“If you look at the history of Hollywood, 50%, 60%, maybe 70% of the stories are based on books or IP or games. There’s a big gap between how Europe thinks about developing television and the Hollywood system,” producer Erik Barmack reflected a few months back.
“There’s just tremendous opportunities now as the market’s tightening to find source IP where, you know, there’s an installed audience,” he added.
Now Europe and indeed Latin America is catching up. In one of its biggest innovations of 2023, Ventana Sur has launched a Buenos Aires version of Shoot the Book! offering IPs from a clutch of Argentina’s highest rated novelists and a best-selling French author, as one star attraction of its multitudinous titled El Principio del Film.
In another departure, Brazil and Andalusia offer screenplays whose themes capture the zeitgeist – whether in the battle to reconstitute family, odes to sorry, the exploration of cross-generational relationships,...
“There’s just tremendous opportunities now as the market’s tightening to find source IP where, you know, there’s an installed audience,” he added.
Now Europe and indeed Latin America is catching up. In one of its biggest innovations of 2023, Ventana Sur has launched a Buenos Aires version of Shoot the Book! offering IPs from a clutch of Argentina’s highest rated novelists and a best-selling French author, as one star attraction of its multitudinous titled El Principio del Film.
In another departure, Brazil and Andalusia offer screenplays whose themes capture the zeitgeist – whether in the battle to reconstitute family, odes to sorry, the exploration of cross-generational relationships,...
- 11/28/2023
- by John Hopewell, Anna Marie de la Fuente and Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Pinewood Group, which runs Pinewood Studios in the U.K., has acquired full ownership of Pinewood Toronto Studios.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the UK-based group has purchased a film and TV studio in Toronto that has its name on the marquee due to a sales and management deal with the facility’s former Canadian stakeholders that began in 2009.
The deal follows majority owner Bell Media putting up for sale its majority stake in the marquee studio where the Star Trek: Discovery series and Guillermo del Toro shoot. The deal for full ownership of Pinewood Toronto Studios landing with the UK group also comes after long negotiations with the city of Toronto and Paul Bronfman, chairman and CEO of studio operator Comweb Corp. to follow suit and sell their minority stakes in the facility.
“We have worked with our partners for many years to create the city’s pre-eminent studio,...
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the UK-based group has purchased a film and TV studio in Toronto that has its name on the marquee due to a sales and management deal with the facility’s former Canadian stakeholders that began in 2009.
The deal follows majority owner Bell Media putting up for sale its majority stake in the marquee studio where the Star Trek: Discovery series and Guillermo del Toro shoot. The deal for full ownership of Pinewood Toronto Studios landing with the UK group also comes after long negotiations with the city of Toronto and Paul Bronfman, chairman and CEO of studio operator Comweb Corp. to follow suit and sell their minority stakes in the facility.
“We have worked with our partners for many years to create the city’s pre-eminent studio,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Gloria Sanchez Productions has promoted Alex Brown to Head of Film and hired Alix Taylor as Head of Television.
The L.A. based-pair will now oversee all development and production for the company, across film and television, reporting to principals Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum.
Brown comes to her new role following three years as a feature producer for Gloria Sanchez. Among her most recent credits as an exec producer for the company is the improvisational ensemble comedy Theater Camp, starring Molly Gordon, Ben Platt and Noah Galvin, which was acquired by Searchlight Pictures out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Gordon and Nick Lieberman directed the title, based on a same-name 2020 short, from their script written with Platt and Galvin.
Other recent credits for Brown as an EP include an Untitled Sister Comedy, starring Sandra Oh and Awkwafina, for Hulu; Todd Haynes’ May December, starring Natalie Portman...
The L.A. based-pair will now oversee all development and production for the company, across film and television, reporting to principals Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum.
Brown comes to her new role following three years as a feature producer for Gloria Sanchez. Among her most recent credits as an exec producer for the company is the improvisational ensemble comedy Theater Camp, starring Molly Gordon, Ben Platt and Noah Galvin, which was acquired by Searchlight Pictures out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Gordon and Nick Lieberman directed the title, based on a same-name 2020 short, from their script written with Platt and Galvin.
Other recent credits for Brown as an EP include an Untitled Sister Comedy, starring Sandra Oh and Awkwafina, for Hulu; Todd Haynes’ May December, starring Natalie Portman...
- 5/2/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Christopher At Sea by Tom Cj Brown Photo: Tom Cj Brown Fans of short films are in for a treat as Sala Web returns to the 79th Venice Film Festival with a selection of films from the Orizzonti and Out of Competition sections.
We are pleased to partner with Festivalscope's Sala Web to announce there are 12 films on offer from today until September 30, with a limited amount of tickets available for each. The films - which include British animation Christopher At Sea, directed by Tom Cj Brown - are all world premieres and will screen on the streaming platform immediately after their official presentations on the Lido. The full list of films screening and the dates they are available is as follows:
Christopher At Sea by Tom Cj Brown - Available September 9 My Girlfriend / Sahbety by Kawthar Younis - Available September 9 Tria - del sentimento del tradire by Giulia Grandinetti...
We are pleased to partner with Festivalscope's Sala Web to announce there are 12 films on offer from today until September 30, with a limited amount of tickets available for each. The films - which include British animation Christopher At Sea, directed by Tom Cj Brown - are all world premieres and will screen on the streaming platform immediately after their official presentations on the Lido. The full list of films screening and the dates they are available is as follows:
Christopher At Sea by Tom Cj Brown - Available September 9 My Girlfriend / Sahbety by Kawthar Younis - Available September 9 Tria - del sentimento del tradire by Giulia Grandinetti...
- 9/8/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Blaze Trailer — Del Kathryn Barton‘s Blaze (2022) movie trailer has been released by Bonsai Films. The Blaze trailer stars Julia Savage, Simon Baker, Yael Stone, Josh Lawson, and Sofia Hampson. Crew Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero wrote the screenplay for Blaze. Sam Petty and Angel Olsen created the music for the film. Jeremy Rouse [...]
Continue reading: Blaze (2022) Movie Trailer: Julia Savage Witnesses a Traumatic Event in Del Kathryn Barton’s Coming-of-age Film...
Continue reading: Blaze (2022) Movie Trailer: Julia Savage Witnesses a Traumatic Event in Del Kathryn Barton’s Coming-of-age Film...
- 8/16/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Even the Bat Signal isn’t enough to find “Batman.” Netflix was the streaming home for “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight” until the end of March 2020, when the films left the service. A month later, they resurfaced on Hulu — but only for three months, at which point they landed on HBO Max. That didn’t last long; two months later, they were on Peacock for only a month. In January 2021, they returned to HBO Max, where they’re still available — but as of March 2021, they’re also back to where they began, on Netflix.
Gone are the easy, early days of streaming, where something was either on Netflix or it wasn’t. Nearly every major studio has its own streaming service and, according to research from Npd Group, the average American household uses seven different subscription or ad-supported services. That makes figuring out where you can watch Christian Bale...
Gone are the easy, early days of streaming, where something was either on Netflix or it wasn’t. Nearly every major studio has its own streaming service and, according to research from Npd Group, the average American household uses seven different subscription or ad-supported services. That makes figuring out where you can watch Christian Bale...
- 3/31/2021
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
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