EXCLUSIVE: It didn’t take long for Vertical Entertainment to score at Cannes. The newbie indie distributor snapped up U.S. rights to Scenic Route, starring Josh Duhamel and Dan Fogler. Scenic Route is produced by Brion Hambel and Paul Jensen of Best Medicine Productions, Anonymous Content’s Luke Rivett, and Scott Freeman.
NEW YORK, NY (May 9, 2013) – IFC Films announced today that the company is acquiring North American rights to Scott Coffey’s ADULT WORLD.
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Anonymous Content has signed Omri Cohen for commercial representation. Cohen, whose break into directing came in 2007 with his music video for Red Hot Chili Peppers’ song “Charlie”, has directed Nike ads including the “Yards” spot for the World Cup of Cricket and “Los Fearless”, as well as spots for Google, Microsoft, McDonalds, Norwegian Cruise Line and Amazon, among others.
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There are knights in armor, Aztec warriors, ninjas, samurai and special ops commandos outside. There goes the neighborhood! This trailer by 72andSunny (and director Mark Romanek from Anonymous Content) for Activision’s upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts features assorted masked warriors, most sporting ornate headgear or fearsome face paint. “There are those who wear masks to hide. And those who wear masks to show us what they stand for,” the voiceover says. “There are those who wear masks to protect themselves. And there are those who wear masks to protect us all.”
Look away, KISS historians. A sly new short posted on Vimeo “mockuments” how the band’s hit ballad “Beth” came about. Turns out Beth was home cooking meat loaf while her hubby and the song’s co-writer, KISS drummer Peter Criss, was at the studio with the rest of the band. She wants him home for dinner. His response, of course, is the song’s famous refrain: “Beth, what can I do?”
There aren’t many people who you’d endure several flights, two long train journeys, exceedingly early wake-up calls and a soggy McDonald’s hamburger dinner to spend one minute with—but that’s how powerful the pull of fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld can be. And that pilgrimage is exactly what director Malcolm Venville undertook for a brief encounter with the Chanel and Fendi designer, artist, photographer and one-man cultural phenomenon in St. Moritz in February, where the polymath was revealing an exhibition at Galerie Gmurzynska.
AMC has put in development Ballistic City, a futuristic drama directed and executive produced by Oblivion helmer Joseph Kosinski and written/executive produced by Travis Beacham, co-writer of another upcoming tentpole sci-fi movie, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim. Kosinski, who previously directed Tron: Legacy, and Beacham, who also co-wrote Clash Of The Titans, executive produce with Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin, Bard Dorros and Michael Sugar.
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For the global launch of Vodafone Red, a limitless talk and text plan, the marketer tapped Grey London to portray its long=lasting commitment to its customers, via this moving spot directed by Academy’s Frederic Planchon. The commercial depicts the growing passion of a couple, which only intensifies over time, from when they are children until their elderly years. The idea being, that good things should last forever.
DEADLINE: Cinemax has given a pilot order to Quarry, a drama project based on the series of novels by Max Allan Collins (Road To Perdition graphic novel). Written by Graham Gordy and Michael D. Fuller, Quarry is set in the 1970s and centers on a Marine sniper who, upon his return home from Vietnam in 1973, finds himself shunned by those he loves and demonized by the public. Combat-hardened and disillusioned, he’s recruited into a network of contract killers and corruption spanning the length of the Mississippi River. John Hillcoat is set to direct the pilot, co-produced by Anonymous Content.
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We already saw how Google’s suite of products helped a couple of new parents get through their pregnancy and give birth. Now, Mullen and Google take a cue from that spot, which was created in the U.K., for a new film promoting the Google Nexus 10 tablet. Unlike the British film, which focused on the entire suite of services offered by the company, this one stays simple. A couple shares their tablet while trying to resolve an all-important debate: What should they name the child? Malcolm Venville at Anonymous directs.
