Paris-based company heads to first major international market since Cannes with slate of 2022 festival hopefuls.
Paris-based Pyramide International kicks off sales on French director Christophe Honoré coming of age drama Le Lycéen at this week’s European Film Market (February 10-17).
Set over the course of one winter, it revolves around a 17-year-old high school student struggling to get to grips with new challenges posed by death, life, the city and “the temptation of renouncement”. In a bid to regain his momentum, he decides to ditch the lies he has been feeding himself.
Rising French actor Paul Kircher, who made...
Paris-based Pyramide International kicks off sales on French director Christophe Honoré coming of age drama Le Lycéen at this week’s European Film Market (February 10-17).
Set over the course of one winter, it revolves around a 17-year-old high school student struggling to get to grips with new challenges posed by death, life, the city and “the temptation of renouncement”. In a bid to regain his momentum, he decides to ditch the lies he has been feeding himself.
Rising French actor Paul Kircher, who made...
- 2/7/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The American movie business started in New Jersey.
Between 1893 and 1896 in West Orange, N.J., Thomas Edison was developing the early motion picture tech, inventing new ways to capture images in motion, and the result is that “you have the only fully operational motion picture studio facility in the world,” says Richard Koszarski, professor emeritus of English and cinema studies at Rutgers University, and expert in the early motion picture industry in New York and New Jersey.
His latest book on film history is “Keep ’Em in the East: Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance.”
While companies were setting up production operations and offices in New York City, including Edison, “it’s very difficult to film in New York City. In those days, they didn’t have very good artificial lights,” says Koszarski. Making films required enormous skylights and other sources of natural light.
But over in Fort Lee,...
Between 1893 and 1896 in West Orange, N.J., Thomas Edison was developing the early motion picture tech, inventing new ways to capture images in motion, and the result is that “you have the only fully operational motion picture studio facility in the world,” says Richard Koszarski, professor emeritus of English and cinema studies at Rutgers University, and expert in the early motion picture industry in New York and New Jersey.
His latest book on film history is “Keep ’Em in the East: Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance.”
While companies were setting up production operations and offices in New York City, including Edison, “it’s very difficult to film in New York City. In those days, they didn’t have very good artificial lights,” says Koszarski. Making films required enormous skylights and other sources of natural light.
But over in Fort Lee,...
- 12/9/2021
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: In a development that makes for as hot a package as you’ll find at the Virtual American Film Market, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Andrea Riseborough and Josh O’Connor will join Kate Winslet in Lee, the Ellen Kuras-directed film about the wartime experiences of Lee Miller. Miller traded a glamorous career as a Vogue cover model and muse to artists like Man Ray for a dangerous career as a WWII photographer who chronicled the fighting on the allied front lines and exposed the atrocities that Hitler’s Nazi Germany perpetrated on Jews in concentration camps.
Rocket Science, CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group will broker deals at the market.
Winslet and Kuras — the cinematographer-turned-helmer whose docu The Betrayal was Oscar nominated and who is making her narrative directing debut — took time out to lay out for Deadline the beats of a sprawling film that touches on the power of feminism,...
Rocket Science, CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group will broker deals at the market.
Winslet and Kuras — the cinematographer-turned-helmer whose docu The Betrayal was Oscar nominated and who is making her narrative directing debut — took time out to lay out for Deadline the beats of a sprawling film that touches on the power of feminism,...
- 10/21/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinema Eye Honors, an influential bellwether in the race for documentary awards, kicked off its 15th year with non-fiction award-winners announced at its annual Los Angeles lunch attended by many top filmmakers. Steve James’ five-part Chicago series “City So Real,” and Spike Lee’s filmed portrait of David Byrne’s Broadway show “American Utopia” lead the Cinema Eye Honors broadcast nominations list with three nods apiece. “David Byrne’s American Utopia” is one of five films up for Outstanding Broadcast Film, while “City So Real” joins five other series in the Nonfiction Series category. Both projects were nominated for Outstanding Broadcast Editing and Cinematography.
“It is notable that both of this year’s most nominated Broadcast entries are part of the creative legacy of Diane Weyermann,” said Cinema Eye Founding Director Aj Schnack. The beloved documentary veteran, who died last week, was an Executive Producer on both “City So Real” and “American Utopia.
“It is notable that both of this year’s most nominated Broadcast entries are part of the creative legacy of Diane Weyermann,” said Cinema Eye Founding Director Aj Schnack. The beloved documentary veteran, who died last week, was an Executive Producer on both “City So Real” and “American Utopia.
- 10/20/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Cinema Eye Honors, an influential bellwether in the race for documentary awards, kicked off its 15th year with non-fiction award-winners announced at its annual Los Angeles lunch attended by many top filmmakers. Steve James’ five-part Chicago series “City So Real,” and Spike Lee’s filmed portrait of David Byrne’s Broadway show “American Utopia” lead the Cinema Eye Honors broadcast nominations list with three nods apiece. “David Byrne’s American Utopia” is one of five films up for Outstanding Broadcast Film, while “City So Real” joins five other series in the Nonfiction Series category. Both projects were nominated for Outstanding Broadcast Editing and Cinematography.
“It is notable that both of this year’s most nominated Broadcast entries are part of the creative legacy of Diane Weyermann,” said Cinema Eye Founding Director Aj Schnack. The beloved documentary veteran, who died last week, was an Executive Producer on both “City So Real” and “American Utopia.
“It is notable that both of this year’s most nominated Broadcast entries are part of the creative legacy of Diane Weyermann,” said Cinema Eye Founding Director Aj Schnack. The beloved documentary veteran, who died last week, was an Executive Producer on both “City So Real” and “American Utopia.
- 10/20/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The remote seems to hang in the air for a moment, its infrared sensor mixing with the light coming in through the window to create a pixellated rainbow before the device crashes into the screen of my television. I lean back, satisfied that my rage has found a therapeutic outlet, then turn and look for other things to break.
You’re probably wondering how I got here. So let’s flash back a few weeks earlier to explain. Or would it be better if I told my tale of TV-critic woe in the proper order,...
You’re probably wondering how I got here. So let’s flash back a few weeks earlier to explain. Or would it be better if I told my tale of TV-critic woe in the proper order,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Mimi Leder has seen it all. The 10-time Emmy nominee has directed episodes of “E.R.” and “The Leftovers,” “The West Wing” and “Shameless”; she’s helmed big-budget blockbusters (“Deep Impact”) and intimate indies (“On the Basis of Sex”); she’s offered critical support as an executive producer; she was the first woman to graduate from AFI’s Conservatory program, and the list goes on and on.
So when Leder tells you something is difficult, you better believe it.
“Finales are very hard,” she said during a recent Zoom interview. “I often wonder, which is harder: the pilot or the finale?”
Leder is often called on for both, most recently directing the first episode of “The Morning Show,” as well as its emotional finale, “The Interview.” She received an Emmy nomination for the latter, her first Outstanding Directing nod since 2006, and as she weighs the difficulties of both setting the tone...
So when Leder tells you something is difficult, you better believe it.
“Finales are very hard,” she said during a recent Zoom interview. “I often wonder, which is harder: the pilot or the finale?”
Leder is often called on for both, most recently directing the first episode of “The Morning Show,” as well as its emotional finale, “The Interview.” She received an Emmy nomination for the latter, her first Outstanding Directing nod since 2006, and as she weighs the difficulties of both setting the tone...
- 8/26/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Arrangement builds on existing relationship.
CAA has entered into a non-exclusive strategic partnership with Singapore and Indonesia-based content producer-financier and distributor United Media Asia (Uma).
Under the deal CAA will arrange financing for and represent local-language film and TV content in Indonesia and southeast Asia and advise on Uma’s entertainment strategy.
The partnership builds on an existing relationship. CAA brokered a first-look deal between Michy Gustavia’s Uma and Asian media conglomerate Kompas Gramedi that grants Uma access to more than 100,000 individual intellectual properties through publishing houses, print, online and broadcast media, and retail stores.
The Los Angeles agency...
CAA has entered into a non-exclusive strategic partnership with Singapore and Indonesia-based content producer-financier and distributor United Media Asia (Uma).
Under the deal CAA will arrange financing for and represent local-language film and TV content in Indonesia and southeast Asia and advise on Uma’s entertainment strategy.
The partnership builds on an existing relationship. CAA brokered a first-look deal between Michy Gustavia’s Uma and Asian media conglomerate Kompas Gramedi that grants Uma access to more than 100,000 individual intellectual properties through publishing houses, print, online and broadcast media, and retail stores.
The Los Angeles agency...
- 7/21/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
CAA has signed a non-exclusive strategic partnership agreement with United Media Asia, a Singapore- and Indonesia-based content finance, production and distribution company.
The partnership continues CAA’s relationship with Uma, which recently signed an exclusive first-look deal with Southeast Asia’s largest media conglomerate, Kompas Gramedi. CAA Media Finance brokered the deal and also is representing the global distribution rights to the Uma-produced feature Memories of My Body, Indonesia’s official selection for Best International Feature Film race at the 2020 Academy Awards.
Led by founder and CEO Michy Gustavia, Uma is backed by a $20 million investment fund and focused on local-language content in one of the fastest-growing entertainment and media markets. The company’s film slate includes the upcoming releases The Villa and The Betrayal.
United Media Asia Inks First Look Deal With Southeast Asia’s Kompas Gramedia
The deal expands CAA footprint in the Asian entertainment market. For more than a decade,...
The partnership continues CAA’s relationship with Uma, which recently signed an exclusive first-look deal with Southeast Asia’s largest media conglomerate, Kompas Gramedi. CAA Media Finance brokered the deal and also is representing the global distribution rights to the Uma-produced feature Memories of My Body, Indonesia’s official selection for Best International Feature Film race at the 2020 Academy Awards.
Led by founder and CEO Michy Gustavia, Uma is backed by a $20 million investment fund and focused on local-language content in one of the fastest-growing entertainment and media markets. The company’s film slate includes the upcoming releases The Villa and The Betrayal.
United Media Asia Inks First Look Deal With Southeast Asia’s Kompas Gramedia
The deal expands CAA footprint in the Asian entertainment market. For more than a decade,...
- 7/21/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Global talent agency, Creative Artists Agency has signed a non-exclusive strategic partnership agreement with United Media Asia, a Singapore and Indonesia-based content finance, production and distribution company.
The deal will see CAA help represent and arrange financing for local-language film and television content in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, as well as advise on the company’s overall entertainment strategy.
Uma, which was established in 2018, recently signed an exclusive first-look deal with Southeast Asia’s largest media conglomerate, Kompas Gramedia, which has interests ranging from print to retail and broadcasting. CAA Media Finance brokered the deal between the two companies.
Led by founder and CEO Michy Gustavia, Uma is backed by a $20 million investment fund and operates a partnership network in Southeast Asia that includes sovereign and private companies. Indonesia’s entertainment market is one of the fastest growing in the world. Uma’s film slate includes the upcoming releases “The Villa” and “The Betrayal.
The deal will see CAA help represent and arrange financing for local-language film and television content in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, as well as advise on the company’s overall entertainment strategy.
Uma, which was established in 2018, recently signed an exclusive first-look deal with Southeast Asia’s largest media conglomerate, Kompas Gramedia, which has interests ranging from print to retail and broadcasting. CAA Media Finance brokered the deal between the two companies.
Led by founder and CEO Michy Gustavia, Uma is backed by a $20 million investment fund and operates a partnership network in Southeast Asia that includes sovereign and private companies. Indonesia’s entertainment market is one of the fastest growing in the world. Uma’s film slate includes the upcoming releases “The Villa” and “The Betrayal.
- 7/21/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar nominated director of feature documentary The Betrayal, Ellen Kuras, will direct Oscar winner Kate Winslet as Vogue cover model turned war correspondent, Lee Miller. Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter Liz Hannah is adapting the project from the Anthony Penrose (Lee’s son) book The Lives of Lee Miller and will executive produce.
Penrose and the Miller estate have granted the production unprecedented access to The Lee Miller Archives, which include all of her photos and diaries. A spring 2021 production is being eyed.
Winslet has been attached to this project for some time, which was previously set up at eOne. This time, Rocket Science is financing and producing and also handling foreign sales. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group will co-represent the film’s domestic rights.
The project follows Lee Miller as she travels to the frontlines of World War II as a photojournalist and embarks...
Penrose and the Miller estate have granted the production unprecedented access to The Lee Miller Archives, which include all of her photos and diaries. A spring 2021 production is being eyed.
Winslet has been attached to this project for some time, which was previously set up at eOne. This time, Rocket Science is financing and producing and also handling foreign sales. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group will co-represent the film’s domestic rights.
The project follows Lee Miller as she travels to the frontlines of World War II as a photojournalist and embarks...
- 6/26/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Saverio Costanzo has done the impossible with “My Brilliant Friend,” the HBO series adapted from Italian author Elena Ferrante’s smash literary series known as the Neapolitan novels: he’s turned an unfilmable quartet of books about the inner lives of women, written by an author who to this day remains anonymous, into must-see television art. Ahead of the recent announcement of the series’ renewal for a third season, and at the tail end of the just-concluded second season, Costanzo spoke with IndieWire about bringing this dream project to life, with an invisible author hanging over it all like an all-seeing phantom.
Costanzo’s relationship with Ferrante — which is now something like two people communicating on opposite sides of a two-way mirror — began in earnest in 2007. Costanzo read Ferrante’s compact and chilling novel “The Lost Daughter,” a project now in the hands of Maggie Gyllenhaal to direct, and asked...
Costanzo’s relationship with Ferrante — which is now something like two people communicating on opposite sides of a two-way mirror — began in earnest in 2007. Costanzo read Ferrante’s compact and chilling novel “The Lost Daughter,” a project now in the hands of Maggie Gyllenhaal to direct, and asked...
- 5/5/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Cue that bluesy saxophone because we’re going back in time to the 1930s! It’s been a few months since we’ve heard anything about HBO’s reboot of the 1950s legal drama but the first trailer has dropped — and this Perry Mason certainly looks different.
For the uninitiated, “Perry Mason” was a courtroom drama that ran from 1957-1966. The titular character, played by Raymond Burr, would defend the wrongly accused, showing how the legal system got it wrong and releasing the defendant by episode’s end. This new incarnation, created by “Friday Night Lights” producers Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones, appears to upend much of that original plotline and situate Mason, now played by “The Americans” star Matthew Rhys, as a more noirish gumshoe walking the streets of Los Angeles.
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For the uninitiated, “Perry Mason” was a courtroom drama that ran from 1957-1966. The titular character, played by Raymond Burr, would defend the wrongly accused, showing how the legal system got it wrong and releasing the defendant by episode’s end. This new incarnation, created by “Friday Night Lights” producers Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones, appears to upend much of that original plotline and situate Mason, now played by “The Americans” star Matthew Rhys, as a more noirish gumshoe walking the streets of Los Angeles.
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- 4/16/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
The small miracle of “Adventure Time” in its earliest season came from creator Pendleton Ward’s ability to juggle ingredients that shouldn’t work so well together. The show was silly and profound in equal measures, treating that balance as the ultimate yin and yang. “The Midnight Gospel” brings that same notion to ambitious new heights, shedding the pretense of a “children’s show” that sometimes hindered the reach of “Adventure Time” and chases big ideas right out of the gate. It’s mind-blowing in the best possible way.
On some level, “The Midnight Gospel” has a much simpler premise than “Adventure Time”: Ward and co-creator Duncan Trussell have joined forces to animate select conversation from the comedian’s soul-searching and occasionally boisterous podcast, “The Duncan Trussell Family Hour,” where he interviews a range of characters about their life philosophies and usually their meditation practices. At the same time,...
On some level, “The Midnight Gospel” has a much simpler premise than “Adventure Time”: Ward and co-creator Duncan Trussell have joined forces to animate select conversation from the comedian’s soul-searching and occasionally boisterous podcast, “The Duncan Trussell Family Hour,” where he interviews a range of characters about their life philosophies and usually their meditation practices. At the same time,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “My Brilliant Friend,” Season 2, Episode 5, “The Betrayal.”]
Nearly every moment of “The Betrayal,” from the unstable Dutch angles of the cinematography to Max Richter’s chilling score, is building up to the episode’s final third like a horror movie. “My Brilliant Friend” has been operating on this track all season, with morbid flourishes in the visuals and sound design mounting toward an awful inevitability. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher, this episode is the season’s darkest and strongest hour yet.
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This week, that came on the shoulders of a cast-aside Lenu (Margherita Mazzucco), now an enabling third wheel in the ongoing illicit affair between Nino and Lila, surrendering her virginity to Nino’s father, the shady railroad worker Donato Sarratore (Emanuele Valenti). Don fancies...
Nearly every moment of “The Betrayal,” from the unstable Dutch angles of the cinematography to Max Richter’s chilling score, is building up to the episode’s final third like a horror movie. “My Brilliant Friend” has been operating on this track all season, with morbid flourishes in the visuals and sound design mounting toward an awful inevitability. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher, this episode is the season’s darkest and strongest hour yet.
More from IndieWire'The Midnight Gospel' Review: 'Adventure Time' Creator's Astonishing New Netflix Show'Better Call Saul' Review: Masterful 'Bad Choice Road' Sets Up a Season-Capping Standoff
This week, that came on the shoulders of a cast-aside Lenu (Margherita Mazzucco), now an enabling third wheel in the ongoing illicit affair between Nino and Lila, surrendering her virginity to Nino’s father, the shady railroad worker Donato Sarratore (Emanuele Valenti). Don fancies...
- 4/14/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
[Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Better Call Saul” Season 5, Episode 9, “Bad Choice Road.”]
It’s common practice for a TV drama to let a season’s penultimate episode be the powerhouse. Whether it’s the 9th or 12th or 21st chapter, these often have the gut punches, the crescendoes, the left-field wallops that make the finales that follow feel more like a transition to a new reality. Ever ones for sneaky misdirects, the “Better Call Saul” braintrust almost had everyone fooled that last week’s exodus through the desert had served that function instead, effectively setting up a two-part finale that dutifully finished out the rest of the unmade Season 5 moves.
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The first four-fifths of “Bad Choice Road” certainly function like a deep breath before the final plunge.
It’s common practice for a TV drama to let a season’s penultimate episode be the powerhouse. Whether it’s the 9th or 12th or 21st chapter, these often have the gut punches, the crescendoes, the left-field wallops that make the finales that follow feel more like a transition to a new reality. Ever ones for sneaky misdirects, the “Better Call Saul” braintrust almost had everyone fooled that last week’s exodus through the desert had served that function instead, effectively setting up a two-part finale that dutifully finished out the rest of the unmade Season 5 moves.
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The first four-fifths of “Bad Choice Road” certainly function like a deep breath before the final plunge.
- 4/14/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Everyone has to pay the piper eventually, even upstanding American fathers just trying to do right by their families. Herman Levin (Morgan Spector) may not be the picture of paternal devotion — who could be with a son threatening to join the Hitler youth? — but he’s come pretty close to everyman perfection so far. By the fifth episode of “The Plot Against America,” however, Herman’s stubbornness and indecision is finally threatening to unravel the very fabric of the thing he purports to care about most: his family.
That’s thanks to his wife Bess (Zoe Kazan) finally speaking her mind. Not that she hasn’t tried to before, but by episode’s end she’s made her demands so clearly they’ll be impossible for Herman to ignore.
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That’s thanks to his wife Bess (Zoe Kazan) finally speaking her mind. Not that she hasn’t tried to before, but by episode’s end she’s made her demands so clearly they’ll be impossible for Herman to ignore.
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- 4/14/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The Lifetime network has long had a reputation for mediocre films and dramas with a campy aesthetic.In recent years, it has made an effort to distance itself from that renown, investing in the kind of content that draws a larger, more mainstream audience — and hopefully awards — as well as overall industry esteem. One such project just might be the biopic, “The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel,” which premiered on April 11 to much fanfare, especially resonating most with one specific demo: black women. As a man who watched the film, and didn’t quite understand its appeal, instead of writing a critique of it, I asked black women viewers to share their thoughts on why it resounded so much.
To be sure, Lifetime hasn’t completely abandoned the kind of tabloidy women-in-peril stories that they once thrived on, but it has bolstered its efforts recently with Emmy-nominated films, from...
To be sure, Lifetime hasn’t completely abandoned the kind of tabloidy women-in-peril stories that they once thrived on, but it has bolstered its efforts recently with Emmy-nominated films, from...
- 4/13/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Roger Mackenzie (Richard Rankin), and his treatment in the televised world of “Outlander” has been controversial among fans, but the show has been working for weeks now towards a huge emotional payoff that came to fruition with Sunday night’s “Famous Last Words.” By hitting viewers over the head just how important Roger’s voice is — both as a scholar in the 1960s and as a musician in the past — learning he lost that voice following his hanging at the Battle of Alamance was the worst thing next to death. Without the ability to fight or acclimatize to other masculine jobs of the time, Roger’s voice has been the one consistent in maintaining some kind of contribution to society. Without it, as the episode showed, he was lost.
Although fans of the books knew what was coming, there was plenty of lead-up towards the moment Jamie (Sam Heughan) cut...
Although fans of the books knew what was coming, there was plenty of lead-up towards the moment Jamie (Sam Heughan) cut...
- 4/13/2020
- by Amber Dowling
- Indiewire
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