All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 921
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Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds to star in Big Eyes
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will write and direct the biopic of Margaret and Walter Keane, whose ‘Big Eye’ paintings shot to fame in the 1960s.
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Cinedigm, New Video strike strategic partnership
Ambitious digital exhibition leader Cinedigm Entertainment Group and New Video have signed a deal to jointly acquire and distribute independent film.
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Ro*Co Productions, 1492 sign production deal
The production arm of ro*co films international is partnering with 1492 Pictures to adapt documentaries into narrative features.
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Bingham Ray taken to hospital after sudden illness
The independent film veteran is being cared for after falling sick at Sundance.
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Elle Driver bulks up slate, The Words sparks interest
The French sales agency has acquired international rights to Twenty-Eight Hotel Rooms which screens on Saturday (21), while Bradley Cooper drama The Words energised the domestic scene in the morning following a packed buyers screening.
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Oak Street, Zero Gravity, Epic unite for The Outsider
Craig Fairbrass is set to star in the action film about a British military contractor who rescues his kidnapped daughter and goes after the internet fraudster who abducted her.
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FIP Berlin slate includes Mortensen thriller Plan
Shebnem Askin-Schreger and her Fox International Productions sales team will be at the EFM with a slate led by the Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan.
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Sundance: SPC, Magnolia first out of the gate
Submarine has completed a rare two-for-two, selling its first pair of Sundance screenings as it emerged on Friday (20) that Magnolia had paid low-to-mid six figures for North American rights excluding TV to The Queen Of Versailles.
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Cinedigm to release Slamdance entry No Room For Rockstars
The digital distributon specialist has set limited US engagements on Mar 1 for Parris Patton’s documentary about the Vans Warped Tour.
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Lionsgate, Wrekin Hill, Row 1 swim with Dark Tide
Lionsgate and Wrekin Hill in association with Row 1 Productions have acquired US rights to the Halle Berry shark thriller from IM Global.
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Friedman, Wachsberger to lead Lionsgate motion picture group
The contracts have been signed and Summit chiefs Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger have been named co-chairs of Lionsgate Motion Pictures Group in the wake of last week’s merger.
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Content Film, Preferred Content strike genre deal
The partners will produce a slate of six “elevated” genre, formalising an existing sales relationship on current Sundance entry The Pact and Content’s long-running collaboration with producer and Preferred Content partner Ross Dinerstein.
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Jan De Bont to remake crime drama Five Minutes To Live
The director has teamed up with Joseph and Jack Nasser, executive producers on the Sundance Premieres entry For A Good Time, Call…, to remake the 1961 Johnny Cash film Five Minutes To Live.
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Francisco Barreiro to star in Here Comes The Devil
The rising Mexican star will play the lead in MPI Media Group and Mexico City-based Salto de Fe Films’ supernatural thriller to be directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano.
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Anchor Bay picks up Slasher Films’ Nothing To Fear
Content is handling international sales and introduced the film to buyers at the recent AFM.
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WBPI's Holmes targets $250m as Sony unleashes Underworld
Warner Bros Pictures International’s (WBPI) reigning champion Sherlock Holmes 2 has reached $239m and should coast past $250m this weekend in the face of Sony’s Underworld Awakening.
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New buyer Breakthrough Entertainment heads to Sundance
The Toronto-based television producer has launched a film distribution platform to handle worldwide rights headed by vp of movies Marina Cordoni.
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AR Films, Media Talent Group launch $120m US fund
Producer Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Films and Geyer Kosinski’s Media Talent Group have launched the fund to develop and produce up to six films in the US over the next two years.
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Camelot Distribution Group takes domestic rights to The Holding
David Bradley, Kierston Wareing and Vincent Regan star in the tale of a mother who lives with a dark secret. Lionsgate UK released the thriller last September.
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Here Now sets Mark Webber to star in rom-com Moonbeam
Webber is preparing for Saturday’s (21) world premiere in Sundance of The End Of Love, which he directed and stars in, ahead of the anticipated late spring start on The Arranged Marriage Of Moonbeam.LA-based Metamorphic Films is partnering on the project based on a screenplay by Webber’s Here Now partners ...