Exclusive: Nearly two decades after producing The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a video game documentary that’s emerged as a cult classic since its unveiling at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival, Ed Cunningham has wrapped production on Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad Of Walter Day, a follow-up film picking up with his documentary subject, known as the father of Esports.
Directed by Seth Gordon, The King of Kong offered a look into the world of competitive arcade gaming with a focus on the quest for the high score in the classic arcade game Donkey Kong. The specific focus of the film is the intense rivalry between two gamers: the reigning champion, restaurateur Billy Mitchell, and underdog challenger, Steve Wiebe. As Wiebe relentlessly pursues the Donkey Kong high score, he faces obstacles and skepticism from the gaming community, particularly from Mitchell and the organization Twin Galaxies, which oversees video game records.
Directed by Seth Gordon, The King of Kong offered a look into the world of competitive arcade gaming with a focus on the quest for the high score in the classic arcade game Donkey Kong. The specific focus of the film is the intense rivalry between two gamers: the reigning champion, restaurateur Billy Mitchell, and underdog challenger, Steve Wiebe. As Wiebe relentlessly pursues the Donkey Kong high score, he faces obstacles and skepticism from the gaming community, particularly from Mitchell and the organization Twin Galaxies, which oversees video game records.
- 2/29/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline reports that genre regulars Ali Larter (the Final Destination and Resident Evil franchises) and Justin Long play supporting roles in the supernatural horror film Spin the Bottle, with Tanner Stine (Impulse) and Kaylee Bryant (Legacies) taking on the lead roles. Production recently wrapped on the film, which centers on
a group of teenagers in small town Texas who unleash a deadly force after playing the famed party game Spin the Bottle in an abandoned house where a grisly massacre once took place.
Gavin Wiesen directed Spin the Bottle from a screenplay by John Cregan (Plague Town). The actors mentioned above are joined in the cast by Christopher Ammanuel (Black Lightning), Ryan Whitney (Reagan), Angela Halili (American Horror Stories), Samantha Cormier (Legion), Hal Cumpston (The Greatest Beer Run Ever) and Tony Amendola (The Curse of La Llorona).
Financing for Spin the Bottle was provided by Fortress Media Group. Will Hayes,...
a group of teenagers in small town Texas who unleash a deadly force after playing the famed party game Spin the Bottle in an abandoned house where a grisly massacre once took place.
Gavin Wiesen directed Spin the Bottle from a screenplay by John Cregan (Plague Town). The actors mentioned above are joined in the cast by Christopher Ammanuel (Black Lightning), Ryan Whitney (Reagan), Angela Halili (American Horror Stories), Samantha Cormier (Legion), Hal Cumpston (The Greatest Beer Run Ever) and Tony Amendola (The Curse of La Llorona).
Financing for Spin the Bottle was provided by Fortress Media Group. Will Hayes,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
A party game turns into a party nightmare in the upcoming supernatural horror movie Spin the Bottle, and Deadline reports that Justin Long (Barbarian) has joined the cast.
Additionally, Ali Larter (The Rookie), Tanner Stine (Impulse) and Kaylee Bryant (Legacies) will star, with Stine and Bryant leading the cast. Long and Larter play supporting roles.
Deadline notes, “The recently wrapped film written by John Cregan centers on a group of teenagers in small town Texas who unleash a deadly force after playing the famed party game Spin the Bottle in an abandoned house where a grisly massacre once took place.”
The film’s cast also includes Christopher Ammanuel (Black Lightning), Ryan Whitney (Reagan), Angela Halili (American Horror Stories), Samantha Cormier (Legion), Hal Cumpston (The Greatest Beer Run Ever) and Tony Amendola (The Curse of La Llorona).
Fortress Media Group is financing, with Will Hayes, Jim Valdez, Kyle Hayes and Chris Barish producing.
Additionally, Ali Larter (The Rookie), Tanner Stine (Impulse) and Kaylee Bryant (Legacies) will star, with Stine and Bryant leading the cast. Long and Larter play supporting roles.
Deadline notes, “The recently wrapped film written by John Cregan centers on a group of teenagers in small town Texas who unleash a deadly force after playing the famed party game Spin the Bottle in an abandoned house where a grisly massacre once took place.”
The film’s cast also includes Christopher Ammanuel (Black Lightning), Ryan Whitney (Reagan), Angela Halili (American Horror Stories), Samantha Cormier (Legion), Hal Cumpston (The Greatest Beer Run Ever) and Tony Amendola (The Curse of La Llorona).
Fortress Media Group is financing, with Will Hayes, Jim Valdez, Kyle Hayes and Chris Barish producing.
- 9/15/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Tanner Stine (Impulse) and Kaylee Bryant (Legacies) will lead the supernatural horror Spin the Bottle from director Gavin Wiesen (The Art of Getting By), with Justin Long (Barbarian) and Ali Larter (The Rookie) to play supporting roles.
The recently wrapped film written by John Cregan centers on a group of teenagers in small town Texas who unleash a deadly force after playing the famed party game Spin the Bottle in an abandoned house where a grisly massacre once took place.
Christopher Ammanuel (Black Lightning), Ryan Whitney (Reagan), Angela Halili (American Horror Stories), Samantha Cormier (Legion), Hal Cumpston (The Greatest Beer Run Ever) and Tony Amendola (The Curse of La Llorona) round out the cast. Fortress Media Group is financing, with Will Hayes, Jim Valdez, Kyle Hayes and Chris Barish producing. Harrison Kordestani is exec producing, with Scot Ruggles serving as co-producer.
Stine has previously appeared on series including Impulse,...
The recently wrapped film written by John Cregan centers on a group of teenagers in small town Texas who unleash a deadly force after playing the famed party game Spin the Bottle in an abandoned house where a grisly massacre once took place.
Christopher Ammanuel (Black Lightning), Ryan Whitney (Reagan), Angela Halili (American Horror Stories), Samantha Cormier (Legion), Hal Cumpston (The Greatest Beer Run Ever) and Tony Amendola (The Curse of La Llorona) round out the cast. Fortress Media Group is financing, with Will Hayes, Jim Valdez, Kyle Hayes and Chris Barish producing. Harrison Kordestani is exec producing, with Scot Ruggles serving as co-producer.
Stine has previously appeared on series including Impulse,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Big news today: We’re excited to announce Amazon Studios’ third pilot season, beginning August 28th and featuring three half hour comedies The Cosmopolitans, Really and Red Oaks, and two hour-long dramatic thrillers Hand of God and Hysteria. For one month, it will be up to you to watch, rate and comment – ultimately helping us decide which of them get the greenlight.
“There is something for everyone in this season,” says Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. The glamorous life of modern day expats in Paris. The hijinks of a summer job at a country club in 1980s New Jersey. The visions of a vigilante judge who appears to be channeling God. The complexities of marriage and friendship among a circle of friends in suburban Chicago. And the mysteries behind a psycho-physiological illness spreading through a small town in Texas.
You can help choose which of these stories should get “picked up” to become shows.
“There is something for everyone in this season,” says Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. The glamorous life of modern day expats in Paris. The hijinks of a summer job at a country club in 1980s New Jersey. The visions of a vigilante judge who appears to be channeling God. The complexities of marriage and friendship among a circle of friends in suburban Chicago. And the mysteries behind a psycho-physiological illness spreading through a small town in Texas.
You can help choose which of these stories should get “picked up” to become shows.
- 8/11/2014
- Hollywonk
Amazon Studios today announced it will debut the half-hour dramatic comedy pilot Really from Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers), Main Street Films’ Craig Chang and Harrison Kordestani, and Executive Producer Jamie Tarses (Happy Endings) as part of its third pilot season debuting later this year on Amazon Instant Video. Customers will once again be invited to watch and provide feedback on the shows they want to see turned into full series, which will then become available on Prime Instant Video.
Written, created and directed by Chandrasekhar, Really is a funny, extremely honest behind-the-curtain look at the psychological and emotional complexities of marriage, and the charged dynamics of a tight-knit group of friends.
More on the plot:
Four hard-charging suburban Chicago couples try to grasp on to their dwindling youth. At the center are the happily but messily married couple “Jed,” played by Chandrasekhar, and “Lori,” played by Sarah Chalke. When Jed...
Written, created and directed by Chandrasekhar, Really is a funny, extremely honest behind-the-curtain look at the psychological and emotional complexities of marriage, and the charged dynamics of a tight-knit group of friends.
More on the plot:
Four hard-charging suburban Chicago couples try to grasp on to their dwindling youth. At the center are the happily but messily married couple “Jed,” played by Chandrasekhar, and “Lori,” played by Sarah Chalke. When Jed...
- 6/20/2014
- Hollywonk
German director Christian Schwochow will present his film West and participate in a Q&A on the opening night gala of Kino! Festival Of German Films in New York on June 12.
West won the Fipresci prize at the 2013 Montreal Film Festival and is based on Julia Franck’s novel Lagerfeuer.
Heide Schwochow adapted the Berlin Wall-era mystery starring Jördis Triebel, Alexander Scheer, Tristan Göbel and Jacky Ido.
Ö Filmproduktion’s Karin Schlösser produced with zero one film’s Thomas Kufus and terz Filmproduktion’s Christoph Friedel.
Main Street Films chairman Craig Chang and president Harrison Kordestani plan to release the film theatrically later this year.
West won the Fipresci prize at the 2013 Montreal Film Festival and is based on Julia Franck’s novel Lagerfeuer.
Heide Schwochow adapted the Berlin Wall-era mystery starring Jördis Triebel, Alexander Scheer, Tristan Göbel and Jacky Ido.
Ö Filmproduktion’s Karin Schlösser produced with zero one film’s Thomas Kufus and terz Filmproduktion’s Christoph Friedel.
Main Street Films chairman Craig Chang and president Harrison Kordestani plan to release the film theatrically later this year.
- 6/12/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Main Street Films has committed to release Aussie writer-director Murali Thalluri.s post-Apocalyptic action adventure One on at least 600 screens in the Us.
That.s a remarkably wide Us release for the Adelaide-based filmmaker who has just one film to his credit, 2:37, a drama which chronicles a day in the lives of six high-school kids culminating in one.s suicide, which screened in Cannes. Un Certain Regard in 2006.
Main Street Films is co-producing and co-financing the film which will star Blood Diamond.s Djimon Hounsou and Pitch Perfect.s Alexis Knapp.
.We have a guaranteed release of a minimum of 600 screens in the Us, and have presold multiple key territories already, and we haven.t even shot the film yet. I.m pumped," Murali tells If.
Pre-production is due to start in Johannesburg and Cape Town in September, the first film shot under the Australian-South African co-production treaty signed...
That.s a remarkably wide Us release for the Adelaide-based filmmaker who has just one film to his credit, 2:37, a drama which chronicles a day in the lives of six high-school kids culminating in one.s suicide, which screened in Cannes. Un Certain Regard in 2006.
Main Street Films is co-producing and co-financing the film which will star Blood Diamond.s Djimon Hounsou and Pitch Perfect.s Alexis Knapp.
.We have a guaranteed release of a minimum of 600 screens in the Us, and have presold multiple key territories already, and we haven.t even shot the film yet. I.m pumped," Murali tells If.
Pre-production is due to start in Johannesburg and Cape Town in September, the first film shot under the Australian-South African co-production treaty signed...
- 5/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Australian box office hit goes to Us with LevelK.
Main Street Films has struck a Us deal for The Turning with LevelK.
The Australian box-office hit, an adaptation of Tim Winton’s book, includes segments by directors such as Warwick Thornton, Robert Connolly, Mia Wasikowska, David Wenham and Justin Kurzel. The cast includes Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving.
“Main Street Films has a vision and innovative ideas for theatrically releasing The Turning across Us Cinemas. It is exiting to cooperate with an energized and passionate partner that can bring The Turning to the American audience,” said Natja Rosner, head of sales at LevelK.
Harrison Kordestani, President of Main Street Films, added: “The Turning is a bold and cinematic compilation of 17 short films that takes audiences on an emotional journey showcasing the plethora of talent in Australia both in front of and behind the camera and we are delighted to be releasing...
Main Street Films has struck a Us deal for The Turning with LevelK.
The Australian box-office hit, an adaptation of Tim Winton’s book, includes segments by directors such as Warwick Thornton, Robert Connolly, Mia Wasikowska, David Wenham and Justin Kurzel. The cast includes Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving.
“Main Street Films has a vision and innovative ideas for theatrically releasing The Turning across Us Cinemas. It is exiting to cooperate with an energized and passionate partner that can bring The Turning to the American audience,” said Natja Rosner, head of sales at LevelK.
Harrison Kordestani, President of Main Street Films, added: “The Turning is a bold and cinematic compilation of 17 short films that takes audiences on an emotional journey showcasing the plethora of talent in Australia both in front of and behind the camera and we are delighted to be releasing...
- 5/17/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
I have learned that Amazon Studios has assembled the cast of Really, a single-camera comedy pilot, written, directed by and starring Jay Chandrasekhar, part of comedy team Broken Lizard. Sarah Chalke will play the female lead opposite Chandrasekhar in the project, executive produced by Jamie Tarses. Also cast in the pilot, fully financed and produced by Main Street Films, are Selma Blair, Luka Jones, Travis Schuldt, Lindsay Sloane, Hayes Macarthur and Collette Wolfe. Really, which was quietly picked up to pilot more than a month ago, revolves around a social and opinionated group of thirtysomething friends in Chicago. It centers on two of them, happily, messily married neurologist Jed (Chandrasekhar) and lawyer/mom Lori (Chalke). Their group of friends includes Fred (Jones) and his wife Joanna (Blair), Mike (Schuldt) and his wife Margaret (Sloane) as well as Hayes (Macarthur) and his significant other Alison (Wolfe). The dynamic in the group...
- 4/22/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Main Street Films’ suspense thriller John Doe: Vigilante opens on March 21, 2014 in select cities. The controversial film addresses the themes of justice, vengeance and a failing legal system and begs the question, “is violence ever justified?” The film stars Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) as a man who takes the law into his own hands after becoming frustrated with a failing legal system. During test screenings the film received positive reviews with one audience member calling it, “riveting and very compelling.” Additionally, Bamber has spoken out about the film’s controversial subject matter calling it a “social commentary about what’s right and wrong.”
“When 67% of former prisoners are rearrested within three years of their release you know there’s something wrong with the legal system,” said Kelly Dolen, director. “John Doe: Vigilante is intended to create a debate and put a mirror up to society. We aren’t glamorizing violence,...
“When 67% of former prisoners are rearrested within three years of their release you know there’s something wrong with the legal system,” said Kelly Dolen, director. “John Doe: Vigilante is intended to create a debate and put a mirror up to society. We aren’t glamorizing violence,...
- 3/18/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Distribution Round-up: Main Street Films, Image Entertainment, Participant Media and FilmBuff and Factory 25 also unveil latest deals.
Focus Features has set a July 18 platform release in New York and Los Angeles for Wish I Was Here starring Zach Braff.
The comedy will expand on July 25 and roll out in additional markets on August 1. Wild Bunch handles international sales on the film, funded in part through Kickstarter. Braff directed and co-stars alongside Kate Hudson and Mandy Patinkin.
Main Street Films has set an April 18 theatrical release for the comedy Bank$tas, styled as a satirical look at the high cost of education, corporate greed, corruption and student debt. The Lumanity Productions film stars Alan Thicke, Joe Dinicol, Michael Seater and Laura Vandervoort. Jeff Stephenson directed from a screenplay by Robert Budreau, who also produced. William Santor and John Hills of Productivity Media served as executive producers alongside Main Street’s Harrison Kordestani, Cc Hang, Arti Modi...
Focus Features has set a July 18 platform release in New York and Los Angeles for Wish I Was Here starring Zach Braff.
The comedy will expand on July 25 and roll out in additional markets on August 1. Wild Bunch handles international sales on the film, funded in part through Kickstarter. Braff directed and co-stars alongside Kate Hudson and Mandy Patinkin.
Main Street Films has set an April 18 theatrical release for the comedy Bank$tas, styled as a satirical look at the high cost of education, corporate greed, corruption and student debt. The Lumanity Productions film stars Alan Thicke, Joe Dinicol, Michael Seater and Laura Vandervoort. Jeff Stephenson directed from a screenplay by Robert Budreau, who also produced. William Santor and John Hills of Productivity Media served as executive producers alongside Main Street’s Harrison Kordestani, Cc Hang, Arti Modi...
- 2/27/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Fledgling production, acquisitions and distribution company Main Street Films has promoted Sophie Nicolaou to vp of marketing and communications.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
- 2/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Fledgling production, acquisitions and distribution company Main Street Films has promoted Sophie Nicolaou to vp of marketing and communications.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
- 2/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Kelly Dolen.s John Doe: Vigilante will debut in Us cinemas on March 21, the tenth Australian film to have secured a cinema release in that market this year.
Monster Pictures will launch the thriller starring Battlestar Galactica.s Jamie Bamber as John Doe . a man accused of being a vigilante serial killer- in Australia on May 8.
The screenplay by Stephen M. Coates follows a vigilante group called Speak for the Dead which supports Doe.s cause while he.s in prison, igniting a debate about justice versus vengeance.
Lachy Hulme (Offspring, Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story, The Matrix Revolutions) plays a reporter who is trying to uncover the true story about Doe.
.John Doe: Vigilante is intended to create a debate and put a mirror up to society,. said Dolen. .We aren.t glamorising violence, but posing the question.is violence ever really justified? Who decides what is right and what is wrong?...
Monster Pictures will launch the thriller starring Battlestar Galactica.s Jamie Bamber as John Doe . a man accused of being a vigilante serial killer- in Australia on May 8.
The screenplay by Stephen M. Coates follows a vigilante group called Speak for the Dead which supports Doe.s cause while he.s in prison, igniting a debate about justice versus vengeance.
Lachy Hulme (Offspring, Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story, The Matrix Revolutions) plays a reporter who is trying to uncover the true story about Doe.
.John Doe: Vigilante is intended to create a debate and put a mirror up to society,. said Dolen. .We aren.t glamorising violence, but posing the question.is violence ever really justified? Who decides what is right and what is wrong?...
- 2/7/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Main Street Films has acquired distribution rights to La Bare, a documentary directed by Joe Manganiello about the history, lives and culture of the world’s most popular male strip club, La Bare Dallas. Manganiello, who played Big Dick Richie alongside Channing Tatum in the Steven Soderbergh-directed Magic Mike, made the film through 3:59 Inc., which is run by his brother, Nick Manganiello. The deal was worth mid six-figures for North American and Chinese rights and includes a commitment by Main Street to give the docu a 20-market U.S. theatrical release in the summer. This is a big deal for Slamdance and Manganiello came for the film’s Sunday night debut at the Treasure Mountain Inn, followed by a raucous Q&A featuring Elvis Mitchell and Manganiello, the True Blood star who’ll next be seen in Sabotage. “I was immediately impressed by Main Street’s excitement,...
- 1/22/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Main Street Films has bought North American rights to John Doe, an Australian thriller about an anti-hero who attempts to rid the community of criminals while taking out those he knows are about to commit crimes.
The director is Kel Dolen (Reign in Darkness, Gates of Hell), the screenplay is by Steve Coates and the cast is headed by Battlestar Galactica.s Jamie Bamber and Lachy Hulme (Howzat! Kerry Packer's War, Beaconsfield).
The film was produced by ScreenCorp..s James M. Vernon and Kristy Vernon with Keith Sweitzer and David Lightfoot. Leanne Walker is the executive producer.
Main Street Films chairman Craig Chang along with Harrison Kordestani saw John Doe at the Cannes Film Market and negotiated the deal with Vernon. .We used our two screenings at Cannes to create a profile for the film and it turned out better than expected,. Vernon told If.
The Us company is releasing Mike Newell.s Great Expectations,...
The director is Kel Dolen (Reign in Darkness, Gates of Hell), the screenplay is by Steve Coates and the cast is headed by Battlestar Galactica.s Jamie Bamber and Lachy Hulme (Howzat! Kerry Packer's War, Beaconsfield).
The film was produced by ScreenCorp..s James M. Vernon and Kristy Vernon with Keith Sweitzer and David Lightfoot. Leanne Walker is the executive producer.
Main Street Films chairman Craig Chang along with Harrison Kordestani saw John Doe at the Cannes Film Market and negotiated the deal with Vernon. .We used our two screenings at Cannes to create a profile for the film and it turned out better than expected,. Vernon told If.
The Us company is releasing Mike Newell.s Great Expectations,...
- 7/29/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Main Street Films chairman Craig Chang has appointed Harrison Kordestani to the dual roles of president of both Main Street Films and 982 Media. This comes as Main Street boards as financier the Murali Krishna Thalluri-directed One. The film is a racially fueled post-apocalyptic adventure as seen through the eyes of a 26-year old girl. She is the hope of her world, yet holds fundamental doubts about whether she can live up to this daunting task. Thalluri’s M2E Pictures and Kent Smith of the Kojo Group are producing (they also produced Thalluri’s 2:37). Filming starts later this year in South Africa. Commenting on Harrison’s appointment, Chang said “When founding this new company, and its funding partner entity we needed to find someone who could bring both business affairs expertise and a background in managing creative projects. Harrison was by far the best candidate for the position,...
- 5/30/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Wondering just where the hell Stephen Sommers' adaptation of the Dean R. Koontz book Odd Thomas has been? Honestly, we all but forgot about it, but THR just gave us a grim reminder of reality.
As per the site:
The producers of Odd Thomas are suing several entities, alleging that they failed to provide [a shocking] $35 million that would have gone toward marketing and distributing the movie and paying back production loans. Two Out of Ten Prods., known at Toot, and Fusion Films filed their lawsuit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, naming as defendants Outsource Media Group Fund, Abs Investment Group, individuals Craig Chang and Mark Bishop, and Outsource Media Group. The latter, referred to as Omg in the lawsuit, is run by principals Bradley Holmes, Dan Reardon, and Harrison Kordestani, an executive producer of lower-budget horrors and thrillers such as The Coffin, Already Dead, In a Dark Place and Intervention.
As per the site:
The producers of Odd Thomas are suing several entities, alleging that they failed to provide [a shocking] $35 million that would have gone toward marketing and distributing the movie and paying back production loans. Two Out of Ten Prods., known at Toot, and Fusion Films filed their lawsuit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, naming as defendants Outsource Media Group Fund, Abs Investment Group, individuals Craig Chang and Mark Bishop, and Outsource Media Group. The latter, referred to as Omg in the lawsuit, is run by principals Bradley Holmes, Dan Reardon, and Harrison Kordestani, an executive producer of lower-budget horrors and thrillers such as The Coffin, Already Dead, In a Dark Place and Intervention.
- 1/29/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: New funding enterprise Outsource Media Group has made itself known here at the Toronto Film Festival by acquiring North American rights to the Mike Newell-directed Great Expectations. The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeremy Irvine, and Holliday Grainger, was sold before its Gala Premiere. Partners Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley produced the film. Great Expectations premieres Tuesday at Roy Thompson Hall. Outsource Media Group will make a deal with distributors for North America, and the financier will put up P&A for theatrical releases through a fund it intends to use to build an acquisition slate of finished films and pre-buys. In other words, a new indie buyer has entered the scene. Related: Toronto 2012: High Optimism As Business Reshaped By Filmmaker-Driven Fare And Shifting Formats Reinvigorates Indie Biz The company is a private equity fund based in Los Angeles and New York whose financing...
- 9/8/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Producer Ed Bass is making his directorial debut with "Belle," the story of Belle Gunness, America's most prolific female serial killer, which is being produced and financed by First Line Media.
Working mainly from her farm base in La Porte County, Ind., around the turn of the 20th century, Gunness left a trail of buried bodies as she allegedly killed two husbands and dozens of suitors to whom she wrote love letters and who arrived at her farm with fat wallets. Several of her stepchildren mysteriously disappeared as well.
Bass co-wrote the script with Eva Mayer, whose family purchased the farmland and discovered some of the love letters.
"It's classic theme: a woman looking for love and never quite finding it," Bass said. "And when she finally does find love, it eludes her."
Producing are First Line chairman Hubert Gibbs and Christopher Beatty.
Bjorn Johnson and George Hamilton are set to co-produce,...
Working mainly from her farm base in La Porte County, Ind., around the turn of the 20th century, Gunness left a trail of buried bodies as she allegedly killed two husbands and dozens of suitors to whom she wrote love letters and who arrived at her farm with fat wallets. Several of her stepchildren mysteriously disappeared as well.
Bass co-wrote the script with Eva Mayer, whose family purchased the farmland and discovered some of the love letters.
"It's classic theme: a woman looking for love and never quite finding it," Bass said. "And when she finally does find love, it eludes her."
Producing are First Line chairman Hubert Gibbs and Christopher Beatty.
Bjorn Johnson and George Hamilton are set to co-produce,...
- 5/12/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander are joining Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel in the indie romantic comedy Gigantic.
Dano will play Brian, a depressed mattress salesman whose quest to adopt a Chinese baby is sidetracked when he falls for Happy (Deschanel).
Asner will play Brian's pot-smoking, gangsta rap-loving father, and Alexander is set as his long-suffering mother. Goodman will play Happy's brilliant, domineering dad.
Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing the project, which begins shooting today in New York. Dano is executive producing.
Director Matt Aselton co-wrote the script with Adam Nagata. Harrison Kordestani and Marina Martins of Lexicon/Machine Made are financing and Cinetic Media is repping domestic sales.
Goodman is repped by Gersh. Asner is repped by Michael Greene and manager Perry Zimel. Alexander is repped by WMA.
Dano will play Brian, a depressed mattress salesman whose quest to adopt a Chinese baby is sidetracked when he falls for Happy (Deschanel).
Asner will play Brian's pot-smoking, gangsta rap-loving father, and Alexander is set as his long-suffering mother. Goodman will play Happy's brilliant, domineering dad.
Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing the project, which begins shooting today in New York. Dano is executive producing.
Director Matt Aselton co-wrote the script with Adam Nagata. Harrison Kordestani and Marina Martins of Lexicon/Machine Made are financing and Cinetic Media is repping domestic sales.
Goodman is repped by Gersh. Asner is repped by Michael Greene and manager Perry Zimel. Alexander is repped by WMA.
NEW YORK -- Production outfit Nehst Studios, Lexicon Filmed Entertainment and Machine Made Media have partnered to share $250 million assembled from private hedge funds to finance features, TV series and Web series.
Nehst chairman Larry Meistrich and president Ari Friedman, Lexicon founder Marina Martins and Machine founder Harrison Kordestani initially will use the fund to finance properties from each of their companies, including Machine's upcoming slate with Warner Home Video and partners George Alexandru and Kevin Cain.
Meistrich, former founder of production outfit the Shooting Gallery, says the identity of the hedge funds involved are private because of confidentiality laws. Projects, he says, will range from $1 million to $50 million.
"We want to work outside the studio system with some productions on the same scale," said Meistrich, whose company also finances and distributes films.
Upcoming projects financed by the fund will include Nehst's mining accident drama And One for All and the youth drama The Flicker's Dance, along with the youth-sports comedy Web series Dribble Kick Throw.
Lexicon, which works with international production partners to co-produce films, plans to finance such projects as La pierde almas, based on the Day of the Dead festival as detailed in a book and paintings by Jonathan Barbieri.
Nehst chairman Larry Meistrich and president Ari Friedman, Lexicon founder Marina Martins and Machine founder Harrison Kordestani initially will use the fund to finance properties from each of their companies, including Machine's upcoming slate with Warner Home Video and partners George Alexandru and Kevin Cain.
Meistrich, former founder of production outfit the Shooting Gallery, says the identity of the hedge funds involved are private because of confidentiality laws. Projects, he says, will range from $1 million to $50 million.
"We want to work outside the studio system with some productions on the same scale," said Meistrich, whose company also finances and distributes films.
Upcoming projects financed by the fund will include Nehst's mining accident drama And One for All and the youth drama The Flicker's Dance, along with the youth-sports comedy Web series Dribble Kick Throw.
Lexicon, which works with international production partners to co-produce films, plans to finance such projects as La pierde almas, based on the Day of the Dead festival as detailed in a book and paintings by Jonathan Barbieri.
- 10/3/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jonathan Deckter has been named president of International Sales for Arclight Films by Gary Hamilton, Arclight's managing director. Deckter previously served as vice president of Morgan Creek International. Arclight Films is a sales and production company founded in 2002 by Gary Hamilton and Victor Syrmis. Deckter will work with Lina Marrone, senior vp, International Sales, and Harrison Kordestani in finance, acquisitions and production.
- 3/29/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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