Viacom is objecting to a proposed settlement between The Weinstein Co., its buyer, Lantern Entertainment, and Netflix, arguing the agreement would leave it essentially holding the bag on money it advanced to complete production of the television series Scream.
As the Weinstein Co.’s business deteriorated last fall, Viacom stepped in to provide $9 million in emergency funds to finish production of the third season of Scream. To secure this investment, The Weinstein Co. said Viacom would receive the proceeds from Netflix’s international distribution of the TV show.
Now, Viacom is raising objections to a deal between Lantern and Netflix that traded off its collateral without so much as involving it in the discussions. That leaves Viacom standing in line with unsecured creditors — a group that includes Harvey Weinstein’s accusers — looking to collect payment.
“The net result is a huge windfall for Lantern at the expense of Viacom, the debtors’ estates and unsecured creditors,...
As the Weinstein Co.’s business deteriorated last fall, Viacom stepped in to provide $9 million in emergency funds to finish production of the third season of Scream. To secure this investment, The Weinstein Co. said Viacom would receive the proceeds from Netflix’s international distribution of the TV show.
Now, Viacom is raising objections to a deal between Lantern and Netflix that traded off its collateral without so much as involving it in the discussions. That leaves Viacom standing in line with unsecured creditors — a group that includes Harvey Weinstein’s accusers — looking to collect payment.
“The net result is a huge windfall for Lantern at the expense of Viacom, the debtors’ estates and unsecured creditors,...
- 8/30/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
Mubi's retrospective New Argentine Cinema is playing from August 7 - September 28, 2017 in most countries around the world. La CiénagaBeginning in the mid-1990s, young directors, the majority of whom had graduated from one of many film schools in Argentina, began producing low-budget, independent films in a style that earned this group the classification of the New Independent Argentine Cinema.Part of this upsurge had to do with a small grants program that was initiated by the National Film Institute (Incaa) in the mid-1990s. These recent graduates have made short films (cortometrajes), and then have gone on to raise funds through co-production funding (Hubert Bals Fund at the Rotterdam film festival, the Visions Sud Est program from Switzerland, among others). They have relied on their own networks of like-minded young people rather than depend on the traditional film sector structure (the film union, established director’s associations, and the few...
- 9/6/2017
- MUBI
Festival to screen 131 films, of which 36 are directed or co-directed by women.
Richard Gere will kick off festivities with the opening night gala screening of Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer. The festival runs from March 3-12.
The 34th annual Miami Film Festival (Mff) will close with the international premiere of Carlos Theron’s For Your Own Good from Spain starring José Coronado, Javier Cámara and Roberto Alamo.
Cuba is prominently featured in the programme. Kenny Ortega’s A Change Of Heart gets its world premiere and filmed in Miami and stars Gloria Estefan, Aimee Teegarden, Virginia Madsen, Jim Belushi and William Levy.
Fernando Perez’s Last Days In Havana (Últimos Días En La Habana) will receive its North American premiere. Uruguayan-Argentinian director Adrián Caetano, who competed in Cannes in 2006 with Chronicle Of An Escape, will debut The Lost Brother (El Otro Hermano) starring Leonardo Sbaraglia and Daniel Hendler.
They join the...
Richard Gere will kick off festivities with the opening night gala screening of Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer. The festival runs from March 3-12.
The 34th annual Miami Film Festival (Mff) will close with the international premiere of Carlos Theron’s For Your Own Good from Spain starring José Coronado, Javier Cámara and Roberto Alamo.
Cuba is prominently featured in the programme. Kenny Ortega’s A Change Of Heart gets its world premiere and filmed in Miami and stars Gloria Estefan, Aimee Teegarden, Virginia Madsen, Jim Belushi and William Levy.
Fernando Perez’s Last Days In Havana (Últimos Días En La Habana) will receive its North American premiere. Uruguayan-Argentinian director Adrián Caetano, who competed in Cannes in 2006 with Chronicle Of An Escape, will debut The Lost Brother (El Otro Hermano) starring Leonardo Sbaraglia and Daniel Hendler.
They join the...
- 1/26/2017
- ScreenDaily
- Today's double pairings have very little in common - we have an Argentinean film that has had a delayed released, we have the only film sequel worth mentioning this year, we have a Clooney film from a newbie director and have a quirky comedy from a regular favorite filmmaker of ours. 16. Crónica de una fuga Release date: November 28th Limited Release Screenwriters: Israel Adrián Caetano, Esteban Student and Julian Loyola Director: Israel Adrián Caetano Distributor: IFC Films Fests: Preemed in Argentina before making it to Cannes and then Toronto in 2006. Producers: Oscar Kramer (Carandiru) and Hugo Sigman Ioncinema Preview: View Here Movie Trailer: Click Here The Gist: Buenos Aires, 1977. A "task group" working for the fascist Argentine military govermment kidnaps Claudio Tamburrini, goalkeeper of a B-league soccer team, and takes him to a clandestine detention center known as Sere Mansion: a forbidding old mansion in the suburban neighbourhood of Moron.
- 8/28/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Forest Whitaker, Derek Luke and Lindsay Lohan have been selected to join the list of honorees at the 10th annual Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards, which is set for Oct. 23 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The festival, which runs Oct 19-23 at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, has also issued a list of nominees for its Hollywood World Awards. They are: 12:08 East of Bucharest, directed by Corneliu Porumboiu; Buenos Aires, 1977, Adrian Caetano; Climates, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Grbavica, directed by Jasmila Zbanic; The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Pan's Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo del Toro; The Queen, Stephen Frears; Red Road, Andrea Arnold; Volver, Pedro Almodovar; and The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ken Loach.
- 9/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel, the documentary Neil Young: Heart of Gold and Paris, je t'aime are among the nine films selected for the San Sebastian International Film Festival's Zabaltegi section, organizers said Tuesday. One of the most popular sections at San Sebastian, Zabaltegi is designed to give festivalgoers a chance to catch up on films they may have missed at previous festivals. Other titles this year include Sundance favorite Little Miss Sunshine, Berlin title Vitus and Cannes entries The Court from Abderrahmane Sissako and Buenos Aires, 1977 from Israel Adrian Caetano. Manoel de Oliveira's Belle toujours, an homage to Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere, and Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men will screen in Venice prior to San Sebastian, qualifying them for the category as well.
- 8/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- The Weinstein Co. has acquired North American, Australian and New Zealand rights to Israel Adrian Caetano's Argentinean fact-based thriller Buenos Aires 1977 (Cronica de Una Fuga), which will screen Saturday In Competition at the Festival de Cannes. The film tells a true but little-known story of the goalkeeper of a minor soccer league (Rodrigo de la Serna) who was kidnapped by a fascist Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After four months of physical and mental torture, and facing possible execution, he bands together with three other young men to plan his escape. The goalkeeper is played by Rodrigo de la Serna, whose credits include The Motorcycle Diaries. The film was moved from the Un Certain Regard section to the competition at Cannes in late April. The deal is part of the Weinstein Co.'s new Latin American fund formed with Eduardo Costantini Jr. to finance the production and acquisition of Latin American films. Weinstein Co. exec vp acquisitions Maeva Gatineau brought the project to the company's attention. Vincent Maraval and Carole Baraton negotiated on behalf of Wild Bunch with Weinstein Co's Barry Littman.
- 5/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- The Weinstein Co. has acquired North American, Australian and New Zealand rights to Israel Adri?n Caetano's Argentinean fact-based thriller Buenos Aires 1977 (Cronica de Una Fuga), which will screen Saturday In Competition. The film tells a true but little-known story of the goalkeeper of a minor soccer league (Rodrigo de la Serna) who was kidnapped by a fascist Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After four months of physical and mental torture, he bands together with three other young men to plan his escape. The goalkeeper is played by Rodrigo de la Serna, whose credits include The Motorcycle Diaries. The deal is part of the Weinstein Co.'s new Latin American fund formed with Eduardo Costantini Jr. to finance the production and acquisition of Latin American films.
- 5/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- In a flurry of late changes to the Festival de Cannes lineup, Israel Adrian Caetano's Cronica de Una Fuga (Chronicle of a Flight) has been moved into Competition from its previous berth in the sidebar Un Certain Regard, organizers said Thursday. This brings the number of films in Competition to 20. A late addition to Un Certain Regard is Two Thirty 7, a first film from Australian director Murali K. Thalluri, recounting a day in the lives of six high-school kids culminating in the suicide of one of them. It is the third film from Australia in that section. Festival organizers also said German auteur Wim Wenders will be on the Croisette to present a special screening of his documentary short Chambre 666 (Room 666) which he shot in Cannes in 1982. In the film, he asks a number of film directors from around the world what they believe to be the future of cinema.
- 4/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- In a flurry of late changes to the Festival de Cannes lineup, Israel Adrian Caetano's Cronica de Una Fuga (Chronicle of a Flight) has been moved into Competition from its previous berth in the sidebar Un Certain Regard, organizers said Thursday. This brings the number of films in Competition to 20. A late addition to Un Certain Regard is Two Thirty 7, a first film from Australian director Murali K. Thalluri, recounting a day in the lives of six high-school kids culminating in the suicide of one of them. It is the third film from Australia in that section. Festival organizers also said German auteur Wim Wenders will be on the Croisette to present a special screening of his documentary short Chambre 666 (Room 666) which he shot in Cannes in 1982. In the film, he asks a number of film directors from around the world what they believe to be the future of cinema.
- 4/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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