“The finished film market is hot,” says one sales executive.
As the industry prepares to descend virtually on Toronto after a warmly received physical Venice, a sense of cautious optimism cannot hide ongoing concern in the most turbulent year anybody can remember.
TIFF is staging a hybrid festival comprised of indoor and outdoor screenings for attending audiences; a geo-blocked digital platform showing festival films and events only within Canada; and an online-only press and industry presence.
Drive-ins have enjoyed a resurgence over the summer and the format has become another resource for sales companies.
Screenings of TIFF selections are also...
As the industry prepares to descend virtually on Toronto after a warmly received physical Venice, a sense of cautious optimism cannot hide ongoing concern in the most turbulent year anybody can remember.
TIFF is staging a hybrid festival comprised of indoor and outdoor screenings for attending audiences; a geo-blocked digital platform showing festival films and events only within Canada; and an online-only press and industry presence.
Drive-ins have enjoyed a resurgence over the summer and the format has become another resource for sales companies.
Screenings of TIFF selections are also...
- 9/10/2020
- by Jeremy Kay¬Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
Mok will focus on international sales for Asia-produced content, as well as developing and financing films within the region.
Endeavor Content has hired Nelson Mok as director of Asia productions and international sales, based in Singapore.
Mok will focus on international sales for Asia-produced content, as well as developing and financing films within the region, tapping into the burgeoning growth in the Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries. He will report in to Endeavor Content’s international sales team, headed by Alex Walton.
Formerly director of international business at Singapore-based mm2 Entertainment, Mok was involved in licensing Taiwanese...
Endeavor Content has hired Nelson Mok as director of Asia productions and international sales, based in Singapore.
Mok will focus on international sales for Asia-produced content, as well as developing and financing films within the region, tapping into the burgeoning growth in the Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries. He will report in to Endeavor Content’s international sales team, headed by Alex Walton.
Formerly director of international business at Singapore-based mm2 Entertainment, Mok was involved in licensing Taiwanese...
- 11/7/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The film about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power-plant meltdown is in post.
Endeavor Content has picked up world rights, excluding Asia, to Japanese studio Kadokawa’s Fukushima 50 and will present the film to buyers at Afm.
Directed by Setsuro Wakamatsu and starring Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe, the film tells the story of the courageous workers who remained on site to stabilise the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant during its meltdown following the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami.
Currently in post-production, the film is based on Ryusho Kadota’s book On The Brink: The Inside Story Of Fukushima Daiichi. Kadokawa will...
Endeavor Content has picked up world rights, excluding Asia, to Japanese studio Kadokawa’s Fukushima 50 and will present the film to buyers at Afm.
Directed by Setsuro Wakamatsu and starring Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe, the film tells the story of the courageous workers who remained on site to stabilise the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant during its meltdown following the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami.
Currently in post-production, the film is based on Ryusho Kadota’s book On The Brink: The Inside Story Of Fukushima Daiichi. Kadokawa will...
- 11/6/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Alex Walton, sales company co-founder, gets new Endeavor Content title.
International sales company Bloom is to be fully integrated into the global sales business of Endeavor Content, with Bloom’s Alex Walton becoming Endeavor Content’s executive vice president of international film sales and distribution.
The move comes amid a number of new hires and promotions in the film and television groups of Endeavor Content, which bought a majority stake in Bloom last year.
Dan Guando, who previously handled film development for Bloom, becomes senior vice president, film development and production for Endeavor Content, working alongside Endeavor’s Negeen Yazdi.
International sales company Bloom is to be fully integrated into the global sales business of Endeavor Content, with Bloom’s Alex Walton becoming Endeavor Content’s executive vice president of international film sales and distribution.
The move comes amid a number of new hires and promotions in the film and television groups of Endeavor Content, which bought a majority stake in Bloom last year.
Dan Guando, who previously handled film development for Bloom, becomes senior vice president, film development and production for Endeavor Content, working alongside Endeavor’s Negeen Yazdi.
- 10/10/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Endeavor Content has bolstered its ranks with several hires and promotions across its film and TV groups. At the same time, the company announced that international film sales company Bloom — acquired by Endeavor Content in August, 2017 — will now be fully integrated into the global sales business, a move that should shake up the sales agent business a bit.
Bloom’s Alex Walton has been named Evp International Film Sales and Distribution for Endeavor Content. Dan Guando, who handled film development for Bloom, has been named Endeavor Content Svp Film Development & Production, and he’ll work alongside London-based Negeen Yazdi. Beth McPhee, who previously oversaw Marketing for Bloom, has been named Svp Marketing for Endeavor Content.
All of Bloom’s existing employees will maintain their current positions under the Endeavor Content banner.
In addition, David Greathouse is joining Endeavor Content’s production group as VP Film. Greathouse produced Icebox, which recently...
Bloom’s Alex Walton has been named Evp International Film Sales and Distribution for Endeavor Content. Dan Guando, who handled film development for Bloom, has been named Endeavor Content Svp Film Development & Production, and he’ll work alongside London-based Negeen Yazdi. Beth McPhee, who previously oversaw Marketing for Bloom, has been named Svp Marketing for Endeavor Content.
All of Bloom’s existing employees will maintain their current positions under the Endeavor Content banner.
In addition, David Greathouse is joining Endeavor Content’s production group as VP Film. Greathouse produced Icebox, which recently...
- 10/10/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
If you missed the return of Dollface, Pin-Up Girl, and Man in the Mask in theaters, you can invite them into your own home on May 22nd with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's digital release of The Strangers: Prey at Night (read Heather Wixson's review here), followed by a June release of an unrated Blu-ray and DVD (plus digital) that includes an alternate ending:
Press Release: Universal City, California, April 11, 2018 – Inspired by the 2008 cult classic The Strangers, The Strangers: Prey at Night is based on real events surrounding a family struggling to survive as they are attacked on their vacation by a trio of masked psychopaths that hunt their prey with seemingly no rhyme or reason. Director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) pays homage to The Strangers by bringing back the infamous masked villains -- Dollface, Pin-Up Girl and Man in the Mask -- and incorporates elements of the ‘80s...
Press Release: Universal City, California, April 11, 2018 – Inspired by the 2008 cult classic The Strangers, The Strangers: Prey at Night is based on real events surrounding a family struggling to survive as they are attacked on their vacation by a trio of masked psychopaths that hunt their prey with seemingly no rhyme or reason. Director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) pays homage to The Strangers by bringing back the infamous masked villains -- Dollface, Pin-Up Girl and Man in the Mask -- and incorporates elements of the ‘80s...
- 4/11/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Arcana’s first project, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, just wrapped UK shoot.
Ryan Gosling and producer Ken Kao have joined forces to form film and television production company Arcana.
Arcana’s first official project is The Favourite, the upcomoing film from Yorgos Lanthimos who just won best screenplay in Cannes for The Killing Of A Sacred Deer and received a best screenplay Oscar nomination for The Lobster.
Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman star in the feature, which is in post and follows the clandestine personal and political machinations during the early 18th century reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch. Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara wrote the screenplay.
Arcana has partnered on The Favourite with producers Ceci Dempsey for Scarlet Films and Ed Guiney and Lee Magiday for Element Pictures, together with Film4 and Fox Searchlight. International sales on Arcana projects will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Gosling and Kao...
Ryan Gosling and producer Ken Kao have joined forces to form film and television production company Arcana.
Arcana’s first official project is The Favourite, the upcomoing film from Yorgos Lanthimos who just won best screenplay in Cannes for The Killing Of A Sacred Deer and received a best screenplay Oscar nomination for The Lobster.
Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman star in the feature, which is in post and follows the clandestine personal and political machinations during the early 18th century reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch. Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara wrote the screenplay.
Arcana has partnered on The Favourite with producers Ceci Dempsey for Scarlet Films and Ed Guiney and Lee Magiday for Element Pictures, together with Film4 and Fox Searchlight. International sales on Arcana projects will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Gosling and Kao...
- 6/14/2017
- ScreenDaily
Nigel Sinclair and Guy East have formalised their departure from Exclusive Media, the company they ran for close to six years as co-chairmen.
Exclusive Media COO Marc Schipper will run the company as CEO in a move first anticipated by ScreenDaily during the recent Efm in Berlin.
It is understood the international sales unit led by Alex Walton is well regarded and will remain operational and that Dasym is also holding on to the Hammer genre division run by Simon Oakes out of the UK. Exclusive Releasing remains on the books however its future profile was unclear.
Sources said Sinclair (pictured), who also previsouly held the title of CEO, and East are preparing to announce their new production entity White Horse Pictures and will take with them several Exclusive Media titles, among them the Young Caesar property.
The companies will collaborate on the Keith Moon film as Sinclair is a producer, however insiders...
Exclusive Media COO Marc Schipper will run the company as CEO in a move first anticipated by ScreenDaily during the recent Efm in Berlin.
It is understood the international sales unit led by Alex Walton is well regarded and will remain operational and that Dasym is also holding on to the Hammer genre division run by Simon Oakes out of the UK. Exclusive Releasing remains on the books however its future profile was unclear.
Sources said Sinclair (pictured), who also previsouly held the title of CEO, and East are preparing to announce their new production entity White Horse Pictures and will take with them several Exclusive Media titles, among them the Young Caesar property.
The companies will collaborate on the Keith Moon film as Sinclair is a producer, however insiders...
- 3/21/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Alex Walton, President of International at Exclusive Media, announced today that the company has closed a number of international sales including a multi-territory deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (“Spwa”) for the highly anticipated dramatic thriller Parkland.
Parkland is produced by Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, as well as Exclusive Media and The American Film Company, which will also co-finance with Exclusive. Bill Paxton is also a Producer.
Currently shooting on location in Austin, Texas, Parkland is set for a domestic fall 2013 release, to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and stars Zac Efron (The Paperboy, At Any Price, The Lucky One), Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River, Pollock), Jeremy Strong (Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln), Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, Eagle Eye), Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook, Animal Kingdom), and Oscar nominated Paul Giamatti (The Ides Of March,...
Parkland is produced by Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, as well as Exclusive Media and The American Film Company, which will also co-finance with Exclusive. Bill Paxton is also a Producer.
Currently shooting on location in Austin, Texas, Parkland is set for a domestic fall 2013 release, to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and stars Zac Efron (The Paperboy, At Any Price, The Lucky One), Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River, Pollock), Jeremy Strong (Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln), Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, Eagle Eye), Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook, Animal Kingdom), and Oscar nominated Paul Giamatti (The Ides Of March,...
- 2/6/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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