The press releases are flying over the transom and since the deal-making has been a bit slack. Here are a few tidbits. * Grosvenor Park will once again lend money to film productions, forming UK-based Eis Film Fund to disperse $100 million each year for productions. Grosvenor Park fled from the film-financing scene in 2008, when the economy and the independent film business hit the rocks. The target is films with budgets ranging from $10 million to $30 million. Grosvenor Park will also produce senior, gap and tax lending collateralized by territorial distribution sales and production tax incentives, which was how the company lended to films in the past. “Now is an optimal time to re-enter the film-lending space given the strength of the marketplace and the current industry dynamics as evidenced by a resurgence of sales activity at the most recent film markets,” said Gp’s Don Starr. * Morgan Creek has become a co-financier...
- 9/12/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Vancouver -- Alliance Films has closed a trio of multiyear distribution agreements, inking deals with financiers Relativity Media, Grosvenor Park and Freestyle Releasing.
The three partnerships expand on a slate of titles already supplied by Focus Features, the Weinstein Co., Overture Films and Remstar.
Relativity's first two titles for Alliance are the thriller "A Perfect Getaway," starring Milla Jovovich, and the drama "Brothers," with Natalie Portman. The deal calls for at least six films per year in Canada and the U.K. Relativity has raised $5.5 billion in film financing to date.
Grosvenor Park has 400 titles and $5 billion in financing under its belt. Upcoming titles for Canadian distribution include "Disaster Movie" by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer; Ed Zwick wartime drama "Defiance," starring Daniel Craig; and Kathryn Bigelow's "Hurt Locker."
Freestyle Releasing ("Bottle Shock") is slated to release the Halloween film "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" and the animated feature "Delgo.
The three partnerships expand on a slate of titles already supplied by Focus Features, the Weinstein Co., Overture Films and Remstar.
Relativity's first two titles for Alliance are the thriller "A Perfect Getaway," starring Milla Jovovich, and the drama "Brothers," with Natalie Portman. The deal calls for at least six films per year in Canada and the U.K. Relativity has raised $5.5 billion in film financing to date.
Grosvenor Park has 400 titles and $5 billion in financing under its belt. Upcoming titles for Canadian distribution include "Disaster Movie" by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer; Ed Zwick wartime drama "Defiance," starring Daniel Craig; and Kathryn Bigelow's "Hurt Locker."
Freestyle Releasing ("Bottle Shock") is slated to release the Halloween film "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" and the animated feature "Delgo.
- 9/2/2008
- by By Adele Weder
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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