All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1121
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NewsBruno soars in Australia with $1.4m first-day haul
Bruno has scored the second biggest opening day of the year in Australia behind Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen with a $1.35m Wednesday launch.
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Calgary shoot underway on Tucker And Dale Vs Evil
Production has begun in Calgary on the comedy Tucker And Dale Vs Evil starring Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk.
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NewsSri Lanka enters Flowers Of The Sky in Academy Awards race
Wonderphil Productions Flowers Of The Sky has been named as Sri Lanka’s official selection for best foreign film in the 2010 Academy Awards race.
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First Doha Tribeca Film Festival announces autumn dates
The inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival will run in Doha, Qatar, from October 29-November 1.
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NewsBarry Johnson named Searchlight vp national publicity
Barry Dale Johnson has joined Fox Searchlight effective July 23 as vice-president of national publicity and will relocate to New York.
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NewsRelativity prepares August shoot on SNL comedy MacGruber
Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media is preparing an August start on the comedy MacGruber, based on the Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch about an inept spy.
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NewsGil Cates, Ed Zwick in Academy governors board run-off
Voting in the Academy’s annual board of governors elections has resulted in a possibly unprecedented tie between directors branch candidates Gil Cates and Ed Zwick.
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NewsIndian Film Festival LA unveils fund for universal stories with Indian themes
The Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has launched the IFFLA Film Fund for film-makers with narrative and documentary features reflecting universal themes inherent in Indian culture.
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Endgame duo join Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures
Valhalla Motion Pictures chief Gale Anne Hurd has hired the Endgame Entertainment executives Wendy Japhet as president and Anne Teixeira as creative executive.
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NewsSundance, Cinereach launch $1.5m support for socially conscious cinema
The Sundance Institute and film support body Cinereach have launched a three-year grant to form The Cinereach Project At Sundance Institute.
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NewsScreen Media snaps up US rights to The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
Screen Media Films is believed to have paid roughly $1m for US rights to Rebecca Miller’s ensemble drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee.
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Film Movement takes US rights to Israeli thriller For My Father
Film Movement will release Dror Zahavi’s For My Father this winter after acquiring US rights to the Israeli Academy Awards nominee.
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NewsTransformers noses past Ice Age in box office photo finish
Paramount/DreamWorks’ Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen narrowly held on to the number one spot over the Independence Day holiday period as roughly $42.4m beat Fox’s Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaur’s $41.6m debut.
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NewsFox's Ice Age 3 sets opening record for animated film
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs crushed all before it as an estimated $148m haul from 101 markets through Fox delivered the sixth biggest international launch ever and the biggest animated debut in history.
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NewsSony maintains overseas lead with Terminator, Angels & Demons
Sony maintained its overseas lead as Terminator Salvation pulled off the sixth biggest weekend of the year with an estimated $44.5m haul that raised the tally to $141.1m while Angels & Demons eased past $300m.
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NewsMark Lindsay departs SKE, Nick Meyer's Sierra Pictures to handle Kimmel slate
Kimmel International head Mark Lindsay has stepped down in an amicable agreement following a move by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) to consolidate operations and move the foreign sales business to LA.
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NewsSharon Gless, Chad Allen among honourees at upcoming QFest
The Philadelphia Cinema Alliance has unveiled the winners of this year’s awards that will collect their prizes at the upcoming 15th Philadelphia QFest from July 9-20.
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NewsMary Dickinson and Charlene Fisher launch indie studio venture
Entertainment finance and business development team Mary Dickinson and Charlene Fisher have launched DF Indie Studios, a talent-friendly enterprise with guaranteed US distribution.
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NewsThe Hangover rages past $100m in ten days
The Hangover kept everyone smiling at Warner Bros as the breakout hit held on to the number one spot in its second weekend and soared past $100m in a record ten days for an R-rated comedy.
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NewsThe Other Bank awarded Grand Jury prize in Seattle
George Ovashvili’s Georgian-Kazakh drama The Other Bank won the 35th Seattle International Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize as Barbara Schroeder’s US entry Talhotblond took documentary honours.