Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to exit the board of directors of Endeavor Group Holdings in June.
The company disclosed the departure Wednesday in an SEC filing, which conveniently landed due to SEC rules just as the company was starting its quarterly conference call with Wall Street analysts. The owner of WME, Img and the UFC reported a net loss for the fourth quarter, but better-than-expected revenue.
Last Saturday, the company disclosed in the filing, the tech billionaire notified the company of his resignation from the board as of June 30. “The board of directors approved reducing its size from eight to seven members subject to and effective upon the effectiveness of Mr. Musk’s resignation,” the filing added. The decision to exit “was not the result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to its operations, policies or practices.”
A person familiar with Musk’s...
The company disclosed the departure Wednesday in an SEC filing, which conveniently landed due to SEC rules just as the company was starting its quarterly conference call with Wall Street analysts. The owner of WME, Img and the UFC reported a net loss for the fourth quarter, but better-than-expected revenue.
Last Saturday, the company disclosed in the filing, the tech billionaire notified the company of his resignation from the board as of June 30. “The board of directors approved reducing its size from eight to seven members subject to and effective upon the effectiveness of Mr. Musk’s resignation,” the filing added. The decision to exit “was not the result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to its operations, policies or practices.”
A person familiar with Musk’s...
- 3/16/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s great when a fancy costume picture really has something to say — Alan Bennett’s crazy tale of a king’s episode of mental illness becomes a highly entertaining comedy of errors, but with serious personal and political ramifications. Nigel Hawthorne is exceptionally good as the sovereign whose brain has de-railed; Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Everett and Amanda Donohoe variously try to help him — or steal his crown.
The Madness of King George
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1994 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 111 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Amanda Donohoe, Rupert Everett, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter, Rupert Graves, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Anthony Calf, John Wood, Robert Swann, Peter Woodthorpe.
Cinematography: Andrew Dunn
Film Editor: Tariq Anwar
Production Design: Ken Adam
Written by Alan Bennett from his play
Produced by Stephen Evans, David Parfitt
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Every few years the...
The Madness of King George
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1994 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 111 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Amanda Donohoe, Rupert Everett, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter, Rupert Graves, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Anthony Calf, John Wood, Robert Swann, Peter Woodthorpe.
Cinematography: Andrew Dunn
Film Editor: Tariq Anwar
Production Design: Ken Adam
Written by Alan Bennett from his play
Produced by Stephen Evans, David Parfitt
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Every few years the...
- 11/18/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Exclusive: A sequel to Mike Bassett England Manager, the 2001 cult comedy, is planned to shoot later this year.
As teams prepare to head to Brazil for the FIFA World Cup, England’s most notorious football manager is heading back to the big screen.
A sequel to cult comedy Mike Bassett England Manager will see the return of star Ricky Tomlinson back as the foul-mouthed Bassett. Director-producer Steve Barron will return for the sequel, titled Mike Bassett: Interim Manager, and is planned to shoot later this year.
This time, Bassett is brought in to the England camp as number two to the tactically brilliant German coach, Jorgen Mannstein, who has the England team playing like a dream. But not for long.
“Bassett was the last England manager to take the national team to Brazil. We reached the semi’s then, who knows what we could achieve this time?,” said Barron of Bassett’s return.
“I’m very...
As teams prepare to head to Brazil for the FIFA World Cup, England’s most notorious football manager is heading back to the big screen.
A sequel to cult comedy Mike Bassett England Manager will see the return of star Ricky Tomlinson back as the foul-mouthed Bassett. Director-producer Steve Barron will return for the sequel, titled Mike Bassett: Interim Manager, and is planned to shoot later this year.
This time, Bassett is brought in to the England camp as number two to the tactically brilliant German coach, Jorgen Mannstein, who has the England team playing like a dream. But not for long.
“Bassett was the last England manager to take the national team to Brazil. We reached the semi’s then, who knows what we could achieve this time?,” said Barron of Bassett’s return.
“I’m very...
- 3/17/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Entertainment accountancy firm Nyman Libson Paul (Nlp) is launching new venture Goldfinch Pictures Ltd, dedicated to supporting British films.
Goldfinch Pictures Ltd is setting up an Eis company that aims to raise $6.5m (£4m) from investors.
Among the people who will sit on its expert panel are former British Film Commissioner Colin Brown and Stephen Evans, the producer of Oscar-winning films Henry V and The Madness of King George.
Goldfinch Pictures has been set up by Kirsty Bell, a film specialist and partner at Nyman Libson Paul. She will be managing director of the operation, which will support eight separate films over three years, all of which will be closely scrutinised and vetted by the expert panel, and have the appropriate approval from the Inland Revenue.
At the same time as launching Goldfinch Pictures, Nyman Libson Paul is putting together a number of smaller Seis operations aimed at particular sectors to include animation, ballet, Shakespeare...
Goldfinch Pictures Ltd is setting up an Eis company that aims to raise $6.5m (£4m) from investors.
Among the people who will sit on its expert panel are former British Film Commissioner Colin Brown and Stephen Evans, the producer of Oscar-winning films Henry V and The Madness of King George.
Goldfinch Pictures has been set up by Kirsty Bell, a film specialist and partner at Nyman Libson Paul. She will be managing director of the operation, which will support eight separate films over three years, all of which will be closely scrutinised and vetted by the expert panel, and have the appropriate approval from the Inland Revenue.
At the same time as launching Goldfinch Pictures, Nyman Libson Paul is putting together a number of smaller Seis operations aimed at particular sectors to include animation, ballet, Shakespeare...
- 12/2/2013
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK sales outfit acquires international rights to doc about late golf legend.
Salt has picked up worldwide sales rights, excluding Spain, to Seve Ballesteros documentary Seve.
Produced by Stephen Evans, Jonathan Evans and Romilly Evans of Renaissance Films, John-Paul Davidson directs the story of the Spanish golf legend.
The documentary charts Ballesteros’ early life learning to play golf with a broken club on the beach of his small home town to becoming the youngest ever Open champion of the modern era. The charismatic Spaniard went on to win the Masters, five majors and become world number one.
In 2011, Ballesteros died aged 54 following a battle with brain cancer.
Filming has recently completed in Spain on the film, which is a combination of archive footage and dramatic reconstruction, and was with the support of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation.
Executive producers are Roger Corbi and Yan Fisher of Fish/Corb Films.
Oscar-nominated Tariq Anwar (The King’s Speech) is editor...
Salt has picked up worldwide sales rights, excluding Spain, to Seve Ballesteros documentary Seve.
Produced by Stephen Evans, Jonathan Evans and Romilly Evans of Renaissance Films, John-Paul Davidson directs the story of the Spanish golf legend.
The documentary charts Ballesteros’ early life learning to play golf with a broken club on the beach of his small home town to becoming the youngest ever Open champion of the modern era. The charismatic Spaniard went on to win the Masters, five majors and become world number one.
In 2011, Ballesteros died aged 54 following a battle with brain cancer.
Filming has recently completed in Spain on the film, which is a combination of archive footage and dramatic reconstruction, and was with the support of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation.
Executive producers are Roger Corbi and Yan Fisher of Fish/Corb Films.
Oscar-nominated Tariq Anwar (The King’s Speech) is editor...
- 10/23/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Every royal with a story worth telling is getting some big screen time. Queen Elizabeth II has both a biopic (The Queen) and an upcoming fictional film, the rom-com Girls’ Night Out. King George VI stuttered his way into the Oscar panel’s hearts last year in The King’s Speech, and this year King Edward VIII gave up the throne for love in W.E. And yet Princess Diana, whose personal life made her the center of tabloid scrutiny for years, has yet to see her life portrayed on screen.
Update: Carey Mulligan‘s reps are denying her involvement in the film. Check back for updates as the casting for these three biopics gets underway.
Now it seems like the movie industry is overcompensating – the People’s Princess will soon have not one, but possibly three biopics. As reported by British paper the Sunday Mirror, a movie based on...
Update: Carey Mulligan‘s reps are denying her involvement in the film. Check back for updates as the casting for these three biopics gets underway.
Now it seems like the movie industry is overcompensating – the People’s Princess will soon have not one, but possibly three biopics. As reported by British paper the Sunday Mirror, a movie based on...
- 2/7/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The man behind The Madness Of King George is planning a big budget movie about the breakdown of Diana, Princess Of Wales' marriage to Prince Charles.
Producer Stephen Evans, who worked on the 1994 historical hit, as well as period pieces Twelfth Night and The Wings of the Dove, has set his sights on creating the first feature film about the beloved late royal since her death in 1997.
The $50 million (£31.2 million) movie will focus on the time leading up to the princess' divorce from the heir to the British throne in 1996, according to Britain's Guardian newspaper.
Crime novelist Philip Kerr is onboard to write the script and Princess Diana's former private secretary and head of security have been hired to make sure the screenplay is authentic.
And Evans is adamant the movie will be a hit, saying, "What is quite clear is that her life was an amazing life.
"She was a wagonload of monkeys (mischievous) but she was also an amazing, fascinating, ballsy woman. You don't often get a movie like this where you know, that if you can make it work, it is bomb proof."...
Producer Stephen Evans, who worked on the 1994 historical hit, as well as period pieces Twelfth Night and The Wings of the Dove, has set his sights on creating the first feature film about the beloved late royal since her death in 1997.
The $50 million (£31.2 million) movie will focus on the time leading up to the princess' divorce from the heir to the British throne in 1996, according to Britain's Guardian newspaper.
Crime novelist Philip Kerr is onboard to write the script and Princess Diana's former private secretary and head of security have been hired to make sure the screenplay is authentic.
And Evans is adamant the movie will be a hit, saying, "What is quite clear is that her life was an amazing life.
"She was a wagonload of monkeys (mischievous) but she was also an amazing, fascinating, ballsy woman. You don't often get a movie like this where you know, that if you can make it work, it is bomb proof."...
- 10/5/2011
- WENN
Producer plans first big-budget film telling story of the late Princess Diana and commissions script from crime novelist
Since her death in 1997, there have been a string of forgettable biopics, but now the first big-budget film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales is on the way, according to a report in Screen Daily.
Producer Stephen Evans, whose previous credits include The Madness of King George and The Wings of the Dove, is planning a $50m film about the princess, and has hired Ken Wharfe, Diana's former head of private security, and her former private secretary, Commander Patrick Jephson, to provide authenticity. No one has yet been cast in the lead role, nor has a director been attached, but Evans has commissioned a script from crime novelist Philip Kerr.
Evans describes Diana as "a wagonload of monkeys but she was also an amazing, fascinating, ballsy woman". He goes on...
Since her death in 1997, there have been a string of forgettable biopics, but now the first big-budget film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales is on the way, according to a report in Screen Daily.
Producer Stephen Evans, whose previous credits include The Madness of King George and The Wings of the Dove, is planning a $50m film about the princess, and has hired Ken Wharfe, Diana's former head of private security, and her former private secretary, Commander Patrick Jephson, to provide authenticity. No one has yet been cast in the lead role, nor has a director been attached, but Evans has commissioned a script from crime novelist Philip Kerr.
Evans describes Diana as "a wagonload of monkeys but she was also an amazing, fascinating, ballsy woman". He goes on...
- 10/4/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
British producer Stephen Evans hopes First Night, his film inspired by Mozart's CosÌ Fan Tutte, will start a trend
The producer who inspired a fashion for Shakespeare in recent British cinema now plans to bring the operatic work of Mozart to mainstream film audiences.
Twenty years ago Stephen Evans produced Henry V, starring Kenneth Branagh, despite scepticism from investors and distributors who predicted it would be a commercial failure. In fact the film won two Oscar nominations for Branagh as best director and best actor and is still making money. Now Evans is banking on a romantic comedy inspired by Mozart's Così Fan Tutte – and with a Mozart soundtrack – becoming a similarly unexpected hit.
The film, just finished and provisionally titled First Night, is a feelgood British drama. In it Richard E Grant, star of Gosford Park, plays a wealthy businessman who assembles a troupe of singers to...
The producer who inspired a fashion for Shakespeare in recent British cinema now plans to bring the operatic work of Mozart to mainstream film audiences.
Twenty years ago Stephen Evans produced Henry V, starring Kenneth Branagh, despite scepticism from investors and distributors who predicted it would be a commercial failure. In fact the film won two Oscar nominations for Branagh as best director and best actor and is still making money. Now Evans is banking on a romantic comedy inspired by Mozart's Così Fan Tutte – and with a Mozart soundtrack – becoming a similarly unexpected hit.
The film, just finished and provisionally titled First Night, is a feelgood British drama. In it Richard E Grant, star of Gosford Park, plays a wealthy businessman who assembles a troupe of singers to...
- 10/30/2010
- by Dalya Alberge
- The Guardian - Film News
Keira Knightley and Charlize Theron are reportedly being lined to star in competing biopics about Princess Diana. According to the Daily Mail, film company Pathé wants to cast Never Let Me Go's Knightley in its project about the late Princess of Wales. However, rival firm Renaissance Films - headed by BAFTA winner Stephen Evans (The Madness Of King George) - is pushing ahead with a separate $$30 million Diana project based on Ken Wharfe's book Diana: Closely Guarded Secret. The Renaissance (more)...
- 10/28/2010
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Leave it to the Daily Express to report a story about Princess Diana.
Last month we reported that a movie based on the Chilean mining disaster was going into production before the miners had even been saved. I, in a search for comparisons, enrolled the aid of 9/11 and Oliver Stone but was stopped short by the tragic death of Lady Diana. While each new film about a contemporary disaster seemed to be pushing the boundaries of taste in their immediacy, Princess Diana had been awarded considerable grace. I puzzled, does The Queen really constitute her definitive film adaptation. It appears not.
Lady Diana’s big screen homage is apparently like buses, you wait years for one to come along and then two arrive at once.
With Diana’s posthumous 50th Birthday and 30th Wedding Anniversary expected to draw innumerable tributes next July, the movies will likely be in production by...
Last month we reported that a movie based on the Chilean mining disaster was going into production before the miners had even been saved. I, in a search for comparisons, enrolled the aid of 9/11 and Oliver Stone but was stopped short by the tragic death of Lady Diana. While each new film about a contemporary disaster seemed to be pushing the boundaries of taste in their immediacy, Princess Diana had been awarded considerable grace. I puzzled, does The Queen really constitute her definitive film adaptation. It appears not.
Lady Diana’s big screen homage is apparently like buses, you wait years for one to come along and then two arrive at once.
With Diana’s posthumous 50th Birthday and 30th Wedding Anniversary expected to draw innumerable tributes next July, the movies will likely be in production by...
- 10/28/2010
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ewan McGregor, Helen Mirren And Scarlett Johansson Also Linked If British tabloid The Daily Mail is to be believed, two biopics on the controversial life of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, are reportedly in the works with high-profile actresses linked to the lead roles. The first project is being spearheaded by producer Stephen Evans ("Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind") of Renaissance Films, who plans to adapt a book by Diana's lifelong bodyguard, Ken Wharfe, titled Diana: Closely Guarded Secret, which provides a "first-hand account [that] takes issue with many of the so-called 'facts' about the Princess that have appeared…...
- 10/27/2010
- The Playlist
Two movies are currently in development centred on the enigmatic and ‘people’s princess’ Diana, who died in a car crash back in 1997. One of the film projects is being guided by Pathé and gives the full biography treatment from cradle to grave. On the other side is Renaissance Films who are adapting the book Diana: Closely Guarded Secret by Ken Wharfe, the chap who was assigned to look after her.
According to the report via Sunday Express Princes Harry and William have ‘approved’ of the Pathé film project but the other one, the ‘darker one’, probably won’t be officially sanctioned. Producer Stephen Evans is hoping to bag Charlize Theron and Ewan McGregor for the lead roles, saying:
“We are intending to make the authentic movie of Diana by using the voices of the people who were there – and Ken Wharfe was right there at her side at the...
According to the report via Sunday Express Princes Harry and William have ‘approved’ of the Pathé film project but the other one, the ‘darker one’, probably won’t be officially sanctioned. Producer Stephen Evans is hoping to bag Charlize Theron and Ewan McGregor for the lead roles, saying:
“We are intending to make the authentic movie of Diana by using the voices of the people who were there – and Ken Wharfe was right there at her side at the...
- 10/26/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Two rival films will feature Princess Diana’s story on to the big screen. Both actresses Charlize Theron and Keira Knightley were reportedly considered to play Diana, Princess of Wales, in two different movies. Although the two movies are about Princess Diana, the two scripts will reflect different life stories of the late princess. In the Theron-starred film, it will showcase the relationship between the princess and her security aide Ken Wharfe. It was reported that Ewan McGregor may play the part of Wharfe. The film will be developed by Renaissance Films. The film will start production in the beginning of next year. “We are intending to make the authentic movie of Diana by using the voices of the people who were there – and Ken Wharfe was right there at her side at the most significant part of her life,” said producer Stephen Evans to UK’s Daily Mail. Evans...
- 10/22/2010
- LRMonline.com
Keira Knightley and Charlize Theron are being lined up to play Princess Diana in two different films.
Keira, who starred in 2008 period drama The Duchess as aristocrat Georgiana Spencer, a distant relative of the late Princess of Wales, is to star in a Diana biopic by film company Pathe.
Dame Helen Mirren is rumoured to play her mother Frances Shand Kydd, reports the Daily Express.
The film would document the early years of the Princess, her marriage to Charles, their separation and her death in Paris in 1997.
"They think Keira will be perfect to play Diana," an insider told the paper.
Charlize is also set to portray Diana in a production by Bafta-winning producer Stephen Evans.
Evans' project is based on bodyguard Ken Wharfe's controversial book Diana: Closely Guarded Secret, detailing the eight years he spent with the princess as her personal protection officer. Ewan McGregor would play Wharfe.
Keira, who starred in 2008 period drama The Duchess as aristocrat Georgiana Spencer, a distant relative of the late Princess of Wales, is to star in a Diana biopic by film company Pathe.
Dame Helen Mirren is rumoured to play her mother Frances Shand Kydd, reports the Daily Express.
The film would document the early years of the Princess, her marriage to Charles, their separation and her death in Paris in 1997.
"They think Keira will be perfect to play Diana," an insider told the paper.
Charlize is also set to portray Diana in a production by Bafta-winning producer Stephen Evans.
Evans' project is based on bodyguard Ken Wharfe's controversial book Diana: Closely Guarded Secret, detailing the eight years he spent with the princess as her personal protection officer. Ewan McGregor would play Wharfe.
- 10/19/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron is to go up against Keira Knightley in a big-screen battle - they are both reportedly lined up to play Diana, Princess Of Wales.
The Monster star is said to be in the frame to portray the late British royal in a movie centred on her friendship with her former bodyguard, Ken Wharfe, who will be reportedly played by Trainspotting actor Ewan McGregor.
The film is due to start shooting early next year but is set for some fierce competition - Pirates of the Caribbean beauty Knightley is rumoured to be playing the princess in a separate biopic.
Producer Stephen Evans, who is helming the Theron project, tells Britain's Daily Mail, "We are intending to make the authentic movie of Diana by using the voices of the people who were there - and Ken Wharfe was right there at her side at the most significant part of her life."
But bosses behind the Knightley movie are determined to outdo their rival film - they are said to be lining up Dame Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in 2006's The Queen, to play Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd.
The Monster star is said to be in the frame to portray the late British royal in a movie centred on her friendship with her former bodyguard, Ken Wharfe, who will be reportedly played by Trainspotting actor Ewan McGregor.
The film is due to start shooting early next year but is set for some fierce competition - Pirates of the Caribbean beauty Knightley is rumoured to be playing the princess in a separate biopic.
Producer Stephen Evans, who is helming the Theron project, tells Britain's Daily Mail, "We are intending to make the authentic movie of Diana by using the voices of the people who were there - and Ken Wharfe was right there at her side at the most significant part of her life."
But bosses behind the Knightley movie are determined to outdo their rival film - they are said to be lining up Dame Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in 2006's The Queen, to play Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd.
- 10/19/2010
- WENN
Charlize Theron could be set to play Princess Diana in a Hollywood movie. The South African-born actress is being lined up for the role, which tells the tale of the princess' relationship with former bodyguard Ken Wharfe, who is to be played by Ewan McGregor. The movie will be produced by BAFTA award-winning Stephen Evans, who wants to make a film based on Wharfe's controversial book 'Diana: Closely Guarded Secret', detailing the eight years he spent with the princess - who died in 1997 - as her personal protection officer. Yesterday it emerged that film company Pathe are hoping to make their own ..
- 10/18/2010
- Virgin Media - Movies
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