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Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy to Star in DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY
by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012
Golden Globe®-nominee James McAvoy (Atonement, X-Men First Class) will star opposite Academy® Award-nominee Jessica Chastain (The Help, The Tree of Life) in the double-feature film project for Myriad Pictures, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her. ( more...)
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Liam Neeson to Star in A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2012
Following the partnership on Ron Howards RUSH, also to be released through Cross Creeks distribution deal with Universal Pictures, the first film being produced and financed under this new far reaching arrangement is the thriller A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES starring Liam Neeson (TAKEN). ( more...)
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Exclusive Media Acquires Rights to Zac Efron's AT ANY PRICE
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012
Exclusive Media has acquired international rights in all media to the feature film AT ANY PRICE, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (GOODBYE SOLO, CHOP SHOP) and starring Dennis Quaid (WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOURE EXPECTING), Zac Efron (THE LUCKY ONE), Kim Dickens (FOOTLOOSE) and Heather Graham (THE HANGOVER). ( more...)
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Brosnan, Cooper to Star in NOVEMBER MAN
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012
Pierce Brosnans production company Irish DreamTime has entered into a multi-picture financing and distribution deal with The Solution Entertainment Group ( more...)
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Weinstein Co. Picks Up Rights to THE SAPPHIRES
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012
The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that they have acquired from Goalpost Film worldwide rights, with the exception of the UK & Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada, Israel, Portugal and airlines, to THE SAPPHIRES. ( more...)
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TINY DYNAMITE Receives NY Premiere at 59E59 Theaters
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2012
59E59 Theaters welcomes Origin Theatre Company with the New York City premiere of TINY DYNAMITE, written by Abi Morgan and directed by Matt Torney. TINY DYNAMITE begins performances on Thursday, June 7 for a limited engagement through Sunday, July 1. ( more...)
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Joy Behar to Host 2-Part MOB WIVES Reunion Special, 5/20 & 27
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2012
Season 2 of VH1's hit reality series, MOB WIVES is ending just as it began... on an emotional roller coaster as all the ladies end up in the same room for the first time this season. The explosive 2-part reunion special, hosted by The View's Joy Behar, is set to air on May 20th and 27th and will reveal even more laughter, tears and drama than was already packed into the 17 episode season. ( more...)
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Rufous Hound to Make Stage Début in UTOPIA Cast this Summer
by BWW News Desk - May 08, 2012
Artistic Directors Steve Marmion and Max Roberts today announce the full cast for their joint new writing project UTOPIA, which is making its world premiere at Live Theatre on Thursday 31 May, before transferring to Soho Theatre on Wednesday 20 June, with opening night on Thursday 21 June. UTOPIA will star: Tobi Bakare (Greenland National Theatre; Crawling In The Dark Almeida Theatre and Gone Too Far, Royal Court Theatre); Laura Elphinstone (Top Girls, Chichester Festival Theatre/Trafalgar Studios; A Month in the Country, Chichester Festival Theatre and the film adaptation of The History Boys); Rufus Hound making his theatre debut, is most well-known for his regular team captainship on Argumental, Celebrity Juice, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Never Mind The Buzzcocks; Pamela Miles (Darker Shores, Hampstead Theatre; Pygmalion, Theatre Royal Bath/Old Vic London and Lone Star Mark Three, Salisbury Playhouse); also making her stage debut Sophia Myles who is most well-known for her leading roles in film and TV including Tristan and Isolde and Spooks and David Whitaker one of the founders of Live Theatre, Newcastle, his theatre credits include The Pitmen Painters (Live Theatre/National Theatre/Broadway and West End) plus extensive credits for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Donmar Warehouse. ( more...)
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First Annual Champs-Elysées Film Festival to Pay Tribute to Harvey Weinstein
by BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2012
For the first edition of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival, the American film producer and movie studio chairman The Weinstein Companys Harvey Weinstein will be honored. He was the co-founder of Miramax Films with his brother Bob and subsequently they founded The Weinstein Company together in 2005. ( more...)
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USA Network Partners With Weinstein Company to Promote BULLY
by BWW News Desk - Apr 05, 2012
USA Network and The Weinstein Company announced today that it has partnered to promote the new feature film "BULLY" and the Characters Unite public service campaign, in an effort to highlight the importance of combating hate and discrimination. ( more...)
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GLAAD Media Awards to Stream Live Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Mar 24, 2012
The 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards will be held tonight, March 24, 2012 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square and can be streamed live online beginning at 4:30pm. ( more...)
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Danny Glover to Speak at Int'l Film Finance Forum in Cannes
by BWW News Desk - Mar 22, 2012
During the closing conversation, actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover will address the growing importance of documentaries, creative financing strategies for this genre, and ways to market and sell these types of films, with Louverture Films partner, Joslyn Barnes, who is a screenwriter and Emmy® nominated producer. ( more...)
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STAGE TUBE: Madonna Releases GIRL GONE WILD Video
by Stage Tube - Mar 21, 2012
Madonna has just realeased the video for her new single 'Girl Gone Wild'. The single is the second track from Madonna's 12th studio album MDNA, which will be released worldwide on March 26th. ( more...)
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David Boies, Ted Olson Speak Out Against MPAA Rating of Bully
by BWW News Desk - Mar 20, 2012
Tonight at The Paley Center for Media legal powerhouses David Boies and Ted Olson spoke out against the MPAA's R rating of the documentary film BULLY, at a special screening. In front of a high-profile audience including cohost Meryl Streep and activist Billie Jean King, Boies stated, "How ridiculous and unfair and damaging it is to have a film of this power and importance that is being censored by a rating system that has got simply no rational basis. You can kill kids, you can maim them, you can torture them and still get a PG13 rating, but if they say a couple of bad words you blame them. I hope, for heaven's sake, that they find some rational basis before we have to sue them to revise the rating system." ( more...)
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GLAAD Media Awards to Honor Craig Zadan and Neil Meron; Bernadette Peters to Present
by BWW News Desk - Mar 15, 2012
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation's lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, today announced it will honor film and television producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (Chicago, Hairspray, Smash), writer and producer Shonda Rhimes (Greys Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal), financial services company Wells Fargo and Facebook at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards presented by Ketel One and Wells Fargo. ( more...)
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