Talk about chutzpah. David Bergstein is behind a group seeking to acquire the Miramax name and film library from Disney, while in Berlin, his Pangea Media Group and subsidiary Capitol Films will be hustling movies from their existing library during the European Film Market.
Pangea is pushing ahead on both fronts even though Bergstein's legal problems continue to mount, the company's domestic marketing and distribution staffers have been laid off, and there are questions about whether the firm controls some of the movies being offered to buyers at the Berlinale. These pics include "$5 a Day," starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone, and Taylor Hackford's "Love Ranch," starring Joe Pesci and Hackford's wife, Helen Mirren.
Despite his travails, Bergstein has found a Saudi Arabian investor and is working with Deutsche Bank to help him acquire the Miramax name and film library, which Disney values as high as $700 million. (There are other potential bidders for Miramax,...
Pangea is pushing ahead on both fronts even though Bergstein's legal problems continue to mount, the company's domestic marketing and distribution staffers have been laid off, and there are questions about whether the firm controls some of the movies being offered to buyers at the Berlinale. These pics include "$5 a Day," starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone, and Taylor Hackford's "Love Ranch," starring Joe Pesci and Hackford's wife, Helen Mirren.
Despite his travails, Bergstein has found a Saudi Arabian investor and is working with Deutsche Bank to help him acquire the Miramax name and film library, which Disney values as high as $700 million. (There are other potential bidders for Miramax,...
- 2/10/2010
- by By Alex Ben Block
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle will star in director John Michael McDonagh's "The Guard." The film follows an unusual Irish cop who joins forces with a by-the-book FBI agent to take on an international drug smuggling gang in Ireland. The film, which is currently shooting on location in the west of Ireland, also stars Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot, Pat Shortt and Katarina Cas. According to Variety, Reprisal Film's Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo and Element Pictures' Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe are producing.
- 11/4/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
London -- Brendan Gleeson is teaming up with "Ned Kelly" scribe John Michael McDonagh to star in McDonagh's "The Guard," an Irish-set comedy thriller also featuring Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham.
Gleeson joins the movie as it begins shooting on location in Ireland.
It details the story of an unorthodox Irish policeman (Gleeson) who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
Gleeson's character is billed as a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
Written and directed by McDonagh the film also stars Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, Pat Shortt and newcomer Katarina Cas.
The film is produced by Reprisal's Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo and Element's...
Gleeson joins the movie as it begins shooting on location in Ireland.
It details the story of an unorthodox Irish policeman (Gleeson) who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
Gleeson's character is billed as a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
Written and directed by McDonagh the film also stars Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, Pat Shortt and newcomer Katarina Cas.
The film is produced by Reprisal's Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo and Element's...
- 10/29/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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