Sony has set a new release date for The Last Vermeer, a crime drama starring Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps, Roland Møller, August Diehl, Olivia Grant, Adrian Scarborough, Andrew Havill and Karl Johnson. Directed by Dan Friedkin, the feature will now hit theaters on Nov 20.
James McGee, Mark Fergus, Hawk Otsby…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that the tug of war over one of the highest profile films in Hollywood is about over. Apple will win the derby for the Martin Scorsese-directed film Killers Of The Flower Moon, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in the lead roles. The deals are being papered — Paramount still has to…
FilmNation Entertainment said Tuesday that it will handle international sales for Lyrebird, Dan Friedkin’s directorial debut that had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this past weekend. FilmNation will now launch the pic at the Toronto Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday. 30West is already aboard…
EXCLUSIVE: Yorgos Lanthimos is set to write and direct Pop. 1280, an adaptation of the Jim Thompson crime novel for Imperative Entertainment. Element Pictures will produce with Imperative and Lanthimos, in association with Discovery Productions.
Project is high priority. Lanthimos’ The Favourite is up for 10 Oscars…
Coming into its second Cannes Film Festival since Micah Green left his post as CAA Film Finance and Sales Group co-head to partner with Texas-based Dan Friedkin in 30WEST, the company has lived up to its promise as a disruptive force in the indie film space.
If it was initially hard to figure out 30WEST's place in…
Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps and Roland Møller are starring in Lyrebird, the true story about an art forger who victimized the Nazis with bang-on copies of masterpieces. The film marks the directorial debut by Dan Friedkin, whose Imperative Entertainment is producing with Ridley Scott. Production is underway…
Imperative Entertainment has optioned rights to The White Darkness, a survival drama based on an article that David Grann wrote in the latest issue of The New Yorker. Imperative's Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas will produce.
It puts them back in business with Grann: Before it made the Ridley Scott-directed All the Mon…
30WEST has acquired a majority stake in NEON, the upstart distribution company formed by Tom Quinn and Alamo Drafthouse’s Tim League. The two parties got into an altared state after kindling a relationship on the awards-season sleeper I, Tonya, the Craig Gillespie-directed black comedy which was acquired out of…
Director Ridley Scott unveiled his new film All the Money in the World to press and for consideration by the Producers Guild over the weekend. By his estimate, that meant staging “200 interviews in the last two days, and seven screenings." Scott said the film got as strong a reaction as it did when a wet print was…
It all started with an early November defiant decision by director Ridley Scott and Imperative Entertainment’s Dan Friedkin to drop Kevin Spacey from All the Money In The World and recast with Christopher Plummer in the small but crucial role of J Paul Getty. Between that moment and now, Scott did his reshoots…
EXCLUSIVE: Imperative Entertainment has promoted Jillian Apfelbaum to be Head of Film. She had been VP Content. She continues report to partners Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas.
Apfelbaum will be responsible for acquiring projects for development, with COO John Atwood. She is a producer for film, television and live…
