‘Green Book’ Drives Past $200M Worldwide; Oscar Winner At $27M In China
Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book has driven past $200M global. The Participant Media and DreamWorks Pictures film from director Peter Farrelly hit the milestone with Wednesday’s updated grosses....
View ArticleParticipant Media, Hot Off ‘Roma’, Boards Neon’s Colombian Survival Pic ‘Monos’
Participant Media has teamed with indie distributor Neon on the upcoming U.S. distribution of Monos, the Spanish-language drama directed by Alejandro Landes that Neon acquired after its world premiere...
View Article‘Green Book’ Logs $300M+ At Worldwide Box Office; Tops $70M In China
Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book has cruised past another milestone, topping $300M worldwide through Sunday. The split on the Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures film from director Peter Farrelly...
View Article‘Roma’s China Theatrical Release Date Set Via Estars, Arthouse Alliance
Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning Roma has been confirmed for a May 10 release in China via Estars. As Deadline previously reported, the film is going out on the Nationwide Alliance of Arthouse Cinemas...
View ArticleHollywood Foreign Press Throws Annual Bash And Gives $500,000 To “Help...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, probably best known for handing out Oscars each year, isn’t the only organization known for a major show business award that threw a party this week at...
View ArticleSaudi Film Fest Reveals Dates & Team; TIFF Awards For Participant & Emerging...
Saudi Arabia’s first film festival, the Red Sea International Film Festival, is set to take place in the city of Jeddah between 12 – 21 March, 2020. With a focus on the ‘global south’, the festival’s...
View Article‘Slay The Dragon’: ‘RGB’ Distributor Magnolia Acquires Participant Media’s...
EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges are withdrawing from the gerrymandering debate, but Magnolia Pictures is jumping in. Magnolia has acquired North American rights to Slay the Dragon from Participant Media with...
View ArticleMatt Damon To Star In ‘Stillwater’ Film With Tom McCarthy Attached To Direct
Oscar winners Matt Damon and Tom McCarthy are joining forces for Stillwater, a feature to star Damon directed by McCarthy. Participant Media is on board to finance and produce the pic which is planned...
View ArticleParticipant Media Ups Jeannine Tang To General Counsel
Participant Media has promoted Jeannine Tang to General Counsel, where she will be tasked with overseeing all business and legal affairs for the production company behind Netflix’s Roma and When They...
View ArticleParticipant Media Hires Fox Searchight’s Anikah McLaren, Will Co-Head...
Participant Media said Thursday that it has hired Fox Searchlight executive Anikah McLaren, and she will team with current Participant exec Robert Kessel to be co-heads of the company’s narrative film...
View ArticleParticipant Media Ups Diane Weyermann To Chief Content Officer
Participant Media said Thursday that it has promoted Diane Weyermann to Chief Content Officer, a newly created position. The veteran, who has been at the company since 2005, a year after its launch,...
View Article‘Noughts & Crosses’: How The BBC Adapted Malorie Blackman Novel Into...
How do you adapt Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel series Noughts + Crosses for the screen? The answer, it seems, is to bring together a group that includes the BBC, Victoria producer Mammoth...
View ArticleSpike Lee To Direct Film Version Of ‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’ Stage Show
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Spike Lee has signed on to direct a filmed version of the acclaimed Broadway show David Byrne’s American Utopia. Participant adds another title to its portfolio of films meant...
View Article‘American Factory’ Reaches Highest Ground With Oscar Documentary Feature Win
The rustbelt rebound story American Factory won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight, earning gold for the first collaboration between Netflix and Barack and Michelle Obama’s production...
View Article‘Slay The Dragon’ Review: Could This Bone-Chilling Documentary On Voter...
Participant Media is the production company behind a number of important issue-oriented films both narrative and documentary, including Oscar winners like Green Book, An Inconvenient Truth and its...
View Article‘Slay The Dragon’ Directors On The Politics Of “Rigging The Game,”...
If you thought the political wars were over because the election has passed, Slay the Dragon is a sharp wake-up call to resume the fight. Joe Biden may have won the Presidency and the Senate is focused...
View Article‘The First Wave’ Trailer: Matthew Heineman’s NatGeo Documentary Chronicles...
EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Documentary Films, Neon and Participant have dropped the trailer for The First Wave, the latest film from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Matthew Heineman...
View Article‘Flee’ Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen Talks Takeaways From His Triple-Oscar...
With his film Flee, which recently scored a historic trifecta of Oscar nominations in the categories of Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature, Jonas Poher Rasmussen cleverly...
View ArticleParticipant Media CEO David Linde “Energized” By Industry’s Commitment To...
Participant Media CEO David Linde has said he is “energized” by the number of production and distribution companies who are now committed to social change. Spotlight, Judas and the Black Messiah and...
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