Friday: Remembering Director Ted Kotcheff; China To Limit U.S. Film Imports; David Zaslav's Pay; Touch Me Wins Overlook Film Festival
Director Addison Heimann’s Touch Me won the Grand Jury Prize at the Overlook Film Festival. Director Ted Kotchoff has passed away at the age of 94.
Happy Friday, April 11th. You made it to the weekend. Here's what you need to know.
Today's Headlines
Director Ted Kotcheff has passed away at the age of 94. Kotcheff was the director for a wide variety of Hollywood hits, including First Blood, North Dallas Forty and Weekend at Bernies. Source: Variety
The Chinese government plans to Reduce imports of U.S. films into the PRC in response to President Trump's trade salvos. Source: Deadline
Warner Brothers Discovery's CEO David Zaslav's pay was reportedly raised to almost $52 million a year. Source: Variety
Director Addison Heimann’s Touch Me won the Grand Jury Prize at the Overlook Film Festival. The audience award went to Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister. The festival celebrates the best of the horror genre and was held in New Orleans this year. Source: Big Easy Magazine
Box Office Rankings: Wednesday, April 9th
1) A Minecraft Movie
2) The Last Super, Part 2
3) A Working Man
4) Snow White
5) The Woman In The Yard
MNP Studio Index (Friday April 11th - Market Close)
Studio Stock Recap: Lionsgate, Paramount and Warner Brothers were down today, on news that China will limit U.S. film imports. The Studio index as a whole dropped 0.42% today.
MNP Streamer Index (Friday April 11th - Market Close)
Streamer Stock Recap: The Streamer Index was up (just barely) today, fueled by Apple, Roku and Alphabet. Streamer stocks that have studios connected to them suffered however, as China vows to limit U.S. film imports today.
Film Festivals/Conferences Today
Boston International Film Festival, US - April 10-15
Miami Film Festival, US - April 4-13
Visions du Reel, Switzerland - April 4-13
Timeless Film Festival Warsaw, Poland - April 7-14
New Directors, New Films (MOMA), New York City - April 2-13
Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, Brazil - April 10-27
Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong - April 10-21
Istanbul Film Festival, Turkiye - April 11-22
Upcoming Film Festivals/Conferences
San Francisco International Film Festival, US - April 17-27
Sunny Bunny LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, Ukraine - April 18-25
Atlanta Film Festival, US - April 24-May 4
Watch This Tonight
Cruella (2021), Directed by Craig Gillespie
Disney's been under a lot of heat lately for their reboots, but in our opinion this one stuck the landing. Snarky in all the right ways (with some great needle drops) Cruella is a lot of fun.
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