Small MPU – Page 686
-
News
Witt joins The Weinstein Company as senior VP of production
Renee Witt has joined The Weinstein Company as senior vice president of production. Based in New York City, Witt will work closely with Michael Cole, Harvey Weinstein, writers and film-makers on the development of projects for TWC's slate. She will also oversee the production of certain projects. ...
-
News
Liddell makes directorial debut with psychological thriller
Veteran producer Mickey Liddell is to make his directorial debut with She Lived, a psychological thriller starring Haley Bennett, Jake Weber and Shannon Woodward. The Liddell Entertainment production will start shooting in July on location in Los Angeles. Liddell Entertainment's Jennifer Hilton will produce with Stephen Kay as executive ...
-
News
Gargotta takes top marketing role at Columbia TriStar
Tommy Gargotta has been named senior executive vice president, worldwide creative advertising, Columbia TriStar Marketing Group (CTMG). As part of Gargotta's expanded duties he will serve in an integral capacity on the global launch of tentpole films and work closely with the studio's international marketing division. Prior to the ...
-
News
Major screenwriters join international festival
The second international screenwriters festival has attracted some of the biggest names in the business.Organisers of the event - which runs from July 3-6) to in the UK town of Cheltenham - have revealed more details of its programme.Among the keynote speakers will be Tony Jordan (Hustle) and Sir ...
-
News
Film Sales Company strikes three new deals for Crazy Love
The Film Sales Company has announced theatrical rights sales of documentary Crazy Love to Tartan Films for the UK, Palace Films for Australia and Shani Films for Israel. All three distributors plan an early autumn release for the film, which is directed by Dan Klores and co-directed by Fisher Stevens ...
-
News
Random House and Rogue work on series including Sigler's Infested
Scott Sigler's novel Infested, to be published in the US and Canada next spring by Random House's Crown imprint, has been acquired for development by Random House Films and Rogue Pictures. The thriller is the first in a series of at least two books. Crown has a world rights multi-book ...
-
News
Milk & Honey opens studio facility in Prague
LA-based production and production services outfit Milk & Honey Films has opened a studio facility in Prague to service the international film and commercial production industries as well as its own productions. The facility, called Milk & Honey Studios Letnany, consists of two large stages with a third close to ...
-
News
Germany 's Odeon expands with genre production label
The publicly listed German film and TV group Odeon Film is expanding its feature film activities by setting up the Hanover-based Waterfall Productions (WFP) with producers Peter Rommel and Thomas Haberle to specialise in the production of quality genre feature films with budgets between $3.4m-$4.7m (Euros 2.5m-3.5m) for the international ...
-
News
Tomorrow Unlimited to host Creators Series in New York and LA
New company Tomorrow Unlimited, which was founded by former executives from Res Media Group with Tribeca Enterprises, will host its first event next week. The Creators Series events will run in New York (June 8-10) and Los Angeles (June 14-17). The multidisciplinary conference will present artwork, video, and interactive installations ...
-
News
Universal Italy makes first local film deal for distribution
US majors are lining up to distribute and produce local films in Italy following a slow but consistent trend internationally. Two films from the Rome-based Cattleya production outfit start shooting this month with Hollywood players on board. (Chocolate Lessons) Lezioni di Cioccolato will be Universal Italy's first foray into distributing ...
-
News
Trust closes its new local Danish distribution arm
Zentropa has pulled the plug on its recently launched Danish distribution outfit, Trust Film Distribution. The division, set up late last year, is now being disbanded. Jimmy Bredow and Maja Giese, who oversaw the distribution arm's activities, will be leaving the company. 'I looked into it (Danish distribution) for the ...
-
News
Finnish Film Foundation backs new Lordi film Dark Floors
Dark Floors - Finnish director Pete Riski's horror project to star 2006 European Song Contest winners Lordi - will receive $405,000 (Euros 300,000) state funding from the Finnish Film Foundation. Currently shooting at Uleaborg in Northern Finland, starring Mr Lordi, Amen the unstoppable mummy, Awa the vampire countess, Ox the ...
-
News
BBC Worldwide takes stake in Andy Harries' Left Bank
BBC Worldwide recently announced that it will take a 25% equity stake in Left Bank Pictures, the new production company being set up by former ITV/Granada production head Andy Harries, one of the producers of The Queen. Helen Jackson, BBC Worldwide's director of Independents, will take a seat on the ...
-
News
Film4 Summer Screen to open with Knocked Up
London's Somerset House has announced the line-up for its open air cinema series Film4 Summer Screen. The giant-screen projections, hosting up to 2,000 people, will run Aug 2-11. The series opens with Judd Apatow's hit US comedy Knocked Up. Other films selected are The Descent, The Thing, The Good, The ...
-
News
Blueberry Recruitment becomes Blueberry Creative Consultants
Post-production talent company Blueberry Recruitment has changed its name to Blueberry Creative Consultants. The company's clients include production mangers, producers and directors from the likes of BBC, CNN, RDF, Darlow Smithson and Flaming CGI. Blueberry works with about 150 freelance editors and designers. The rebranding comes as the company expands ...
-
News
Metrodome strikes UK deal for Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters
UK distributor Metrodome has taken all UK rights to Stefan Ruzowitzky's Berlinale hit The Counterfeiters.Sales agent Andreas Rothbauer of Beta Cinema negotiated the deal with Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general manager - theatrical and broadcast Sara Frain and acquisitions & business affairs manager Kate Falconer. Metrodome will release in the ...
-
News
Rogue promotes Heineman and Deutschman
Rogue Pictures has promoted Alex Heineman to vice president, production and Andrew Deutschman to creative executive.Deutschman and Heineman will continue to be based in the company's West Coast and East Coast offices, respectively, reporting directly to co-presidents Andrew Karpen and Andrew Rona.The two newly-promoted executives have already worked together on ...
-
Reviews
Autumn In New York
Dir: Joan Chen. US. 2000. 105 mins.Prod co: Lakeshore Entertainment. US dist: MGM. Int'l sales: Lakeshore International (+1 323 956 4222). Exec prods: Ted Tannenbaum, Ron Bozman. Prods: Amy Robinson, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg. Scr: Allison Burnett. DoP: Changwei Gu. Prod des: Mark Friedberg. Ed: Ruby Yang. Mus: Gabriel Yared. ...
-
News
J-horror hit-makers join forces for US project
J-horror hit-makers Hideo Nakata and Taka Ichise are set to team up on US horror project Inhuman, from Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises. The film will be based on a script - inspired by a real Japanese murder case - by Eric Heisserer, writer of the in-development Warner/Heydey ...