It’s time for a Thanksgiving tradition like no other: Black Friday, where shoppers brave cold temperatures all night long just so they can save eight bucks on a gaming console that’ll be obsolete by June.
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Tom Grater International Film ReporterLondon-based factual specialist Dogwoof has taken North American sales on Viral: My 2020 a feature/series project that tells the story of eight YouTubers from across the world as they face the most defining year of their lives.Now in production, it follows YouTubers including U.S.-based Nathaniel Drew (1.2 million subscribers) throughout 2020, beginning on New Year’s Day.
Like the rest of the world, they find their plans for the year heavily disrupted by the
.It’s time for a Thanksgiving tradition like no other: Black Friday, where shoppers brave cold temperatures all night long just so they can save eight bucks on a gaming console that’ll be obsolete by June.
Edward Norton is putting President Donald Trump on blast.
Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Sydney Sweeney has been added to the cast of American Sole, joining Pete Davidson, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Camila Mendes, Bad Bunny and Offset in the film, which is set up at STXfilms.Written and directed by Ian Edelman, the pic follows two twentysomethings (Davidson and Jackson) with mountains of college debt who use the fast cash of after-market sneaker reselling to achieve their American dream.
Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerWell Go USA Entertainment has closed a deal for the North American distribution to Arclight Films’ Here Are the Young Men, an Irish teen drama starring Travis Fimmel (Ridley Scott’s HBO MAX series Raised by Wolves, History Channel’s Vikings), Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones, 1917), Finn Cole (Peaky Blinders, Animal Kingdom), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit, A24’s The Witch), and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Sing Street, Vikings).
Michael Goi, the writer and director of the 2011 film Megan Is Missing, is warning viewers about the film after it went viral on the video-sharing app TikTok.
nationalising Adele, and exiling Katie Hopkins to the “Phantom Zone”.With the world still reeling from a baffling and theatrical US election and the confusion brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, we called upon the wisdom of Lord Buckethead to help us unpack this troubling state of affairs.Lord Buckethead: “It’s been a rollercoaster, thank you for asking.
A lack of big tentpole titles and continued uncertainty about the near-term future of cinema distribution put a damper on this year's, online-only, American Film Market.
Saban Films have snatched rights in North America and U.K. for Under the Stadium Lights (aka Brother's Keeper), a real-life football drama starring Oscar-nominee Laurence Fishburne.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorCohen Media Group and Curzon have jointly taken all US, UK and Eire distribution rights to Uberto Pasolini’s drama Nowhere Special. A theatrical release next year is being eyed.James Norton (Little Women and Grantchester) plays John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, who has dedicated his life to bringing up his four-year-old son, Michael (Daniel Lamont), after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth.
Sabam Films has doubled down on projects fromConstantin Film, the producers behind the Resident Evil movies. Out of the American Film Market, Saban has acquired thriller Tidesfrom the U.K.
Devilworks, the genre sales banner based in Malta, has launched its own U.S. distribution arm in time for the virtual American Film Market The horror specialist, launched by Matteo Rolleri and Samantha Richardson, is now looking to release around 12 films each year in North America and has lined up two releases for the coming weeks.
Australian actor Levi Miller channels his inner Ian Thorpe —quite literally —in this exclusive first-look still from upcoming swimming drama Streamline. Being sold at the virtual American Film Market by Arclight Films, Streamlinecenters on a 15-year-old swimming prodigy with the world at his feet.
Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment has beefed up its sales slate as the American Film Market gets underway in its virtual form.The company has acquired world rights on the hybrid live-action/animated family comedy Ollie. In development, the pic will star Mario Lopez (Saved By The Bell) alongside skateboarder and musician Tony Alva.
Ethan Hawke will star in war thriller Zeros and Onesfrom writer-directorAbel Ferrara. Hawke will play JJ, an American soldier stationed in a Rome that is under siege, locked down, and at war.
Adrien Brody and Vera Farmiga are set to headline Ant Timpson's mystery thriller The Salamander Lives Twice, heading to the virtual American Film Market with XYZ Films.
The halls of the Lowes Hotel in Santa Monica will be empty this week but, online, the American Film Market is busier than ever.More film companies will be logging on to this year's online-only version of the AFM than would have set up shop at the Lowes in 2020, even if the coronavirus pandemic hadn't forced the market to go virtual.
Cinemas across Europe have gone back into lockdown, theaters in much of the U.S. — including L.A.
Dave McNary Film ReporterAs the 41st American Film Market launches online, Millennium Media is unveiling “Night Has Fallen,” the fourth installment in the Gerard Butler’s durable action franchise.The creative team from 2019’s “Angel Has Fallen” is returning with Robert Kamen penning the script along with Ric Roman Waugh, who is also set to direct again.What’s going to happen? “The plot is top secret,” said Millennium Media, which will produce.“Night Has Fallen” will be filmed at Millennium
Carole Horst American Film Market participants are grounded this year due to restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 virus and the market going virtual. Those factors have resulted in significant economic fallout for Santa Monica, the confab’s seaside home.