Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Sept 6, 2014 19:36:27 GMT -6
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Millennium Entertainment is getting close to a 7-figure deal to acquire U.S. rights to Madame Bovary, the Sophie Barthes-directed film that stars Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, and Ezra Miller. The Rose Barreneche-scripted film is set in period France, and focuses on two years of the life of the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor. She engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status. I’m hearing that companies like A24 and Sony Pictures Classics are still in the mix, but it looks like this one will close tonight. It premieres Wednesday in the Special Presentations section, but buyers caught it yesterday at a P&I screening and others saw it in Telluride. WME Global is brokered the sale.
The feeling on the film is that Barthes will emerge as a filmmaker to watch, and the deal is also intriguing in that it’s the first effort in a rebranding campaign for Millennium Entertainment since the management team led by CEO Bill Lee and private investment firm Virgo Investment Group teamed to acquire Millennium’s catalog assets and film distribution platform from a consortium including majority owner Nu Image. Millennium had been the distribution arm of Avi Lerner’s Nu Image, and the company was pursued by Europacorp and others. Now that things have settled, it will get a new company name. That’s most welcome, because it was confusing as hell trying to distinguish between this company and Millennium Films, the label that also has gotten ambitious since Mark Gill took the reins there.
Millennium Entertainment is getting close to a 7-figure deal to acquire U.S. rights to Madame Bovary, the Sophie Barthes-directed film that stars Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, and Ezra Miller. The Rose Barreneche-scripted film is set in period France, and focuses on two years of the life of the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor. She engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status. I’m hearing that companies like A24 and Sony Pictures Classics are still in the mix, but it looks like this one will close tonight. It premieres Wednesday in the Special Presentations section, but buyers caught it yesterday at a P&I screening and others saw it in Telluride. WME Global is brokered the sale.
The feeling on the film is that Barthes will emerge as a filmmaker to watch, and the deal is also intriguing in that it’s the first effort in a rebranding campaign for Millennium Entertainment since the management team led by CEO Bill Lee and private investment firm Virgo Investment Group teamed to acquire Millennium’s catalog assets and film distribution platform from a consortium including majority owner Nu Image. Millennium had been the distribution arm of Avi Lerner’s Nu Image, and the company was pursued by Europacorp and others. Now that things have settled, it will get a new company name. That’s most welcome, because it was confusing as hell trying to distinguish between this company and Millennium Films, the label that also has gotten ambitious since Mark Gill took the reins there.