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Cannes: Billy Crystal, Frank Oz Suit Up For Leisure Community Comedy ‘Winter’s Discontent’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday May 13, 2013 @ 2:34pm PDTTags: Billy Crystal, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Sierra/Affinity, Sony Pictures Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Winter’s Discontent is the 2008 Black List script by Paul Fruchbom which Sony acquired for Atlas Entertainment a few years back. The well-liked project, which taps into the current zeitgeist of adult comedies, is moving forward with Billy Crystal attached to star as a widower who moves into a reputed, active mature community in an attempt to reinvigorate his sex life. Frank Oz, director of such pics as In & Out and Death At A Funeral, has come aboard to helm. Sony Pictures will distribute domestically and has taken rights in select foreign territories. Atlas is producing and Sierra Pictures is financing. Sierra/Affinity starts foreign sales in Cannes. Charles Roven and Alex Gartner are producing. Exec producers are Nick Meyer, Marc Schaberg, Kelly McCormick and Jake Kurily. Crystal recently starred in Parental Guidance and is next up in Monsters University from Pixar. He’s repped by CAA and managed by David Steinberg and Larry Brezner. Oz is repped by CAA. READ MORE »

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AFM: Sierra/Affinity Commits To Finance Cop Thriller Script ‘Blackout’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 18, 2012 @ 4:17pm PDTTags: Sierra/Affinity, Todd Garner
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Meyer’s Sierra/Affinity has committed to finance Blackout, an action thriller script by Sidney King. Broken Road Productions’ Todd Garner will produce with Sierra/Affinity, and Broken Road’s Jeremy Stein will be exec producer. A cop tasked with transporting a mysterious and dangerous criminal across town finds that job much more difficult when a city-wide blackout plunges them into darkness and chaos. Read More »

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Sierra/Affinity Furthers Move Into TV Biz With Engine Entertainment Venture

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 27, 2012 @ 1:11pm PDTTags: Crossbones., MIPCOM, Sierra/Affinity

The companies’ newly launched Sierra/Engine Television creates a new distribution and production venture for the global TV marketplace. The entity will debut at MIPCOM this year and combine Sierra/Affinity‘s international film sales and distribution expertise with … Read More »

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Sierra/Affinity Picks Up Global Sales For ‘Cate McCall’ & ‘Plus One’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday June 26, 2012 @ 11:32am PDTTags: Ender's Game, Plus One, Sierra/Affinity, The Trials Of Cate McCall

Sierra/Affinity MoviesSierra/Affinity will handle international sales for The Trials Of Cate McCall and Plus One. Currently shooting in LA, the legal redemption drama Trials stars Kate Beckinsale and Nick Nolte. The thriller Plus One, directed by … Read More »

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‘The Devil Inside’ Duo William Brent Bell, Matthew Peterman Prep New Horror Project

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 5:02pm PSTTags: Sierra/Affinity, The Devil Inside, William Brent Bell

‘The Devil Inside’ Helmer William Brent Bell Takes To ‘The Vatican’ At Warner Bros

The creative team behind horror hit The Devil Inside have lined up a new untitled project that will be financed vby Sierra/Affinity and … Read More »

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Cannes: Sierra/Affinity Takes On ‘Filth’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 13, 2011 @ 8:56am PDTTags: Cannes, Irvine Welsh, Sierra/Affinity

Newcomer Sierra/Affinity announced today that it will rep international sales at Cannes for the dark comedic thriller Filth, based on the bestselling Irvine Welsh novel. The adaptation was penned by Jon S. Baird; Ken Marshall is producing via Steel Mill Pictures (London to Brighton). In the book, an Edinburgh police … Read More »

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Nick Meyer’s New Company To Broker Foreign Deals For OddLot And Bold Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 5, 2011 @ 3:11pm PSTTags: Bold Films, Movie Deals, Movies, Nick Meyer, OddLot Entertainment, Sierra/Affinity
Mike Fleming

LOS ANGELES — January 5, 2011 – Capitalizing on the ever-evolving global film marketplace, Sierra Pictures and Affinity International announced today the creation of a new sales company called Sierra / Affinity. The new entity will represent sales of third party films as well as act as the

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