Los Angeles, CA (February 2, 2011) – Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, Co-Chairmen of Exclusive Media Group ("Exclusive"), announced today that the company has brought Chris Miller on board to serve as President of Film Finance Operations for Exclusive, and as the new President of Spitfire Pictures. Miller makes the…

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in competition in the Makeup category for the 83rd Academy Awards. The films are listed below in alphabetical order: "Alice in Wonderland" "Barney's Version" "The Fighter" "Jonah Hex" "True Grit" "The Way…

Here's the story of an Oscar campaign aiming not to be first, but dead last: Academy members have begun receiving what is believed – and intentionally planned – to be the final screener of the season, Peter Weir's independently produced and distributed adventure epic The Way Back. For those with short memories, the…

Ed Harris has joined the cast of Summit Entertainment’s Asger Leth-directed thriller Man On A Ledge. Titus Welliver, who’s pulling double duty as an Irish arms dealer on Sons of Anarchy and also on The Good Wife, has also joined the cast that now includes Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell and Anthony…

In my September 3rd post about The Way Back's world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, I indicated that Newmarket would likely be scheduling a December Oscar qualifying run before a wider release date on January 21st. It was never locked in stone — until today when it was confirmed that director Peter Weir's…

Chris Ball, Newmarket president and co-founder, will leave to form Wrekin Hill Entertainment, a new specialty film production and distribution label. Ball will continue his association with Newmarket’s owner, Exclusive Media Group, getting the new shingle started by releasing the Peter Weir-directed The Way Back, the…

TELLURIDE: Peter Weir's The Way Back is about an epic journey of survival, an appropriate metaphor for the film's own treacherous journey through the current wobbly state of the movie industry which just didn't seem to know what to do with this stunning adventure, the kind of movie Hollywood used to make all the time…

The Way Back, Peter Weir’s first film since 2003’s Master and Commander, has come off the board as an acquisition title before it screens in Telluride. Newmarket acquired U.S. rights and will distribute the film next January. It doesn’t exactly count as a real acquisition, since Newmarket is owned by Exclusive Media…