Latest – Page 985
-
NewsEmma Thompson to play lawyer inspired by Gareth Peirce in thriller Secret Evidence
EXCLUSIVE: The Kids Are Alright executive producer J Todd Harris produces with 2B Pictures and South Creek Pictures.
-
NewsHunger Games stays top on $61m, charges past $250m
Lionsgate’s cash cow has become the fastest non-sequel to cross $250m in the US and reached the milestone on its tenth day of release. New arrivals Wrath Of The Titans and Mirror Mirror had to settle for second and third places, respectively.
-
-
News
Screen Media takes North American rights to Shuffle
Kurt Kuenne’s thriller will receive its international premiere in Belgium next week. Screen Media plans a third quarter release.
-
News
Zero Charisma comedy shoot on the runway
Shooting on the Magic Stone Productions and Shark Films project is set to begin on Apr 2 in Austin, Texas, after the filmmakers raised money through a crowd-funding campaign last spring and received a $5,000 grant from the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund.
-
News
Tropfest to launch New York festival at Bryant Park
The short film festival has teamed up with Starz Cinema, NBC 4 and WNYC Radio, Citi, Thompson Hotels and Film Society Lincoln Center to launch the June event.
-
NewsOwen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis to star in You Are Here
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner wrote and will make his feature directorial debut for Gilbert Films. Lionsgate is handling international sales.
-
NewsMiramax expands international sales team, inks UKTV deal
Mathilde Rottier gets promotion; Stuart Shaw, Astrid De Berardinis and Alexandra Tullberg join London office as sales directors; outfit inks first multi-title, linear deal in UK.
-
NewsBritish Film Commission to recruit for new EVP of US production
The British Film Commission will soon start recruiting for a successor to Andy Weltman, the former EVP of US production.
-
NewsStrand Releasing takes US rights to California Solo
Robert Carlyle plays a former pop star who faces deportation from the US following a drunk driving arrest. Marshall Lewy’s film premiered at Sundance in January.
-
News
Dallas Int’l Film Festival to honour Sidibe, Pollack
Precious star Gabourey Sidibe will receive the festival’s Dallas Shining Star Award at the awards dinner on Apr 20 while costume designer Bernie Pollack is in line for a Dallas Star Award.
-
NewsBAMcinemaFest unveils fourth annual selection
The North American premiere of Jonathan Caouette’s Walk Away Renee (pictured) is among the 11-strong roster set to screen in Brooklyn from Jun 20-Jul 1.
-
News
Scott Miller, Kimberly Roush earn senior Academy stripes
Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences COO Ric Robertson made the announcement on Wednesday (28).
-
NewsYour Sister’s Sister earns centerpiece slot at San Francisco
Lynn Shelton’s relationship comedy (pictured) starring Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass and Rosemarie DeWitt will screen at the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival on Apr 28.
-
NewsWu, Eberts strike Allied Productions East JV
Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Film Studios has announced its second of three partnerships in the US in a deal with financier-producer Jake Eberts. First on the runway is the immigrant drama Mission Boys from Secretary screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson.
-
NewsMy Way, The Intouchables bookend COLCOA
The 16th Annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels film festival will run from Apr 16-23, opening with the Claude Francois biopic My Way and closing with another French hit, comedy-drama The Intouchables (pictured).
-
News
Paramount launches film channel in Spain
Available on free to air TV, the new channel will feature more than 600 films.
-
NewsViasat appoints Jakob Mejlhede svp acquisitions and programming
Mejlhede responsible for all of Viasat’s centralised programming acquisition and content development for its free-TV and pay-TV channels.
-
NewsUniversal, Focus win bidding war for Fifty Shades trilogy
Ending the most frenzied studio auction in years, the studio partners have snapped up rights to the S&M thriller Fifty Shades Of Grey and its two sequels by West London housewife and former TV executive E L James.
-
News
Outfest, NewFest strike strategic alliance
The LA-based non-profit and the New York-based festival are to merge into one national arts organisation dedicated to promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) interests.