Here’s the first trailer for the Adam Sandler fable that Image Entertainment picked up at Toronto. He stars as a fourth-generation NYC shoe cobbler who discovers that when he uses his old sewing machines, he becomes the people whose shoes he is repairing. Complications ensue. The cast of the Voltage-backed pic also…
EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival deals have taken a little while, but they are certainly piling up. RLJ/Image Entertainment is wrapping up a $3.5 million U.S. rights deal for The Cobbler, the Thomas McCarthy-directed comedy that stars Adam Sandler as a generational cobbler in New York who took over his father’s…
If the acquisitions frenzy and precedent-setting deals struck in Berlin and Cannes is going to continue, it will surprise many of the sellers who’ve come to the Toronto Film Festival to fill slots in their 2015 slates. Maybe it's because there were so many spectacular deals this year, of perhaps it’s because Toronto…
If there is a recurring theme among buyers and sellers we've spoken to in the early moments of the Cannes Film Festival, it is that none can remember the last time there was such a sellers' market here on the Croisette. The trouble is, nobody seems to really have anything all that compelling to sell, and that is…
