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All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 920
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NewsWomen In Film announces grant winners at Sundance
Women In Film, Los hosted its sixth annual filmmakers panel discussion and brunch event in Sundance this week when it announced two grant recipients.
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NewsStephanie Allain named director of Los Angeles Film Festival
The veteran producer and Film Independent board member replaces Rebecca Yeldham, who stepped down recently for personal reasons.
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NewsAcademy signs deal with electronic vote service Everyone Counts
The announcement comes at the end of an 18-month search for a service to work alongside the Academy’s ongoing accounting firm of record PwC, starting in 2013.
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NewsRoadside Attractions, Lionsgate hedge bets on Arbitrage
The distribution partners paid $2.5m for US rights to Nicholas Jarecki’s suspenseful drama starring Richard Gere following the world premiere on Saturday.
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Cinedigm acquires North American rights to UFC documentary
The digital exhibitor negotiated the deal for Like Water with Christine D ‘Souza and Kevin Iwashina of Preferred Content on behalf of the producer.
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Casting update: Hemsworth is Timeless, Sevigny joins Lovelace
The Hunger Games star will play the lead in Relativity Media’s romance to be directed by Phillip Noyce. Sunil Perkash and Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh are producing and Relativity co-president Tucker Tooley serves as executive producer.
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NewsElle Driver visits Black Rock, Millennium sees Red Lights
Katie Aselton’s Midnight entry Black Rock follows three friends on a fateful girls’ getaway to a remote island and was acquired earlier in the festival by LD Distribution for North American rights.
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NewsSPC takes Celeste, Focus signs on for Good Time
Tuesday morning (24) brought two further deals as Classics acquired all North American, Latin American and Eastern European rights to Celeste And Jesse Forever after it emerged that Focus had paid in the region of $2m for worldwide rights to For A Good Time, Call…
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FeaturesThomas McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy tells Jeremy Kay about using wrestling to explore middle-class life in Win Win.
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FeaturesLaura Bickford and Nicholas Jarecki, Arbitrage
Producer Laura Bickford and writer-director Nicholas Jarecki talk to Jeremy Kay about making $15m suspense drama Arbitrage, starring Richard Gere, which is generating buzz at Sundance.
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NewsSearchlight buys Surrogate as Sundance awaits avalanche
The distributor reportedly paid around $6m for worldwide rights on Monday night (23) to Ben Lewin’s surprise crowd-pleaser as a number of other deals were poised to close.
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Ron Burkle buys "significant" stake in Relativity Media
Burkle’s investment company Yucaipa Companies has purchased Elliott Management’s ownership share of Relativity in what a press release described as “a significant equity stake.”
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NewsKevin Smith’s SModcast signs output deal with Phase 4
A year after Kevin Smith effectively stood on stage at the Eccles Theatre in Park City and told distributors he did not need them, his company has made a pact with a distributor.
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Incognito Pictures launches, signs output deal with TWC
The production entity headed by ex-PayPal executive and financier Jack Selby is backed by $50m in financing and initial plans are to produce five or six films a year budgeted at $10m and below.
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GE, Cinelan announce Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge
The initiative was unveiled at Sundance on Monday morning (23) and will award $200,000 in cash to the top five entries with $100,000 reserved for the grand prize winner.
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NewsSundance: The Words speaks to CBS Films, LD finds Black Rock
After a frenzied 24 hours of negotiations with several heavyweight buyers, the Bradley Cooper drama closed on Sunday (22) in Sundance 2012’s biggest deal yet as US rights went for approximately $3.5m including a $1.5m p&a pledge.
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NewsHolmes rules international for WBPI on $18m
Sherlock Holmes stayed top of the international charts for the third weekend in a row through Warner Bros Pictures International as it soared past $260m.
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NewsPGA awards honour The Artist, Tintin
The Artist produced by Thomas Langmann won the 23rd annual Producers Guild Of America’s Darryl F Zanuck producer of the year award in theatrical motion pictures in Los Angeles on Saturday night (21).
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NewsProtagonist sells UK, Australia on Sundance doc Sugar Man
Ben Roberts has wasted little time capitalising on SPC’s deal for North American rights to Malik Bendjelloul’s opening night film.
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NewsUnderworld: Awakening rules US charts on $25m debut
Screen Gems’ latest foray Underworld delivered a respectable opening gross that returned the franchise to winning ways after the third episode opened in second place three years ago.