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Within a few weeks, the film will be available in more theatres and may quickly surpass the first Taken's revenues, a claim which analysts and film executives at 20th Century Fox are confident in making.

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Sarandos said he would not personally attend Cannes, but that some Netflix executives will be at the festival to look for films to acquire, according to Variety.

The trigger for the latest Redstone family feud, according to several sources, was a dispute over corporate governance issues — such as Shari's effort to more closely tie executive compensation to performance — at Viacom (viab) and CBS (cbs), a media empire that encompasses MTV, the CBS broadcast network, the Paramount film studio and the pay - TV channel Showtime.

The partnership will officially launch at the 5th Annual ARRAY Soiree at this year's Sundance Film Festival where DuVernay and Indiegogo co-founder, Danae Ringlemann, will host 50 industry influencers, executives and creatives for a discussion on the present state of diversity in film as well as brainstorming ideas for the future.

Dissident shareholders of Twenty - First Century Fox Inc. (formerly part of the News Corp. media empire) are pushing Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch to give up the dual - class structure at the film and television company.

She has served as executive producer of four documentary films, including Kicking It, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival; She Is the Matador; and The Other City, a critically acclaimed portrayal of the HIV / AIDS crisis in Washington, DC, which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

Elon Musk, co-founder, chief executive and product architect of Tesla Motors, poses at the premiere of the documentary film «Revenge of the Electric Car,» Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, at Tesla Motors in Los Angeles.

Stefan Grote, executive VP, Food Europe, Constantia Flexibles, said at the time, the investment will serve growing demand from the confectionery industry for film - based packaging.

Although the film has national reach, Lunch Line is a Chicago story through and through: at the post-screening discussion, the co-directors, Michael Graziano and Ernie Park, found themselves reunited with several of the food - service experts, policy wonks, corporate executives and community activists depicted in their film.

Director Abby Epstein, and Executive Producer Ricki Lake's film takes a closer look at: hospital births, why -LSB-...]

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

Britain's Channel 4 News on Monday filmed senior executives at Cambridge Analytica, including its CEO Alexander Nix, suggesting the firm could use sex workers, bribes and misinformation in order to try and help political candidates win votes around the world.

«Filmmaking and daily operations at the CNY film hub are about to enter into a new era with the hire of studio manager Huayu Xu,» said Mike Massurin, executive director of the Syracuse International Film Festival, in a prepared statement.

Chris Blythe, Chief Executive at the Chartered Institute of Building said: «Our partnership with ITN Productions is about creating inspiring films with the industry.

Jonathan Renouf, executive producer at BBC Science, said: «We set out to make a film with three objectives; to say something new about climate change, to stay true to the science, and to attract an audience to what is unquestionably a demanding subject.

But then the film might not have been made at all; the reassuring rhythms of the courtroom drama, I imagine, are what made this material palatable to the executives in charge of signing the checks.

Irons adds the credit of executive producer and featured actor in TRASHED, a Blenheim Production feature documentary directed by Candida Brady, which received a special screening at the 2012 Cannes film festival.

Initially rejected by producer Roger Corman, the film became a countercultural touchstone, grossing millions at the box office and proving to Hollywood executives that the ever - expanding youth market and their considerable spending capital would indeed react to films targeted to their issues and concerns, spawning a cottage industry of like - minded films.

This is Stuart Baird's first attempt at directing a Star Trek feature, but his career as editor and also as director for decent films like Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals prove he has the talent necessary to bring it all together.

While talking with Flickering Myth at SXSW this past Sunday, Halloween co-writer and executive producer Danny McBride revealed that the new film will reference and pay...

At the film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a film like Sideways would even get made todaAt the film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a film like Sideways would even get made todaat the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a film like Sideways would even get made today.

Instead, Dench could bask in a low - key night at the Ritz - Carlton Bacara Santa Barbara resort, with speeches from actors Armie Hammer, Ali Fazal, Jeff Bridges and SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling, along with lots of film clips.

Fogelson's departure comes just hours after Universal's executive team gathered at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of «Rush» and for the FOcus Features film, «Dallas Buyers Club» (executives pictured left: Focus Features» Andrew Karpen and James Schamus, Universal's Meyer and Fogelson).

TheWrap editor - in - chief Sharon Waxman moderates a panel featuring film executive Chaz Ebert, director Lucy Walker, producer Cassian Elwes, Creative Coalition CEO Robin Bronk, Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna Swerner and actress Dionne Audain participate in TheWrap and The Female Quotient's «Changing Hollywood: The Road to 50/50 by 2020» panel at The Girls Lounge in Cannes.

The son of Darryl F Zanuck, co-founder and one - time production head of 20th Century - Fox, Richard Zanuck successfully escaped his father's shadow by becoming a chief executive at Fox himself, and later producing with David Brown some of Hollywood's most profitable films, including the massive hit, Jaws (1975), which at the time was the highest grossing film ever.

There's a nice bit demonstrating how the film's culinary consultant, Susan Spungen, and executive chef, Colin Flynn, worked in a tent set up at Silvercup Studios to prepare the food that was seen on screen.

Extras include a six - minute behind - the - scenes featurette whose highlight is star Wilson suiting up for a pre-production supersonic flight; seven deleted or extended scenes — among them odd alternate opening and closing title sequences — with optional commentary from director Moore and editor Paul Martin Smith — these trims carry a viewer discretion warning, for they would've threatened the film's PG - 13 rating; a fantastic, largely CGI pre-visualization (with, again, optional Moore / Smith commentary) of the virtuoso ejection set piece that at times gives Final Fantasy a run for its money; the teaser trailer for Spielberg's upcoming Minority Report; and two engrossing full - length commentaries, one by Moore and Smith, the other producer John Davis and executive producer Wyck Godfrey.

«Frameline41's films shine a light on LGBTQ heroes in every sense of the word, while showcasing the full representation of global queer content at its finest,» says Frameline Executive Director Frances Wallace.

How much of the film's misery and internal confusion is due to the awkwardly visible fencing match between director Josh Trank and the executives at 20th Century Fox is beyond our ability to say for certain.

It would seem the film fell victim to the twin vagaries of executive shifts at the studio and failing to gather enough momentum to nab that all - important greenlight.

«I'm a personal fan of Bong Joon Ho's epic film, and jumped at the chance to honor his original vision, yet expand upon the world and characters with a diverse, award - winning cast,» said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT.

Here's the power of celebrity being put to use in the best way possible; Radha Mitchell saw something in Jessie McCormack and her script for «Gus,» committed to executive produce the film, do what she could to get it made and now here they are sharing the final product at SXSW.

Ansel Elgort, star of the feature films «The Fault in Our Stars» and «Divergent,» and actress / director / producer and SAG Award ® recipient Eva Longoria will reveal the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ® nominations on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Executive Producer Kathy Connell announced today.

After watching a film like Pulse, I feel a bit insulted that movie executives think so little about the intelligence of the American movie - going public that the vast majority of the attempts at popular entertainment are completely stripped of anything remotely resembling a thought - provoking element, eschewing those in favor of noise, special effects and music stimuli to try to induce a subconscious reaction in the audience.

To meet this challenge, Women In Film and Sundance Institute have come together with over 50 Hollywood leaders and influencers, including studio heads, agency partners, senior network executives, and talent and guild representatives, to further gender parity at every level in film, TV, and media.

Filming of the new Halloween movie, executive produced by John Carpenter, begins this week, and while excitement for the return of Michael Myers will only increase over the next 10 months, the film is rightfully among the most anticipated movies of 2018 according to recent polls of critics at Variety and moviegoers at Fandango.

Tokyo Sonata, at first glance, plays less like the work of Kurosawa than like that of Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao - hsien, but as the story of downsized executive Ryuhei (Teruyuki Kagawa) unfolds, following roughly the same blueprint as Laurent Cantet's Time Out as Ryuhei conceals his unemployment from his wife and two sons, it comes clear that Kurosawa's brilliant, refined take on mass hysteria in his horror films has been translated intact.

Earlier this week at the film's press junket in New York City, CBR went straight to the source — Deadpool 2 screenwriters and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick — to get the scoop on all of the above and more, including definitive clarification on the identity of the mutant played by Shioli Kutsuna, insight on Cable's powers and the original plans for Jack Kesy's Black Tom Cassidy.

The utterly dominant performance of the Coen brothers» genre - bending Barton Fink at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival forced the executives of this revered yearly manifestation to alter the rules, so that no other film could achieve such an impressive award harvest ever again.

She produced Not Waving But Drowning (2012) with Adam Driver, Lilli Reinhart, Megan Guinan and Vanessa Ray and is currently a development executive at YouTube Red overseeing series and films includingStep Up: High Water and Doug Liman's Impulse.

At the annual Telluride closing night party at the Steinbergs, Wright told me (and admiring Amazon Studios executive Ted Hope) that he stole the idea for the film's stunning out - the - window tracking shots from the Coens» «The Man Who Wasn't There.&raquAt the annual Telluride closing night party at the Steinbergs, Wright told me (and admiring Amazon Studios executive Ted Hope) that he stole the idea for the film's stunning out - the - window tracking shots from the Coens» «The Man Who Wasn't There.&raquat the Steinbergs, Wright told me (and admiring Amazon Studios executive Ted Hope) that he stole the idea for the film's stunning out - the - window tracking shots from the Coens» «The Man Who Wasn't There.»

Executive produced by Jay and Mark Duplass, the film was a hit at Sundance, where it was snapped up by Magnolia Pictures.

The Pixar Braintrust is a respected group of directors, writers, and executives at the company who provide notes and advice to a film's creative team during the development process.

John Legend, right, executive producer of «Monster,» poses with his wife Chrissy Teigen at the premiere of the film at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Park City, Utah.

Deborah Riley Draper, director of «Olympic Pride, American Prejudice,» and Blair Underwood, narrator and executive producer of the film, photographed at the Culver Hotel in Culver City, Calif..

Other prestigious Jurors at NVFF 2013 included Dierk Sindermann, a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press; Lissa Gibbs, producer of educational and network documentaries; Jennifer Siebel Newsom, producer / director of the award winning Miss Representation; Musician and film director Dave Grohl; actresses Rose McGowan (Charmed) and Madeline Zima (Californication); Paul Duffy, Amazon Web Services executive; Ryan Tudhope, co-founder Atomic Fiction; and Neil Berkeley, founder of Brkly Productions (creative work includes: Project Runway, Top Chef, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, America's Next Great Restaurant and more).

Matthew Heineman, director of «Cartel Land,» and Kathryn Bigelow, executive producer of the film, photographed at a screening in Century City, Calif..

Dane DeHaan stars in the film as an ambitious young executive who is sent to pick his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious «wellness centre» at a remote location in the Swiss Alps.

The biggest fight in Warner Bros.» «Suicide Squad» didn't take place on a film set — it was waged in the editing room at the studio between director David Ayer and the executives behind his $ 175 million super villain gamble, insiders told TheWrap.

At the time, all we knew was that it would pick up shortly after the events of the first film and the series would be executive produced by Kim Possible creators Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley along with another Kim Possible vet, Nicholas Filippi, who'll serve as supervising director.