Us giant increases bid, trumping latest 21st Century Fox offer.
The expected bidding war for Sky heated up late on Wednesday (July 11) as Comcast made a new £14.75 a share bid for the European pay TV giant.
The bid, which gives Sky an implied value of $34bn (£26bn), topped the £14 a share bid made by 21st Century Fox earlier in the day.
Sky’s independent directors, which had approved the Fox bid at the start of the day, gave their support to the new Comcast offer.
”The Independent Committee welcomes this increased offer which representsan attractive premium for Sky shareholders,” said...
The expected bidding war for Sky heated up late on Wednesday (July 11) as Comcast made a new £14.75 a share bid for the European pay TV giant.
The bid, which gives Sky an implied value of $34bn (£26bn), topped the £14 a share bid made by 21st Century Fox earlier in the day.
Sky’s independent directors, which had approved the Fox bid at the start of the day, gave their support to the new Comcast offer.
”The Independent Committee welcomes this increased offer which representsan attractive premium for Sky shareholders,” said...
- 7/12/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Beautifully shot in gold and red, The Rescuers makes the aftermath of genocide look awfully attractive, and the slow-motion footage of massacre appears positively nostalgic.
Add in silent, Masterpiece Theater–style re-enactments of European life during World War II, and this very serious film sometimes feels like a farce.
Structured around a train journey across Europe, Michael King's documentary follows Rwandan anti-genocide activist Stephanie Nyombayire and English Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert as they visit sites of tragedy and learn about the diplomats who acted against government orders and risked their lives to rescue Jewish families.
Gilbert is clearly in charge. Unlike Nyombayire, he is an E.U. citizen and does not face vis...
Add in silent, Masterpiece Theater–style re-enactments of European life during World War II, and this very serious film sometimes feels like a farce.
Structured around a train journey across Europe, Michael King's documentary follows Rwandan anti-genocide activist Stephanie Nyombayire and English Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert as they visit sites of tragedy and learn about the diplomats who acted against government orders and risked their lives to rescue Jewish families.
Gilbert is clearly in charge. Unlike Nyombayire, he is an E.U. citizen and does not face vis...
- 5/7/2014
- Village Voice
Menemsha Films, the film distribution company founded by Neil Friedman, has acquired the North American distribution rights to the critically acclaimed documentary The Rescuers from Emmy winning director/producer Michael King and producer Joyce D. Mandell.
The Rescuers is a unique film with a powerful message. In the 20th century, over 100 million people died from genocide. The film traces the compelling journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in her country.s genocide in 1994. Traveling across 15 countries and three continents, Nyombayire and Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned British historian, interview survivors and descendants of 12 non-Jewish diplomats who willingly sacrificed their careers, families, and livelihoods to go against their countries. polices to save tens of thousands of Jews from the unspeakable horrors that awaited them in the Nazi death camps. During the journey, Nyombayire discovers potential solutions for the ongoing genocide in Darfur and elsewhere.
The Rescuers is a unique film with a powerful message. In the 20th century, over 100 million people died from genocide. The film traces the compelling journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in her country.s genocide in 1994. Traveling across 15 countries and three continents, Nyombayire and Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned British historian, interview survivors and descendants of 12 non-Jewish diplomats who willingly sacrificed their careers, families, and livelihoods to go against their countries. polices to save tens of thousands of Jews from the unspeakable horrors that awaited them in the Nazi death camps. During the journey, Nyombayire discovers potential solutions for the ongoing genocide in Darfur and elsewhere.
- 10/6/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In the Oscar documentary feature race, usually 80-90 films qualify for a shot at landing on the doc short list of 15. And when several films tackle similar themes and subjects, doc branch voters tend to pick one favorite. Take director/producer Michael King's Oscar-qualified The Rescuers, which I saw at the Ashland Film Festival, which was just acquired by Neil Friedman's Menemsha Films, which often reps doc award contenders, for North American release in theaters in early 2012. The film follows charismatic Stephanie Nyombayire, a Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in her country’s genocide in 1994. She travels across 15 countries and three continents with Brit historian Sir Martin Gilbert to interview survivors and descendants of 12 non-Jewish diplomats who ...
- 10/6/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Sydney Underground Film Festival recently wrapped up their 4th annual killer year on Sept. 11 with nearly half of all their screenings completely selling out.
Awards this year were given out in three sections. First, there were three Director’s Choice Awards chosen by the festival. Then, there are a selection of Jury Awards for categories such as Innovative Narrative, Unique Aesthetic, Provocative and more. The jury consisted of filmmakers Dean Francis and Tom Cowan, and artist Mark Wotherspoon.
Lastly, each short film block of the festival had an Audience Award given to a single film in that block. However, there were also special notations given to two films that received the most and the second most votes total of all short films in all blocks.
The full lineup of winners is below. Some of the big winners were Stuart Simpson‘s El Monstro Del Mar!, which won the Jury’s Choice Award.
Awards this year were given out in three sections. First, there were three Director’s Choice Awards chosen by the festival. Then, there are a selection of Jury Awards for categories such as Innovative Narrative, Unique Aesthetic, Provocative and more. The jury consisted of filmmakers Dean Francis and Tom Cowan, and artist Mark Wotherspoon.
Lastly, each short film block of the festival had an Audience Award given to a single film in that block. However, there were also special notations given to two films that received the most and the second most votes total of all short films in all blocks.
The full lineup of winners is below. Some of the big winners were Stuart Simpson‘s El Monstro Del Mar!, which won the Jury’s Choice Award.
- 9/16/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 4th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival, which runs for three days on Sept. 9-11, will screen about 10 features from all over the world and a veritable ton of short films from even further out there.
The fest will open with the latest documentary by a Hollywood icon. It’s Oliver Stone’s South of the Border, which has the director meeting with South American politicians and dignitaries. (The film opened to mixed reviews here in the States earlier this year.) Also screening is Trash Humpers, the latest film by indie rabble-rouser Harmony Korine, which has been confounding audiences on the indie film fest circuit, and Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void, which has been earning rave reviews.
The rest of the features in the lineup are an eclectic, oddball concoction, including Mladen Djordjevic‘s Serbian atrocity Life and Death of a Porno Gang, Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth’s twisted Netherlands tale Meat,...
The fest will open with the latest documentary by a Hollywood icon. It’s Oliver Stone’s South of the Border, which has the director meeting with South American politicians and dignitaries. (The film opened to mixed reviews here in the States earlier this year.) Also screening is Trash Humpers, the latest film by indie rabble-rouser Harmony Korine, which has been confounding audiences on the indie film fest circuit, and Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void, which has been earning rave reviews.
The rest of the features in the lineup are an eclectic, oddball concoction, including Mladen Djordjevic‘s Serbian atrocity Life and Death of a Porno Gang, Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth’s twisted Netherlands tale Meat,...
- 9/8/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Documentary filmmaker Michael King is producing and directing the feature-length documentary "The Rescuers, Heroes of the Holocaust," which focuses on non-Jewish diplomats who worked to save Jews during the Holocaust. He has developed the project in collaboration with British historian Martin Gilbert. Joyce D. Mandell will serve as exec producer.
The film will be seen through the eyes of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan woman and anti-genocide activist who worked as a research assistant for Gilbert.
The film will be shot throughout Europe and will retrace the route of thousands of escapees from the Nazis as they fled to China, Portugal, Argentina, Japan, Britain, the United States and even the small Caribbean island of Curacao.
Among those to be profiled in the film is Princess Alice of Greece, who hid Jews in her palace in Athens during World War II, and Aristide de Souza-Mendes of Portugal.
The film will be seen through the eyes of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan woman and anti-genocide activist who worked as a research assistant for Gilbert.
The film will be shot throughout Europe and will retrace the route of thousands of escapees from the Nazis as they fled to China, Portugal, Argentina, Japan, Britain, the United States and even the small Caribbean island of Curacao.
Among those to be profiled in the film is Princess Alice of Greece, who hid Jews in her palace in Athens during World War II, and Aristide de Souza-Mendes of Portugal.
- 12/29/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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