Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis and Jeremy Irons star in the true story.
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired the UK distribution rights to Stephen Hopkins’ Race, which follows black athlete Jesse Owens’ meteoric rise to become four-time Olympic gold medalist at the 1936 games in Nazi Germany.
The deal was negotiated between Altitude’s Will Clarke and Mister Smith Entertainment’s David Garrett. Focus Features released the film in the Us on February 19, taking $7.35m to date.
The UK release date has yet to be set but is likely to come before the Rio Olympics (Aug 5-21).
Directed and produced by Stephen Hopkins (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers), Race stars Stephan James (Selma) as Jesse Owens and Jason Sudeikis (We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses) and also features Jeremy Irons and William Hurt as well as Carice Van Houten (Game of Thrones).
Made with the cooperation of the Jesse Owens Foundation as well as the Owens family...
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired the UK distribution rights to Stephen Hopkins’ Race, which follows black athlete Jesse Owens’ meteoric rise to become four-time Olympic gold medalist at the 1936 games in Nazi Germany.
The deal was negotiated between Altitude’s Will Clarke and Mister Smith Entertainment’s David Garrett. Focus Features released the film in the Us on February 19, taking $7.35m to date.
The UK release date has yet to be set but is likely to come before the Rio Olympics (Aug 5-21).
Directed and produced by Stephen Hopkins (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers), Race stars Stephan James (Selma) as Jesse Owens and Jason Sudeikis (We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses) and also features Jeremy Irons and William Hurt as well as Carice Van Houten (Game of Thrones).
Made with the cooperation of the Jesse Owens Foundation as well as the Owens family...
- 2/23/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis and Jeremy Irons star in the true story.
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired the UK distribution rights to Stephen Hopkins’ Race, which follows black athlete Jesse Owens’ meteoric rise to become four-time Olympic gold medalist at the 1936 games in Nazi Germany.
The deal was negotiated between Altitude’s Will Clarke and Mister Smith Entertainment’s David Garrett. Focus Features released the film in the Us on February 19, taking $7.35m to date.
The UK release date has yet to be set but is likely to come before the Rio Olympics (Aug 5-21).
Directed and produced by Stephen Hopkins (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers), Race stars Stephan James (Selma) as Jesse Owens and Jason Sudeikis (We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses) and also features Jeremy Irons and William Hurt as well as Carice Van Houten (Game of Thrones).
Made with the cooperation of the Jesse Owens Foundation as well as the Owens family...
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired the UK distribution rights to Stephen Hopkins’ Race, which follows black athlete Jesse Owens’ meteoric rise to become four-time Olympic gold medalist at the 1936 games in Nazi Germany.
The deal was negotiated between Altitude’s Will Clarke and Mister Smith Entertainment’s David Garrett. Focus Features released the film in the Us on February 19, taking $7.35m to date.
The UK release date has yet to be set but is likely to come before the Rio Olympics (Aug 5-21).
Directed and produced by Stephen Hopkins (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers), Race stars Stephan James (Selma) as Jesse Owens and Jason Sudeikis (We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses) and also features Jeremy Irons and William Hurt as well as Carice Van Houten (Game of Thrones).
Made with the cooperation of the Jesse Owens Foundation as well as the Owens family...
- 2/23/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The studio said it will open the Jesse Owens film wide on April 8, 2016, and announced that William Hurt has joined the cast. Mister Smith handles international sales.
Hurt joins Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, Carice van Houten and rising star Stephan James.
Stephen Hopkins directs the $32m drama and is about to wrap the Berlin segment at the Olympic Stadium, the site of Owens’ quadruple gold medal haul in 1936 that defied Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy at the Games.
Hurt will portray Jeremiah Mahoney, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, who led efforts to boycott the 1936 Olympics. Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel wrote the screenplay.
Jean Charles Lévy produces for Forecast Pictures with sports entrepreneur Luc Dayan for ID+, Kate Garwood and Hopkins for Totally Commercial Films, Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin for Canada’s Solofilms and Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok for Germany’s Trinity Race GmbH.
Executive producers include Christopher Charlier, Ben Grass, [link...
Hurt joins Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, Carice van Houten and rising star Stephan James.
Stephen Hopkins directs the $32m drama and is about to wrap the Berlin segment at the Olympic Stadium, the site of Owens’ quadruple gold medal haul in 1936 that defied Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy at the Games.
Hurt will portray Jeremiah Mahoney, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, who led efforts to boycott the 1936 Olympics. Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel wrote the screenplay.
Jean Charles Lévy produces for Forecast Pictures with sports entrepreneur Luc Dayan for ID+, Kate Garwood and Hopkins for Totally Commercial Films, Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin for Canada’s Solofilms and Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok for Germany’s Trinity Race GmbH.
Executive producers include Christopher Charlier, Ben Grass, [link...
- 10/1/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Four producers on Stephen Hopkins’ Jesse Owens biopic Race have joined forces to produce English-language features in the future for the international market.
Jean-Charles Lévy, sports entrepreneur Luc Dayan, Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok are partners in the Berlin-based production house Trinity Race GmbH, which has served as the German producer on Race.
The film wraps principal photography in the German capital’s historic Olympic Stadium on Sunday. Stephan James plays Owens.
Trinity’s partners on the $31.6m German-Canadian co-production are Lévy’s Forecast Pictures, Dayan’s ID+, Kate Garwood and Hopkins’ Totally Commercial Films, and Canadian producers Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin of Solofilms.
David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment is handling international distribution and now only has sales deal pending for Japan, France and the UK. Square One Entertainment will distribute theatrically in Germany and eOne in Canada. Focus Features will release the film in the Us.
“Originally, it had been...
Jean-Charles Lévy, sports entrepreneur Luc Dayan, Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok are partners in the Berlin-based production house Trinity Race GmbH, which has served as the German producer on Race.
The film wraps principal photography in the German capital’s historic Olympic Stadium on Sunday. Stephan James plays Owens.
Trinity’s partners on the $31.6m German-Canadian co-production are Lévy’s Forecast Pictures, Dayan’s ID+, Kate Garwood and Hopkins’ Totally Commercial Films, and Canadian producers Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin of Solofilms.
David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment is handling international distribution and now only has sales deal pending for Japan, France and the UK. Square One Entertainment will distribute theatrically in Germany and eOne in Canada. Focus Features will release the film in the Us.
“Originally, it had been...
- 10/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or in a couple of titles below have been shooting since July). This August we’ve got a good number of projects that will start surfacing as early as next year’s Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Fests. With Dakota Johnson having been just announced, we’ve got Luca Guadagnino’s long awaited (remake) A Bigger Splash, getting ready for a poolside shoot. Gus Van Sant comes out of the woodworks to move into the woods for Sea of Trees. Sundance alumni Rick Alverson is wrapping up Entertainment, Reed Morano is set to make her directorial debut this mid-August with Meadowland, while Douchebag, Like Crazy, Breathe In‘s Drake Doremus is stationed in Japan for a weighty cast and futuristic tale in Equals. Here are some...
- 8/6/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Jason Sudeikis has joined Jeremy Irons and Stephan James in the true story of the Olympic legend. Focus acquired Us rights in a deal with world sales agent Mister Smith Entertainment.
Director Stephen Hopkins is scheduled to begin principal photography on July 24 in Montreal and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Square One will distribute in Germany and is a co-producer. eOne will release Race in Canada.
Owens claimed a record-breaking four Olympic gold medals at the 1936 Games in Germany, much to the chagrin of German Chancellor Adolph Hitler and his cohorts who had intended the event to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy.
The project has the support of the Owens family, the Jesse Owens Foundation, the Jesse Owens Trust and the Luminary Group.
Sudeikis will play Owens’ obsessive coach and mentor Larry Snyder, while Irons will portray Avery Brundage, head of the American Olympic committee who fought to stage the Games in Berlin...
Director Stephen Hopkins is scheduled to begin principal photography on July 24 in Montreal and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Square One will distribute in Germany and is a co-producer. eOne will release Race in Canada.
Owens claimed a record-breaking four Olympic gold medals at the 1936 Games in Germany, much to the chagrin of German Chancellor Adolph Hitler and his cohorts who had intended the event to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy.
The project has the support of the Owens family, the Jesse Owens Foundation, the Jesse Owens Trust and the Luminary Group.
Sudeikis will play Owens’ obsessive coach and mentor Larry Snyder, while Irons will portray Avery Brundage, head of the American Olympic committee who fought to stage the Games in Berlin...
- 7/16/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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