Rachel Abrams

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has secured Germany, Austria, German speaking Switzerland, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and Latin America in a multi-territory deal for Focus Features International's "Black Sea" starring Jude Law....

IM Global topper Stuart Ford knows how to make a splash with Martin Scorsese: Put him on a boat. The director mingled at one end of Emmett/Furla's yacht party on...

Telefilm Canada has signed up to back Vancouver-based CineCoup Film Accelerator's million-dollar indie filmmaking competition. Telefilm has committed to providing a million dollars and guaranteed theatrical distribution to the winner...

Getting one phone call from Harvey Weinstein would be enough for many actors to commit to a role. But it took one phone call a week, for several weeks, to...

One big question on the minds of IM Global's Stuart Ford, Participant Media's Jim Berk and others: Can the emerging markets handle larger-budget films? They discussing just how much biz...

Phase 4 Films has acquired North American rights to docu " The Crash Reel " from "Waste Land" helmer Lucy Walker. HBO, which helped finance the pic, will keep U.S....

Just hours before Lionsgate's much-anticipated "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" party at Baoli Beach, photographers crammed into the lobby of the Majestic Hotel on Saturday to snap pictures of the...

Two days before prestige pic "Blood Ties" screens at Cannes, Worldview Entertainment has picked up rights to Marilyn Monroe biopic "Blonde" with " Killing Them Softly " helmer Andrew Dominik...

Former EMI chairman and CEO Eric Luciano Nicoli is bowing an indie financing shingle with consumer marketing pro William Lewis, creative director John Stanley and financial services vet Dean Goldberg....

After presenting clips from his upcoming 2013 slate, Harvey Weinstein pointed out the absence of at least one of his films' notable producers. "I was going to bring George Clooney...