This weekend is shaping up to mirror early fall, when specialty distributors packed theaters with new titles. Many of those disappeared quickly, and this weekend could be similar as companies usher in about a dozen limited-release theatrical newcomers. Focus Features’ The Theory Of Everything, however, has amassed a good amount of attention. Directed by Oscar winner James Marsh (Man On Wire), the Stephen Hawking biopic is opening two months after its Toronto debut. Two notable nonfiction titles also join the fray this weekend: Cinema Guild’s Actress, from director Robert Greene, and Zipporah Films’ National Gallery by nonfiction maverick Frederick Wiseman. Both deserve attention as the awards-race heats up. Two years after the theatrical bow of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President is the focus of Amplify’s The Better Angels — though it focuses a very different phase of his life. Distrib Films is opening Italian political...
- 11/7/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Fledgling production, acquisitions and distribution company Main Street Films has promoted Sophie Nicolaou to vp of marketing and communications.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
- 2/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Fledgling production, acquisitions and distribution company Main Street Films has promoted Sophie Nicolaou to vp of marketing and communications.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
- 2/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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