Tag: The Children Act

  • Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny’s ‘Lizzie’ Creeps to Solid Start at Indie Box Office

    Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny’s ‘Lizzie’ Creeps to Solid Start at Indie Box Office

    The indie box office is slowly starting to pick up again, with Roadside Attractions and Saban Films leaving the biggest footprint with Craig W. Macneill’s period thriller “Lizzie.” Released on four screens, the film made just under $50,000 for a solid per screen average of $12,474.Starring Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, “Lizzie” tells the story…

  • Ian McEwan: ‘I despise lying, ideological Brexiters’

    Ian McEwan: ‘I despise lying, ideological Brexiters’

    The Booker-winning author on Angela Merkel, tennis and his tribute to The Go-BetweenBorn in Hampshire, Ian McEwan, 70, took a creative writing Ma at the University of East Anglia. In 1976, his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two…

  • Cannes: FilmNation Closes $120 Million Revolving Credit Facility

    Cannes: FilmNation Closes $120 Million Revolving Credit Facility

    In a pre-Cannes Film Festival deal, FilmNation Entertainment has negotiated $120 million in additional capital through a revolving multi-bank credit facility agented by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and co-led by Union Bank.FilmNation made the announcement Wednesday. It said the move greatly expands its financial capabilities as part of its strategic initiative focused on being…