Exclusive: Sales and distribution veteran Mark Lindsay to introduce five new titles to Cannes buyers.
New York-based Saboteur Media has launched a production and finance operation with a broader sales remit and hired former Miramax International senior executive Mark Lindsay as president of distribution.
The moves comes as executive director Nick Quested expands the suite of services beyond those of documentary distributor and sales company initially launched under the auspices of Goldcrest Films.
Saboteur now operates as a stand-alone entity that produces, finances and sells narrative and documentary features, with particular emphasis on empowering the New York creative community and an opportunistic eye towards television.
The company has the ability to finance tax credits and invest equity in select projects, which will not rely on pre-sales in order to get greenlight. It serves as co-producer on all five titles headed for Cannes.
Lindsay, whose executive roles have included head of sales and distribution at Kimmel International, Arclight...
New York-based Saboteur Media has launched a production and finance operation with a broader sales remit and hired former Miramax International senior executive Mark Lindsay as president of distribution.
The moves comes as executive director Nick Quested expands the suite of services beyond those of documentary distributor and sales company initially launched under the auspices of Goldcrest Films.
Saboteur now operates as a stand-alone entity that produces, finances and sells narrative and documentary features, with particular emphasis on empowering the New York creative community and an opportunistic eye towards television.
The company has the ability to finance tax credits and invest equity in select projects, which will not rely on pre-sales in order to get greenlight. It serves as co-producer on all five titles headed for Cannes.
Lindsay, whose executive roles have included head of sales and distribution at Kimmel International, Arclight...
- 4/26/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Company’s first sales title is FrightFest horror Cruel Summer [pictured].
UK-based distributor Sharp Teeth Films is launching an in-house sales operation.
The first title in the new venture will be UK horror-thriller Cruel Summer which recently had its world premiere at London’s FrightFest ‘First Blood’ strand.
The movie charts the story of a young autism sufferer tormented by a group of enraged teens.
Fledgling distributor Sharp Teeth grew out of the Terracotta Entertainment Group, which primarily promotes Far East films in the UK.
The company’s first two releases are New York documentary Rubble Kings, highlighting the true story that inspired cult classic The Warriors and horror Shopping Tour.
UK-based distributor Sharp Teeth Films is launching an in-house sales operation.
The first title in the new venture will be UK horror-thriller Cruel Summer which recently had its world premiere at London’s FrightFest ‘First Blood’ strand.
The movie charts the story of a young autism sufferer tormented by a group of enraged teens.
Fledgling distributor Sharp Teeth grew out of the Terracotta Entertainment Group, which primarily promotes Far East films in the UK.
The company’s first two releases are New York documentary Rubble Kings, highlighting the true story that inspired cult classic The Warriors and horror Shopping Tour.
- 11/5/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Nothing fits the music documentary format quite so compellingly as a life cut tragically short. In addition to the ready-made dramatic arc, a subject who leaves this mortal coil before their time usually also leaves a certain amount of mystery in their wake, providing ample grist for filmmakers (and the folks they interview) to chew on.
Even when the hows and whys of an artist's tragic exit are a matter of uncontroversial record, questions of "What might have been?" inevitably linger over their prematurely truncated discography — in itself a far...
Even when the hows and whys of an artist's tragic exit are a matter of uncontroversial record, questions of "What might have been?" inevitably linger over their prematurely truncated discography — in itself a far...
- 12/31/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Killer Mike and El-p commanded Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s outdoor stage on Thursday, performing the frenzied signature cut, "Run the Jewels," from their 2013 debut LP. The duo brought their usual explosive energy, trading off verses and offering a brief scratching showcase for DJ Trackstar.
The group explored a more intimate, atmospheric mood with Run the Jewels 2 highlight "Crown." Backed by swirling organ, psychedelic wah-wah and a trio of soulful backing singers, the rappers reflect on rising above the evil forces around them.
Earlier this month, Run the Jewels debuted the...
The group explored a more intimate, atmospheric mood with Run the Jewels 2 highlight "Crown." Backed by swirling organ, psychedelic wah-wah and a trio of soulful backing singers, the rappers reflect on rising above the evil forces around them.
Earlier this month, Run the Jewels debuted the...
- 12/11/2015
- Rollingstone.com
★★★☆☆ Director Sacha Jenkins' Fresh Dressed (2015) harks back to the early 1990s, the nascent days of hip-hop and the change in fashion engendered by an entirely new musical form. Beneath the bold, multi-coloured graffiti-inspired designs, baggy pants and bling there's more to this stylish documentary than initially meets the eye. There is some crossover early on with Shan Nicholson's 2010 documentary Rubble Kings - which ploughs through the devastating violence and arson of the South Bronx in the 1970s.
- 11/2/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
To close out the Adult Swim Singles series (which brought us gems from Chromatics and Danny Brown), Run the Jewels have shared a fiery new song, "Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite)," for the documentary Rubble Kings (streaming now on Netflix), which explores how the gang culture that ran New York City's streets from the late '60s into the '70s laid the groundwork for hip-hop's birth. There are no cat sounds to be heard here; instead, what you get is Killer Mike and El-p in typical take-no-prisoners form over a grizzly Little Shalimar–produced beat. "I am done asking and pleading and begging you recognize I am alive," El-p growls, in an especially fearless performance. Also featured on the doc's soundtrack are Bun B, Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire, and Ka, so it's probably worth a listen.
- 10/5/2015
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
It’s almost September and that means Netflix is about to refresh their content, for better or worse. Some of the notable titles leaving include: High Fidelity, Anchorman 2, and The Skeleton Twins. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including The Monster Squad, Moonrise Kingdom (pictured above), and The Walking Dead: Season 5.
Available 9/1
72 Dangerous Animals: Australia: Season 1
Arthur: Season 17
Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)
Battle Creek: Season 1
Blackbird (2014)
Capital C (2014)
Combustion (2013)
Da Jammies: Season 1
Divorce Corp. (2014)
Giggle and Hoot’s Best Ever! (2014)
Hamlet (1990)
Hardball (2001)
Heather McDonald: I Don’t Mean To Brag (2014)
Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version (1962)
Los hombres también lloran: Season 1
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Mississippi Damned (2009)
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Volume 1
Mouk: Season 1
Our Man in Tehran (2013)
Pandas: The Journey Home (2014)
Person of Interest:...
Available 9/1
72 Dangerous Animals: Australia: Season 1
Arthur: Season 17
Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)
Battle Creek: Season 1
Blackbird (2014)
Capital C (2014)
Combustion (2013)
Da Jammies: Season 1
Divorce Corp. (2014)
Giggle and Hoot’s Best Ever! (2014)
Hamlet (1990)
Hardball (2001)
Heather McDonald: I Don’t Mean To Brag (2014)
Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version (1962)
Los hombres también lloran: Season 1
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Mississippi Damned (2009)
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Volume 1
Mouk: Season 1
Our Man in Tehran (2013)
Pandas: The Journey Home (2014)
Person of Interest:...
- 9/2/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Exclusive: Asian film specialist Terracotta Distribution expands with new label to focus on titles outside the continent.
Terracotta Distribution, part of the Terracotta Entertainment Group that promotes Asian films in the UK, has launched a new outfit - Sharp Teeth Films.
The label will handle non-Asian films for Terracotta in the UK across theatrical, DVD and VOD.
The first title will be Jim Carey-produced documentary Rubble Kings, highlighting the true story of gangs in 1970s New York that inspired cult classic The Warriors.
Directed by Shan Nicholson, the film will receive a limited theatrical release in September. First shown at the Austin Film Festival in 2010, Rubble Kings was executive produced by Goldcrest-owned Saboteur.
In October, Sharp Teeth Films will release Shopping Tour on DVD and VOD, a “George Romero-inspired horror satire that playfully takes aim at topical issues including consumerism, xenophobia and immigration panic”.
Directed by Mikhail Brashinsky, Shopping Tour was...
Terracotta Distribution, part of the Terracotta Entertainment Group that promotes Asian films in the UK, has launched a new outfit - Sharp Teeth Films.
The label will handle non-Asian films for Terracotta in the UK across theatrical, DVD and VOD.
The first title will be Jim Carey-produced documentary Rubble Kings, highlighting the true story of gangs in 1970s New York that inspired cult classic The Warriors.
Directed by Shan Nicholson, the film will receive a limited theatrical release in September. First shown at the Austin Film Festival in 2010, Rubble Kings was executive produced by Goldcrest-owned Saboteur.
In October, Sharp Teeth Films will release Shopping Tour on DVD and VOD, a “George Romero-inspired horror satire that playfully takes aim at topical issues including consumerism, xenophobia and immigration panic”.
Directed by Mikhail Brashinsky, Shopping Tour was...
- 8/28/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Rubble Kings
Directed by Shan Nicholson
USA, 2010
Draped in graffiti, a rickety old subway train makes its way across a rugged slice of New York that looks more like Mad Max than Mad Men. Only seconds into director Shan Nicholson’s documentary Rubble Kings, the audience understands that the residents on display in the film’s South Bronx ghettos live in a place that barely qualifies as America. The Bronx in the early seventies was a ruthless kingdom, where the only laws that mattered were those imposed by the hoodlums that claimed your block. Rubble Kings takes a look at the rise of New York City’s gang life in the early seventies while also making the case that the emergence of hip-hop played a large role in New York gang culture’s decline.
Narrated by John Leguizamo, Rubble Kings examines the rise of New York City gang life in...
Directed by Shan Nicholson
USA, 2010
Draped in graffiti, a rickety old subway train makes its way across a rugged slice of New York that looks more like Mad Max than Mad Men. Only seconds into director Shan Nicholson’s documentary Rubble Kings, the audience understands that the residents on display in the film’s South Bronx ghettos live in a place that barely qualifies as America. The Bronx in the early seventies was a ruthless kingdom, where the only laws that mattered were those imposed by the hoodlums that claimed your block. Rubble Kings takes a look at the rise of New York City’s gang life in the early seventies while also making the case that the emergence of hip-hop played a large role in New York gang culture’s decline.
Narrated by John Leguizamo, Rubble Kings examines the rise of New York City gang life in...
- 8/10/2015
- by Victor Stiff
- SoundOnSight
Hip-Hop is always ready to champion the next. Though the foundation of sampling old records and shout-outs to forefathers forever keeps one eye towards the past, young fans of the genre crave originality and the cutting-edge. But for the generations that grew up with hip-hop back in two fertile periods of the genre — the late Seventies and the early-to-mid Nineties — there's something to be gained by revisiting its heydays. Graphic novels, television, feature films and documentaries are resurrecting the culture's past in what appears to be a mini-renaissance of hip-hop nostalgia.
- 7/9/2015
- Rollingstone.com
You’re more than likely familiar with the 1979 film, "The Warriors," the cult classic about an all out battle royale amongst colorfully costumed (but brutal) street gangs in New York City. Vividly over-the-top, the film’s depiction of gang culture pales in comparison to the real-life gangs who inspired it, the titular "Rubble Kings" of director Shan Nicholson’s latest documentary. The doc takes a look back at a time when black and Puerto Rican gangs populated literally every corner of the South Bronx - gangs with names like The Savage Nomads and The Skulls, The Homicides and The Dirty Ones - who wore distinct colors, had complex hierarchies, and ...
- 6/24/2015
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
By the end of the Summer of Love in 1967, the Bronx was a warzone overrun by gangs and violence like a real-life scene from The Warriors. The recently released documentary Rubble Kings explains how the warring sets made peace in the Seventies and paved the way for the birth of hip-hop. The first five minutes of the film, which is now available as part of the BitTorrent Bundle below, are streaming above.
The story begins with Carlos "Karate Charlie" Suarez and "Yellow" Benji Melendez, who came together to form a...
The story begins with Carlos "Karate Charlie" Suarez and "Yellow" Benji Melendez, who came together to form a...
- 6/24/2015
- Rollingstone.com
You’re more than likely familiar with the 1979 film, "The Warriors," the cult classic about an all out battle royale amongst colorfully costumed (but brutal) street gangs in New York City. Vividly over-the-top, the film’s depiction of gang culture pales in comparison to the real-life gangs who inspired it, the titular "Rubble Kings" of director Shan Nicholson’s latest documentary. The doc takes a look back at a time when black and Puerto Rican gangs populated literally every corner of the South Bronx - gangs with names like The Savage Nomads and The Skulls, The Homicides and The Dirty Ones - who wore distinct colors, had complex hierarchies, and ...
- 6/19/2015
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
While there are those who yearn for New York City's more rough and tumble past, that lens of nostalgia often forgets that for all of the city's colorful quirks of the time, it was also violent, decaying, and on the brink of total collapse. In the 1970s, the city veered towards bankruptcy, some boroughs resembled war zones, and this climate allowed gangs to take root. Shan Nicholson's "Rubble Kings" ambitiously tries to act as a document of that particular milieu, one that will span not just the history of the gangs as told by people who were there, but also tie in the birth of hip hop, and the changing face of a city. It's certainly an admirable goal, but the film leaves much wanting. From almost every angle, "Rubble Kings" has the ingredients to be something definitive. The list of participants is lengthy, there's a healthy amount of archival footage,...
- 6/18/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
You’re more than likely familiar with the 1979 film, "The Warriors," the cult classic about an all out battle royale amongst colorfully costumed (but brutal) street gangs in New York City. Vividly over-the-top, the film’s depiction of gang culture pales in comparison to the real-life gangs who inspired it, the titular "Rubble Kings" of director Shan Nicholson’s latest documentary. The doc takes a look back at a time when black and Puerto Rican gangs populated literally every corner of the South Bronx - gangs with names like The Savage Nomads and The Skulls, The Homicides and The Dirty Ones - who wore distinct colors, had complex hierarchies, and ...
- 6/10/2015
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
Exclusive: Saboteur will rep two films at the European Film Market.
Goldcrest’s New York-based doc distributor Saboteur Media is entering the international sales arena and will launch two films at the Efm.
Sales will be handled by Pierre Weisbein, formerly of Goldcrest, Canal+ and StudioCanal.
Screening in Berlin’s Panorama is Afghan war documentary Tell Spring Not To Come This Year, told from the Afghan perspective bydirectors Saeed Taji Farouky and Mike McEvoy.
Also on the slate is Shan Nicholson’s Rubble Kings about gangs and hip hop culture in new York between 1968 and 1975 . Saboteur will release day-and-date in the U.S. later this year.
Set up 18 months ago, Saboteur has handled the Us release of ten films including Sebastian Junger’s Korengal.
Nick Quested, executive director of Goldcrest Films, explained: “We aim to put our films in front of audiences wherever they are. Now with a broader reach, Pierre coming...
Goldcrest’s New York-based doc distributor Saboteur Media is entering the international sales arena and will launch two films at the Efm.
Sales will be handled by Pierre Weisbein, formerly of Goldcrest, Canal+ and StudioCanal.
Screening in Berlin’s Panorama is Afghan war documentary Tell Spring Not To Come This Year, told from the Afghan perspective bydirectors Saeed Taji Farouky and Mike McEvoy.
Also on the slate is Shan Nicholson’s Rubble Kings about gangs and hip hop culture in new York between 1968 and 1975 . Saboteur will release day-and-date in the U.S. later this year.
Set up 18 months ago, Saboteur has handled the Us release of ten films including Sebastian Junger’s Korengal.
Nick Quested, executive director of Goldcrest Films, explained: “We aim to put our films in front of audiences wherever they are. Now with a broader reach, Pierre coming...
- 2/5/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
You’re more than likely familiar with the 1979 film, "The Warriors," the cult classic about an all out battle royale amongst colorfully costumed (but brutal) street gangs in New York City. Vividly over-the-top, the film’s depiction of gang culture pales in comparison to the real-life gangs who inspired it, the titular "Rubble Kings" of director Shan Nicholson’s latest documentary. The doc takes a look back at a time when black and Puerto Rican gangs populated literally every corner of the South Bronx - gangs with names like The Savage Nomads and The Skulls, The Homicides and The Dirty Ones - who wore distinct colors, had complex hierarchies, and ...
- 11/19/2014
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
Trailer for a documentary currently playing the film festival circuit titled Rubble Kings, directed by Shan Nicholson.
Synopsis: From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement lay a unfocused rage. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come by giving birth to hip-hop culture. Rubble Kings, the most comprehensive documentation of life during this era of gang rule to date, tells the story of how a few extraordinary, forgotten people did the impossible, and how their actions impacted the world over.
Synopsis: From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement lay a unfocused rage. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come by giving birth to hip-hop culture. Rubble Kings, the most comprehensive documentation of life during this era of gang rule to date, tells the story of how a few extraordinary, forgotten people did the impossible, and how their actions impacted the world over.
- 11/9/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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