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Redgrave, Ganz, Laurent join cast of Bille August’s Night Train To Lisbon
An all-star cast has come aboard Night Train To Lisbon, the new Bille August film which is being sold by K5 International with PalmStar Media Capital and EFish Entertainment who are co-financing. K5 confirmed today that Vanessa Redgrave, Bruno Ganz, Mélanie Laurent, Christopher... Read more »
Life 2.0 (2010)
Status: Completed Director/Producer: Jason Spingarn-Koff Production Companies: PalmStar Entertainment, Andrew Lauren Productions Producers: Stephan Paternot, Andrew Lauren (The Squid and the Whale) Genre: Documentary Completed: January 2010 World Premiere: Sundance 2010 View... Read more »
Oprah Winfrey acquires LIFE 2.0 for OWN
PalmStar Entertainment is proud to announce that LIFE 2.0 is one of three films that has been acquired by OWN: THE OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK to be part of the network’s monthly documentary film club. OWN is A joint venture between Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications. CLICK... Read more »
Pillage announced in Variety
Zellweger ready for ‘Pillage’ Pic tells story of rebellious friends in search of the perfect party By DAVE MCNARY Renee Zellweger is ready to party with “Pillage,” having acquired feature rights to former New York City nightlife impresario Brantly Martin’s... Read more »
Life 2.0 Accepted into Sundance Film Festival 2010
December 3, 2009, PalmStar Entertainment and Andrew Lauren Productions are pleased to announce that “Life 2.0” (life2movie.com), directed by Jason Spingarn-Koff, has just been accepted into the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Produced by PalmStar’s Stephan Paternot, Andrew... Read more »
K5 International closes first look deal with PalmStar Entertainment
Munich and London based K5 International (www.k5international.com) has just closed on a first look and partnership deal with New York and Los Angeles based PalmStar Entertainment. Under the deal terms K5’s partners Oliver Simon, Daniel Baur and Bill Stephens will handle foreign... Read more »
Gus Van Sant Partners With Bret Easton Ellis On “The Golden Suicides”
Almost two years after the bizarre double suicide of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, glamorous young couple, luminaries of New York’s multi-media art world, their story is set for a big screen adaptation. PalmStar Entertainment, Celluloid Dreams, K5 Film and Ithaka Entertainment... Read more »
PalmStar and Blumhouse Partner On The Rescue Artist
PalmStar Entertainment has acquired the rights to Edward Dolnick’s 2005 crime drama/thriller “The Rescue Artist”, which will be a co-production with Blumhouse Productions. The two companies have partnered to develop the picture with Will Akers penning the screenplay. Akers’... Read more »
ScreenDaily: Gellar replaces Bosworth in Veronika Decides To Die
http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=38767 Jeremy Kay in Cannes Sarah Michelle Gellar has replaced Kate Bosworth on Das Films, Velvet Steamroller Entertainment, Muse Productions and PalmStar Entertainment’s Paulo Coehlo adaptation Veronika Decides... Read more »
Hollywood Reporter: Bosworth at heart of ‘Veronika’
By Gregg Goldstein Kate Bosworth (Getty Images photo) TORONTO — Kate Bosworth will play the title role in Emily Young’s feature adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s best-seller “Veronika Decides to Die” for Das Films, Palm Star Entertainment and Muse Films.In... Read more »
Variety: Indie’s ‘Dirty’ Trick
Duo to turn tome into laffer By: Chris Gardner The influence of Harvey Weinstein and Robert Redford on the indie film scene provided the intrigue in Peter Biskind’s 2004 “Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film.” Now, helmer Ken Bowser... Read more »
PalmStar Gets “Down and Dirty Pictures”
HOLLYWOOD, CA (August 2006) – PalmStar Entertainment is developing Peter Biskind’s (Easy Riders, Raging Bulls) industry expose Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film into a feature length comedy. Ken Bowser (“Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”)... Read more »
Variety: Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park Optioned
By: Variety PalmStar Entertainment has optioned Bret Easton Ellis’ latest novel, Lunar Park, says Variety. Lunar Park is Ellis’ most autobiographical work, in which the author-narrator is a narcissistic, self-pitying drug fiend who gets a shot at redemption when movie star... Read more »
PalmStar Launches Lunar Park
December 7th, 2005 (Hollywood, CA) Bret Easton Ellis’ new international best-seller LUNAR PARK has been optioned by PalmStar Entertainment, an independent production company based in New York and Los Angeles. In Lunar Park, Ellis spins a story of his own contentious and haunted... Read more »
Variety: Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, Hill Harper
By: Justin Chang Dorian Missick (”Lucky Number Slevin”), Zoe Saldana (”Guess Who”), Hill Harper (”CSI: NY”), Frankie Faison (”In Good Company”), Tonya Pinkins (”Caroline, or Change”), Eva Pigford (”America’s Next Top Model”) and William Sadler (”The... Read more »
Hollywood Reporter: Bell, Pucci, Hensley on indie ‘Pills’
By: Borys Kit “Veronica Mars” star Kristen Bell, Lou Taylor Pucci and John Hensley will star in “Fifty Pills” for first-time director Theo Avgerinos and Coalition Film. The coalition is the newly formed independent production and sales company founded by writer-producer... Read more »
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