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Sundance: Looks Like Another Late Night

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 21, 2013 @ 5:35pm PSTTags: Austenland, Before Midnight, Sundance, Sundance Wrap-Up, The Way
Mike Fleming

The films The Way, Way Back played strongly at Eccles, and tonight is The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman. Sounds like another late night for buyers, sellers and the journos who stalk them. Negotiations continue on Austenland, but not with original first position suitors FilmDistrict and Exclusive Media. There was never an exclusive negotiation on this, but the sellers will make a different deal. There is also action on the Richard Linklater-directed Before Midnight, with Lionsgate sweet on it, among a bunch of other distributors, which is remarkable for the third leg of this classy trilogy, with no explosions to speak of.

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Emilio Estevez’s ‘The Way’ Finds Distribution

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 28, 2011 @ 11:34am PDTTags: Bart Walker, Cynthia Swartz, Emilio Estevez, Film Distribution, John Sloss, Martin Sheen, Richard Abramowitz, The Way
Mike Fleming

When Emilio Estevez launched The Way at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival, reaction was encouraging for the film he directed and which stars his father, Martin Sheen, as a grieving dad who walks The Camino de Santiago to honor his … Read More »

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TORONTO: Emilio Estevez Shows ‘The Way’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 10, 2010 @ 12:08pm PDTTags: Emilio Estevez, Harvey Weinstein, Martin Sheen, The Way, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

There are plenty of fine films with strong casts vying for distribution at the Toronto International Film Festival. So if you can show buyers more than just 2 hours of footage, it might give a leg up. When Emilio Estevez this afternoon unveils the World Premiere of The Way and starts meeting with distributors, he is ready to offer research demonstrating the film plays to an audience, and especially to the faith-based crowd. Read More »

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