Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts’ “While We're Young” sells worldwideSeptember 17, 2014 - 18:22 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Within days of the film's premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, FilmNation has closed deals for Noah Baumbach's While We're Young in virtually every international territory, The Hollywood Reporter said. The dramedy stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a married couple whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of a younger couple, played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. While We're Young also stars Charles Grodin, Adam Horovitz, Maria Dizzia and Ryan Serhant. “It is fantastic to see the distributor response match all the critical praise that Noah’s film has received,” said FilmNation CEO Glen Basner. During Toronto, While We're Young sold in the U.S. to A24 films for $4 million (UTA handled that deal). It first screened in the festival's special presentations section on Sept. 6. The movie, along with Chris Rock's Toronto entry Top Five, marks a prosperous start for producer Scott Rudin and Barry Diller's new film venture, IACF. Top Five, likewise represented by UTA and FilmNation in Toronto, cut a $12.5 million worldwide deal with Paramount following a spirited bidding war. Foreign distributors striking deals with FilmNation for While We're Young include Icon Film in the U.K., Mars in France, SquareOne Entertainment in Germany, Eagle Pictures in Italy, Vertigo Films in Spain, Village Roadshow in Australia, Kino Films in Japan, Swen in Latin America, Dreamwest Pictures in South Korea and Sundream Motion Pictures in Hong Kong. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |