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After PARASITE Score, NEON Elevates Elissa Federoff and Christina Zisa to Prexy Roles
Curated by Screenmancer Staff NEW YORK, NY: NEON announced today that Elissa Federoff and Christina Zisa have been promoted to President of Distribution and President of Publicity, respectively. Under their leadership, the company most recently made history with four Academy Award® wins for Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which grossed over $54 million at the box office becoming the third…
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Bird by Bird Brad Picks Your Classics for TCM’s The Essentials
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent He gave us pint-sized costume genius Edna Mode, a mash-up of Hollywood’s sartorial icon Edith Head and Oscar-winner Linda Hunt, remember? Now Mr. Brad Bird will pick a designer slate of classic films for TCM’s series “The Essentials” with Ben Mankiewicz, zooming to your device May 2. Who doesn’t love…
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Matt Wolf of SPACESHIP EARTH Knows You’re Going Stir Crazy, So…
by Matt Wolf, Director Spaceship Earth, From NEON Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered biodome called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that…
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The First Rule of AFI Movie Club, Oh Okay, You Get It: Brad Pitt Does BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Not only does the man look and sound like Hollywood forefather Robert Redford, now Brad Pitt will actually tell you things you didn’t know about the wild robber-romp from The Greatest Screenwriter William Goldman, that launched Redford when Paul Newman laid down the law about casting. BUTCH CASSIDY AND…
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Brandon Cronenberg’s Sci-Fi Thriller POSSESSOR Finds a Host
by Screenmancer Staff NEW YORK, NY (3/27/20): NEON has acquired U.S. rights to Brandon Cronenberg’s POSSESSOR, the sci-fi biotech spy flick starring Andrea Riseborough (OBLIVION, and BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE), Christopher Abbott (JAMES WHITE), Tuppence Middleton (THE IMITATION GAME), with Sean Bean (THE LORD OF THE RINGS, GOT franchises) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (THE HATEFUL EIGHT).…
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Fintech Platform PURELY CAPITAL Debuts at $150 M USD
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LONDON, UK (3/11/20): Purely Capital today announced the launch of their FinTech receivables platform backed by a $150 million institutional funding line, Finch Capital. The platform meets the growing need of rights owners, producers and distributors to bridge the funding gap that is created by long-dated payments when content is licensed to global streaming platforms, broadcasters and publishers. With…
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Here’s Shia LaBeouf’s HONEY BOY Script Which Will Inspire You
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Although Awards Season 2020 overlooked the gut-wrenching movie HONEY BOY from Amazon Studios, Shia LaBeouf’s script for his film is a unicorn piece of unforgettable writing. Here’s a chance to read his work, in the spirit of openness and creativity, provided by Shia and his team. First find info…
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Rose McGowan: Shout-out to Women During Harvey’s Trial
by Screenmancer Staff inspired by Rose McGowan & #MeToo UPDATE: In case you lost track of your own projects, or got derailed for any reason on creative endeavors. Maybe a trial or two. Get a first look at the Harvey Weinstein trial with opening statements and backgrounder. We just didn’t want it to get lost…
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Top 10 Ways to Get Yourself Booked on TV Shows, Really
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent How did this idea come about, you may wonder? Let’s just say there’s a perfect voice down in Florida that recently piped up in a tone so unique, we just had to find someplace for this talent to land. That said, Amy Baczkowski, an Unscripted Concept Developer, Producer &…
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