This year’s Sundance Film Festival will have to make some room for a brand new distributor, as UK-based media fund manager Great Point Media has announced they’re getting jumping into the market, and are planning to release 8-12 titles per year in theaters across the country. Per an official release, the company has already assembled a full slate for 2018, with $10 million in P&A committed to date. The Great Point team will be on the ground at Sundance, scouting possible projects to round out their 2019 slate.
“At a time of great change in the market, we’re proud to be giving filmgoers the chance to experience exceptional independent films in some of the best theatres around the U.S.,” Gpm co-founder Robert Halmi said in an official statement. “We’re very excited to launch this division and to deliver compelling stories from great filmmakers with casts audiences know and love,...
“At a time of great change in the market, we’re proud to be giving filmgoers the chance to experience exceptional independent films in some of the best theatres around the U.S.,” Gpm co-founder Robert Halmi said in an official statement. “We’re very excited to launch this division and to deliver compelling stories from great filmmakers with casts audiences know and love,...
- 1/12/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Acquisitions team Sundance-bound to scout for 2019 releases.
Heading into Sundance, London-based Great Point Media is launching a Us distribution arm and has set its first release Submission for March.
Company co-founders Robert Halmi and Jim Reeve plan to release eight to 12 titles a year and have committed $10m in P&A to a full 2018 slate. The acquisitions team will attend Sundance to scout for 2019 releases.
The company has partnered with distribution veterans Mark Urman of Paladin, Jeff Lipsky of Glass Half Full, and Michael Silberman. Commercial manager Matt Stevens oversees the releases from the company’s London office.
Richard Levine’s (Nip/Tuck) Submission is an adaptation of Francine Prose’s novel Blue Angel that stars Stanley Tucci and Kyra Sedgwick. It will open on March 2 in New York and expand a week later into multiple markets.
The pipelines includes Judy Greer’s directorial debut A Happening Of Monumental Proportions, an all-star comedy...
Heading into Sundance, London-based Great Point Media is launching a Us distribution arm and has set its first release Submission for March.
Company co-founders Robert Halmi and Jim Reeve plan to release eight to 12 titles a year and have committed $10m in P&A to a full 2018 slate. The acquisitions team will attend Sundance to scout for 2019 releases.
The company has partnered with distribution veterans Mark Urman of Paladin, Jeff Lipsky of Glass Half Full, and Michael Silberman. Commercial manager Matt Stevens oversees the releases from the company’s London office.
Richard Levine’s (Nip/Tuck) Submission is an adaptation of Francine Prose’s novel Blue Angel that stars Stanley Tucci and Kyra Sedgwick. It will open on March 2 in New York and expand a week later into multiple markets.
The pipelines includes Judy Greer’s directorial debut A Happening Of Monumental Proportions, an all-star comedy...
- 1/12/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
With screens at a premium, the holiday zone is a hostile climate even for the most-established film distributors. To successfully release an animated biopic funded by the Polish Film Institute — with only modest reviews, via virtually unknown distributor Good Deed Entertainment — the odds were, to be generous, unkind.
“Loving Vincent” outsmarted all of us. With $20 million worldwide since its September 22 bow, it’s the highest gross in years for a film that’s never seen more than 250 theaters. On Saturday it won a European Film Award, today a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Feature; an Oscar nomination could follow.
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- 12/12/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Even with another flood of specialty film debuts, The Skeleton Twins, the dramedy starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader, had another impressive box office showing in its third weekend. Meanwhile, another dozen films tried to elbow past last week’s 14 newcomers and numerous others already in the market, to middling success among those reporting.
Other than Twins, the holdovers that look like they’re gaining some autumnal momentum include IFC Films‘ The Trip To Italy with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and more niche-oriented films such as American Experience/PBS Films’ doc Last Days In Vietnam and Oscilloscope’s Art And Craft. Starz Media also scored a robust gross for the second week of Not Cool, featuring YouTube star Shane Dawson, as it migrated east to New York and was also profiled on a Starz channel doc series.
CBS Films’ Pride can be proud of scoring the weekend’s highest average among new titles.
Other than Twins, the holdovers that look like they’re gaining some autumnal momentum include IFC Films‘ The Trip To Italy with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and more niche-oriented films such as American Experience/PBS Films’ doc Last Days In Vietnam and Oscilloscope’s Art And Craft. Starz Media also scored a robust gross for the second week of Not Cool, featuring YouTube star Shane Dawson, as it migrated east to New York and was also profiled on a Starz channel doc series.
CBS Films’ Pride can be proud of scoring the weekend’s highest average among new titles.
- 9/28/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Music is at the core of two new Specialty features making their theatrical bows this weekend, albeit from rather different ends of the spectrum. XLrator Media will open Jimi: All Is By My Side focusing on the artist’s life in London in nearly three dozen theaters, while Samuel Goldwyn Films will bow faith-centered The Song in over 300 theaters, the biggest number of runs for a limited release newcomer this week. Magnolia Pictures will take thriller The Two Faces Of January starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac to an initial half-dozen locations in the wake of its VOD release late last month and CBS Films is targeting the same number of runs for its Cannes ’14 feature Pride. Factory 25 is opening its art meets goth-rap thriller Hellaware and Cinema Libre will debut a former Swiss foreign-language Oscar contender The Little Bedroom in exclusive New York runs. The weekend is...
- 9/26/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
DreamWorks/Paramount's terrorism-themed thriller "Eagle Eye" opened solidly atop the domestic boxoffice this weekend, fetching an estimated $29.2 million despite hot competition from some much-watched political theater on Friday.
Starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan as a couple of hapless victims of national-security mechanisms run riot, "Eagle" was aided by $1.7 million from 85 Imax giant-screen venues.
Literary adaptation "Nights in Rodanthe" -- a Warner Bros.-Village Roadshow co-production starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane -- bowed at No. 2 with a pleasing $13.6 million built on older-female support. Last weekend's chart-topper -- Sony's Samuel L. Jackson thriller "Lakeview Terrace" -- dropped a relatively modest 53% to $7 million in third place, shaping a 10-day cume of $25.7 million.
Idp/Goldwyn's firefighting drama "Fireproof," starring Kirk Cameron, used advance bookings by church groups to good effect, as the Christian-themed firefighting drama opened with $6.5 million in fourth place. But Spike Lee's World War II drama...
Starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan as a couple of hapless victims of national-security mechanisms run riot, "Eagle" was aided by $1.7 million from 85 Imax giant-screen venues.
Literary adaptation "Nights in Rodanthe" -- a Warner Bros.-Village Roadshow co-production starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane -- bowed at No. 2 with a pleasing $13.6 million built on older-female support. Last weekend's chart-topper -- Sony's Samuel L. Jackson thriller "Lakeview Terrace" -- dropped a relatively modest 53% to $7 million in third place, shaping a 10-day cume of $25.7 million.
Idp/Goldwyn's firefighting drama "Fireproof," starring Kirk Cameron, used advance bookings by church groups to good effect, as the Christian-themed firefighting drama opened with $6.5 million in fourth place. But Spike Lee's World War II drama...
- 9/28/2008
- by By Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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