Like leaving voicemails and watching baseball, listening to the radio is popular with older people. 70 percent of parents agree with the statement, “FM radio is for people your age,” according to the analytics company Edison Research. Just 34 percent of teens feel the same way.
But radio-averse teens aren’t content to just let their parents fiddle with pre-sets in the mini-van. Instead, teenagers appear to be slyly subverted their elders, convincing them to try new tech and stream music.
That’s the upshot of a recent presentation at the Country Radio Seminar,...
But radio-averse teens aren’t content to just let their parents fiddle with pre-sets in the mini-van. Instead, teenagers appear to be slyly subverted their elders, convincing them to try new tech and stream music.
That’s the upshot of a recent presentation at the Country Radio Seminar,...
- 3/25/2019
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Friday at New York Comic Con, Co-Op Entertainment and Legion M unveiled plans for Girl With No Name, a female-led Western action-adventure movie produced by Co-Op’s Laura Ivey (Walking Out, Ithaca) and directed by Tanya Wexler (Hysteria). But the story won’t be constrained to the screen.
Ahead of the release of Girl With No Name the movie, audiences will have the chance to meet the eponymous hero in a 40-page comic book published by Legion M called A1Shot, developed by Dave Elliott at AtomekART. Adapted in part from Alex Ranarivelo’s screenplay, the comic book has an appropriately female-centric creative team: Co-Op ...
Ahead of the release of Girl With No Name the movie, audiences will have the chance to meet the eponymous hero in a 40-page comic book published by Legion M called A1Shot, developed by Dave Elliott at AtomekART. Adapted in part from Alex Ranarivelo’s screenplay, the comic book has an appropriately female-centric creative team: Co-Op ...
- 10/5/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Friday at New York Comic Con, Co-Op Entertainment and Legion M unveiled plans for Girl With No Name, a female-led Western action-adventure movie produced by Co-Op’s Laura Ivey (Walking Out, Ithaca) and directed by Tanya Wexler (Hysteria). But the story won’t be constrained to the screen.
Ahead of the release of Girl With No Name the movie, audiences will have the chance to meet the eponymous hero in a 40-page comic book published by Legion M called A1Shot, developed by Dave Elliott at AtomekART. Adapted in part from Alex Ranarivelo’s screenplay, the comic book has an appropriately female-centric creative team: Co-Op ...
Ahead of the release of Girl With No Name the movie, audiences will have the chance to meet the eponymous hero in a 40-page comic book published by Legion M called A1Shot, developed by Dave Elliott at AtomekART. Adapted in part from Alex Ranarivelo’s screenplay, the comic book has an appropriately female-centric creative team: Co-Op ...
- 10/5/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Bloom/Spiegel Partnership, an alliance between New York’s Ifp Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film and Jerusalem’s prestigious Sam Spiegel Film School, has selected 8 filmmakers from around the world who will participate in the program’s second edition.
This year’s participants, Alik Barsoumian, Daliso Leslie, Clare Sackler, Ostin Fam (selected by Bloom), and Dana Blankstein-Cohen, Avishay Kahana, Maya Fischer and Sol Goodman (selected by Sam Spiegel), will spend time with other directors, industry professionals, and attend screenings and events over a period of five days. Tribeca Film Festival provided passes to all participants of the Bloom/Spiegel Partnership.
“We started this program last year as a bit of an experiment and the experience was so inspiring that we have entered into a second year of the partnership. Through this program we seek to expand our community, build international friendships and enrich the next generation of filmmakers,” said Dylan Leiner and Alex Uhlmann,...
This year’s participants, Alik Barsoumian, Daliso Leslie, Clare Sackler, Ostin Fam (selected by Bloom), and Dana Blankstein-Cohen, Avishay Kahana, Maya Fischer and Sol Goodman (selected by Sam Spiegel), will spend time with other directors, industry professionals, and attend screenings and events over a period of five days. Tribeca Film Festival provided passes to all participants of the Bloom/Spiegel Partnership.
“We started this program last year as a bit of an experiment and the experience was so inspiring that we have entered into a second year of the partnership. Through this program we seek to expand our community, build international friendships and enrich the next generation of filmmakers,” said Dylan Leiner and Alex Uhlmann,...
- 4/24/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Alliance Media Partners teams with Salt executives to launch new company; Matt Bomer thriller on slate.
Production and finance company Alliance Media Partners (Amp) is joining with former Salt sales boss James Norrie to launch London-based sales outfit Amp International, which will take on the Salt slate and some of its staff.
Norrie (below), previously of Icon and Capitol Films, will spearhead sales at Amp International. Joining from Salt will be Nina Kolokouri and Timo Suomi, sales and acquisitions executive.
The current Salt slate includes Walking Out - launching at Sundance in the Us Dramatic Competition later this month - produced by Brunson Green, Laura Ivey and starring Matt Bomer and Bill Pullman; and Malicious, a supernatural horror thriller starring Delroy Lindo, Josh Stewart[/link], Bojana Novakovic, Melissa Bolona and Yvette Yates, directed by Michael Winnick, and produced/financed by Lost Hills Films.
The new Amp group (Alliance Media Partners and Amp International) will work across film sales...
Production and finance company Alliance Media Partners (Amp) is joining with former Salt sales boss James Norrie to launch London-based sales outfit Amp International, which will take on the Salt slate and some of its staff.
Norrie (below), previously of Icon and Capitol Films, will spearhead sales at Amp International. Joining from Salt will be Nina Kolokouri and Timo Suomi, sales and acquisitions executive.
The current Salt slate includes Walking Out - launching at Sundance in the Us Dramatic Competition later this month - produced by Brunson Green, Laura Ivey and starring Matt Bomer and Bill Pullman; and Malicious, a supernatural horror thriller starring Delroy Lindo, Josh Stewart[/link], Bojana Novakovic, Melissa Bolona and Yvette Yates, directed by Michael Winnick, and produced/financed by Lost Hills Films.
The new Amp group (Alliance Media Partners and Amp International) will work across film sales...
- 1/11/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Keep up with the glitzy awards world with our weekly Awards Roundup column.
– Director Juan Antonio Bayona’s “A Monster Calls” will enter Spain’s annual Goya Awards on February 4, 2017 with more nominations than any other film. The fantasy-drama is nominated in 12 of the 28 categories, beating out Alberto Rodriguez’s “Smoke and Mirrors” and Raul Arevalo’s “The Fury of a Patient Man,” each of which received 11 nominations. Both films will compete with “A Monster Calls” in the best film category, as will Pedro Almodovar’s “Julieta.”
Read More: Awards Roundup: Megan Ellison to Receive PGA Visionary Award, Guillermo del Toro Honored and More
“A Monster Calls” is “a visually spectacular drama based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel. 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) attempts to deal with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage,...
– Director Juan Antonio Bayona’s “A Monster Calls” will enter Spain’s annual Goya Awards on February 4, 2017 with more nominations than any other film. The fantasy-drama is nominated in 12 of the 28 categories, beating out Alberto Rodriguez’s “Smoke and Mirrors” and Raul Arevalo’s “The Fury of a Patient Man,” each of which received 11 nominations. Both films will compete with “A Monster Calls” in the best film category, as will Pedro Almodovar’s “Julieta.”
Read More: Awards Roundup: Megan Ellison to Receive PGA Visionary Award, Guillermo del Toro Honored and More
“A Monster Calls” is “a visually spectacular drama based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel. 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) attempts to deal with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage,...
- 12/16/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Every year since 2009, the San Francisco Film Society (Sffs) selects multiple film projects to receive the biannual Sffs/Krf Filmmaking Grant that helps fund some of the best up-and-coming narrative features that support the Bay Area filmmaking industry.
The grant is presented in tangent with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and is the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the U.S. The winners of the grant will be announced in November, with one or more of the fifteen projects eligible to receive upwards of $250,000 for assistance in post-production, screenwriting, or packing.
The fall 2016 finalists are as follows:
Read More: San Francisco Film Society Announces Winners of 2016 Documentary Film Fund
“Buoyancy” – Rodd Rathjen, writer/director:
Chakra, a Cambodian teenager, leaves his family to seek a better life in Thailand, but is soon sold onto a Thai fishing trawler and enslaved at sea indefinitely, working 22 hours a day with little food.
The grant is presented in tangent with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and is the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the U.S. The winners of the grant will be announced in November, with one or more of the fifteen projects eligible to receive upwards of $250,000 for assistance in post-production, screenwriting, or packing.
The fall 2016 finalists are as follows:
Read More: San Francisco Film Society Announces Winners of 2016 Documentary Film Fund
“Buoyancy” – Rodd Rathjen, writer/director:
Chakra, a Cambodian teenager, leaves his family to seek a better life in Thailand, but is soon sold onto a Thai fishing trawler and enslaved at sea indefinitely, working 22 hours a day with little food.
- 10/25/2016
- by Mark Burger
- Indiewire
Alex Neustaedter, the 17-year-old actor currently playing Josh Holloway’s son on USA Network show Colony, has been given the huge compliment of being cast as a young Matt Bomer. HitFix can exclusively report that Neustaedter is playing the part of young Cal in survival drama Walking Out. The film centers on Cal (Matt Bomer) and son David (Josh Wiggins). David travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father, only for the already strained trip to become a battle of survival. During the trip, Cal begins to revisit his own past, comparing his time with David to his own childhood with his father. Neustaedter plays the young Cal in the flashback scenes opposite Bill Pullman as Cal’s father. Let’s take a look at Neustaedter side-by-side with the American Horror Story: Hotel actor: Photo credits: Marc Cartwright; Christopher Smith/Fox Those blue eyes. Those jawlines. Good work,...
- 2/16/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Exclusive: Matt Bomer, Bill Pullman, Josh Wiggins star in Walking Out; Salt boards international sales.
Production has wrapped in Montana on father-son survival drama Walking Out, starring Matt Bomer (Magic Mike Xxl), Bill Pullman (Independence Day) and Josh Wiggins (Max).
Written and directed by Alex and Andrew Smith, who teamed on Ryan Gosling sports drama The Slaughter Rule (2002) and Winter In The Blood (2010), in Walking Out Wiggins plays a city teen who travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly bear.
Producers are Brunson Green of Harbinger Pictures and Laura Ivey of Co-Op Entertainment, with cooperation from the State of Montana’s Big Sky Film Grant. The Salt Company is handling international sales and will introduce the project at the upcoming Efm.
Director of photography is Todd McMullen (The Leftovers, Friday Night Lights), editor is Michael Taylor (Elvis & Nixon...
Production has wrapped in Montana on father-son survival drama Walking Out, starring Matt Bomer (Magic Mike Xxl), Bill Pullman (Independence Day) and Josh Wiggins (Max).
Written and directed by Alex and Andrew Smith, who teamed on Ryan Gosling sports drama The Slaughter Rule (2002) and Winter In The Blood (2010), in Walking Out Wiggins plays a city teen who travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly bear.
Producers are Brunson Green of Harbinger Pictures and Laura Ivey of Co-Op Entertainment, with cooperation from the State of Montana’s Big Sky Film Grant. The Salt Company is handling international sales and will introduce the project at the upcoming Efm.
Director of photography is Todd McMullen (The Leftovers, Friday Night Lights), editor is Michael Taylor (Elvis & Nixon...
- 2/2/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Outfest, the La nonprofit devoted to sharing on-screen Lgbt stories, has announced that Christopher Racster has been named executive director. Read More: Outfest Legacy Awards to Honor Tom Hanks and 'The Kids Are Alright' Director Lisa Cholodenko Racster succeeded Kirsten Schaffer as interim executive director after her departure in the spring, and he has now officially been named the best candidate for the job. "After an extensive search that yielded many highly qualified candidates, it became clear that our best prospect had been in front of us all along," said Outfest Board of Directors co-presidents Ari Karpel and Laura Ivey. Though Outfest's Film Festival concluded earlier this year, the organization will honor Tom Hanks and Lisa Cholodenko at the organization's legacy awards on November 5. Read More: Outfest 2015: Surveying 6 of the Festival's Most Anticipated Titles ...
- 10/15/2015
- by Aubrey Page
- Indiewire
“The Big C” star Gabriel Basso has joined the cast of Meg Ryan's directorial debut “Ithaca,” an individual familiar with the indie movie has told TheWrap. Erik Jendresen's adapted William Saroyan's novel “The Human Comedy,” which chronicles life in a small California town during World War II. Also read: ‘Kings of Summer’ Star Gabriel Basso Joins Hailee Steinfeld in ‘Barely Lethal’ (Exclusive) Basso joins Ryan, Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard and Jack Quaid in the film, in which the young actor will play the role of Tobey George. Janet Brenner and Laura Ivey are producing while Hanks and...
- 9/18/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Tom Hanks is in talks for a cameo in Meg Ryan's directorial debut "Ithaca" alongside the likes of Sam Shepard, Jack Quaid and Melanie Griffith.
Based on William Saroyan's 1943 novel "The Human Comedy," the film explores how the Second World War affects a family in California's San Joaquin Valley.
Specifically it centers on a 14-year-old telegraph bicycle messenger named Homer Macauley who is left to take care of his widowed mother, older sister and four-year-old brother Ulysses after his older brother is sent off to fight.
Homer continues delivering messages, one of which will change his life forever. Tom Hanks will play Homer's late father.
Erik Jendresen penned the script while Gary Goetzman, Janet Brenner and Laura Ivey are set to produce. Shooting begins next month in Virginia.
Source: Variety...
Based on William Saroyan's 1943 novel "The Human Comedy," the film explores how the Second World War affects a family in California's San Joaquin Valley.
Specifically it centers on a 14-year-old telegraph bicycle messenger named Homer Macauley who is left to take care of his widowed mother, older sister and four-year-old brother Ulysses after his older brother is sent off to fight.
Homer continues delivering messages, one of which will change his life forever. Tom Hanks will play Homer's late father.
Erik Jendresen penned the script while Gary Goetzman, Janet Brenner and Laura Ivey are set to produce. Shooting begins next month in Virginia.
Source: Variety...
- 6/26/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
After appearing together in Joe Versus the Volcano, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan look set to reunite in the big screen adaptation of William Saroyan’s classic 1943 novel The Human Comedy. It marks the directorial debut of Ryan and she will start shooting in Virginia next month.
Hanks is closely involved in the project as an executive producer, so the fact that he’s willing to make a cameo in the World War II set coming of age drama perhaps shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.
The novel was adapted by Band of Brothers scribe Erik Jendresen, and he obviously worked with Hanks on that critically acclaimed HBO series. Sam Shepard, Melanie Griffith and Jack Quaid have so far also been confirmed as starring in the movie. Janet Brenner and Laura Ivey are producing.
Set in a small town...
Hanks is closely involved in the project as an executive producer, so the fact that he’s willing to make a cameo in the World War II set coming of age drama perhaps shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.
The novel was adapted by Band of Brothers scribe Erik Jendresen, and he obviously worked with Hanks on that critically acclaimed HBO series. Sam Shepard, Melanie Griffith and Jack Quaid have so far also been confirmed as starring in the movie. Janet Brenner and Laura Ivey are producing.
Set in a small town...
- 6/26/2014
- by Josh Wilding
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Jean-Claude Van Damme thriller will be released on a date to be announced shortly. International sales agent The Exchange has sold out all territories.
Alfred Molina, Lennie James, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Freya Tingley also star in the story of bank robbers who break out of prison and go after the one gang member who got away and has no recollection of his involvement.
Keith Parmer directed. Eleonore Dailly of Film Invaders, Alan Simpson of Grand Peaks and Chris Ranta of The Exchange produced Swelter and Don Simpson from Grand Peaks, Nat McCormick, Laura Ivey and Brian O’Shea of The Exchange served as executive producers.
Well Go USA president Doris Pfardrescher negotiated the deal with The Exchange chief O’Shea.
“We are again very happy to work with Well Go,” said O’Shea. “They are very strong domestically and confident that they will do a great job on releasing the movie.”...
Alfred Molina, Lennie James, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Freya Tingley also star in the story of bank robbers who break out of prison and go after the one gang member who got away and has no recollection of his involvement.
Keith Parmer directed. Eleonore Dailly of Film Invaders, Alan Simpson of Grand Peaks and Chris Ranta of The Exchange produced Swelter and Don Simpson from Grand Peaks, Nat McCormick, Laura Ivey and Brian O’Shea of The Exchange served as executive producers.
Well Go USA president Doris Pfardrescher negotiated the deal with The Exchange chief O’Shea.
“We are again very happy to work with Well Go,” said O’Shea. “They are very strong domestically and confident that they will do a great job on releasing the movie.”...
- 4/2/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
"Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail" duo Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are set to re-team for "Ithaca" on which Ryan makes her directorial debut.
Adapted from William Saroyan's novel "The Human Comedy," the story is set in 1942 in a small California town where a fourteen-year-old teen is determined to be the best bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen.
His older brother has gone to war, leaving him to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother. He also struggles with a message that will change him forever.
Sam Shepard, Melanie Griffith and Jack Quaid also star. Erik Jendresen ("Band Of Brothers") wrote the screenplay while Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Ryan and Jendresen are producing.
Hanks and Gary Goetzman will executive produce. Filming aims to begin this summer.
Source: Deadline...
Adapted from William Saroyan's novel "The Human Comedy," the story is set in 1942 in a small California town where a fourteen-year-old teen is determined to be the best bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen.
His older brother has gone to war, leaving him to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother. He also struggles with a message that will change him forever.
Sam Shepard, Melanie Griffith and Jack Quaid also star. Erik Jendresen ("Band Of Brothers") wrote the screenplay while Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Ryan and Jendresen are producing.
Hanks and Gary Goetzman will executive produce. Filming aims to begin this summer.
Source: Deadline...
- 1/30/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Exchange heads to Berlin with worldwide rights Ithaca, Meg Ryan’s feature directorial debut with Tom Hanks on board as executive producer. Separately, Content is reteaming with Red & Black Films on Don’t Knock Twice.
Erik Jendresen adapted the screenplay to Ithaca from William Saroyan’s novel The Human Comedy. The WW2 rites-of-passage story centres on a teenage bicycle messenger.
Ryan will star alongside Sam Shepard, Melanie Griffith and Jack Quaid. Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Ryan and Jendresen produce. Shooting is set to begin this summer.
Content has reunited with Caradog James and John Giwa-Amu of Red & Black Films on their latest title Don’t Knock Twice and will commence world sales at the Efm.
James will direct from Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler’s screenplay based on an urban legend in the vein of Candyman.
Pre-production is scheduled for spring. Giwa-Amu will produce with Seymour Films’ Claire Moorsom, while Content...
Erik Jendresen adapted the screenplay to Ithaca from William Saroyan’s novel The Human Comedy. The WW2 rites-of-passage story centres on a teenage bicycle messenger.
Ryan will star alongside Sam Shepard, Melanie Griffith and Jack Quaid. Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Ryan and Jendresen produce. Shooting is set to begin this summer.
Content has reunited with Caradog James and John Giwa-Amu of Red & Black Films on their latest title Don’t Knock Twice and will commence world sales at the Efm.
James will direct from Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler’s screenplay based on an urban legend in the vein of Candyman.
Pre-production is scheduled for spring. Giwa-Amu will produce with Seymour Films’ Claire Moorsom, while Content...
- 1/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Exchange heads to Berlin with worldwide rights Ithaca, Meg Ryan’s feature directorial debut with Tom Hanks on board as executive producer. Separately, Content is reteaming with Red & Black Films on Don’t Knock Twice.
Erik Jendresen adapted the screenplay to Ithaca from William Saroyan’s novel The Human Comedy. The WW2 rites-of-passage story centres on a teenage bicycle messenger.
Ryan will star alongside Sam Shepard, Melanie Griffith and Jack Quaid. Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Ryan and Jendresen produce. Shooting is set to begin this summer.
Content has reunited with Caradog James and John Giwa-Amu of Red & Black Films on their latest title Don’t Knock Twice and will commence world sales at the Efm.
James will direct from Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler’s screenplay based on an urban legend in the vein of Candyman.
Pre-production is scheduled for spring. Giwa-Amu will produce with Seymour Films’ Claire Moorsom, while Content...
Erik Jendresen adapted the screenplay to Ithaca from William Saroyan’s novel The Human Comedy. The WW2 rites-of-passage story centres on a teenage bicycle messenger.
Ryan will star alongside Sam Shepard, Melanie Griffith and Jack Quaid. Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Ryan and Jendresen produce. Shooting is set to begin this summer.
Content has reunited with Caradog James and John Giwa-Amu of Red & Black Films on their latest title Don’t Knock Twice and will commence world sales at the Efm.
James will direct from Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler’s screenplay based on an urban legend in the vein of Candyman.
Pre-production is scheduled for spring. Giwa-Amu will produce with Seymour Films’ Claire Moorsom, while Content...
- 1/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
CEO Brian O’Shea has announced that the Jean-Claude Van Damme action title virtually sold out at the recent Afm.
Swelter marks the first completed film backed by Exchange Peaks Film Capital, the fund established by Grand Peaks and run by The Exchange. Talks are ongoing for a North American deal.
Deals have closed in Germany/Switzerland (Planet Media), France (Happy Audience), the UK (Anchor Bay), Australia / New Zealand (Transmission), Cis/ Baltics/Poland (Revolutionary Releasing), Latin America (Swen), Japan (Convenience Club), Spain (Tot Media), Portugal (Lusomundo), Bulgaria/Hungary/Czech Republic/Slovakia/Romania (Padora) and Benelux (A Film) and former Yugoslavia (Mg Film)
Rights also went in Middle East (Eagle), Spain (Tot Media), Turkey (Mars Sinema), Greece (Hollywood Entertainment), South Africa (Okhma), South Korea (Sonamu Pictures), Thailand (Sahamongkolfilm), Singapore (Shaw Organization), Indonesia (Pt Prima), Taiwan (Well Go), India (Pictureworks), Hong Kong / Macao (DDDream), Philippines (Pioneer Films) and Pan-Asia Ptv (Fox International). Jaguar took airlines.
Keith Parmer directed...
Swelter marks the first completed film backed by Exchange Peaks Film Capital, the fund established by Grand Peaks and run by The Exchange. Talks are ongoing for a North American deal.
Deals have closed in Germany/Switzerland (Planet Media), France (Happy Audience), the UK (Anchor Bay), Australia / New Zealand (Transmission), Cis/ Baltics/Poland (Revolutionary Releasing), Latin America (Swen), Japan (Convenience Club), Spain (Tot Media), Portugal (Lusomundo), Bulgaria/Hungary/Czech Republic/Slovakia/Romania (Padora) and Benelux (A Film) and former Yugoslavia (Mg Film)
Rights also went in Middle East (Eagle), Spain (Tot Media), Turkey (Mars Sinema), Greece (Hollywood Entertainment), South Africa (Okhma), South Korea (Sonamu Pictures), Thailand (Sahamongkolfilm), Singapore (Shaw Organization), Indonesia (Pt Prima), Taiwan (Well Go), India (Pictureworks), Hong Kong / Macao (DDDream), Philippines (Pioneer Films) and Pan-Asia Ptv (Fox International). Jaguar took airlines.
Keith Parmer directed...
- 11/22/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
CEO Brian O’Shea and his team will handle international sales on Ron Howard’s film about Jay-z’s two-day music festival that is set to premiere in Toronto on Saturday [7].
Imagine Entertainment, Marcy Media and RadicalMedia produced the film in association with Participant Media.
Made In America chronicles last year’s two-day Philadelphia event headlined and curated by Jay-z that featured sets from Kanye West, Pearl Jam, The Hives, Janelle Monáe and Run-d.M.C, among others.
Brian Grazer, Steve Stoute, Justin Wilkes and Jonathan Silberberg produced with Howard. Jay Z, Paul Chibe, Diane Weyermann, Jeff Skoll, Erica Huggins, Jon Kamen and Sidney Beaumont served as executive producers.
“Ron Howard has created an entertaining and inspirational documentary,” said O’Shea. “The music of Made In America and the inspiration for this event concert are simply fantastic. The Exchange team is proud to bring this highly commercial film to our international buyers.”
The Exchange...
Imagine Entertainment, Marcy Media and RadicalMedia produced the film in association with Participant Media.
Made In America chronicles last year’s two-day Philadelphia event headlined and curated by Jay-z that featured sets from Kanye West, Pearl Jam, The Hives, Janelle Monáe and Run-d.M.C, among others.
Brian Grazer, Steve Stoute, Justin Wilkes and Jonathan Silberberg produced with Howard. Jay Z, Paul Chibe, Diane Weyermann, Jeff Skoll, Erica Huggins, Jon Kamen and Sidney Beaumont served as executive producers.
“Ron Howard has created an entertaining and inspirational documentary,” said O’Shea. “The music of Made In America and the inspiration for this event concert are simply fantastic. The Exchange team is proud to bring this highly commercial film to our international buyers.”
The Exchange...
- 9/5/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
I am using the term Isa to stand for International Sales Agent, a term also to be seen in IMDbPro.com when you look for Company Credits. Occasionally, though not daily, before and during the markets, I feature a story on a particularly noteworthy Isa.
Today I salute Brain O'Shea's company, The Exchange. Since he left Affinity when it merged with Sierra to form Sierra Affinity, he had been selling, producing, discovering scripts and talent, such as the recent Sundance star writer/director Sebastian Silva's Magic Magic as well as the script, Young Ones, written and directed by Jake Paltrow, both of which he brought to Marina Fuentes of 6 Sales and Dreamtcatchers (read more about her here).
Now he has announced The Exchange, an international sales agency created in 2011, and Grand Peaks Entertainment, a Denver-based entertainment company, created Exchange Peaks Film Capital, a full-service specialty film fund which will be run by Exchange President Laura Ivey, reporting to Exchange CEO Brian O'Shea. Grand Peaks was introduced to The Exchange by VP of Worldwide Distribution, Nat McCormick.
Exchange Peaks Film Capital will participate in all forms of production financing, including minimum guarantees, gap, super gap, tax credits, foreign sales collateral, bridge and equity lending.
Ivey said Exchange Peaks Film Capital is eyeing to finance and produce four to six feature projects per year.
"We are thrilled to partner with The Exchange on this fund and are excited to expand our relationship together in the future, as well as to help talented filmmakers bring their visions to life." said Grand Peaks partner, Alan Simpson.
O'Shea said of the partnership, "Exchange Peaks Film Capital is an integral component to building The Exchange. From the start, we envisioned adding a financing side to the company and have found the ideal partner in Grand Peaks."
The first fund beneficiary is The Exchange's previously announced film, The Last 5 Years, directed by Richard Lagravenese (P.S. I Love You, Beautiful Creatures) and starring Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, 50/50.)
Collaborative and transparent, The Exchange is a leading international sales and finance company committed to creating strong relationships between filmmakers, film financers and distributors through the exchange of product, information and commerce. Created by veteran sales executive Brian O'Shea, the company specializes in high quality, commercial films that appeal to North American audiences and the ever-evolving global film market. In less than two year, The Exchange has acquired, financed, produced and/or sold over 140 films ranging in budgets from $5 million to $90 million, including studio films from Disney, Sony, Fox, and Universal. Such films include Universal's 2 Guns, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg; 2013 Sundance Award Winner The Spectacular Now staring Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley; Sony's Magic Magic, starring Juno Temple, Emily Browning and Michael Cera; and Fox Searchlight's Sound of My Voice, starring Brit Marling and directed by Zal Batmanglij. For more information, please visit: www.theexchange.ws.
Today I salute Brain O'Shea's company, The Exchange. Since he left Affinity when it merged with Sierra to form Sierra Affinity, he had been selling, producing, discovering scripts and talent, such as the recent Sundance star writer/director Sebastian Silva's Magic Magic as well as the script, Young Ones, written and directed by Jake Paltrow, both of which he brought to Marina Fuentes of 6 Sales and Dreamtcatchers (read more about her here).
Now he has announced The Exchange, an international sales agency created in 2011, and Grand Peaks Entertainment, a Denver-based entertainment company, created Exchange Peaks Film Capital, a full-service specialty film fund which will be run by Exchange President Laura Ivey, reporting to Exchange CEO Brian O'Shea. Grand Peaks was introduced to The Exchange by VP of Worldwide Distribution, Nat McCormick.
Exchange Peaks Film Capital will participate in all forms of production financing, including minimum guarantees, gap, super gap, tax credits, foreign sales collateral, bridge and equity lending.
Ivey said Exchange Peaks Film Capital is eyeing to finance and produce four to six feature projects per year.
"We are thrilled to partner with The Exchange on this fund and are excited to expand our relationship together in the future, as well as to help talented filmmakers bring their visions to life." said Grand Peaks partner, Alan Simpson.
O'Shea said of the partnership, "Exchange Peaks Film Capital is an integral component to building The Exchange. From the start, we envisioned adding a financing side to the company and have found the ideal partner in Grand Peaks."
The first fund beneficiary is The Exchange's previously announced film, The Last 5 Years, directed by Richard Lagravenese (P.S. I Love You, Beautiful Creatures) and starring Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, 50/50.)
Collaborative and transparent, The Exchange is a leading international sales and finance company committed to creating strong relationships between filmmakers, film financers and distributors through the exchange of product, information and commerce. Created by veteran sales executive Brian O'Shea, the company specializes in high quality, commercial films that appeal to North American audiences and the ever-evolving global film market. In less than two year, The Exchange has acquired, financed, produced and/or sold over 140 films ranging in budgets from $5 million to $90 million, including studio films from Disney, Sony, Fox, and Universal. Such films include Universal's 2 Guns, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg; 2013 Sundance Award Winner The Spectacular Now staring Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley; Sony's Magic Magic, starring Juno Temple, Emily Browning and Michael Cera; and Fox Searchlight's Sound of My Voice, starring Brit Marling and directed by Zal Batmanglij. For more information, please visit: www.theexchange.ws.
- 2/8/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
NEW YORK -- After Dark Films is producing the first horror films set for its 8 Films to Die For theatrical film series: "Faithless" and "Perkins' 14".
Stewart Hopewell's "Faithless" follows a young woman trying to escape an abusive past by moving to Atlanta, but discovers more cruelty awaits her. Craig Singer's "Perkins' 14", developed from a winning idea by Jeremy Donaldson in a February Massify.com pitch contest, is a killer thriller involving the arrest of a suspected murderer.
Hopewell and Tim Long are co-writing "Faithless", with Chris Milburn, Matthew Kuipers, Aimee Barth and Eryl Cochran Woodlief producing. Lane Shadgett is scripting "Perkins' 14", and winning pitchmeister Donaldson, Milburn and Kuipers will produce.
After Dark's Courtney Solomon, Laura Ivey and Stephanie Caleb will executive produce, with Beau J. Genot as co-producer on both films. The films will be shot consecutively beginning this month in Romania.
Stewart Hopewell's "Faithless" follows a young woman trying to escape an abusive past by moving to Atlanta, but discovers more cruelty awaits her. Craig Singer's "Perkins' 14", developed from a winning idea by Jeremy Donaldson in a February Massify.com pitch contest, is a killer thriller involving the arrest of a suspected murderer.
Hopewell and Tim Long are co-writing "Faithless", with Chris Milburn, Matthew Kuipers, Aimee Barth and Eryl Cochran Woodlief producing. Lane Shadgett is scripting "Perkins' 14", and winning pitchmeister Donaldson, Milburn and Kuipers will produce.
After Dark's Courtney Solomon, Laura Ivey and Stephanie Caleb will executive produce, with Beau J. Genot as co-producer on both films. The films will be shot consecutively beginning this month in Romania.
NEW YORK -- Laura Ivey has been appointed COO of Autonomous Films and After Dark Films.
The former executive vp business affairs and operations at Odd Lot Entertainment will oversee the growth of new production, financing and distribution outfit Autonomous and the horror-oriented producer-distributor After Dark.
Ivey will report to the CEO of both labels, Courtney Solomon, who owns each with Hong Kong-based real estate financier Allan Zeman.
Autonomous will produce and finance four high-end genre films a year in the $5 million-$20 million range, along with acquisitions like this fall's "Wristcutters: A Love Story". After Dark will continue with its annual After Dark Horrorfest, bringing the "8 Films to Die For" series to theaters nationwide every fall.
Before Odd Lot, Ivey was vp business and legal affairs at producer Infinity Media ("Saved") as well as positions at First Look Media and Lynda Obst Prods.
The former executive vp business affairs and operations at Odd Lot Entertainment will oversee the growth of new production, financing and distribution outfit Autonomous and the horror-oriented producer-distributor After Dark.
Ivey will report to the CEO of both labels, Courtney Solomon, who owns each with Hong Kong-based real estate financier Allan Zeman.
Autonomous will produce and finance four high-end genre films a year in the $5 million-$20 million range, along with acquisitions like this fall's "Wristcutters: A Love Story". After Dark will continue with its annual After Dark Horrorfest, bringing the "8 Films to Die For" series to theaters nationwide every fall.
Before Odd Lot, Ivey was vp business and legal affairs at producer Infinity Media ("Saved") as well as positions at First Look Media and Lynda Obst Prods.
- 11/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screen Gems has acquired the actioner spoof Armageddagain: The Day Before Tomorrow.
Robert Moniot is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Travis Oates. Shooting is set to begin in August for an 2008 release.
Noah Emmerich is producing through his Sandbox Entertainment shingle. Moniot also will produce through his Big Picture Entertainment banner alongside Phil Goldfine via his Hollywood Media Bridge.
ICM repped North American rights on the project, negotiating the sale with Screen Gems' Michael Helfand. Odd Lot International will handle foreign sales at the upcoming Festival de Cannes. Brian O'Shea and Laura Ivey brokered the deal on behalf of Odd Lot Entertainment.
Moniot is repped by ICM and the Gotham Group.
Robert Moniot is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Travis Oates. Shooting is set to begin in August for an 2008 release.
Noah Emmerich is producing through his Sandbox Entertainment shingle. Moniot also will produce through his Big Picture Entertainment banner alongside Phil Goldfine via his Hollywood Media Bridge.
ICM repped North American rights on the project, negotiating the sale with Screen Gems' Michael Helfand. Odd Lot International will handle foreign sales at the upcoming Festival de Cannes. Brian O'Shea and Laura Ivey brokered the deal on behalf of Odd Lot Entertainment.
Moniot is repped by ICM and the Gotham Group.
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