All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 934
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Sobini, Payam Films to partner on Manhattan Undying
Mark Amin and award winning Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami are collaborating on the story of a dying artist who paints a beautiful vampire who wants to see an image of herself for the first time.
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BAFTA LA announces three-year scholarship programme
The initiative for graduate students studying in the US will grant a $15,000 scholarship. Runner-up will receive a grant worth $5,000 and there will be two $1,500 honourable mention awards.
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Bela Bunyik to act as Hungarian producers rep in Los Angeles
The executive producer and founder of Bunyik Enterprises will forge relationships between the Hungarian Producers Association and North American producers.
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Jessica Lange joins cast of classic period drama Therese
Riding high on the success of the first season of American Horror Story, the actress has become the latest star to sign up to the French potboiler.
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Tribeca top brass announce panel series, new premieres
Festival co-founder Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep and Judd Apatow to take part in a tribute discussion marking the centenary of Universal Pictures.
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Jim Henson Company cuts first deal with China on Sid The Science Kid
The Henson’s first 3D animated film project is headed for MIPTV and involves a partnership with China’s Nine Eyes Stone & Shanghai Animation Film Studios to create a feature version of the TV series.
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NewsHunger Games plunders $59.3m from 67 international markets
Lionsgate’s runaway train reached $214.3m worldwide after its opening weekend factoring in the $155m North American launch and opened top in virtually every market according to the distributor.
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NewsKatniss and co leap into record books with $152.5m US debut
UPDATE: Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games grossed a confirmed $152.5m down from the estimated $155m and beat the opening weekend of every Twilight film to date and secured the third biggest launch of all time, the biggest non-sequel debut and the biggest March debut to signal the arrival of the next ...
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NewsFilmDistrict hires Christine Birch as president of marketing
Peter Schlessel (pictured) has slotted an important piece of the jigsaw into place in the wake of the departure of former president of theatrical releasing Bob Berney and his wife, evp of marketing Jeanne Berney.
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NewsHunger Games hits target with $19.8m in midnight grosses
Lionsgate said on Friday morning (23) this was the highest non-sequel North American midnight performance in history and the seventh biggest of all time, beating among others The Dark Knight’s $18.5m score back in July 2008.
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Universal, Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions sign first-look deal
The two-year agreement with Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg comes as the studio prepares to release American Reunion, the latest American Pie episode that was written and directed by the pair.
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NewsLionsgate awaits destiny as The Hunger Games begin
International preview: The independent community will be willing the studio on as it launches the first of what it hopes will become a teen franchise across most of the world this weekend.
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NewsExclusive Media reports torrent of business on Undefeated
This year’s best documentary Oscar winner has sold to Dogwoof in the UK, Madman in Australia and CDC in Latin America, among others.
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Parts & Labor, Ocean Size to make Dirty White Boy
Michael K Williams from The Wire is set to star as the late hip-hop artist Ol’ Dirty Bastard (aka Russell Jones). K5 International is financing the project and will handle all worldwide sales.
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NewsGlobal box office surged 3pc to record $32.6bn in 2011
Annual statistics released by the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) confirm China as the second biggest market outside North America behind Japan and reveal that the record $22.4bn international gross accounted for 69% of worldwide revenues.
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IFC Films acquires North American rights to Cherry
Stephen Elliott’s directorial debut premiered at Berlin last month and will receive its North American premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival on Apr 24.
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NewsSPHE names Kim Overall svp Northern Europe
The executive joined Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2008 as managing director for Australia and New Zealand.
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Warner Bros, Legendary sets third Hangover for May 2013
Once again Todd Phillips will direct the comedy, which Warner Bros Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov said would be “a fitting conclusion to our three-part opera of mayhem, despair and bad decisions.”
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Atlas Independent backs Will Monahan’s Mojave
The new division of Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment has unveiled its fourth project, a crime thriller that Monahan will direct from his original screenplay.
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NewsSierra/Affinity adds Emperor epic to sales slate
Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones and rising Japanese actress Eriko Hatsune star in the political thriller with romantic undertones set around the time of the Japanese surrender during the second world war. Sierra/Affinity will handle international sales while CAA represents North American rights.