Weinstein Co. Leaps Aboard Remakes of Shaw Bros. Classics
After years of posturing, Weinstein Co. and Celestial move ahead with the remaking of Chinese classics.
Eagle Pictures
Arab Media Mavens Team Up for Global Content Creation
Egyptian billionaire entrepreneur Naguib Sawiris and Franco-Tunisian mogul Tarak Ben Ammar have formed a strategic partnership to produce and distribute a slate of films and TV content for…
Italy’s Eagle buys Mira Nair’s Venice opener
Tarak Ben Ammar's high-flying Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has acquired Italian rights to Mira Nair's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
Buyer shows B.O. instincts
If anybody has the pulse of Italy's rapidly changing movie market, it's Maria Grazia Vairo, Eagle Pictures' head of acquisitions.
Sony’s legal eagle soars
Corii Berg has been promoted to deputy general counsel for Sony Pictures Entertainment. He had been exec veep of the SPE corporate and distribution legal group.
Eagle’s $2 mil lures Bass to raise ‘Lazarus’
Eagle Pictures, the cash-rich Italian company, is solidifying its credentials as a Hollywood player by paying $2 million to Ron Bass to write a script and produce a film based on the Robert Mawson…
