FilmNation sells out on ‘The Crow’ reboot in Cannes (exclusive)
BY JEREMY KAY 10 JUNE 2022
SOURCE: GAGE SKIDMORE (CC BY-SA 2.0)
BILL SKARSGÅRD
The Crow reboot package lived up to pre-market expectations and proved to be a standout from FilmNation’s packed Cannes slate as heavyweight international buyers snapped up rights to the upcoming revenge thriller.
Bill Skarsgård from the It franchise and Deadpool 2 will star alongside British singer-songwriter FKA twigs for Rupert Sanders, whose directing credits include Snow White And The Huntsman, Ghost In The Shell and Foundation. Sanders will direct from a screenplay by Zach Baylin, the Oscar-nominated writer of King Rchard and the upcoming Creed III.
Closed deals include Entertainment Film for the UK, Leonine for Germany, Roadshow Films for Australia and New Zealand, Eagle for Italy, Nordisk for Scandinavia, California Filmes for Latin America, Tri Pictures for Spain, and Moviecloud for Taiwan.
In further trading, rights have gone for Middle East (Italia), Eastern Europe (Vertical), Benelux (WWE), Thailand (M Pictures), Malaysia (Square Box), Singapore (Shaw), Portugal (Pris), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Greece (Tanweer), South Africa (Empire), India (PVR), Turkey (Yeni Bir), and Baltics (Acme).
Production is anticipated to begin in Europe this summer on the reimagining of the cult character based on James O’Barr’s graphic novel. Alex Proyas directed the 1994 feature version about a man who returns from the dead to avenge his murder and that of his fiancée.
Producers are Molly Hassell, Victor Hadida – whose Metropolitan will distribute The Crow in France – as well as John Jencks, and Edward R. Pressman, who produced the 1994 original. CAA Media Finance represents US rights.
Sanders is represented by CAA, Grandview and Independent Talent Group. Skarsgard is represented by WME, Magnolia Entertainment and Hirsch Wallerstein. FKA twigs is represented by UTA.
FilmNation’s Cannes slate includes Vatican conspiracy thriller Conclave to star Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini; Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu and Djimon Hounsou in diver thriller Last Breath; Michael Keaton starring in and directing the noir Knox Goes Away; and Paul Greengrass-Benedict Cumberbatch peasant revolt drama The Hood.
As previously reported Apple snapped up worldwide rights during the market to sci-fi romance package Fingernails starring Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley.
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The Best Picture Oscar My Way (2000-2022)
After doing this list, I suddenly got inspired to do this sort of thing for some of the other Academy Award categories. For this project I got the following things to say:
Many of the win/nomination changes will be based more on some infamous or otherwise perceived snubs (i.e. Martin Scorsese needing to wait until The Departed for a Best Director win). In general, the changes are based on what the frequent consensus seems to be from what I’ve seen.
I may STILL keep a few of those same snubs if it simply lines up more with the film’s initial reactions at the time (i.e. Clockwork Orange).
There are some changes that the Oscars applied to certain categories over the years (i.e. Sound Mixing & Sound Editing becoming just Best Sound). For this list’s sake, I’ll apply some of my OWN cases of said changes applying (such as the Best Picture expansion from 5 to 10 occurring earlier since, in hindsight, they probably should’ve done that sooner). In case of that change, I’ll just apply it earlier (starting in 1997).
Said expansion has resulted in no less than 8 nominations in Best Picture at a time, so that’ll be my minimum (until 2021, where it was officially made the set amount no questions asked).
Gonna try to keep EGOTs as best as I can. Luckily for this category, there’s currently only one that’ll matter.
More inclusive wins (POC; LGBT) will be more likely to stay. There may be some exceptions after I’ve already made my own inclusive alternatives.
For the early years where Best Picture went to the studio instead (for some godforsaken reason), I’ll just pretend that’s not the case.
Due to some weird, borderline convoluted rules with Best International Feature Film (Mainly that this category doesn’t require US theater plays, but most other ones do), I’ll often go off of an eligible film’s year of original release unless they managed nominations the following year (City of God; Spirited Away)
For Best Picture, I’m only gonna list the nominated producer for newly added films (here’s the Wikipedia page for the rest). I will mostly go with the ones credited as “produced by” or “p.g.a.” (if the latter is shown) on IMDB as the nominees. Limit is five.
Italicized film titles are the ones I added. Bold ones are winners.
2000
Gladiator (still)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Erin Brockovich
Memento - Jennifer Todd; Suzanne Todd
Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe; Ian Bryce
Amores perro - Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Traffic
American Psycho - Christian Halsey Solomon; Chris Hanley; Edward R. Pressman
Requiem for a Dream - Eric Watson; Palmer West
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A Beautiful Mind
Moulin Rogue!
Shrek - Aron Warner; John H. Williams; Jeffrey Katzenberg
The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson; Barry Mendel; Scott Rudin
Mulholland Drive - Tony Krantz; Michael Polaire; Alain Sarde; Mary Sweeney
Amélie - Claudie Ossard
In The Bedroom
Gosford Park
Monsters, Inc. - Darla K. Anderson
2002
Spirited Away - Toshio Suzuki
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist
Gangs of New York
Punch-Drunk Love - Paul Thomas Anderson; Daniel Lupi; JoAnne Sellar
Chicago!
Catch Me If You Can - Steven Spielberg; Walter F. Parkes
The Hours
2003
The Lord of the Ring: Return of the King (still)
The Barbarian Invasions - Daniel Louis; Denise Robert
Lost in Translation
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
City of God - Andrea Barata; Mauricio Andrade
Finding Nemo - Graham Walters
Mystic River
Seabiscuit
2004
Before Sunset - Anne Walker-McBay
Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
The Incredibles - John Walker
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Anthony Bergman; Steven Golin
Sideways
Ray
The Motorcycle Diaries - Michaek Nozik; Edgard Tenembaum; Karen Tenkhoff
Shrek 2 - David Lipman; Aron Warner; John H. Williams
Shaun of the Dead - Nira Park
2005 (well crap, seems like in hindsight, a struggle to find many picks might have been part of the problem. Still don’t excuse that bullshit with Crash)
Brokeback Mountain
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
Capote
Pride and Prejudice - Tim Bevan; Debra Hayward
Howl’s Moving Castle - Toshio Suzuki
Memoirs of a Geisha - Lucy Fisher; Steven Spielberg; Douglas Wick
V for Vendetta - Lana and Lilly Wackowski; Joel Silver; Grant Hill
2006
Pan’s Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro; Alfonso Cuaron; Bertha Navarro; Frida Torresblanco
The Departed
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Children of Men - Marc Abraham; Eric Newman; Hilary Shor; Iain Smith; Tony Smith
The Prestige - Christopher Nolan; Emma Thomas; Aaron Ryder
The Lives of Others - Quirin Berg; Max Wiedemann
The Queen
2007
No Country For Old Men (still)
There Will Be Blood
Ratatouille - Bradford Lewis
Juno
Atonement
Zodiac - Ceán Chaffin; Bradley J. Fischer; Mike Medavoy; Arnold Messer; James Vanderbilt
Persepolis - Xavier Rigault; Marc-Antoine Robert
Hot Fuzz - Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner; Nira Park
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu; Oleg Mutu
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Ridley Scott; Dede Gardner; Brad Pitt; David Valdes; Jules Daly
2008
Wall-E - Jim Morris; Lindsey Collins
The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan; Charles Roven; Emma Thomas
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Milk
Frost/Nixon
Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman; Spike Jonze; Sidney Kimmel; Anthony Bregman
Departures - Toshiaki Nakazawa; Ichiro Nobukuni; Toshihisa Watai
The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky; Scott Franklin
Doubt - Mark Roybal; Scott Rudin
2009
Inglorious Basterds
The Hurt Locker
Mother - Tae-joon Park; Woo-sik-Seo
Up
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson; Allison Abbate; Scott Rudin; Jeremy Dawson
A Serious Man
The White Ribbon - Stefan Arndt; Veit Heiduschka; Margaret Menegoz; Andrea Occhipinti
The Secret in Their Eyes - Mariela Besuievsky; Juan Jose Campanella
Avatar
District 9
2010
Inception
Incendies - Kim McCraw; Luc Dery
True Grit
Toy Story 3
The Social Network
Black Swan
Biutiful - Alejandro G. Inarritu; Jon Kilik
The Kids Are All Right
127 Hours
The King’s Speech
2011
The Artist (still)
The Tree of Life
The Descendants
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
Hugo
Moneyball
The Help
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
2012
Amour
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Argo
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan; Can Yilmaz
Moonrise Kingdom
Lincoln
Les Miserables
Silver Linings Playbook
The Intouchables - Nicolas Duval Adassovsky; Laurent Zeitoun; Yann Zenou
2013
12 Years a Slave (still)
Her
Prisoners - Kira Davis; Broderick Johnson; Adam Kolbrenner; Andrew A. Kosove
The Great Beauty - Francesca Cima; Nicola Giuliano
Before Midnight - Richard Linklater; Sara Woodhatch; Christos V. Konstantakopoulos
The Wind Rises - Toshio Suzuki
The Wolf of Wall Street
Gravity
Nebraska
American Hustle
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Gone Girl - Ceán Chaffin; Joshua Donen; Arnon Milchan; Resse Witherspoon
Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Yoshiaki Nishimura; Seiichiro Ujiie
Whiplash
Selma
Intersteller - Christopher Nolan; Lynda Obst; Emma Thomas
American Sniper
Boyhood
2015
Carol - Elizabeth Karlsen; Christine Vachon; Stephen Woolley
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inside Out - Jonas Rivera
Spotlight
Bridge of Spies
The Revenant
Room
2016
Moonlight (still)
Arrival
Fences
La La Land
Hidden Figures
The Salesman - Asghar Farhadi; Alexandre Mallet-Guy
The Handmaiden - Park Chan-wook; Syd Lim
Your Name - Koichiro Ito; Genki Kawamura; Katsuhiro Yumiya
Hell or High Water
Manchester by the Sea
2017
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Call Me By Your Name
Phantom Thread
Get Out
Coco - Darla K. Anderson
Blade Runner 2049 - Broderick Johnson; Andrew A. Kosove; Bud Yorkin; Cynthia Sikes
The Post
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Dunkirk
2018
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse - Avi Arad; Phil Lord; Chris Miller; Amy Pascal; Christina Steinberg
Roma
BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
Hereditary - Kevin Scott Frakes; Lars Knudsen
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Shoplifters - Kore-eda Hirokazu; Kaoru Matsuzaki; Hijiri Taguchi; Akihiko Yose
A Star is Born
Vice
2019
Parasite (still)
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Woman
1917
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Marriage Story
Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Benedicte Couvreur
The Irishman
The Lighthouse - Lourenco Sant’Anna; Rodrigo Teixeira; Michael Volpe; Robert Eggers
2020
Nomadland (still)
The Father
Soul - Dana Murray
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Sound of Metal
Mank
Wolfwalkers - Tomm Moore; Stephan Roelants; Nora Twomey; Paul Young
2021
Drive My Car
CODA
Belfast
Dune
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Nightmare Alley
Licorice Pizza
King Richard
Titane - Amaury Ovise; Jean-Christophe Reymond
2022
Everything Everywhere All At Once (still)
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fabelmans
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio - Guillermo del Toro; Alexander Bulkley; Gary Ungar
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - Andrew Goldman; Edward Chiodo; Caroline Kaplan; Dean Fleischer Camp; Jenny Slate
Nope - Ian Cooper; Jordan Peele
Aftersun - Barry Jenkins; Mark Ceryak; Amy Jackson; Adele Romanski
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
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