All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1032
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NewsPotter holds on to crown with $50.3m over Thanksgiving
An estimated $50.3m second session saw Harry Potter and chums narrowly beat a spirited debut by Rapunzel over a lucrative Thanksgiving Weekend.
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NewsMagnet Media Group's Monteith and Buerling broaden horizons
Magnet Media Group founding partners Maggie Monteith and Jeanette Buerling are splitting their respective business operations into two separate entities.
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Relativity sinks teeth into US rights on Untitled 3D Shark Thriller
Relativity Media has acquired US rights to Sierra Pictures and Incentive Filmed Entertainment’s Untitled 3D Shark Thriller for wide release in 2011.
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IFC's YSL acquisition leads busy day of domestic deals
IFC Films led a flurry of domestic distribution deals announced today [23], taking US rights to Pierre Thorentton’s French documentary Yves Saint Laurent L’amour Fou.
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NewsBleiberg Entertainment sells prestige doc Precious Life at AFM
The Los Angeles-based sales and financing company has closed a slew of territories at AFM on its slate including the documentary Precious Life that last week became one of 15 titles to make it on to the Academy’s shortlist.
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MIFF appoints Spanish producer Manrique to industry role
The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) has hired Elena Manrique to spearhead the entertainment industry relations initiative and oversee the REEL Education seminar programme.
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NewsWarner Bros, Atlas to reboot Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Warner Bros and Atlas Entertainment are relaunching Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a potential theatrical franchise.
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IFTA Production Conference to explore digital marketplace
The 12th annual IFTA Production Conference will discuss strategies for monetising independent film in the digital marketplace on December 3 in Los Angeles.
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NewsIndustry bids emotional farewell to Ronni Chasen
Hundreds of family, friends, associates and well-wishers attended the publicist’s Los Angeles funeral on Sunday [21].
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NewsKidman to receive SBIFF Cinema Vanguard Award
Nicole Kidman will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s (SBIFF) Cinema Vanguard Award at the 26th edition of the festival on February 5, 2011.
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NewsDeathly Hallows launches on franchise record $125.1m in US
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 blew away the competition as it stormed to the top of the charts on an estimated record $125.1m from 4,125 theatres.
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NewsPotter takes $205m overseas, record $330.1m globally
Harry Potter mania swept across the globe as the penultimate film in the series plundered an estimated $205m from 19,200 screens in 54 countries and 91 markets.
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NewsDeathly Hallows races to $50m worldwide by Friday
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 has already amassed $49.3m heading into the weekend.
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Day-Lewis to play Lincoln for Spielberg, DreamWorks
The announcement that Day-Lewis will play the 16th President of the US brings together the Oscar winning actor and director for the first time in their careers.
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NewsDeathly Hallows takes over 18,000 screens in 91 markets
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 descends upon the world this weekend like a plague of Death Eaters in what is expected to become one of the biggest launches in history.
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The 5th Quarter gets US release through Rocky Mountain
The distributor will release Rick Bieber’s true-life drama starring Andie MacDowell and Aidan Quinn in March 2011.
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Film Sales Company acquires trio of docs for IDFA
The Film Sales Company president Andrew Herwitz has acquired sales rights to three documentaries ahead of their premieres at IDFA in Amsterdam this week.
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Eight projects selected in recent Sundance / Rawi Screenwriters Lab
Artists from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories and Saudi Arabia participated in the recent sixth annual Rawi Screenwriters Lab run by the Royal Film Commission in consultation with Sundance Institute.
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NewsAcademy unveils 15 doc feature contenders
The Academy has announced the documentary hopefuls for awards consideration, with Charles Ferguson’s financial crisis investigation Inside Job, Shlomi Eldar’s human drama Precious Life and Davis Guggenheim’s education jeremiad Waiting For Superman (pictured) all in the mix.
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NewsFox, Aronofsky formalise relationship with two-year deal
Fox Filmed Entertainment has signed Darren Aronofsky and his production company Protozoa Pictures to a new two-year overall deal.