Theatrical release to come later in year. Naomi Watts, Clive Owen also star.
IFC Films is acquiring Us rights from Covert Media to Ophelia, the reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that stars Daisy Ridley from the Star Wars franchise alongside Naomi Watts and Clive Owen.
Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy directed from Semi Chellas’ adapted screenplay based on the novel by Lisa Klein. IFC plans a theatrical release this year on the drama, which takes place in the original play’s Danish setting and uses contemporary dialogue.
Ophelia premiered at Sundance 2018 and switches the focus to Hamlet’s potential wife, here presented as a rowdy,...
IFC Films is acquiring Us rights from Covert Media to Ophelia, the reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that stars Daisy Ridley from the Star Wars franchise alongside Naomi Watts and Clive Owen.
Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy directed from Semi Chellas’ adapted screenplay based on the novel by Lisa Klein. IFC plans a theatrical release this year on the drama, which takes place in the original play’s Danish setting and uses contemporary dialogue.
Ophelia premiered at Sundance 2018 and switches the focus to Hamlet’s potential wife, here presented as a rowdy,...
- 2/9/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Indie producer-financier-distributor Covert Media has hired onetime Relativity Media exec Linda Benjamin as Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business and Legal Affairs. She comes aboard ahead of the kickoff of the American Film market tomorrow and will be tasked with identifying and executing strategic opportunities for Covert’s expanding production slate while spearheading the company's day-to-day business and legal affairs. Benjamin most recently worked as President…...
- 10/31/2017
- Deadline
The WGA has turned Avi Lerner's frown upside down.
On Tuesday, the Nu Image/Millennium co-topper complained bitterly that the guild was letting his request for an interim work agreement collect dust, perhaps as a payback for his criticism of the writers strike. The next day, the outspoken producer got word that the WGA would be granting him just such a pact, meaning that Lerner could get back into development with a slew of projects and reshoot some scenes for the Robert De Niro-Al Pacino starrer "Righteous Kill".
Company executives signed off on the deal Thursday.
"The good news is that we have our interim agreement," Lerner said.
Also on Thursday, the WGA said that it has reached interim work agreements with indies Intermedia and the Film Department.
"In light of this agreement, we will shortly be announcing our updated film and television slate," Intermedia president Linda Benjamin said.
News of the three pacts comes a day after confirmation of an interim work agreement with Overture Films and follows the signing of similar interim deals with indies United Artists, the Weinstein Co., Lionsgate and others.
On Tuesday, the Nu Image/Millennium co-topper complained bitterly that the guild was letting his request for an interim work agreement collect dust, perhaps as a payback for his criticism of the writers strike. The next day, the outspoken producer got word that the WGA would be granting him just such a pact, meaning that Lerner could get back into development with a slew of projects and reshoot some scenes for the Robert De Niro-Al Pacino starrer "Righteous Kill".
Company executives signed off on the deal Thursday.
"The good news is that we have our interim agreement," Lerner said.
Also on Thursday, the WGA said that it has reached interim work agreements with indies Intermedia and the Film Department.
"In light of this agreement, we will shortly be announcing our updated film and television slate," Intermedia president Linda Benjamin said.
News of the three pacts comes a day after confirmation of an interim work agreement with Overture Films and follows the signing of similar interim deals with indies United Artists, the Weinstein Co., Lionsgate and others.
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