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Zeitgeist Votes for ‘Afghan Star’
Zeitgeist Films have got "Idol fever" or let me rephrase that, -- they've got Afghan Star fever. The distributor has made their first Park City pick-up, grabbing Havana Marking’s documentary film which would win both the Best Director and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the World Documentary section.
Sony Pictures Classics gets ‘Coco Before’ Anyone Else
With the Igor film exploring the obscure romance between Coco and the Russian composer (played by popular Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen), today, Sony Pictures Classics has claimed Anne Fontaine's version (starring Audrey Tautou), with hers being the one that might work better commercially.
Senator Not in the ‘Greatest’ Position
Today the trades announce the acquisition of a picture that the co. will probably close out the year with. The U.S. distributor have added another adult comtempo fair in Shana Feste's The Greatest, a picture that irritated the hell out of me, but faired well with chief film critics including Variety's Todd McCarthy
Weinstein Have ‘Nowhere’ to Go
Matt Greenhalgh's screenplay apparently passed the test when it topped last year's Brit List of best un-produced screenplays of the U.K, and now before director Sam Taylor-Wood even has a chance to yell cut, The Weinstein's have scooped up the theatrical release rights to Nowhere Boy for a trio of territories - including the U.S.
5th Edition of Cannes’ Atelier de la Cinefondation
Caran Hartfield's Bury Me Standing and Jake Mahaffy's Free in Deed are two in development projects looking for funding among the 15 selected by Cannes' Atelier de la Cinéfondation. As explained to me by some Sundance directors who had a chance to have their projects take part in the Cannes' The Atelier, in a nutshell, it acts as one extra way to meet with other producers in an attempt to get some coin (mostly foreign) prior to production.
