Exclusive: Stillking Films, the production services company behind titles like Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things has teamed up with production house Twentyfour Seven to launch the Málaga-based production outfit Ánima Stillking.
Ánima Stillking will be overseen by Silvia Aráez, who will take up the role of CEO. Aráez had a previous stint as CEO of Fresco Film. The company’s exec team will also include executive producer María Cabello, whose credits include Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Netflix’s Fool Me Once, Black Mirror, and Sony’s The Blacklist alongside CFO Cristina Armario, also previously CFO of Fresco Film.
In addition to its Málaga base, Ánima Stillking has fully staffed offices in the Canary Islands, Barcelona, Madrid, Basque Country, and Palma de Mallorca. The outfit is already chomping away with a slate of projects, including several projects in production with Netflix and what they have described as “a major anthology series for AMC.
Ánima Stillking will be overseen by Silvia Aráez, who will take up the role of CEO. Aráez had a previous stint as CEO of Fresco Film. The company’s exec team will also include executive producer María Cabello, whose credits include Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Netflix’s Fool Me Once, Black Mirror, and Sony’s The Blacklist alongside CFO Cristina Armario, also previously CFO of Fresco Film.
In addition to its Málaga base, Ánima Stillking has fully staffed offices in the Canary Islands, Barcelona, Madrid, Basque Country, and Palma de Mallorca. The outfit is already chomping away with a slate of projects, including several projects in production with Netflix and what they have described as “a major anthology series for AMC.
- 5/7/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Drama stars Stephen Lang in the true story of Holocaust survivor Herbert Heller.
Avenue Of The Giants, a drama from writer-director Finn Taylor, has wrapped production in California and the Czech Republic.
The film stars Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert and Luke Blumm in the true story of Herbert Heller, who keeps his experience as a teenage boy in Auschwitz hidden from his family until he meets a teenager whose own brush with death inspires him to open up.
Jeanine Thomas and George Rush are producing, with Debi Memmolo, Greg Taxin and Noah Lang serving as executive producers. David Minkowski...
Avenue Of The Giants, a drama from writer-director Finn Taylor, has wrapped production in California and the Czech Republic.
The film stars Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert and Luke Blumm in the true story of Herbert Heller, who keeps his experience as a teenage boy in Auschwitz hidden from his family until he meets a teenager whose own brush with death inspires him to open up.
Jeanine Thomas and George Rush are producing, with Debi Memmolo, Greg Taxin and Noah Lang serving as executive producers. David Minkowski...
- 5/20/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Stephen Lang (Avatar), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Robin Weigert (Deadwood) and Luke Blumm (Where The Crawdads Sing) have teamed for writer/director Finn Taylor’s feature Avenue of the Giants, which recently wrapped filming. A first-look photo has also been unveiled.
Avenue of the Giants tells the true story of Herbert Heller (Blumm), who kept his experience as a teenage boy surviving for years in Auschwitz hidden from his family. That is until he meets Abbey (Fisher), a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
The film was produced by Jeanine Thomas and George Rush. Debi Memmolo, Greg Taxin, and Noah Lang executive produced. David Minkowski and Matthew Stillman for Stillking Films (The Gray Man) co-produced alongside Jennifer Goshay, Michael Manasseri, Jeffrey Brown, and Mirka Taylor.
Avenue of the Giants tells the true story of Herbert Heller (Blumm), who kept his experience as a teenage boy surviving for years in Auschwitz hidden from his family. That is until he meets Abbey (Fisher), a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
The film was produced by Jeanine Thomas and George Rush. Debi Memmolo, Greg Taxin, and Noah Lang executive produced. David Minkowski and Matthew Stillman for Stillking Films (The Gray Man) co-produced alongside Jennifer Goshay, Michael Manasseri, Jeffrey Brown, and Mirka Taylor.
- 5/19/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sony’s “The Nightingale,” starring Dakota and Elle Fanning, and an adaptation of Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” fantasy series, produced by Sony and Amazon Studios, and starring Rosamund Pike, are the latest projects to be hit by the growing spread of coronavirus, with both productions’ European shoots disrupted this week.
Pre-production on “The Nightingale,” from Sony label TriStar Pictures, has been suspended for two weeks in Budapest, while the Prague shoot of “Wheel of Time” was halted, as Central Europe’s biggest production hubs scramble to deal with the fallout of the global pandemic.
Amazon Studios film “Birds of Paradise” has also suspended production in Budapest.
“This is obviously a spanner in the works,” said Matthew Stillman of Stillking Films, who said both Hungary and the Czech Republic were “operating at capacity” before coronavirus began sweeping across Europe. “This is effectively a temporary interruption, but we don...
Pre-production on “The Nightingale,” from Sony label TriStar Pictures, has been suspended for two weeks in Budapest, while the Prague shoot of “Wheel of Time” was halted, as Central Europe’s biggest production hubs scramble to deal with the fallout of the global pandemic.
Amazon Studios film “Birds of Paradise” has also suspended production in Budapest.
“This is obviously a spanner in the works,” said Matthew Stillman of Stillking Films, who said both Hungary and the Czech Republic were “operating at capacity” before coronavirus began sweeping across Europe. “This is effectively a temporary interruption, but we don...
- 3/13/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
New members include filmmakers Lynne Ramsay, Haifaa al-Mansour, Fox Searchlight’s Kate Gardiner and Screen Scotland’s Isabel Davis.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has revealed its 2019 intake of new members drawn from the film, TV and games industry.
Among the record 558 new members are filmmakers and writers Haifaa al-Mansour (Wadjda), Laszlo Nemes (Son Of Saul), Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), Lee Unkrich (Coco) and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Rose Glass (Saint Maud).
New executives on the list include Kate Gardiner (head of Fox Searchlight UK); Jason Maza (Unstoppable), Emma Hewitt (BBC Films...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has revealed its 2019 intake of new members drawn from the film, TV and games industry.
Among the record 558 new members are filmmakers and writers Haifaa al-Mansour (Wadjda), Laszlo Nemes (Son Of Saul), Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), Lee Unkrich (Coco) and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Rose Glass (Saint Maud).
New executives on the list include Kate Gardiner (head of Fox Searchlight UK); Jason Maza (Unstoppable), Emma Hewitt (BBC Films...
- 12/4/2019
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Vertical Entertainment and DirecTV have acquired the North American rights to “Human Capital,” which stars Liev Schreiber and Marisa Tomei, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.
The drama premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival last month. DirecTV will have the exclusive on pre-release Svod, while Vertical will distribute the film in theaters in the second quarter of 2020.
Marc Meyers’ film is an adaptation of both a 2004 novel by Stephen Amidon as well as the 2013 Italian film based on the book and directed by Paolo Virzi. Oren Moverman (“The Messenger”) wrote the screenplay about two families, one wealthy and one poor, that become intertwined following a tragic hit and run car accident.
See Video: Alex Wolff Really Did Bleed From His Eyebrow During Scene From 'Human Capital
The film is broken into three chapters that are each viewed from the perspective of a different individual involved with the accident,...
The drama premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival last month. DirecTV will have the exclusive on pre-release Svod, while Vertical will distribute the film in theaters in the second quarter of 2020.
Marc Meyers’ film is an adaptation of both a 2004 novel by Stephen Amidon as well as the 2013 Italian film based on the book and directed by Paolo Virzi. Oren Moverman (“The Messenger”) wrote the screenplay about two families, one wealthy and one poor, that become intertwined following a tragic hit and run car accident.
See Video: Alex Wolff Really Did Bleed From His Eyebrow During Scene From 'Human Capital
The film is broken into three chapters that are each viewed from the perspective of a different individual involved with the accident,...
- 10/18/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Vertical Entertainment and DirecTV have jointly acquired the North American distribution rights to “Human Capital,” an official selection of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival from director Marc Meyers.
The film stars Oscar winner Marisa Tomei, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, and Maya Hawke. The ensemble drama follows numerous interconnected stories surrounding a hit and run, as parents from different socioeconomic backgrounds adjust to their children forming a romantic relationship. Aasif Mandvi and Alex Wolff co-star.
DirecTV will have the exclusive on pre-release Svod, and Vertical will take the film out in theaters in the second quarter of 2020. Peter Jarowey and Josh Spector of Vertical negotiated for the boutique distributor, with the UTA Independent Film Group working on behalf of the filmmakers.
“I think it’s about community and how we’ve become fractured. Beyond the lens of class — Liev is a middle-class real estate broker, Marisa Tomei is an...
The film stars Oscar winner Marisa Tomei, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, and Maya Hawke. The ensemble drama follows numerous interconnected stories surrounding a hit and run, as parents from different socioeconomic backgrounds adjust to their children forming a romantic relationship. Aasif Mandvi and Alex Wolff co-star.
DirecTV will have the exclusive on pre-release Svod, and Vertical will take the film out in theaters in the second quarter of 2020. Peter Jarowey and Josh Spector of Vertical negotiated for the boutique distributor, with the UTA Independent Film Group working on behalf of the filmmakers.
“I think it’s about community and how we’ve become fractured. Beyond the lens of class — Liev is a middle-class real estate broker, Marisa Tomei is an...
- 10/18/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Emmy nominee Paul Sparks, Aasif Mandvi and newcomer Fred Hechinger (Eighth Grade) are the latest to join the cast of Human Capital, a film adaptation of Stephen Amidon’s 2005 novel. Directed by Marc Meyers and based on a screenplay from Oren Moverman, the thriller stars Liev Schreiber, Marisa Tomei, Peter Sarsgaard, Alex Wolff and Maya Hawke.
The pic centers on families who collide as they chase the American Dream. Paolo Virzì adapted the book into a 2013 Italian-language film.
Producers are Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray of Maven Pictures, Bert Marcus of Bert Marcus Film, Moverman via his Sight Unseen Pictures, and Schreiber and Matthew Stillman via their Illuminated Content.
Sparks, repped by Gersh and One Entertainment, was most recently seen on the big screen in The Greatest Showman and Thoroughbreds. Mandvi, whose film credits include Mother’s Day and Million Dollar Arm,...
The pic centers on families who collide as they chase the American Dream. Paolo Virzì adapted the book into a 2013 Italian-language film.
Producers are Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray of Maven Pictures, Bert Marcus of Bert Marcus Film, Moverman via his Sight Unseen Pictures, and Schreiber and Matthew Stillman via their Illuminated Content.
Sparks, repped by Gersh and One Entertainment, was most recently seen on the big screen in The Greatest Showman and Thoroughbreds. Mandvi, whose film credits include Mother’s Day and Million Dollar Arm,...
- 12/7/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Peter Sarsgaard (Shattered Glass), Maya Hawke (BBC’s Little Women), and Betty Gabriel (Get Out) have joined Liev Schreiber, Marisa Tomei, and Alex Wolff in the indie dramatic thriller Human Capital, an adaption of Stephen Amidon’s novel which is being helmed by Mark Meyers.
From a screenplay by Oren Moverman, the film centers on the lives of two families, one middle-class and one privileged, as their lives intertwine across the social divide when two of their children suddenly begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.
Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Bert Marcus Film’s Bert Marcus are producing the pic alongside Moverman for Sight Unseen Pictures, as well as Schrieber and Matthew Stillman under their Illuminated Content banner.
The book was first adapted into the 2013 Italian-language film Il Capitale Umano from director Paolo Virzì and became one of Italy’s highest grossing films.
From a screenplay by Oren Moverman, the film centers on the lives of two families, one middle-class and one privileged, as their lives intertwine across the social divide when two of their children suddenly begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.
Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Bert Marcus Film’s Bert Marcus are producing the pic alongside Moverman for Sight Unseen Pictures, as well as Schrieber and Matthew Stillman under their Illuminated Content banner.
The book was first adapted into the 2013 Italian-language film Il Capitale Umano from director Paolo Virzì and became one of Italy’s highest grossing films.
- 11/14/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Marisa Tomei has been set to star opposite Liev Schreiber in Human Capital, the adaptation of Stephen Amidon’s 2005 novel about families who collide as they chase the American Dream. Marc Meyers (My Friend Dahmer) is directing the pic from Oren Moverman’s script, and production gets underway today in New York.
The film follows the lives of two families — one middle-class and one privileged — as their lives intertwine across the social divide when two of their children suddenly begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.
Tomei will play Carrie in the pic, which previously set Schreiber as Drew and Alex Wolff as Ian in the drama, which is being produced by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Bert Marcus Film’s Bert Marcus alongside Moverman via his Sight Unseen Pictures and Schrieber and Matthew Stillman via their Illuminated Content).
Paolo Virzì adapted Amidon...
The film follows the lives of two families — one middle-class and one privileged — as their lives intertwine across the social divide when two of their children suddenly begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.
Tomei will play Carrie in the pic, which previously set Schreiber as Drew and Alex Wolff as Ian in the drama, which is being produced by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Bert Marcus Film’s Bert Marcus alongside Moverman via his Sight Unseen Pictures and Schrieber and Matthew Stillman via their Illuminated Content).
Paolo Virzì adapted Amidon...
- 11/12/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Liev Schreiber and Alex Wolff have been set to star in Human Capital, an adaptation of Stephen Amidon’s 2005 novel about families who collide as they chase the American Dream. Paolo Virzì adapted the book into a 2013 Italian-language film. For this incarnation, Oren Moverman (The Messenger) penned the screenplay, and My Friend Dahmer helmer Marc Meyers is aboard to direct. We hear a November production start is in the works.
Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures is producing alongside Moverman via his Sight Unseen Pictures, and Schreiber and Matthew Stillman via their Illuminated Content. Indiana Production, which made the original film, will executive produce.
The pic will follow the lives of two families — one middle-class and one privileged — as their lives intertwine across the social divide when two of their children suddenly begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident. Schreiber is set to play Drew,...
Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures is producing alongside Moverman via his Sight Unseen Pictures, and Schreiber and Matthew Stillman via their Illuminated Content. Indiana Production, which made the original film, will executive produce.
The pic will follow the lives of two families — one middle-class and one privileged — as their lives intertwine across the social divide when two of their children suddenly begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident. Schreiber is set to play Drew,...
- 10/18/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: As his Showtime series Ray Donovan moves to New York for its sixth season, Liev Schreiber has joined up with Matthew Stillman to launch Illuminated Content, a Gotham-based venture to develop, produce and finance TV and movie projects. Former Maven Pictures producer Hardy Justice will head up development and production at the company’s offices in New York. The aim is to generate three to four projects per year across various platforms, with Illuminated Content producing and co-financing.
The company will allow Schreiber and Stillman to accelerate the entrepreneurial ambitions they have built on separate tracks. Operating around his Ray Donovan schedule — where he is producer and has directed several pivotal episodes — Schreiber has methodically been broadening his canvas. Schreiber made his feature directorial debut on an adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer bestseller Everything is Illuminated and most recently starred, co-wrote, and produced Chuck, the indie drama about the life of Chuck Wepner,...
The company will allow Schreiber and Stillman to accelerate the entrepreneurial ambitions they have built on separate tracks. Operating around his Ray Donovan schedule — where he is producer and has directed several pivotal episodes — Schreiber has methodically been broadening his canvas. Schreiber made his feature directorial debut on an adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer bestseller Everything is Illuminated and most recently starred, co-wrote, and produced Chuck, the indie drama about the life of Chuck Wepner,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS Films have tapped The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev to direct The Keep – a film based on Jennifer Egan’s 2006 best-seller.
The studio has already secured the rights to the book and are in final negotiations to acquire the adapted screenplay written by The Skeleton Key scribe Ehren Kruger, who originally penned the script for StillKing Films in 2006.
Described as The Ring meets Inception, by THR, The Keep is a story within a story about two cousins with a shared secret who reunite to renovate a legendary haunted medieval castle that turns dreams and nightmares into reality.
Ehren Kruger, Daniel Bobker and Matthew Stillman will produce. Production executive Maria Faillace will oversee for CBS Films.
The studio has already secured the rights to the book and are in final negotiations to acquire the adapted screenplay written by The Skeleton Key scribe Ehren Kruger, who originally penned the script for StillKing Films in 2006.
Described as The Ring meets Inception, by THR, The Keep is a story within a story about two cousins with a shared secret who reunite to renovate a legendary haunted medieval castle that turns dreams and nightmares into reality.
Ehren Kruger, Daniel Bobker and Matthew Stillman will produce. Production executive Maria Faillace will oversee for CBS Films.
- 10/27/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
MOSCOW -- Prague's Stillking Films brought months of speculation to an end Tuesday when it said that the next James Bond movie, Casino Royale, would shoot in the Czech capital with Stillking acting as local co-producers. Matthew Stillman, British-born managing director of the Barrandov Studios-based firm, confirmed persistent rumors that Prague would host 007 -- to be played by British actor Daniel Craig -- when he said Stillking had closed a co-production deal with Eon Prods. on the secret agent's 21st screen adventure. Stillman and the company's head of film production, David Minkowski, will act as local co-producers for the MGM/Columbia Pictures production that is due to begin six months of location shooting in the Czech Republic in January. "We are excited to be working with producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of Eon Prods. on the new Bond picture and bringing the production to the Czech Republic. This is an important step for us as well as the local film community," Stillman said in a statement.
- 10/20/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- A film based on the dramatic seizure by Chechen terrorists of a Moscow theater in October that led to the deaths of more than 120 innocent people is to be made by Prague's Barrandov-based Stillking Films. Television commercial director Ivan Zacharias has been attached to direct the film, which is being developed under the working title "Russian Theater", Stillking managing director Matthew Stillman said Monday. The film is scripted by Michael Lerner in consultation with British Sunday Times reporter Mark Franchetti, who was the first journalist to gain access to Moscow's Dubrovka Theater during the 57-hour showdown with the Chechens.
- 5/20/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anthony Hopkins is set to play a Cia boss in a $113 million comedy-thriller. The 63-year-old will star alongside American comedian Chris Rock in the Joel Schumacher directed movie Black Sheep, which starts shooting in Prague soon. Black Sheep's executive producer, Matthew Stillman says, "It's a fish-out-of-water comedy with a difference. This is one film shoot that promises to be a hoot." Hopkins will portray a hardman who has to transform a dumb lowlife Chris Rock) into a top agent, in a bid to foil an international conspiracy.
- 2/12/2001
- WENN
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