digital distribution venture that will be announced shortly.
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The Solution tunes in to Grand Piano for Cannes
Lisa Wilson, who launched The Solution Entertainment Group with Myles Nestel at the start of the year, will kick off talks with international buyers on the Elijah Wood psychological thriller.
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Celluloid Nightmares to fire up Cannes buyers with Raze
The sales partnership between Celluloid Dreams and XYZ Films will kick off international sales on the Croisette on the action film starring Zoë Bell and Rachel Nichols.
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Lightning Entertainment takes Hemsworth romance Love And Honor
The sales team will start talks with international buyers on the Croisette on the complete projects starring Liam Hemsworth of The Hunger Games. ICM and WME Global jointly represent domestic rights.
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Strand Releasing names Michael Williams vp of theatrical sales, acquisitions
Williams most recently worked as a marketing and production consultant to Disney Channel.
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Wrekin Hill acquires North American rights to Amber
Writer-director Kerry Bellessa’s found footage thriller will go out day-and-date in theatres and on VoD in early autumn.
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The Exchange hears Sound Of My Voice for Cannes
Founder Brian O’Shea has acquired international sales rights to acclaimed thriller starring Brit Marling as the leader of a cult and will screen the film on the Croisette.
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Hyde Park International to commence sales on Sunlight Jr
EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj has bulked up his Cannes sales slate with the inspirational drama starring Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon.
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Isaac Palmer named CEO at Qualia Legacy Advisors
The former svp of corporate development at paramount heads the new venture, which will aim to raise capital with equity and debt, evaluate IPs and handle a range of financing activities from mergers to recapitalisations.
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Production starts on erotic Thriller Therese
Exclusive Media will be selling the Emile Zola adaptation in Cannes and LD Entertainment is on board as domestic distributor.
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Lionsgate to bring Polanski thriller D to Cannes market
Patrick Wachsberger’s long-standing relationship with Roman Polanski has added the filmmaker’s upcoming Dreyfus Affair political thriller to the recently merged company’s war chest.