Exclusive: The production and management company Citizen Skull is expanding with the launch of a Btl division to represent cinematographers, production designers, costumers, editors and others.
Leading the charge will be Liz Williamson (formerly of Wpa), who is supported by Gerard George (formerly of Screen Talent Agency) and Mike Diaz. New signings at Citizen Skull that come with the expansion include Emmy winning cinematographer Petr Cikhart (The Amazing Race) and production designer Flora Ortega (God’s Country).
Citizen Skull has previously produced such titles as Collision, 12 Feet Deep, Heartthrob, Oak Room and Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, continuing to produce 5-7 titles a year, with writers, directors and actors also being repped on the management side.
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Taylor Gray
Exclusive: Taylor Gray (High Expectations) has signed on for a role opposite Frankie Muniz and Violett Beane in Robert Rippberger’s sci-fi thriller Renner, which is heading into production this summer.
Leading the charge will be Liz Williamson (formerly of Wpa), who is supported by Gerard George (formerly of Screen Talent Agency) and Mike Diaz. New signings at Citizen Skull that come with the expansion include Emmy winning cinematographer Petr Cikhart (The Amazing Race) and production designer Flora Ortega (God’s Country).
Citizen Skull has previously produced such titles as Collision, 12 Feet Deep, Heartthrob, Oak Room and Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, continuing to produce 5-7 titles a year, with writers, directors and actors also being repped on the management side.
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Taylor Gray
Exclusive: Taylor Gray (High Expectations) has signed on for a role opposite Frankie Muniz and Violett Beane in Robert Rippberger’s sci-fi thriller Renner, which is heading into production this summer.
- 5/19/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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The NewFest film festival has unveiled its 2022 lineup, led by a Centerpiece Screening for Michael Grandage’s My Policeman, starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, and a special screening of Henry Selick and Jordan Peele’s stop-motion horror comedy Wendell & Wild.
Grandage’s romantic drama about a complicated love triangle in 1950s Brighton that gets untangled 40 years later had a world premiere in Toronto ahead of its Amazon release. And Netflix’s Wendell & Wild, with the voice talents of Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Lyric Ross, Angela Bassett and Ving Rhames, also bowed in Toronto.
NewFest’s hybrid edition to run October 13 to 25 in theaters in New York City and virtually across the U.S. will also include an advance screening for the opening second season episode of HBO’s The White Lotus.
NewFest will open with a world premiere of the HBO documentary Mama’s Boy,...
The NewFest film festival has unveiled its 2022 lineup, led by a Centerpiece Screening for Michael Grandage’s My Policeman, starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, and a special screening of Henry Selick and Jordan Peele’s stop-motion horror comedy Wendell & Wild.
Grandage’s romantic drama about a complicated love triangle in 1950s Brighton that gets untangled 40 years later had a world premiere in Toronto ahead of its Amazon release. And Netflix’s Wendell & Wild, with the voice talents of Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Lyric Ross, Angela Bassett and Ving Rhames, also bowed in Toronto.
NewFest’s hybrid edition to run October 13 to 25 in theaters in New York City and virtually across the U.S. will also include an advance screening for the opening second season episode of HBO’s The White Lotus.
NewFest will open with a world premiere of the HBO documentary Mama’s Boy,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Selection includes the final film by murdered Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius.
The 13 feature documentaries in the running for the 2022 European Film Awards have been revealed.
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They include Mariupolis 2 by murdered Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, which premiered at Cannes and comprises footage the director shot before he was captured and killed by the Russian army in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in April.
Also selected is Mr Landsbergis by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, a four-hour account of the struggle for Lithuania’s independence from the Ussr in the early 1990s, which won the...
The 13 feature documentaries in the running for the 2022 European Film Awards have been revealed.
Scroll down for full list of titles
They include Mariupolis 2 by murdered Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, which premiered at Cannes and comprises footage the director shot before he was captured and killed by the Russian army in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in April.
Also selected is Mr Landsbergis by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, a four-hour account of the struggle for Lithuania’s independence from the Ussr in the early 1990s, which won the...
- 8/30/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
German sales company has also done good business on Berlinale titlte ’Nelly & Nadine’.
Germany-based Rise And Shine World Sales has completed deals on Cph:Dox titles including Einari Paakkanen’s Finnish feature Karaoke Paradise, which had its world premiere last week at the festival.
Docs Barcelona Distribution has acquired the film for Spain, with a date still to be confirmed for the release.
Described as a “feel-good film”, Karaoke Paradise tells the story of how karaoke culture has unexpectedly taken hold in the cold north of Finland.
Rise and Shine has also sold Germany and Austria rights for Magnus Gertten...
Germany-based Rise And Shine World Sales has completed deals on Cph:Dox titles including Einari Paakkanen’s Finnish feature Karaoke Paradise, which had its world premiere last week at the festival.
Docs Barcelona Distribution has acquired the film for Spain, with a date still to be confirmed for the release.
Described as a “feel-good film”, Karaoke Paradise tells the story of how karaoke culture has unexpectedly taken hold in the cold north of Finland.
Rise and Shine has also sold Germany and Austria rights for Magnus Gertten...
- 3/31/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Susanne Regina Meures’ Girl Gang is about a 14-year old social media influencer in Berlin.
Berlin-based Rise and Shine World Sales has acquired international rights to Susanne Regina Meures’ Girl Gang which will have its world premiere in the Dox:Award section at next week’s Cph:dox festival in Copenhagen.
Meures’ film centres on 14-year-old Leonie, a successful influencer living on the outskirts of Berlin - and her biggest fan.
Girl Gang is produced by Switzerland’s Christian Frei Filmproduktion with Swiss broadcaster Srf. It is Meures’ third feature-length documentary following her 2016 debut Raving Iran and Saudi Runaway. The latter premiered...
Berlin-based Rise and Shine World Sales has acquired international rights to Susanne Regina Meures’ Girl Gang which will have its world premiere in the Dox:Award section at next week’s Cph:dox festival in Copenhagen.
Meures’ film centres on 14-year-old Leonie, a successful influencer living on the outskirts of Berlin - and her biggest fan.
Girl Gang is produced by Switzerland’s Christian Frei Filmproduktion with Swiss broadcaster Srf. It is Meures’ third feature-length documentary following her 2016 debut Raving Iran and Saudi Runaway. The latter premiered...
- 3/17/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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