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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on May 5, 2018 10:40:19 GMT -6
deadline.com/2018/05/industry-sales-production-vet-robbie-little-dies-unexpectedly-en-route-to-cannes-1202383385/ Industry Sales & Production Vet Robbie Little Dies Unexpectedly En Route To Cannes Industry veteran Robbie Little, co-president of The Little Film Company, has died unexpectedly en route to the Cannes Film Festival. Little passed away in London of a suspected heart attack, his colleagues and friends have confirmed to Deadline. Little launched his well-known sales and marketing outfit with his wife Ellen, and executive produced the company’s first film, Tsotsi, which won the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. Previously, the well-traveled and well-liked exec established First Look Media to package finance and distribute movies in the domestic market. As President and Co-Chairman of First Look Media, he created First Look Home Entertainment, the company’s own video/DVD distribution division, which grew into a well known indie label. Over the span of his career, he worked on movies including Waking Ned Devine, An American Haunting, Before Night Falls, Titus, Illuminata, The Prophecy film franchise, and Antonia’s Line (winner of the 1995 Oscar for Best Foreign Language film). Born and raised in England, Little started in the film business while living in Rome, Italy, where he made the first major sale of a Bruce Lee film outside of the Far East to Titanus Distribution. He then later joined Titanus and eventually headed the company’s foreign sales division. In 1980, he and Ellen moved to Los Angeles and co-founded their first company, Overseas Filmgroup. In Cannes, Little was due to sell Timothy Spall movie Mrs Lowry And Son and Jo Brand title The More You Ignore Me. A passionate Liverpool fan, his colleagues remarked that he was looking forward to cheering on his beloved team in the final of the Champions League later this month. Little is survived by his wife Ellen.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on May 5, 2018 11:54:36 GMT -6
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tsotsi-producer-sales-agent-robbie-little-dies-1108950'Tsotsi' Producer and Sales Agent Robbie Little Dies The co-president of The Little Film Company worked on titles including 'Waking Ned Devine,' 'An American Haunting' and 'Before Night Falls.' Tsotsi executive producer and The Little Company co-president Robbie Little has died. Circumstances of the death and Little's age have not yet been disclosed. Little is perhaps best-known for executive producing Tsotsi, which won the 2006 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for South Africa. He was also well-known to the film world as the co-president of The Little Film Company, a worldwide film sales and marketing shingle that he founded with his wife, Ellen, and whose first film was Tsotsi. At the company, Little also executive-produced and sold the Leo Tolstoy drama The Last Station, The Eye of the Storm, The Barber and Northern Soul, among other titles. Across his career Little financed, produced and/or distributed over 300 films with Ellen, including Waking Ned Devine, The Secret or Roan Inish, Evelyn, Before Night Falls, A Map of the World and Between Strangers. Little has also executive-produced An American Haunting, The Prophecy and Trading Mom. Born in Liverpool, England, Little got his break in the film business during a stint in Rome, where he is credited with selling a Bruce Lee film for the first time outside the Eastern hemisphere, to Titanus Distribution. Little later headed foreign film sales for Titanus and met Ellen when she was a Harvard graduate student studying Renaissance art and architecture on a Fullbright scholarship. In 1980 the couple moved to Los Angeles, where they founded the foreign sales and production company The Overseas Filmgroup. The pair later launched First Look Media, where they packaged, financed and distributed within the U.S. Alongside Ellen, Little is a founding member of the Independent Film and Television Alliance and The Archive Coucil, an industry support group for the University of California Los Angeles' Film & Television Archive. The Littles also support the Antonio David Blanco Scholarship Fund at UCLA and scholarship funds in the name of Irvin Shapiro and Walter Manley at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Little was set to head off to the Cannes Film Festival at the time of his death, where he was selling the Timothy Spall-starring Mrs. Lowery and Son and The More You Ignore Me. Little is survived by Little Company co-president and wife Ellen.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on May 5, 2018 12:00:29 GMT -6
variety.com/2018/film/news/robbie-little-dead-die-british-producers-1202800558/Robbie Little, British Producer, Dies En Route to Cannes Robbie Little, a British producer and familiar figure at film markets who founded the Little Film Company with his wife Ellen, has died. Little had been traveling to the Cannes Film Festival from London when he died unexpectedly, according to Screen International. He was working on the drama “Mrs Lowry & Son” with Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave, as well as on “The More You Ignore Me.” Little, together with his wife, has worked on financing, producing and distributing more than 300 films, including “Waking Ned Devine,” “The Secret of Roan Inish,” “Mrs. Dalloway” and “Before Night Falls.” After moving from Italy to Los Angeles, he founded Overseas Film Group, and later First Look Media. As a founding member of the Independent Film and Television Alliance, he was active at the American Film Market since its beginning in the 1980s. Together with his wife, Little was also a founding member of The Archive Council, the industry support group for the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Archive Film Preservation Program, and served on the Board of Directors of the Antonio David Blanco Scholarship Fund, which annually benefits deserving students in the UCLA Department of Film and Television. He also supported scholarship funds honoring Irvin Shapiro and Walter Manley at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jun 22, 2018 20:06:18 GMT -6
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