LONDON – Mongrel Media has struck a deal for North American rights to Ryan Smith's After.
U.K.-based genre specialist movie sales company Jinga Films sold the title to Mongrel.
Billed as a dark fantasy, the movie boasts a cast that includes Steven Strait (10,000 BC) and Karolina Wydra (House), who has landed a vampire role in the upcoming season of HBO's True Blood.
LONDON -- U.K. studio facilities Wimbledon Film and TV Studios, under fresh management, have gone back to the market with its plans to sell off its House of Commons film set.
The plan to put the set under the auction hammer comes after the initial sale conducted on global internet site eBay fell through after the winning bidder failed to write a check for the $192,000 (£123,400) price tag.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, which will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday in the competition section.
The film was produced by Jeremy Thomas of Recorded Picture Company and Reinhard Brundig of Pandora Film. Christos Konstantakopoulos of Fairilo House served as executive producer.
CAA has signed stand-up comedian and actor Mike Epps.
Epps can be seen in this weekend’s Warners comedy The Hangover Part III, in which he reprises his role of drug dealer Black Doug seen in the first Hangover movie.
WME has come out on top of a competitive situation to sign writer Laline Paull.
Paull is a London-based scribe who has worked in film and television on both sides of the pond and has had two plays performed at the Royal National Theatre London. But it’s her upcoming manuscript that piqued agency interest.
Paull has written a dark thriller titled Fear of August that is set entirely in a beehive and rooted in biological fact. Here is the logline:
Rising stars Joel Kinnaman and Noomi Rapace have abruptly left United Talent Agency, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Sources say the Swedish actors individually informed the agency of their plans to sever ties on Friday morning. Both continue to be represented by manager Shelley Browning and Magnolia Entertainment.
Actor and singer Justin Timberlake is taking his music touring business to WME.
Although previously signed with talent agency CAA, WME had been repping Timberlake as an actor since 2009. It will now inherit all of his future business, including touring and endorsements.
Phase 4 Films has acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to Matt Johnson’s The Dirties.
The film, which debuted at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival, stars Johnson and Owen Williams from a screenplay written by Johnson, Evan Morgan and Josh Boles.
The Dirties follows two best friends as they film a comedy about killing the bullies in their school. One of them isn't joking.
ICM Partners is making a concentrated foray into digital strategy and global branded entertainment, hiring three agents to expand its footprint in the fields.
Sarah Early and Matthew Murray are joining ICM’s Los Angeles office in the digital strategy division, which is led by by the division's managing director Keyvan Peymani.
Madison Wojciechowski is boarding the agency’s New York office and will work under global branded entertainment division head Carol Goll.
CNN has picked up director Penny Lane’s Our Nixon, which is culled from hundreds or hours of intimate home videos shot by the 37th president’s closest aides. The cable network plans to premiere the film in August, while Cinedigm will release it theatrically.
As if film production and distribution hasn't been fundamentally fractured enough, here comes Vine to smash the traditional models of storytelling and viewership into a million little six-second pieces.
