Reality production banner Eclipse Television is bolstering its executive ranks, naming veteran non-scripted TV exec Sergio Alfaro as CEO. Demarest Films and Kilburn Media announced in December they had have partnered to launch Eclipse, a full-service independent producer and financier of small-screen content. Prior to…

Demarest Films and Kilburn Media have partnered to launch Eclipse Television, a full-service independent producer and financier of small-screen content. Leif Lillehaugen has been tapped as VP Scripted Television for the new venture, which will provide TV creators a with services including IP acquisition, development…

In what Demarest Films and Kilburn Media say is the first of several new joint ventures, the pair has entered an overall deal with Jeremy Renner and Don Handfield's The Combine. The pact will cover the film and TV production company’s overhead costs and provide it with a fund for acquisition and development of new…

XYZ Films has boarded Kevin Smith‘s new horror pic Tusk for international sales and will introduce the project at Berlin’s EFM next month. Demarest Films (A Most Wanted Man, Machete Kills) financed and is producing Tusk in partnership with A24 (Spring Breakers, The Bling Ring). Smith wrote the film, which was borne…

A24 and Demarest Films have teamed up on Kevin Smith's latest film Tusk. The film, which stars Justin Long, Michael Parks, Genesis Rodriguez, and Haley Joel Osment, was born out of one of Smith's immensely popular SModcasts. The modern-day monster movie, which Smith also wrote, is currently in production. Sam…

Miles Teller, Analeigh Tipton and Jessica Szhor star in the pic that begins shooting next month in New York. Max Nichols is directing Mark Hammer’s script, which made the 2011 Black List. Demarest Films, the financing and production company launched in April by Sam Englebardt, Michael Lambert, and William D. Johnson…

Lambert Media Group's Michael Lambert and Sam Englebardt have formally partnered with William D. Johnson to form specialty financing and production company Demarest Films. Demarest will provide senior and gap loans and preferred equity to film and TV productions. The trio has been stealthily collaborating on…