Exclusive: HanWay inks deal with Arrow Films, which plots “major” release.
Arrow Films has acquired all UK rights for Blade Of The Immortal from HanWay at Cannes Film Festival.
Takashi Miike’s samurai epic, based on Hiroaki Samura’s long-running manga of the same name, follows an immortal warrior who is enlisted by a young girl to avenge her parents’ slaughter at the hand of a group of master swordsmen.
Takuya Kimura (Hero), plays the lead alongside newcomer Hana Sugisaki. Sôta Fukushi and Ebizô Ichikawa (13 Assassins) round out the cast with veterans Min Tanaka and Tsutomu Yamazaki.
Arrow plans to release the film later this year.
The film was written by Tetsuya Oishi and produced by Jeremy Thomas, Misako Saka, and Shigeji Maeda, with Warner Bros Japan.
The deal was negotiated by Mark Lane at HanWay Films on behalf of the filmmakers with Tom Stewart, acquisitions director of Arrow Films, who said of...
Arrow Films has acquired all UK rights for Blade Of The Immortal from HanWay at Cannes Film Festival.
Takashi Miike’s samurai epic, based on Hiroaki Samura’s long-running manga of the same name, follows an immortal warrior who is enlisted by a young girl to avenge her parents’ slaughter at the hand of a group of master swordsmen.
Takuya Kimura (Hero), plays the lead alongside newcomer Hana Sugisaki. Sôta Fukushi and Ebizô Ichikawa (13 Assassins) round out the cast with veterans Min Tanaka and Tsutomu Yamazaki.
Arrow plans to release the film later this year.
The film was written by Tetsuya Oishi and produced by Jeremy Thomas, Misako Saka, and Shigeji Maeda, with Warner Bros Japan.
The deal was negotiated by Mark Lane at HanWay Films on behalf of the filmmakers with Tom Stewart, acquisitions director of Arrow Films, who said of...
- 5/24/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
HanWay Films handles international sales.
Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have secured North American rights to Philippa Lowthorpe’s Swallows And Amazons.
The film, based on the classic 1930s novel by Arthur Ransome of the same name, stars Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, and Kelly Macdonald.
Swallows And Amazons centres on four children on summer holiday who find adventure when the camp on an island in the middle of a lake. Andrea Gibb adapted the screenplay.
Harbour Pictures’ Nicholas Barton and BBC Films’ Joe Oppenheimer served as producers.
Swallows And Amazons is a Harbour Pictures Productions in association with HanWay Films, Studio Canal, BBC Films, BFI, Screen Yorkshire, Electric Shadow Company, and Maiden Investments.
“I believe it’s important to bring a good family film to the market, and that’s what I found in Swallows And Amazons,” Peter Goldwyn, president of Samuel Goldwyn Films, said. “The film has a talented cast, and I know...
Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have secured North American rights to Philippa Lowthorpe’s Swallows And Amazons.
The film, based on the classic 1930s novel by Arthur Ransome of the same name, stars Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, and Kelly Macdonald.
Swallows And Amazons centres on four children on summer holiday who find adventure when the camp on an island in the middle of a lake. Andrea Gibb adapted the screenplay.
Harbour Pictures’ Nicholas Barton and BBC Films’ Joe Oppenheimer served as producers.
Swallows And Amazons is a Harbour Pictures Productions in association with HanWay Films, Studio Canal, BBC Films, BFI, Screen Yorkshire, Electric Shadow Company, and Maiden Investments.
“I believe it’s important to bring a good family film to the market, and that’s what I found in Swallows And Amazons,” Peter Goldwyn, president of Samuel Goldwyn Films, said. “The film has a talented cast, and I know...
- 4/26/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Titles include Angel at my Table and Once Were Warriors.
HanWay’s boutique label HanWay Select has inked a deal with the New Zealand Film Commission to sell the latter’s film library.
Among the more than 50 titles in the deal are Jane Campion’s An Angel At My Table, Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors, Taika Waititi’s Boy and Eagle vs Shark, Jonathan King’s Black Sheep, Vincent Ward’s The Navigator and Vigil, and Roger Donaldson’s The World’s Fastest Indian.
The deal was negotiated by Mark Gooder and Nzfc marketing manager Jasmin McSweeney, and Mark Lane, director of sales and distribution, HanWay Select, and Thorsten Schumacher, managing director, HanWay Films.
Lane said: “We are thrilled to add another distinctive film collection to the HanWay stable; everyone remembers the visceral experience of a film like Once Were Warriors. However, newer genre-bending titles such as Black Sheep illustrate the diversity of this unique...
HanWay’s boutique label HanWay Select has inked a deal with the New Zealand Film Commission to sell the latter’s film library.
Among the more than 50 titles in the deal are Jane Campion’s An Angel At My Table, Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors, Taika Waititi’s Boy and Eagle vs Shark, Jonathan King’s Black Sheep, Vincent Ward’s The Navigator and Vigil, and Roger Donaldson’s The World’s Fastest Indian.
The deal was negotiated by Mark Gooder and Nzfc marketing manager Jasmin McSweeney, and Mark Lane, director of sales and distribution, HanWay Select, and Thorsten Schumacher, managing director, HanWay Films.
Lane said: “We are thrilled to add another distinctive film collection to the HanWay stable; everyone remembers the visceral experience of a film like Once Were Warriors. However, newer genre-bending titles such as Black Sheep illustrate the diversity of this unique...
- 10/13/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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