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EFM Roundup: Richard Linklater’s Surprise Prize, XYZ International

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday February 12, 2013 @ 9:37am PSTTags: Berlin Film Festival, EFM, Richard Linklater, XYZ Films

Before Midnight director Richard Linklater was awarded a special surprise Berlinale Camera trophy on Monday night. The film festival began awarding Cameras in 1986 to people or institutions to which it feels particularly indebted. The award was presented to Linklater at the official screening of Before Midnight which has sold out internationally during the EFM. Linklater’s first film in the Julie Delpy-Ethan Hawke trilogy, Before Sunrise, won the Silver Bear for best director in 1995. He then brought sequel Before Sunset to the fest in 2004. …

XYZ Films is hanging a sales shingle. XYZ International will handle world sales on some of XYZ’s in-house titles and on third-party projects that are filmmaker-driven, elevated genre pics with broad commercial appeal. It will also handle North American sales on foreign films. The first slate will be unveiled for Cannes. XYZ partner Nate Bolotin will oversee. XYZ’s productions include The Raid and The Raid 2 and Killers. It’s also exec producing Aguas Rojas which Participant Media is financing.

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Sundance Update: Well After Midnight, Sony Pictures Classics Closes ‘Before Midnight’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 25, 2013 @ 12:00pm PSTTags: Before Midnight, Big Deals Film, Richard Linklater, Sony Pictures Classics, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Wrap-Up
Mike Fleming

UPDATE, 12 PM: Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed Deadline’s Sundance scoop that it acquired North American and UK rights to Before Midnight, the Richard Linklater-directed film that captivated fest audiences and continues the relationship between characters played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as the travel the world. The official release appears at the bottom of the original exclusive break.

EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 10:52 AM: I hear Sony Pictures Classics has closed a Sundance deal for Before Midnight, the third installment of the Richard Linklater-directed series that began with 1995′s Before Sunrise and continued with 2004′s Before Sunset. You don’t get many trilogies at Sundance, but this one premiered to raves last Sunday at Eccles Theatre in the Premiere category, and seven buyers have slowly been nipping at it ever since when they haven’t been distracted by the other auctions. This deal is well into seven-figures for North America and multiple territories including the UK, I hear. It shapes up as one of the big deals of the fest. SPC partners Michael Barker and Tom Bernard also bought Kill Your Darlings and Austenland (which was bought by Sony Worldwide Acquisitions), so it was a most productive festival for them. Read More »

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Sundance: Filmmakers Say Cable TV & Online A Good Place To Land

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday January 19, 2013 @ 5:08pm PSTTags: Before Midnight, HBO, Jane Campion, Justin Lin, Mike White, Richard Linklater, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Wrap-Up

Traditional methods of getting a project made and finding an audience are evolving rapidly toward smaller screens, a panel of directors and producers agreed today at the Sundance Film Festival  “Every time I’ve had a movie I couldn’t get financing for recently, the next question is always ‘could this be a TV series?’ It’s a business model. It’s boring but it’s real,” said Richard Linklater. “It does feel like great quality is going to TV and online… because the studios make tentpoles and not adult dramas,” added Fast Five director Justin Lin, who also co-created the YOMYOMF YouTube channel. Linklater and Lin were appearing on the Power of Story: Independence Unleashed panel along with Enlightened co-creator Mike White and director Jane Campion. Linklater is back at Sundance this year to premiere his Before Midnight, the second sequel to 1995’s Before Sunrise. Campion also returns to the Festival with her seven-part crime mystery BBC/Sundance Channel TV series Top of the Lake starring Holly Hunter and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss. White is at the Festival as one of the producers of Writer/director Sebastián Silva’s Magic Magic. Lin is a Sundance alumni, having had his directorial debut Better Luck Tomorrow premiere here back in 2002.
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Toronto: Richard Linklater Completes ‘Before Midnight’ Just Before Fest Begins

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 10:24am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Richard Linklater, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Buyers arriving at the Toronto Film Festival tomorrow already have a lot of sales titles to consider (more on that tomorrow). Here’s another title to add to the mix: Richard Linklater just wrapped shooting in Messinia, Greece on Before Midnight, the third film in a series that began with Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.

Before Midnight, which has Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke reprising their roles as star-crossed lovers Celine and Jesse, was once again scripted by Linklater, Delpy and Hawke, the same team that got an Oscar nom in 2005 for Before Sunset. Linklater shot the film quietly, as many didn’t think it would happen before 2013.

There won’t be a sizzle reel or script to read at Toronto, because the film wrapped late last night. But Cinetic Media’s John Sloss will be handling domestic sales once again and he will be at Toronto with other films. Before Midnight is produced by Linklater’s Detour Filmproduction, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos and Sara Woodhatch of Faliro House and Jacob Pechenik of Venture 4TH, together with Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer of Castle Rock Entertainment. Sloss is exec producer. Read More »

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Specialty Box Office: ‘Bernie’ Bows Hot; Others Not So Much; Holdovers OK

By BRIAN BROOKS | Sunday April 29, 2012 @ 11:30am PDTTags: Bernie, Fox Searchlight, Magnolia Pictures, Millennium Entertainment, Richard Linklater

Millennium Entertainment scored one of the highest limited release debuts of 2012 in terms of per screen average over the weekend with director Richard Linklater‘s latest feature. Starring Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Shirley MacLaine, … Read More »

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Specialty Box Office: ‘96 Minutes,’ ‘Bernie,’ ‘Elles,’ ‘Inventing Our Life,’ ‘Restless City’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 10:41pm PDTTags: AFFRM, Kino Lorber, Richard Linklater

Financing wasn’t the overriding hurdle for at least two of this weekend’s specialty debuts. The crews from 96 Minutes and Bernie contended with other challenges beyond funding to bring their projects to the screen. Meanwhile, the writer/director … Read More »

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Hulu Upfronts Present Shows By Morgan Spurlock, Richard Linklater, Seth Meyers

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 19, 2012 @ 2:51pm PDTTags: Hulu, Morgan Spurlock, Richard Linklater, Seth Meyers, Upfronts

Hulu kicked off the so-called digital upfronts today with presentations for its expanding stable of originals. Documentarian Morgan Spurlock, Saturday Night Live‘s Seth Meyers and Entourage‘s Adrian Grenier were on hand to schmooze with advertisers. Producers hope to lure away some of the billions of dollars that go to cable and TV networks; Vevo, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo and Disney Interactive are expected to pitch their shows to advertisers next week. In addition to Spurlock, Meyers and Grenier, talent on hand to boost Hulu included Megan Hilty from Smash, Speed Levitch of Up To Speed, JD Walsh and Jay Hayden from Battleground, Michael “Dooma” Wendschuh from Flow and Mayer Hawthorne with Live From The Artist’s Den. Hulu says paid subscribers for Hulu Plus surpassed 2 million during first-quarter 2012 and claims that Hulu represents 20% of the overall online video market and 40% of the premium online market. Here are the site’s upcoming projects: Read More »

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Millennium Entertainment Taps Vicky Eguia To Run Publicity

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 18, 2011 @ 7:34am PSTTags: Bob Berney, Elgin James, Jack Black, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Oren Moverman, Richard Linklater
Mike Fleming

Vicky Eguia has been named vice president of publicity at Millennium Entertainment, reporting to marketing head Brooke Ford. Eguia most recently had been publicity veep at Apparition and before that served stints at Newmarket Films and Picturehouse with former Apparition chief Bob Berney. Under CEO Bill Lee, Millennium has gotten … Read More »

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TOLDJA! Jack Black Pic ‘Bernie’ Acquired By Millennium Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 29, 2011 @ 10:37am PDTTags: Bernie, Jack Black, Los Angeles Film Festival, Matthew McConaughey, Richard Linklater, Shirley MacLaine
Mike Fleming

Deadline revealed in July that Millennium Entertainment was buying U.S. distribution rights to the Los Angeles Film Festival’s opening film Bernie, the Richard Linklater-directed movie that stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, for a low-seven-figure minimum guarantee and $1 million P&A commitment. Millennium has finally confirmed the deal. Here’s the official announcement: Read More »

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Millennium Buying ‘Bernie’ With Jack Black

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 6:51pm PDTTags: Avi Lerner, Bernie, Cinetic, Graham Taylor, Jack Black, John Sloss, Los Angeles Film Festival, Mark Gill, Matthew McConaughey, Millennium Films, Richard Linklater, Shirley MacLaine, WME Global
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: A deal is near for Millennium Entertainment to acquire U.S. distribution rights to the Los Angeles Film Festival opening-night pic Bernie. I’m told that it will be the first significant grab for former Film Department co-head Mark Gill since … Read More »

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Anonymous Content Lands Management Trio To Bolster Talent Roster

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 1:21pm PDTTags: Adrianne Palicki, Anna Faris, Anonymous Content, Bill Condon, Cary Fukunaga, David Slade, Doug Wald, Emma Stone, Jonathan Groff, Joseph Kosinski, Katie Cassidy, Lorene Scafaria, Marc Webb, Matt Bomer, Max Minghella, Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson, Paul Dano, Penn Badgley, Richard Linklater, Robert Pulcini, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Chang, Scott Z. Burns, Shari Springer Berman, Stanley Tucci, Steve Golin, Steven Soderbergh, Tony Lipp, William Monahan
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Management/production company Anonymous Content is about to make a major play in the talent game. I’m hearing that Doug Wald is leaving his partnership at Raw Talent, Sandra Chang is leaving as partner at Industry Entertainment, and Tony Lipp is leaving CAA. The trio will lead Anonymous Content’s talent division and create a major infusion of acting clients. It is all taking shape today.

Lipp announced internally on Tuesday that he would leave CAA to be a manager. Wald and Chang dropped the bombshells this morning at their respective management companies. Anonymous has a modest talent business that included four managers and clients like Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Katie Cassidy, Omar Epps and Adrianne Palicki (just cast as Wonder Woman). The newcomers will greatly expand that list, and a lot of it is emerging talent. Among the actors already set to join: Sam Worthington, Paul Dano, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Anna Faris, Max Minghella, Jack Quaid, Patrick Wilson, Justin Chambers, Jessica Walter, Jaime King, Matt Bomer, John Cleese, Blythe Danner, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Nathan Lane, Simon Russell Beale and Stanley Tucci. Read More »

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MORE: Agency/Manager Comings & Goings

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday October 11, 2010 @ 5:20pm PDTTags: Agents, Keith Olbermann, Managers, Richard Linklater, TV

Updates below… Paradigm has signed Tony Danza, whose new reality series set in Philadelphia Teach premiered this past Friday night on A&E. (I saw the debut and found it compelling.) Danza’s  many credits include as the co-star of Taxi and Who’s The … Read More »

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