London -- Icon Entertainment International, the London-based sales arm, has promoted Anthony Buckner to head of sales, reporting to Icon U.K. Group CEO Stewart Till.
Buckner, most recently Icon senior sales manager, is elevated as Till's ambitions to expand Icon's sales slate and grow its international business roster begins to take shape since he took up the reins last year.
Till said upping Buckner reflected the executive's efforts.
"He has fantastic relations with the international film buying community and I am delighted to have him representing the growing Icon slate," said Till.
Iei is owned by Access Industries, the privately held, U.S.-based industrial group founded in 1986 by its chairman Len Blavatnik. Till completed the long-gestating deal to buy Icon U.K. after more than two years at the negotiating coal face in November last year.
Icon has been without a head of sales for several years now...
Buckner, most recently Icon senior sales manager, is elevated as Till's ambitions to expand Icon's sales slate and grow its international business roster begins to take shape since he took up the reins last year.
Till said upping Buckner reflected the executive's efforts.
"He has fantastic relations with the international film buying community and I am delighted to have him representing the growing Icon slate," said Till.
Iei is owned by Access Industries, the privately held, U.S.-based industrial group founded in 1986 by its chairman Len Blavatnik. Till completed the long-gestating deal to buy Icon U.K. after more than two years at the negotiating coal face in November last year.
Icon has been without a head of sales for several years now...
- 4/26/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nigel Sinclair, Guy East and Chris Ball, Co-Chairmen of Exclusive Media Group (Exclusive), announced today that Alex Walton has been appointed President of International Sales and Distribution at Exclusive Film Distribution, Exclusive’s international sales and distribution operation, commencing May 1st, 2010. Exclusive Film Distribution handles films from Exclusive’s production labels, Hammer Films and Spitfire Pictures, as well as third party pick-ups. Walton will continue to be based in Los Angeles, and will report directly to, Guy East, Chairman of Exclusive Film Distibution.
“We are excited that Alex is joining us to spearhead the next stage of our international expansion. He will be very actively looking to acquire third party productions as well as masterminding with me and Peter Naish our growing international sales and distribution operation” said East
“I am looking forward to being a part of the very ambitious plans that Exclusive have. They are a company that...
“We are excited that Alex is joining us to spearhead the next stage of our international expansion. He will be very actively looking to acquire third party productions as well as masterminding with me and Peter Naish our growing international sales and distribution operation” said East
“I am looking forward to being a part of the very ambitious plans that Exclusive have. They are a company that...
- 4/20/2010
- by Staff
- Hollywoodnews.com
London -- New look, new investment but a familiar face for Hammer Films, one of the U.K.'s oldest production labels, as Christopher Lee joins the cast of the reinvigorated company's latest project.
Lee has signed up to star alongside double Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Antti J. Jokinen's directorial debut, "Invasion of Privacy," previously titled "The Resident."
Backed by Exclusive Media Group, the parent company for both Hammer Films and Spitfire Pictures, the film reunites Lee, who starred in a slew of horror pictures in the 1960s and 1970s made by Hammer Productions.
The new Hammer is a very different undertaking as part of Exclusive, which in turn is backed by the strategic investment group Cyrte Investments.
Exclusive Film Distribution, which debuted to buyers during this year's European Film Market in Berlin will be selling the movie during the upcoming Marche du Film.
Lee has signed up to star alongside double Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Antti J. Jokinen's directorial debut, "Invasion of Privacy," previously titled "The Resident."
Backed by Exclusive Media Group, the parent company for both Hammer Films and Spitfire Pictures, the film reunites Lee, who starred in a slew of horror pictures in the 1960s and 1970s made by Hammer Productions.
The new Hammer is a very different undertaking as part of Exclusive, which in turn is backed by the strategic investment group Cyrte Investments.
Exclusive Film Distribution, which debuted to buyers during this year's European Film Market in Berlin will be selling the movie during the upcoming Marche du Film.
- 5/8/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Carnaby International co-production and sales chief Will Machin has exited to join ThinkFilm International, the overseas sales division of ThinkFilm and sister company of London-based finance and sales label Capitol Films.
Machin will report to Capitol Films managing director Peter Naish and will be charged with growing ThinkFilm's foreign sales slate.
"He (Machin) has a wealth of relevant sales and financing experience and I look forward to working with him as we move the ThinkFilm brand forward to meet the challenges that lie ahead," Naish said.
Prior to his role with Carnaby International Machin was previously co-president of international sales at Lola Films.
Machin said he was looking forward to "shaping the future of this specialist division of the company and bringing high value films to the market-place."
ThinkFilm International and Capitol Films will continue to operate as two separate foreign sales divisions, each with their own slate, salespeople and mandate, the entities said.
ThinkFilm International was relaunched in early 2007 as the sister international sales brand to Capitol Films and has repped and often financed projects including Jonathan King's "Under the Mountain", Nigel Cole's "5 Dollars a Day" and Alex de la Iglesia's "The Oxford Murders".
Machin will report to Capitol Films managing director Peter Naish and will be charged with growing ThinkFilm's foreign sales slate.
"He (Machin) has a wealth of relevant sales and financing experience and I look forward to working with him as we move the ThinkFilm brand forward to meet the challenges that lie ahead," Naish said.
Prior to his role with Carnaby International Machin was previously co-president of international sales at Lola Films.
Machin said he was looking forward to "shaping the future of this specialist division of the company and bringing high value films to the market-place."
ThinkFilm International and Capitol Films will continue to operate as two separate foreign sales divisions, each with their own slate, salespeople and mandate, the entities said.
ThinkFilm International was relaunched in early 2007 as the sister international sales brand to Capitol Films and has repped and often financed projects including Jonathan King's "Under the Mountain", Nigel Cole's "5 Dollars a Day" and Alex de la Iglesia's "The Oxford Murders".
The weakened dollar and a plethora of quality global movies on offer at this year's AFM is foremost on the minds of buyers and sellers from the five main territories in Europe -- the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain -- as this year's market gets under way today in Santa Monica.
For anyone traveling from Europe, the cost of going is dramatically reduced, attendees agree. But the question on everyone's lips is, will savings generated by the weak dollar be passed along to buyers in deals struck here?
Nick Hill and Peter Naish, co-managing directors of U.K.-based and U.S.-owned Capitol Films, have assembled a big sales slate of projects with top names expected to command high prices.
"We're making the films in dollars, and we're selling in dollars, so it is dollar-for-dollar pricing," Hill said. "The (weakened) dollar is harder for a company like ours if the costs for a film are in euros or sterling. But the one area where (a weak dollar) does make a difference is in terms of our expenses."
Germany's Sola Media managing director Solveig Langeland thinks that the weak dollar "means it is now a lot cheaper to fly to L.A. and attend the AFM."
He added: "We are still trying to do euro deals, but it is a case-by-case situation. Of course, no one is going to pay a 40% markup because of the weak dollar. But there are a lot of territories outside the U.S. where the dollar exchange isn't an issue."
Markus Zimmer, managing director of German giant Concorde Filmverleih, thinks a weak dollar is better than a strong one for buyers.
"But the decision to buy is still driven by the product, by the stories, not by the exchange rate. Still, it is a welcome development because, at least in Germany, the prices on the other side -- the television channels, theatrical distribution and so on -- haven't gone up," he said.
For anyone traveling from Europe, the cost of going is dramatically reduced, attendees agree. But the question on everyone's lips is, will savings generated by the weak dollar be passed along to buyers in deals struck here?
Nick Hill and Peter Naish, co-managing directors of U.K.-based and U.S.-owned Capitol Films, have assembled a big sales slate of projects with top names expected to command high prices.
"We're making the films in dollars, and we're selling in dollars, so it is dollar-for-dollar pricing," Hill said. "The (weakened) dollar is harder for a company like ours if the costs for a film are in euros or sterling. But the one area where (a weak dollar) does make a difference is in terms of our expenses."
Germany's Sola Media managing director Solveig Langeland thinks that the weak dollar "means it is now a lot cheaper to fly to L.A. and attend the AFM."
He added: "We are still trying to do euro deals, but it is a case-by-case situation. Of course, no one is going to pay a 40% markup because of the weak dollar. But there are a lot of territories outside the U.S. where the dollar exchange isn't an issue."
Markus Zimmer, managing director of German giant Concorde Filmverleih, thinks a weak dollar is better than a strong one for buyers.
"But the decision to buy is still driven by the product, by the stories, not by the exchange rate. Still, it is a welcome development because, at least in Germany, the prices on the other side -- the television channels, theatrical distribution and so on -- haven't gone up," he said.
- 10/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Former Icon Entertainment International chief Peter Naish has been hired as managing director at Capitol Films, the London-based financier and sales house said Wednesday.
Naish is set at the end of the month to join Capitol head of sales James Norrie and ThinkFilm International head of sales Eve Schoukroun, who will both report to Naish, in planning for the upcoming Marche du Film.
"Capitol has always had a solid foundation as one of the world's leading sales and production companies," Naish said in a statement. "To be part of the company's ambitious plans to grow, of which the acquisition of ThinkFilm was just the start, is a great opportunity, and I'm looking forward to working with a hugely experienced and talented team."
Capitol chairman David Bergstein described Naish's experience in the international sales business as "a strong addition to the U.K. office" and said it would ramp up the team ahead of Cannes.
In early 2006, Capitol was acquired by L.A.-based entrepreneur David Bergstein.
Naish is set at the end of the month to join Capitol head of sales James Norrie and ThinkFilm International head of sales Eve Schoukroun, who will both report to Naish, in planning for the upcoming Marche du Film.
"Capitol has always had a solid foundation as one of the world's leading sales and production companies," Naish said in a statement. "To be part of the company's ambitious plans to grow, of which the acquisition of ThinkFilm was just the start, is a great opportunity, and I'm looking forward to working with a hugely experienced and talented team."
Capitol chairman David Bergstein described Naish's experience in the international sales business as "a strong addition to the U.K. office" and said it would ramp up the team ahead of Cannes.
In early 2006, Capitol was acquired by L.A.-based entrepreneur David Bergstein.
- 4/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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