EXCLUSIVE: Members of the international industry community gathered on Thursday night in Los Angeles to celebrate the life of Samuel Hadida, the veteran French producer and distributor who passed away suddenly in November. The event was hosted by a group of companies that included Constantin, FilmNation, Lionsgate…

EXCLUSIVE: As the Sundance deal avalanche abates, it is time to focus on the film packages to be unveiled next week in Berlin. In what instantly becomes a hot property there, Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson are finalizing deals to star this fall in Reminiscence, a film that Westworld executive producer Lisa Joy has…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment emerged from a competitive auction with a deal for the spec Life Itself, a script that Dan Fogelman wrote and will direct. FilmNation will fully finance, produce and handle international sales for the film, and Temple Hill's Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will produce with FilmNation…

EXCLUSIVE: Glen Basner’s FilmNation will handle international sales at Cannes on a brace of Amazon Studios’ pictures: Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck and Doug Liman’s The Wall. The move represents the beginning of a potentially more strategic partnership between the two companies, both of which have aligned “smart house&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE:  Glen Basner’s FilmNation has virtually sold out across the world on James Schamus’ directorial debut Indignation. The film, an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel about a middle class Jewish student from New Jersey attending an Ohio college in the 1950’s, debuted at Sundance to great reviews and a positive…

EXCLUSIVE: Glen Basner’s FilmNation will fully finance and handle international sales on The Big Sick, with Judd Apatow producing with Barry Mendel through Apatow Productions (Trainwreck, This Is 40, Bridesmaids). Stand-up comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley) will star in the film. Based on true events…

During a busy Cannes, three FilmNation Entertainment execs have been given their VP stripes. Upped to VP Business & Legal Affairs is Jennifer Fradlin, Patrick Chu has been named VP Productions & Acquisitions, and Selena Saldana is now VP Publicity. "Selena, Jennifer and Patrick have made tremendous contributions to…

EXCLUSIVE– Brit director Marc Munden is in talks to direct FilmNation’s hot sci-fi thriller Aether. Deadline first broke the news last March that Glen Basner’s ambitious company had moved quickly to acquire Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ spec script and to produce, finance and handle worldwide sales on the project. This is a…

Glen Basner’s FilmNation Entertainment has sealed a batch of multi-year output deals with international distributors to cover titles that Open Road produces or acquires for the world. This follows the November hook-up of the companies for FilmNation to sell and service all Open Road productions and international…

FilmNation CEO Glen Basner comes to Toronto with several films in the festival, a crowded slate of percolating pictures, and a new co-president of Production & Acquisitions to help handle that volume. FilmNation has hired indie film finance fixture Ben Browning to take that newly created position, relocating to LA to…

Late Friday, the White House announced a new deal with China that would allow for more foreign films to be released in the nation’s movie theaters — and more money in the pockets of U.S. studios to boot. After the news broke, Mark Damon, whose Foresight Unlimited sold out on the European Film Market’s hottest title, 2…

EXCLUSIVE: While several studios are in the mix on the Steven Soderbergh-directed Magic Mike, I’m told that Warner Bros has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire domestic distribution rights and that a deal could be done by next week. The film, which is wrapping this week, stars Alex Pettyfer and Channing Tatum in a Sa…