Pen American Center and nearly 50 distinguished novelists, playwrights and authors are the latest group imploring Sony to release “The Interview,” in an open letter posted Monday.
“Pen is appalled at the intrusive, criminal and profoundly menacing reprisals and threats that Sony Pictures has endured as a result of producing and planning to distribute ‘The Interview,'” said the letter, which was signed by the likes of Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, Jennifer Egan and Tony Kushner.
See photos: Sony Hack Attack Timeline: From First Cyberbreach and Leaks to ‘The Interview’ Dropped (Photos)
“Pen has long stood with writers and creators who...
“Pen is appalled at the intrusive, criminal and profoundly menacing reprisals and threats that Sony Pictures has endured as a result of producing and planning to distribute ‘The Interview,'” said the letter, which was signed by the likes of Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, Jennifer Egan and Tony Kushner.
See photos: Sony Hack Attack Timeline: From First Cyberbreach and Leaks to ‘The Interview’ Dropped (Photos)
“Pen has long stood with writers and creators who...
- 12/23/2014
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Relativity International to handle sales on Good Films thriller at Afm.
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is to star in The Infiltrator, a thriller based on the true story of federal agent Robert Mazur who went undercover to infiltrate Colombia’s mafia and helped collapse one of the world’s biggest privately held banks.
The film is a passion project of director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) and was first reported by ScreenDaily at the American Film Market (Afm) in 2012. Relativity International will present the film to distributors at this year’s Afm.
It marks the first on slate of seven projects from Good Films and will be produced by the company’s founder and former BBC Films exec, Miriam Segal.
Principal photography is scheduled to begin January 2015 on location in London, Paris and Florida.
Adapted for the screen by Ellen Brown Furman from Mazur’s autobiography of the same name, Cranston will play...
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is to star in The Infiltrator, a thriller based on the true story of federal agent Robert Mazur who went undercover to infiltrate Colombia’s mafia and helped collapse one of the world’s biggest privately held banks.
The film is a passion project of director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) and was first reported by ScreenDaily at the American Film Market (Afm) in 2012. Relativity International will present the film to distributors at this year’s Afm.
It marks the first on slate of seven projects from Good Films and will be produced by the company’s founder and former BBC Films exec, Miriam Segal.
Principal photography is scheduled to begin January 2015 on location in London, Paris and Florida.
Adapted for the screen by Ellen Brown Furman from Mazur’s autobiography of the same name, Cranston will play...
- 10/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Good Lie discussion moderated by Pen American Center president Peter Godwin Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Joanna Coles, Peter Godwin, Dr. Amanda Foreman, Gayle King, Diane Sawyer, Mike Nichols, George Stephanopoulos, Fareed Zakaria, Tina Brown and Sir Harold Evans with the Us Fund for Unicef, and Samantha Power, Us Ambassador to the United Nations, hosted a special screening of Philippe Falardeau's The Good Lie starring Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal and Kuoth Wiel with a screenplay by Margaret Nagle.
Soon-Yi Previn, Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill, Karen Sherwood, Nile Rodgers, Lynn Stratford, John Prendergast, Chuck Scarborough, Ed Lloyd, Angelina Jacob, Jennifer Duneier, Felicia Taylor, Jill Martin, Bill Blakemore and Phyllis Lee were among those joining in with our hosts for the Warner Bros. screening at Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle near Central Park.
Screenwriter Margaret Nagle with The Good Lie star Kuoth Wiel: "And suddenly I hear,...
Joanna Coles, Peter Godwin, Dr. Amanda Foreman, Gayle King, Diane Sawyer, Mike Nichols, George Stephanopoulos, Fareed Zakaria, Tina Brown and Sir Harold Evans with the Us Fund for Unicef, and Samantha Power, Us Ambassador to the United Nations, hosted a special screening of Philippe Falardeau's The Good Lie starring Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal and Kuoth Wiel with a screenplay by Margaret Nagle.
Soon-Yi Previn, Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill, Karen Sherwood, Nile Rodgers, Lynn Stratford, John Prendergast, Chuck Scarborough, Ed Lloyd, Angelina Jacob, Jennifer Duneier, Felicia Taylor, Jill Martin, Bill Blakemore and Phyllis Lee were among those joining in with our hosts for the Warner Bros. screening at Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle near Central Park.
Screenwriter Margaret Nagle with The Good Lie star Kuoth Wiel: "And suddenly I hear,...
- 10/3/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Endangered African Elephants in Simon Trevor's White Gold at Tsavo National Park: "Since 1970, I've seen 40,000 elephants killed."
White Gold, Sydney's Pollack's Out Of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, and Michael Apted's Gorillas In The Mist starring Sigourney Weaver have one man in common: Simon Trevor, the director of White Gold. His documentary on the organised poaching of elephant tusks, narrated by former Us Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, puts an end to fantasies of glamour and harmless luxury based on ignorance and lies.
Producer Arne Glimcher with White Gold director Simon Trevor on the crisis in elephant poaching: "This time around it's much more serious because there's less elephants and more demand." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The New York Film Festival now takes on the challenge of raising awareness with their newly announced panel The Crisis In Elephant Poaching. The discussion will be moderated by Last Days...
White Gold, Sydney's Pollack's Out Of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, and Michael Apted's Gorillas In The Mist starring Sigourney Weaver have one man in common: Simon Trevor, the director of White Gold. His documentary on the organised poaching of elephant tusks, narrated by former Us Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, puts an end to fantasies of glamour and harmless luxury based on ignorance and lies.
Producer Arne Glimcher with White Gold director Simon Trevor on the crisis in elephant poaching: "This time around it's much more serious because there's less elephants and more demand." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The New York Film Festival now takes on the challenge of raising awareness with their newly announced panel The Crisis In Elephant Poaching. The discussion will be moderated by Last Days...
- 9/26/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The free screening on Saturday, September 27 at 6Pm at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center will include a panel moderated by Bigelow, "The Crisis in Elephant Poaching," featuring WildAid’s Peter Knights, Assistant District Attorney of New York County Julieta V. Lozano, journalist Peter Godwin, and Somali human rights activist K’naan Warsame. "I was floored," says Nyff Director Kent Jones of the film. "In three minutes, the viewer feels the horrors of elephant poaching on a global scale and gains a clear, even vivid understanding of the economic, moral and political issues involved. A powerfully concise piece of work, and we’re proud to be hosting its world premiere and providing a forum in which this urgent issue can be illuminated.” Bigelow explains the origins of the project: “A year ago I had a fortuitous meeting with both Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea had just returned from Sub-Saharan Africa.
- 9/24/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
On Thursday night, 12 Years a Slave's Oscar-nominated director-producer Steve McQueen met with the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The 44-year-old Brit shared the corner booth at New York's The Monkey Bar with Samantha Powers, one of U.S. president Barack Obama's closest advisors. The exclusive party also included Powers' husband Cass Sunstein, a legal scholar and professor at Harvard, and Cosmopolitan editor Joanne Coles and her husband Peter Godwin. THR is told McQueen initiated the meeting because he was aware of her key role in the fight to end
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- 2/14/2014
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Good Films has appointed Working Title executive Kate Fasulo as head of production.
Fasulo, who had worked at Working Title for ten years, will oversee Good Films’ six-feature slate, reporting to company founder and managing director Miriam Segal.
Fasulo was a production supervisor on a string of Working Title hits including Senna, Paul, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Anna Karenina and Les Miserables and was production executive on BBC miniseries Birdsong.
Segal said: “Having expertly overseen a number of first-class projects throughout the last few years, Kate’s experience, vision, and ability make her the perfect person to entrust with the responsibility of managing production as we take the crucial next steps in the Good Films journey.”
Good Films’ slate of properties includes James Patterson and Liza Markland’s The Postcard Killers, Peter Godwin’s When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Tena Stivicic’s Invisible, Robert Mazur’s The Infiltrator, Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved and [link...
Fasulo, who had worked at Working Title for ten years, will oversee Good Films’ six-feature slate, reporting to company founder and managing director Miriam Segal.
Fasulo was a production supervisor on a string of Working Title hits including Senna, Paul, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Anna Karenina and Les Miserables and was production executive on BBC miniseries Birdsong.
Segal said: “Having expertly overseen a number of first-class projects throughout the last few years, Kate’s experience, vision, and ability make her the perfect person to entrust with the responsibility of managing production as we take the crucial next steps in the Good Films journey.”
Good Films’ slate of properties includes James Patterson and Liza Markland’s The Postcard Killers, Peter Godwin’s When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Tena Stivicic’s Invisible, Robert Mazur’s The Infiltrator, Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved and [link...
- 10/8/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Good Films has appointed Working Title executive Kate Fasulo as head of production.
Fasulo, who had worked at Working Title for ten years, will oversee Good Films’ six-feature slate, reporting to company founder and managing director Miriam Segal.
Fasulo was a production supervisor on a string of Working Title hits including Senna, Paul, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Anna Karenina and Les Miserables and was production executive on BBC miniseries Birdsong.
Segal said: “Having expertly overseen a number of first-class projects throughout the last few years, Kate’s experience, vision, and ability make her the perfect person to entrust with the responsibility of managing production as we take the crucial next steps in the Good Films journey.”
Good Films’ slate of properties includes James Patterson and Liza Markland’s The Postcard Killers, Peter Godwin’s When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Tena Stivicic’s Invisible, Robert Mazur’s The Infiltrator, Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved and [link...
Fasulo, who had worked at Working Title for ten years, will oversee Good Films’ six-feature slate, reporting to company founder and managing director Miriam Segal.
Fasulo was a production supervisor on a string of Working Title hits including Senna, Paul, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Anna Karenina and Les Miserables and was production executive on BBC miniseries Birdsong.
Segal said: “Having expertly overseen a number of first-class projects throughout the last few years, Kate’s experience, vision, and ability make her the perfect person to entrust with the responsibility of managing production as we take the crucial next steps in the Good Films journey.”
Good Films’ slate of properties includes James Patterson and Liza Markland’s The Postcard Killers, Peter Godwin’s When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Tena Stivicic’s Invisible, Robert Mazur’s The Infiltrator, Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved and [link...
- 10/8/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Warner Bros. and Kevin Misher are seeking vengeance.
The studio and producer are teaming for "Vegas Avengers," an action pic to be written by Black List scribe Soo Hugh.
"Avengers" tells the story of a hot shot pilot who, after taking too many risks, is forced to enter a top-secret program that flies experimental, unmanned planes. Much of the action takes place at Nellis Air Force base just outside Las Vegas.
Those familiar with the project, which is based on Peter Godwin's Men's Journal article of the same name, have said it contains echoes of "Top Gun."
Established during World War II, Nellis has a rich history, having stored large caches of advanced weapons and served as headquarters to a top-secret Cold War program involving U.S.-piloted Russian MiGs.
Misher will produce "Avengers" through his Misher Films banner. Jessica Goodman and Matt Milam will oversee for Warners.
Hugh,...
The studio and producer are teaming for "Vegas Avengers," an action pic to be written by Black List scribe Soo Hugh.
"Avengers" tells the story of a hot shot pilot who, after taking too many risks, is forced to enter a top-secret program that flies experimental, unmanned planes. Much of the action takes place at Nellis Air Force base just outside Las Vegas.
Those familiar with the project, which is based on Peter Godwin's Men's Journal article of the same name, have said it contains echoes of "Top Gun."
Established during World War II, Nellis has a rich history, having stored large caches of advanced weapons and served as headquarters to a top-secret Cold War program involving U.S.-piloted Russian MiGs.
Misher will produce "Avengers" through his Misher Films banner. Jessica Goodman and Matt Milam will oversee for Warners.
Hugh,...
- 7/12/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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