Sentences with phrase «new film financing»
Brian Oliver's new film financing and production company has a first - look co-financing deal at Paramount
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His newest company, Silver Pictures Entertainment, is a partnership with veteran producer Joel Silver to produce and finance feature films, and television and digital content.
The new entrepreneurs of disruptive finance had diverse backgrounds, but D.J. Paul, a former bond salesman and film producer who became one of the industry's early organizers, says the serious players break roughly into two camps: technologists and financiers.
In 1954, encouraged by new scholarship on Jesus» life and by the rising tide of church membership and attendance, the Episcopal Church helped finance a film on the life of Jesus, The Day of Triumph.
«The state's film tax credit job claims are a fiction straight out of the Hollywood productions they're forcing New York taxpayers to finance.
Empire State Development Takes Home Emmy Award for Best Corporate Welfare Reclaim New York Initiative offered the following statement in response to Empire State Development's shameless bragging about taxpayer - financed productions winning Emmy awards: «The state's film tax credit job claims are a fiction straight out of the Hollywood productions they're forcing New York taxpayers to finance.
Comprised of interviews with finance types, individuals involved in the escort business, as well as Spitzer himself, Gibney's film traces the former New York Governor's career from his start as an attorney general determined to take down corruption on Wall Street, to his status as a political joke after he was forced to resign for patronizing the Emperor's Club VIP escort service.
One of those gambles involves DOE's award of a $ 535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra Inc. in 2009 to help finance construction of a new plant in Fremont, Calif., to produce the company's cylindrical solar modules that employ thin - film chemical layers to generate electricity.
A decade ago it was unimaginable to make a film without major financing, but now given the nature of new media and available technology, independent filmmakers can tell their stories with a limited budget.
Financed, produced, directed and starring Oscar - winner Robert Duvall, this film is a down - home yet very grittty at times story of a disgraced preacher on the run from the police after beating his soon - to - be ex-wife's new boyfriend with a baseball bat at a baseball game.
He then appeared in a number of psychedelic films, including 1967's The Trip and the following year's Monkees feature Head, and earned a new audience among anti-establishment viewers.With friends Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in front of the camera, Hopper decided to direct his own movie, and secured over $ 400,000 in financing to begin filming a screenplay written by novelist Terry Southern.
Instead, it is betting more on its self - financed productions, which include the new film by the acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos set in the 18th - century court of Britain's Queen Anne.
The film was developed by Film4 and is being financed by Film4, the BFI, The Irish Film Board as well as tax breaks in New Mexico and Ireland.
Walker, a Sundance award - winning documentarian with two Oscar nominations, made a deal with Broad Green shortly before the 2015 Cannes Film Festival to finance her new film, a sequel to Wim Wenders» 1999 hit «Buena Vista Social Club.»
This is his fifth collaboration with star Leonardo DiCaprio, but marks just his second feature shot digitally and combines a loosely mob - inflected story with a topical, high - finance setting, and so overall the film promises to deliver an exciting blend of the old and the new from the director.
When no suitable distribution deal materialized during the fest and the months afterward, the duo decided to take advantage of the Sundance Institute's brand new Artist Services program, which helps Sundance alumni (they had «12th and Delaware» at the fest in 2010) with financing, distribution and promotion for their films.
Launched in 2013, Sundance Institute's Catalyst Initiative connects forward - thinking investors with the world of independent film, with the intention of envisioning film finance in a new light.
And according to Asian film specialist Tony Rayns, most of the best Taiwanese directors are seeking new sources of financing and exploring foreign markets now that their local audiences are drifting away.
On the mainland the government's film bureau has introduced new legislation that would discourage foreign financing of local production, and it's blacklisted many of the best (and best - known) independent filmmakers and video artists, including Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite), Zhang Yimou (To Live), and Zhang Yuan (Mama).
The film is financed by Film4 and New Sparta Films along with the Irish Film Board.
Participant Media is planning to finance the film, which is expected to start production in January in New York.
New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Scenario de «Sauve qui peut (la vie)» (1979), a short video created by director Jean - Luc Godard to secure financing for «Every Man for Himself» New video essay by critic Colin MacCabe New interviews with actor Isabelle Huppert and producer Marin Karmitz Archival interviews with actor Nathalie Baye, cinematographers Renato Berta and William Lubtchansky, and composer Gabriel Yared Two back - to - back 1980 appearances by Godard on «The Dick Cavett Show» «Godard 1980», a short film by Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen, featuring Godard Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin
«It's good to have a new partner for financing movies and (who is willing) to pay a lot of money that will buy auteur films.
He is the co-founder of Big Beach, a New York — based independent film - production and financing company.
Big Beach Founded in 2004 by Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf, Big Beach is a New York — based company that produces and finances independent films, documentaries and works for stage.
It's not every television series that concludes its first season with references to a minor - key classic Francis Ford Coppola film, Randian economics, and the punk band Titus Andronicus, but Showtime's Billions is a breed apart — a complex drama about ego and obsession filtered through the world of New York high finance.
HollywoodNews.com: Indie - financed «Young Adult,» the new film from director - writer combo Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, has found a home at Paramount Pictures.
«This new financing enables us to expand upon the solid foundation we've established within the industry and grow our slate of tentpole and star - driven films.»
«A Bigger Splash» was fully financed by Studiocanal, which is handling international sales and will distribute the film in its territories France, UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand.
«English Teacher» marks the first pic Artina has assembled through its new financing apparatus, which includes an exclusive alliance with Procinvest, a French film financing fund.
- $ 80 million China - U.S. co-production - handled by Threshold Global Studios, a new banner formed by Bruno Wu and producer Larry Kasanoff - team - up between Kasanoff's Threshold Entertainment Group and Wu's Seven Star Works - Mortal Kombat producer Kasanoff is in Cannes speaking with international sales agents - team has been working with The Tetris Company for over a year - financing has been secured - plan is to film in China and other locations in 2017 - billed as a sci - fi thriller - film is seen as the first part of a trilogy - Threshold's Jimmy Lenner is executive producing with The Tetris Company and Seven Stars
Currently he is working on completing the film Ventos de Valls, which is the result of an action in Spain in 2009, financed by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York.
(Editor's Note: The new skeptical film follows a suggestion first outlined in an internal coal industry memo in 2006 to finance and promote a film which countered «An Inconvenient Truth.»
Lomborg appeared in the documentary film Cool It which focused on his views regarding climate policy where he suggests «that there's a well - financed effort underfoot to spin the failure of climate action into a new political strategy for high - tech mega-investments.»
Morano, who ran a crowdfunding campaign to help finance the film, has been promising in interviews that he will be bringing new voices to the documentary.
Appeared in New Hampshire v AXA («It Had To Be You») 20 day trial in Commercial Court concerning film finance reinsurance.
Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.