Sony Pictures acquires worldwide rights for Miles Davis movieAugust 7, 2015 - 09:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Don Cheadle’s first turn as a director has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, Entertainment Weekly reports. The studio announced this week that it acquired the worldwide rights for “Miles Ahead,” a film focused on legendary jazz musician Miles Davis. “Miles was many things…a supreme artist and a national treasure but also an enigma to those around him, especially during his so-called quiet period,” said Cheadle in a statement. “With the family’s blessing and Miles’ tenets on creativity as our guide, we used these cloistered years as a jumping off point to compose the story of a self-exiled artist creating his own ‘centrifugal adventure’ to spin himself back into playing music again.” “Miles Ahead” focuses on a handful of days in Davis’ (Cheadle) life, when he seldom recorded and sought the assistance of a Rolling Stone writer (Ewan McGregor) to help plan steal back his music. It’s a passion project of Cheadle’s and has been in development since 2008. He’s long admired Davis, who died in 1991. “Miles Ahead” also stars Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Keith Stanfield and was written by Cheadle and Steven Baigelman. It will make its world premiere on Oct. 11 to close out the New York Film Festival. Photo: biography.com Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |