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Lionsgate Takes Global Rights To Kevin Smith’s ‘Clerks III’

Lionsgate Takes Global Rights To Kevin Smith’s ‘Clerks III’
Exclusive: Lionsgate has acquired worldwide rights to Kevin Smith’s Clerks III, which is in pre-production in New Jersey and will begin production next month.

Smith has written the screenplay and will direct, with all major cast members set to reprise their roles: Jeff Anderson as Randal, Brian O’Halloran as Dante, Jay Mewes as Jay, Smith as Silent Bob, and Rosario Dawson as Becky. The film will be produced by Liz Destro and Jordan Monsanto.

In Clerks III, following a massive heart attack, Randal enlists Dante, Elias, Jay and Silent Bob to make a movie immortalizing his life at the convenience store that started it all.

Smith said, “There’s a saying from the Tao that goes something like ‘To be great is to go on. To go on is to go far. To go far is to return.’ Thanks to Lionsgate, we get to return to where it all
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Lionsgate buys bulk of Spyglass library and 20% of company

Lionsgate buys bulk of Spyglass library and 20% of company
Films covered in the deal include The King’s Speech, Paddington and a Quentin Tarantino trio.

Lionsgate has acquired most of the 200-title Spyglass Media Group film library and formed a strategic content partnership with the development, finance and production company headed by Gary Barber.

The deal gives Lionsgate a 20% stake in Spyglass, whose other strategic investors include Italian producer-distributor Eagle Pictures, UK-headquartered exhibition giant Cineworld Group and Warner Bros.

The agreement also includes a multi-year first-look television deal between Lionsgate and Spyglass.

Chairman and CEO Barber and his senior leadership team will remain in place and continue to run Spyglass,
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Lionsgate Buys 20% Stake in Spyglass Media and Acquires Most of Film Library

Lionsgate Buys 20% Stake in Spyglass Media and Acquires Most of Film Library
Lionsgate has taken a 20% stake in Spyglass Media, and the companies together have formed a strategic content partnership. Lionsgate has also acquired most of the studio’s 200-film library, which includes roughly 200 titles such as “Scream 4,” “The King’s Speech” and several Quentin Tarantino films.

The two companies announced the news jointly on Thursday, and the agreement gives Lionsgate a 20% investment stake in the Spyglass, whose major assets include the next “Scream” film due out January 14, 2022, as well as the fashion competition series “Project Runway” and a revival of the “Hellraiser” franchise, which is currently in pre-production.

The agreement also includes a multi-year first-look TV deal between Lionsgate Television and Spyglass.

Among some of the movies that Lionsgate has now acquired, adding to Lionsgate’s already 17,000 strong library of film and TV titles, include “Fruitvale Station,” “Scream 4,” “Scary Movie 5,” “Spy Kids 4,” “Paddington,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Lee Daniel’s
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Lionsgate Acquires 20% Of Spyglass Media And Most Of Its 200-Title Library In Broad Strategic Partnership Including First Look Television Deal

Lionsgate Acquires 20% Of Spyglass Media And Most Of Its 200-Title Library In Broad Strategic Partnership Including First Look Television Deal
Lionsgate has acquired the vast majority of the Spyglass Media Group’s feature film library of approximately 200 titles and formed a strategic content partnership, the two companies announced today. The agreement gives Lionsgate a 20% investment stake in Spyglass. whose major assets include the latest installment of the Scream blockbuster horror franchise to be released January 14, 2022, the hit movie The Upside, the iconic fashion competition series Project Runway, and the revival of the Hellraiser franchise, currently in pre-production.

The agreement also includes a multiyear first-look television deal between Lionsgate Television and Spyglass. The library titles acquired by Lionsgate encompass a broad range of critically-acclaimed commercial blockbusters including Fruitvale Station, The King’s Speech, Scream 4, Scary Movie 5, Spy Kids 4, Paddington, Silver Linings Playbook, Lee Daniel’s The Butler and, adding to the Company’s large and growing portfolio of Quentin Tarantino titles, Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds and The Hateful Eight.

Gary Barber
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‘Mothering Sunday’ Star Odessa Young to Lead Psychological Horror ‘The Damned’ (Exclusive)

‘Mothering Sunday’ Star Odessa Young to Lead Psychological Horror ‘The Damned’ (Exclusive)
“Mothering Sunday’s” Odessa Young has been tapped for award-winning director Thordur Palsson’s upcoming psychological horror “The Damned.”

The film will see Young star as Eva, a 19th-century widow tasked with making an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her impoverished Icelandic fishing village. Any attempt to rescue survivors risks further depleting the starving villagers’ supplies.

As the villagers struggle with their guilt, Eva begins to experience unsettling visions and suspects they are being punished for their choice. Shooting will begin on location in Iceland in January 2022.

Protagonist Pictures will represent sales worldwide, co-repping U.S. rights with CAA Media Finance.

Palsson (“The Valhalla Murders”) wrote the story while Jamie Hannigan wrote the screenplay (supported by Screen Ireland).

Young is currently appearing in Cannes title “Mothering Sunday” alongside Olivia Colman (“The Father”), Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”) and Josh O’Connor
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Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Oscar-Winning Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’ (Exclusive)

  • 07 July 2021
  • by Elsa Keslassy and Matt Donnelly
  • Variety
Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Oscar-Winning Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’ (Exclusive)
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired “The Son,” Florian Zeller’s follow up to his Oscar-winning feature debut “The Father,” which will star Vanessa Kirby, Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman, Variety has learned.

SPC, which previously worked with Zeller on “The Father,” acquired rights for North America and a string of international territories in Asia and Eastern Europe. As with “The Father,” “The Son” was adapted by Zeller and Christopher Hampton (“Dangerous Liaisons”), from Zeller’s critically acclaimed stage play. Zeller and Hampton just won the best adapted screenplay Oscar.

“The Son” focuses on Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma (Kirby) and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Dern) turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas. The young man is is troubled, distant and angry, playing truant from school for months. Peter strives to be a better father, searching to help his son
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Vanessa Kirby Joins Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern in Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’ (Exclusive)

  • 28 June 2021
  • by Elsa Keslassy and Matt Donnelly
  • Variety
Vanessa Kirby Joins Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern in Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’ (Exclusive)
Vanessa Kirby has joined the cast of “The Son,” Florian Zeller’s follow up to his Oscar-winning feature debut “The Father,” Variety has learned.

Kirby, who was Oscar-nominated for “Pieces of a Woman,” will star in the film opposite Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman. As with “The Father,” “The Son” was adapted by Zeller and Christopher Hampton (“Dangerous Liaisons”), from Zeller’s critically acclaimed stage play. Zeller and Hampton just won the best adapted screenplay Oscar.

“The Son” focuses on Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma (Kirby) and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Dern) turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas. The young man is is troubled, distant and angry, playing truant from school for months. Peter strives to be a better father, searching to help his son with those intimate and instinctive moments of family happiness. But the weight of
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‘Rhino Reboot’: Love Productions USA To Follow Rebuilding Of Underdog Rochester Soccer Club

‘Rhino Reboot’: Love Productions USA To Follow Rebuilding Of Underdog Rochester Soccer Club
Love Productions USA (The Great American Baking Show) is set to produce Rhino Reboot, a series following the rebuilding of perennial underdog soccer team, The Rochester Rhinos, after sealing a deal with newly announced co-owners Jamie Vardy and David and Wendy Dworkin.

The Rhinos, a club that has struggled to find itself and establish a winning streak, last played professionally in the 2017 Usl season, but are anticipating a turnaround as they gear up for action in 2022.

The series will document the growth of the franchise as global football phenom Vardy and the Dworkins fill senior roles, including identifying a head coach and chief business officer, sourcing talented young local players who haven’t yet played at the competitive level, and trying to build a team both on and off the pitch. Rhino Reboot will have unfettered access to management, the coaching team, the owners, players and backroom staff. Vardy was
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British Soccer Star Jamie Vardy Teams With ‘Bake Off’s’ Love Productions USA For ‘Rhino Reboot’ Doc Series

British Soccer Star Jamie Vardy Teams With ‘Bake Off’s’ Love Productions USA For ‘Rhino Reboot’ Doc Series
Great British soccer star Jamie Vardy has teamed up with Love Productions USA on a new documentary series, “Rhino Reboot,” that will see him attempt to rebuild underdog soccer team The Rochester Rhinos.

Vardy, a Premier League soccer player who has also played for England, co-owns the Rhinos along with Sacramento Kings co-owners David and Wendy Dworkin. The series will offer exclusive access to the team’s management, coaching team, owners, players and staff as Vardy and his colleagues re-boot the Rhinos’ image and, hopefully, their performance as they make a bid for glory in 2022.

Among Vardy and the Dworkins’ first tasks will be finding a head coach and chief business officer, scouting for young players and building a team.

Love Productions USA is the U.S. arm of “Great British Bake-Off” producer Love Productions. Its co-presidents, Joe Labracio and Al Edgington, have worked on sports productions including “Last Chance U
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The Wit, Wisdom and “Unvarnished Truth” of Terry Press: A No-Holds-Barred Interview

The Wit, Wisdom and “Unvarnished Truth” of Terry Press: A No-Holds-Barred Interview
When consulting on the marketing and awards campaign for David Fincher’s The Social Network in late 2010, Terry Press needed to scope out the competition. She deftly arranged to see a screening of The King’s Speech at the Landmark Theatre on L.A.’s Westside. Swept up in the story, Press found herself weeping. “We’re going to lose,” she told a friend as the credits rolled.

She didn’t sugarcoat her opinion when reporting back to Fincher, producer Scott Rudin and then-Sony chief Amy Pascal. The Social Network might have been a critics’ darling and already an Oscar ...
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Oscars Best Picture Winners: 7 Blu-ray Box Sets You Should Buy

Oscars Best Picture Winners: 7 Blu-ray Box Sets You Should Buy
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The 93rd annual Academy Awards came and went with no shortage of excitement, and “Nomadland” became the 93rd film to be honored with the Academy’s most prestigious award, for Best Picture. You’re certainly not alone if hearing those stats made you wonder how many of the other 93 you’ve seen. The Oscars often rekindle our interest in Hollywood history, regardless of whether you’re a casual viewer or a die hard cinephile. And watching the Best Picture winners is a great way to take a crash course in film history, so we rounded up a selection of box sets for you to get started.

The awards are highly subjective, and some of the recipients inspired controversy,
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Robert Walak & Alisa Tager Join Anonymous Content As Presidents Of Film & Television At AC Studios

Robert Walak & Alisa Tager Join Anonymous Content As Presidents Of Film & Television At AC Studios
Exclusive: Former Focus Features President Robert Walak and veteran producer Alisa Tager have joined the executive team at Anonymous Content as Presidents of AC Studios. In their new roles, the duo will oversee development and production on projects across film, television, documentaries, doc series and podcasts.

AC Studios is the premium independent film and TV production studio that sits inside Anonymous Content. Recent projects include the Peabody Award winning series Dickinson and the George Clooney-directed limited series Catch-22; as well as Paradise Lost and Home Before Dark, which just wrapped filming on its second season; Defending Jacob starring Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery; and the upcoming film Swan Song, with Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Awkwafina and Glenn Close.

We understand there are further significant projects to come, with both in- and out-of-house talent and with industry tastemakers Walak and Tager eager to get going in nimble fashion.

In their new posts,
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Chloe Zhao (‘Nomadland’): Best Director Oscar would make history, but also continue trend of foreign-born winners

Chloe Zhao (‘Nomadland’): Best Director Oscar would make history, but also continue trend of foreign-born winners
“Nomadland” filmmaker Chloe Zhao‘s unique place in Oscar history has been widely acknowledged. She’s the first woman of color ever to be nominated for Best Director and she’d be only the second woman of any ethnicity to win. She’s already the most nominated woman in a single year with her additional bids for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. But there’s one way in which her victory for Best Director would be consistent with recent Oscar history: she’d continue the trend of foreign-born winners.

SEEOscar nominee profile: Adapted Screenplay ‘Nomadland’ offers a unique and haunting tone poem

In the last 12 years, only two Best Director winners have been American: Kathryn Bigelow and Damien Chazelle. Two were British: Danny Boyle and Tom Hooper. One was French: Michel Hazanavicius. One was Taiwanese: Ang Lee. One was Korean: Bong Joon Ho. And the other
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Oscars May Have Trouble Overcoming TV’s Awards Show Ratings Problems

Oscars May Have Trouble Overcoming TV’s Awards Show Ratings Problems
Live events like awards shows were supposed to be what saves broadcast TV. But even while they’re stuck at home in the middle of a pandemic, viewers have lost interest in kudocasts — and the ratings declines this year don’t bode well for the future of the form.

The recent performance of the Golden Globes, Grammys and SAG Awards should make the producers of this month’s Oscars nervous. So far this year, year-to-year viewership for The CW’s Critics Choice Awards dropped 69%; NBC’s Golden Globes ceremony was down 62%; TNT and TBS’ simulcast of the SAG Awards dipped 52%; and CBS’ Grammys telecast fell 51%.

Last year’s Academy Awards, in which “Parasite” took best picture, averaged 23.6 million viewers — making it the lowest-watched on record. If this year’s trend continues, a 50% drop would bring it down to the shockingly low level of around 12 million.

The all-time peak remains 57.2 million
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‘King’s Speech’ producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin takes crowdfunding route for wildlife drama ‘Cheetah’ (exclusive)

‘King’s Speech’ producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin takes crowdfunding route for wildlife drama ‘Cheetah’ (exclusive)
Bafta and Oscar-winning producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin to produce feature, which has launched a crowdfunding campaign.

Gareth Ellis-Unwin’s Bedlam Film Productions is gearing up to shoot wildlife drama Cheetah and has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support pre-production.

Ellis-Unwin is the Bafta and Oscar-winning UK producer of The King’s Speech and has partnered with environmental and arts organisation Oustanding.Global on the feature, which is set to begin filming in the Middle East and Balkans this autumn subject to Covid-19 restrictions.

The script has been written by playwright and conservationist Ric Edelman. Inspired by true events, the dramatic thriller follows
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Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern to Star in ‘The Son,’ From ‘The Father’ Director Florian Zeller and Cowriter Christopher Hampton

Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern to Star in ‘The Son,’ From ‘The Father’ Director Florian Zeller and Cowriter Christopher Hampton
Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern will star in “The Son,” writer-director Florian Zeller’s follow-up to the BAFTA winning and Academy Award nominated “The Father.” The film is adapted from Zeller’s acclaimed stage play by Zeller and Christopher Hampton, who is Oscar nominated for adapting “The Father” with Zeller, and who won an Oscar with “Dangerous Liaisons,” and was Oscar nominated with “Atonement.”

Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, who were Oscar nominated for best picture for “Lion,” and won the best picture Oscar for “The King’s Speech,” and Joanna Laurie of See-Saw Films produce with Christophe Spadone (“The Father”), alongside Zeller. Film4 is co-financing production.

Cross City Films and Embankment are launching international sales on “The Son,” while Cross City and CAA Media Finance are co-representing the U.S. rights.

In “The Son,” Peter (Jackman) has a busy life with new partner Emma and their baby. This is thrown
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Hugh Jackman & Laura Dern To Star In Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’, See-Saw To Produce Follow-Up To Oscar-Nominee ‘The Father’

Hugh Jackman & Laura Dern To Star In Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’, See-Saw To Produce Follow-Up To Oscar-Nominee ‘The Father’
Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman and Oscar winner Laura Dern have been set to star in blue-chip feature drama The Son, writer-director Florian Zeller’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated movie The Father.

Oscar winners Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech), and Joanna Laurie of See-Saw Films, produce with Christophe Spadone (The Father) alongside Zeller. Film4 are co-financing production.

Cross City Films and Embankment are launching international sales, with Cross City Films and CAA Media Finance co-representing U.S. rights.

Adapted by Zeller and Oscar-winner Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons), from Zeller’s acclaimed stage play, The Son focuses on Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Dern) turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas. The young man is is troubled, distant and angry, playing truant from school for months. Peter strives to be a better father,
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Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern to Star in ‘The Son,’ Florian Zeller’s Follow-Up to ‘The Father’

Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern to Star in ‘The Son,’ Florian Zeller’s Follow-Up to ‘The Father’
The Father may still be in the awards race — a two-time BAFTA winner last weekend and currently up for six Oscars, including best film, best actor for Anthony Hopkins and best supporting actress for Olivia Colman — but writer/director Florian Zeller has wasted no time on capitalizing on his directorial debut’s momentum to get moving on the follow-up. And he’s lined up another pair of top-level names to star.

Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern are teaming up for The Son, with See-Saw Films joining the production. Oscar winners Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (Ammonite, Lion, The King’s Speech) produce with Joanna Laurie ...
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Could BAFTA win for Anthony Hopkins (‘The Father’) foretell Oscars surprise like it did for Olivia Colman?

Could BAFTA win for Anthony Hopkins (‘The Father’) foretell Oscars surprise like it did for Olivia Colman?
Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman share the screen in “The Father,” and they could share a pathway to Oscar as well. Two years ago Colman was a Best Actress underdog for “The Favourite” as Glenn Close was racking up plaudits for “The Wife.” But then Colman won the BAFTA Award, and she ended up overtaking Close for the Oscar too. Will it be the same for Hopkins, who just won BAFTA against current Oscar front-runner Chadwick Boseman (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”).

The thing about the BAFTAs is that if Hopkins’s victory was an anomaly, it’s pretty easily explained. A British person often wins against an American, especially in a close race, even if the Brit doesn’t end up winning the Oscar: consider Colin Firth (“A Single Man”) over eventual Oscar champ Jeff Bridges (“Crazy Heart”), Geoffrey Rush (“The King’s Speech”) over Christian Bale (“The Fighter”), and Dev Patel
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2021 Oscars calendar: BAFTAs on April 10 and 11, final Academy Awards voting begins April 15

2021 Oscars calendar: BAFTAs on April 10 and 11, final Academy Awards voting begins April 15
The BAFTA Awards takes place across the weekend of April 10 and 11. Eight trophies will be handed out on Saturday with the other 17, including Best Picture, doled out on Sunday. The academy starts canvassing its members for their final votes for the 2021 Oscars on Thursday (April 15). That balloting period only runs for six days. The 93rd Academy Awards are on Sunday, April 25.

Since the BAFTAs moved up in 2001 to take place before the Oscars, these kudos have foreseen eight of the 20 Best Picture Oscar winners. The British academy previewed the Oscar wins for “Gladiator” (2001), “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2004) and “Slumdog Millionaire” (2009). And they got it right in the first five years of the expanded Best Picture race: “The Hurt Locker” (2010), “The King’s Speech” (2011), “The Artist” (2012), “Argo” (2013) and “12 Years a Slave” (2014).

See Complete list of 2021 Oscar nominations in all 23 categories

All of the key dates
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