FilmNation Entertainment

07/09/2022

We are thrilled to announce our new production film label: Infrared.

Infrared is led by Drew Simon as President of Production and Sam Speiser as VP.

“I am thrilled to move forward with this exciting new strategic growth initiative as we continue to scale our storytelling platforms,” said FilmNation Entertainment’s Basner. “Under Drew’s leadership, Infrared will perfectly complement our award-winning FilmNation slate while becoming a market leading fully independent producer of fun and entertaining mainstream films.”

FilmNation Entertainment today announced the launch of Infrared, a new film production label that will look to finance and produce mainstream films with franchise potential, producing three to four…

20/05/2022

18/05/2022

05/05/2022

"Throughout (Happening), Diwan’s gaze remains clear, direct, fearless. She shows you a part of life that the movies rarely do."

Gold Lion winner Happening is a New York Times Critics Pick. In select cinemas May 6th.

Tickets now available — https://happeningmovie.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/movies/happening-review-abortion.html

In this powerful French movie set in the early 1960s, a young woman struggles to obtain an abortion when the procedure was criminalized.

31/03/2022

“We at FilmNation are always looking for inventive ways to give the world’s most talented creators an avenue to use our powerful production, sales and finance platform, particularly as a tool to make their creative visions come to life,” FilmNation Entertainment CEO Glen Basner said. “In partnership with the incredible and entrepreneurial team at Range, we have another great way to achieve this goal.”

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/filmnation-entertainment-range-media-partners-film-production-partnership-1235219941/

“Promising Young Woman” and “Arrival” production company FilmNation Entertainment and Range Media Partners have set a partnership to co-produce, co-finance, develop and sell…

19/01/2022

Getting our suits tailored! The Outfit will premiere at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival!

From the Academy Award-winning writer of The Imitation Game (Graham Moore) comes The Outfit, a gripping and masterful thriller in which an expert tailor (Academy Award winner Mark Rylance) must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.

Only in theaters February 25th

https://deadline.com/2022/01/berlin-film-festival-competition-line-up-follow-live-1234915085/ =c6765028236b07f26d01b6298cb6732a6db26259d95faa2bc3dd15b86d11045c

The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (February 10-20) revealed its Competition line-up on Wednesday, scroll down for the full list. As previously announced, the International Competition ope…

18/01/2022

The first episode of Torched is out now! Hosted by Molly Bloom, Episode 1 covers the dramatic 1972 Olympic Men's Basketball final.

Torched is available on Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to podcasts.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/torched/id1603078139

‎Sports · 2022

05/01/2022

What would the greatest athletes lose ... to win? Find out on Molly Bloom's new podcast, TORCHED, a show about competition and controversy on the world’s biggest stage: the Olympics.

Premieres January 18!
Stitcher

Hear trailer now: https://apple.co/3pQjTg9

09/12/2021

We're thrilled to announce that our next production, Sharp Stick, will have its World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Lena Dunham and starring Kristine Froseth, Sharp Stick is a bold statement about body and s*x positivity.

Synopsis:
Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother (longing for money) and sister (longing for exposure). She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on s*xuality, loss and power. Cast: Kristine Froseth, Jon Bernthal, Scott Speedman, Lena Dunham, Taylour Paige, Jennifer Jason Leigh. World Premiere. Fiction.

https://festival.sundance.org/program/ -info/61ae0e8e14aef7672a1bfb46

26/10/2021

First AFM Project in - get ready for Beth and Don! Written and Directed by Nicole Holofcenter and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“This movie is the breath of fresh air our distributors have been waiting for in a comedy, and we couldn’t be more excited to unveil this project with our longtime friends from Likely Story,” said FilmNation Entertainment CEO Glen Basner. “Nicole’s and Julia’s combined comedic talent will make for an irresistible and all too relatable film for moviegoers around the world.”

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/julia-louis-dreyfus-nicole-holofcener-beth-and-don-1235097625/

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener will reunite on “Beth and Don,” a new comedy about a novelist whose marriage starts to deteriorate after she overhears her husband offering up …

14/10/2021

Coming soon to a cinema near you...FilmNation's Fall Slate!

Spencer: November 5
Red Rocket: December 3
Madres Paralelas: December 24

25/08/2021

Every fairy tale ends.
Kristen Stewart is Diana Spencer

World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 3rd!

26/07/2021

It was announced that Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, Madres Paralelas, will open the 78th Venice Film Festival.

See the teaser trailer below. The festival will run from September 1 - September 11.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHnOghfO-7U

Teaser tráiler oficial de "Madres Paralelas". escrita y dirigida por Pedro Almodóvar y protagonizada por Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón e I...

14/07/2021

"Baker makes his Cannes Competition debut with Red Rocket, which will be released in the US through A24 , the home of another recent film about a fast-talking loser, Uncut Gems. The picture doesn’t boast big names, but expect Rex, an actor and former MTV VJ, to receive plenty of acclaim for a star-making role that could spark a career renaissance."

https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/red-rocket-cannes-review/5161604.article

Simon Rex plays a conniving former p**n star in a showcase role for director Sean Baker

03/06/2021

Back to the Palais! The Cannes International Film Festival unveiled the films that will compete in its 74th edition and we're over the moon to see that Sean Baker's Red Rocket will be playing in competition.

The Cannes festival is set to run July 6-July 17.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2021-cannes-lineup-1234961248/

26/04/2021

It was a night to remember. Congratulations to Emerald Fennell for her Oscar for Best Original Screenplay!

This script knocked us off our feet and it's been a tremendous journey ever since. From making this film to seeing so many people respond to it, very well-deserved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlqqO1buZb8

Oscars 2021 | Best Original Screenplay : Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell

22/03/2021

He’s betting his life on this mission. See Merab Ninidze and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Courier - now playing.

Get tickets: https://www.thecouriermovie.com/

20/03/2021

Jessie Buckley is Sheila Wynne in The Courier - now playing. Get tickets: https://www.thecouriermovie.com/

19/03/2021

Husband. Father. Salesman. Spy.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Courier. Now playing in theaters everywhere!

: It's all business for Benedict Cumberbatch on the set of The Courier - in theaters now. Get tickets: https://www.thecouriermovie.com/

17/03/2021

“Ashley has proven that she has exquisite taste, collaborates well with world class filmmakers and cares deeply about the films she works on." - Glen Basner

Congratulation Ashley!

https://deadline.com/2021/03/promising-young-woman-ashley-fox-filmnation-prince-harry-meghan-markle-archewell-1234716422/

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment has promoted Ashley Fox to lead the company’s film production department, we can reveal. The appointment follows Fox’s Oscar and PGA nominations as a produ…

26/02/2021

"FilmNation has sold out international territories including a large swathe to Focus Features on Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, which immediately became a must-have title for buyers when it was announced earlier this month."

https://www.screendaily.com/news/filmnation-sells-out-international-on-sean-bakers-red-rocket-exclusive/5157523.article

Focus Features takes majority of territories.

03/02/2021

'Promising Young Woman', 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' and 'I Know This Much is True' snagged a total of 6 Golden Globe nominations across 3 titles!

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Director – Emerald Fennell
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama – Carey Mulligan
Best Screenplay – Emerald Fennell

I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television – Mark Ruffalo

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
Best Performance by an Actor Musical or Comedy – Dev Patel

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/2021-golden-globes-nominations-watch-the-live-stream

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will reveal its picks in movies and TV at 8 a.m. ET/5 a.m. PT on Feb. 3.

08/12/2020

It hasn't been the most conventional year, but it's exciting to have worked on a wide range of titles from The Nest to Armando Ianucci's The Personal History of David Copperfield to the upcoming Promising Young Woman.

And it's even better when they get recognized. Very honored to be part of this list.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/01/the-50-best-films-of-2020-in-the-us-50-41

Our pick of the finest movies released in a topsy-turvy year continues with a darkly comic thriller and Chadwick Boseman’s final performance

07/12/2020

We 👀 The Nest at that No. 10 spot.

Jude Law and Carrie C**n play a married couple disintegrating in the English countryside in a chilly and exquisitely constructed drama

15/10/2020

The Sound Inside was nominated for 6 Tony Awards including Best Play, Best Original Score, Best Director of a Play and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play!

https://www.tonyawards.com/shows/the-sound-inside/

Everyone has a story—the question is how it ends. Mary-Louise Parker and Will Hochman starred in a new play by Adam Rapp about a brilliant Ivy League professor, a mysterious student, and a troubling favor that takes you behind the ivy-covered walls of Yale, and into New York’s literary haven, Gr...

09/10/2020

And she's back! Check out the new trailer for Promising Young Woman

21/09/2020

Congratulations to Mark Ruffalo on his Emmy win for Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series!

17/09/2020

"The Nest is a haunted house movie without the ghosts"

Sean Durkin's 'The Nest' releases In select theaters this Friday

https://film.avclub.com/sean-durkin-s-terrific-the-nest-is-a-haunted-house-movi-1845065207

With his first feature since his superb debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, writer-director Sean Durkin has fashioned something remarkable: an utterly non-supernatural haunted house story.

28/08/2020

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/07/charles-dickens-at-the-movies

Armando Iannucci’s “The Personal History of David Copperfield” has a Dickensian knack for gratifying popular taste while yanking the audience toward emotional truth.

27/08/2020

"A wordsmith of uncommon force and fluidity, Iannucci might be one of the few writers undeterred by this doorstop of a tale about one man’s bumpy journey from infancy to middle age. Restructuring some story arcs and jettisoning others, Iannucci and his collaborator, Simon Blackwell, have created a souped-up, trimmed-down adaptation so fleet and entertaining that its cleverness doesn’t immediately register."

Thank you to the New York Times for choosing THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD as an NYT Critic's Pick!

The film opens in US and Canada TOMORROW, August 28th. We can't wait for you to see it!

Armando Iannucci’s souped-up, trimmed-down adaptation of the Dickens novel is an exuberant, heartfelt delight.

03/08/2020

We're so excited to announce our new FilmNation TV UK development deal with Reggie Yates!

Read more at the link below:

Make Me Famous creator signs two-year scripted agreement

17/07/2020

Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language project, The Human Voice, began shooting yesterday:

"The original Cocteau play, set in Paris, is delivered in one act, and turns on a woman’s final phone call with her lover of five years, who is scheduled to marry another woman the following day. The call triggers crippling depression in the protagonist. The play has long been an influential source for Almodóvar, who featured it in 1987’s “The Law of Desire,” where Carmen Maura appeared in a stage production. It also inspired 1988’s “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” his first Oscar-nominated feature."

https://variety.com/2020/film/global/pedro-almodovar-tilda-swinton-start-shooting-the-human-voice-1234708241/

Award-winning Spanish producer Agustín Almodóvar on Thursday tweeted a set photo from the first day of shooting for his brother Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming short film adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s “T…

09/07/2020

"At its heart, however, it is an understated and stoic performance by Hanks - who also adapted the book and whose company Playtone is a production entity - that reminds of the best we can be when duty calls..."

GREYHOUND is on AppleTV+ starting TOMORROW, July 10th!

“Old fashioned” is a term that can be used in a non-flattering way, but in describing Tom Hanks’ new World War II film, it is a compliment. In terms of a genre that has been done …

22/06/2020

Tonight! Murder on the Towpath's Soledad O'Brien chats with NYT bestselling author Alexis Coe about two incredible women at the epicenter of a baffling mystery in 1964.

Tune in at 7:15pm EST / 4:15pm PST

https://Luminary.link/MOTT

17/05/2020

Listen to the new trailer for our latest podcast, Murder on the Towpath. This eight-part series centers around the unsolved murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer in 1964 and digs into the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree, the tough-as-nails lawyer who represented the man charged with the crime.

Hosted by journalist Soledad O'Brien, Murder on the Towpath premiers on Luminary on May 25th.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/murder-towpath-soledad-obrien-mary-pinchot-meyer-jfk-1000499/

The eight-part series also digs into the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree, the tough-as-nails lawyer who represented the man charged with the crime

04/05/2020

‪In 1️⃣ week, I Know This Much Is True will premiere on HBO at 9 pm ET. I wanted to share this photo from when Derek Cianfrance, FilmNation Entertainment, and I were still pitching the show back in 2017. I’m incredibly excited to share this one with all of you soon. ‬

15/04/2020

A special Wednesday treat - I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE star Mark Ruffalo is on the cover of Variety this week. Check it out at the link below:

I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE premieres on HBO on May 10th.

Mark Ruffalo is having a hard time connecting. Not professionally, nor on a personal level. Instead he’s struggling with perhaps the most urgent aspect of the way we live now — his Wi-Fi service. I…

12/03/2020

“We’re absolutely thrilled to be partnering with Sean on his assured follow up to ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene,’ and were blown away by the brilliant performances of Jude Law and Carrie C**n,” said Arianna Bocco, EVP of acquisitions and productions at IFC Films, in a statement. “‘The Nest’ is the perfect addition to the IFC Films family and we can’t wait to share it with audiences nationwide.”

We're excited to be working with IFC Film's on Sean Durkin's The Nest.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ifc-films-the-nest-jude-law-carrie-coon-sundance-1203532302/

IFC Films is acquiring U.S. rights to Sean Durkin’s “The Nest,” a drama with Jude Law and Carrie C**n that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film is Durki…

05/03/2020

GREYHOUND

In theaters June 12th.

The only thing more dangerous than the front lines was the fight to get there.

Inspired by true events.

Screenplay by and starring Tom Hanks.

The only thing more dangerous than the front lines was the fight to get there. Screenplay by Tom Hanks inspired by actual events, Greyhound comes to theaters...

24/01/2020

Make sure to check out this interview with our President of Production, Ben Browning, as he talks all things FilmNation and Sundance 2020:

EXCLUSIVE: Glen Basner’s FilmNation made waves at recent Sundance Film Festivals with mega sales for The Big Sick and Late Night. This year the indie stalwart is in Park City with its biggest…