All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 994
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NewsTribeca Film takes North American rights to Turkey Bowl
Kyle Smith’s real-time comedy set in Los Angeles premiered at SXSW and follows a group of friends who gather to play a backyard game of American Football.
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NewsHyde Park Imagenation, BBC to co-finance Lost Christmas
The joint venture between LA-based Hyde Park Entertainment and Imagenation Abu Dhabi has partnered with the BBC to co-finance John Hay’s Lost Christmas.
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NewsDanny Dimbort leaves Avi Lerner to head Red Granite sales
Danny Dimbort is to leave his longtime business partner Avi Lerner and go with Christian Mercuri to head the new sales division at Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland’s LA-based production and finance company.
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NewsFast & Furious Five plunders record $87m for Universal
The heist film added an estimated $86.6m through UPI from 6,979 sites in 58 territories as the running total climbed to $184.4m and the film remained the biggest worldwide release for the second weekend.
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NewsThor delivers Marvel’s third biggest US debut on $66m
The estimated weekend tally was a commendable result for a relatively unknown property starring Australia’s Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman.
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NewsInternational arthouse label Fox World Cinema launches
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment launched the division, which will operate alongside Fox International Productions (FIP) and release prestige international films on DVD, VoD and digital download.
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MoonQuake picks up Nick Cassavetes script Kentucky Rhapsody
The film joins three additional projects that the new LA and New York-based company has in active development as part of a multi-million dollar development fund.
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NFI boards dark comedy Petunia starring Brittany Snow, Thora Birch
New Films International will commence sales on the Croisette next week on Yale Productions’ tale of a New York family coming to terms with the chaos of life.
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NewsJames Robinson's Inverness files for bankruptcy
Inverness Distribution, the Bermuda-based company formerly known as Morgan Creek International, has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy.
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Seduced Circumstances among winners at LAAPFF
Ian Gamazon took home both the grand jury prize for outstanding fiction film and outstanding director award for Living In Seduced Circumstances at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
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FeaturesThe world from Wilshire
UTA independent film group is using its international insight to connect film-makers to innovative financing partners. Screen talks to Rena Ronson and Rich Klubeck about comedies, co-productions and Cannes
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FeaturesMiramax's third act
Well-respected former Fox executive Mike Lang is making an impression at the head of the newly re-independent Miramax Films. He talks to Jeremy Kay about exploiting the library, rebooting production and working with the Weinsteins
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NewsThor, Fast & Furious Five line up for international showdown
Both PPI’s Thor and UPI’s Fast & Furious Five have already crossed $100m overseas and are expected to dominate the landscape this weekend.
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Archstone Distribution to launch Tombstone genre label
The Tombstone Distribution slate comprises a number of Archstone titles such as monster film Snow Beast and the Michael Madsen genre title Amsterdam Heavy.
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Wes Bentley signs on to Lionsgate’s Hunger Games
The studio’s weekly casting announcement for the upcoming young adult thriller brings the star of American Beauty into the mix.
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NewsThe Film Department to shut down on May 27
Company co-heads Mark Gill (pictured) and Neil Sacker took the decision after they were unable to raise $200m in recapitalisation.
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Sundance entry Crime After Crime to open in New York
The film recently won the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Golden Gate Award for investigative documentary feature and focuses on two rookie lawyers who take on a wrongful imprisonment case.
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NewsFIP dives into thriller business with Mortensen on Plan
Fox International Productions (FIP) has brokered a deal for the worldwide rights to Everybody Has A Plan starring Viggo Mortensen and Soledad Villamil from the 2010 foreign language Oscar winner The Secret In Their Eyes.
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NewsCBS locks up US rights to The Woman In Black
CBS Films has preemptively acquired US distribution rights for the gothic horror starring Daniel Radcliffe.
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Spielberg bulks up on DreamWorks’ Lincoln cast
Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill and Joseph Cross are in talks to join.