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All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1141
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Summit, Participant partner for multi-year distribution deal
Summit Entertainment and Participant Media have entered into a multi-title, multi-year non-exclusive distribution deal through 2013.The agreement covers co-financing, international sales and a rent-a-system deal encompassing domestic and international theatrical, home entertainment and pay TV. The companies will combine their marketing prowess on releases.Plans call for as many as four ...
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CBS Films names senior marketing team
CBS Films has announced key marketing posts and appointed Teri Boggess, Cherie Crane and Maggie Schmidt to senior positions.The three executives start work in February and will be responsible for designing and implementing all CBS Films' creative advertising, media and publicity campaign outreach and report directly to executive vice president ...
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Peter Morris re-elected as chairman of BAFTA/LA
BAFTA/LA has re-elected Peter Morris as chairman and announced its board of directors for the newyear.
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Nu Image, Pony Canyonstrike multi-title distribution deal in Japan
Los Angeles-based Nu Image has struck a multi-title distribution with Japan's Pony Canyon kicking off with Sylvester Stallone's upcoming action film The Expendables starring Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li with Forest Whitaker and Mickey Rourke in talks to join the cast.The story centres on a mercenary suicide mission to ...
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Rosen, McManus named interim co-directors of LAFF
Film Independent senior director Sean McManus and director of programming Rachel Rosen will serve as interim co-directors for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, filling the gap left by Rich Raddon following his ignominious departure last November.Raddon resigned his post in the wake of a $1,500 donation to the Yes ...
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Elle Driver swipes international rights to Arlen Faber
Paris-based sales agency Elle Driver has picked up international rights here to John Hindman's romantic comedy Arlen Faber starring Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham.The US Dramatic Competition entry received its world premiere here on January 18 and stars Daniels as the remote author of an iconic book about spirituality who ...
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Slamdance competition entry The Ante sold to Panorama
Panorama Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to the Slamdance Narrative Feature Competition entry The Ante.Max Perrier directed and Peter Proffit produced the dark comedy about an innocent encounter that escalates into a nightmare game of cat-and-mouse.A festival run is planned, followed by a platform theatrical release in late ...
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Sony Classics seals North American deal on Lone Scherfig's An Education
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North and Latin American rights from CAA to Lone Scherfig's well-liked rights of passage drama An Education as business started to heat up in Sundance. Also yesterday IFC Films took US rights from Paris-based sales agency Elle Driver to Tommy Wirkola's Nazi zombie horror ...
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Fox Searchlight takes worldwide rights to Sundance premiere Adam
Fox Searchlight confirmed late on Monday night (January 19) that it had picked up worldwide rights to Max Mayer's romance Adam following its world premiere screening.Fox Searchlight plans a 2009 release. Executive vice president of worldwide acquisitions Tony Safford, vice president of acquisitions Ray Strache and vice president of business ...
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Beyond takes Australia and New Zealand on Little Dizzle
Beyond has taken all Australian and New Zealand rights from Visit Films to David Russo's The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle following its world premiere in Spectrum on Monday (January 19).Ryan Kampe of New York-based Visit Films brokered the deal with Beyond's Simone Ubaldi.The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle focuses ...
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Sundance favourite Humpday scores worldwide deal with Magnolia
Magnolia Pictures has paid above mid-six figures for worldwide rights to Lynn Shelton's crowd-pleaser Humpday, which attracted intense interest and drew offers from at least five bidders following its world premiere on Friday (January 16).Josh Braun and Kevin Iwashina of Submarine concluded the deal with Magnolia's Tom Quinn and Eamonn ...
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Chandni Chowk takes $6.8m in India in first weekend for Warner
Warner Bros Pictures International's Bollywood release Chandni Chowk To China opened day-and-date in 30 markets at the weekend in the studio's widest release for a Bollywood film in India and North America.The film grossed $6.8m including previews in India from 1,319 screens and drew approximately 4.9million admissions. In North America ...
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Andre Des Rochers named partner at Gray Krauss LLP
New York-based law firm Gray Krauss LLP has promoted Andre Des Rochers to partner as several of the firm's attorneys attend Sundance as production counsel and counsel to 12 films in the festival.Leading the firm's Sundance team are named partners Jonathan Gray and Evan Krauss. Gray, who founded the firm ...
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Departures, Revanche take top prizes at Palm Springs Film Festival
Gotz Spielmann's Austrian foreign language Oscar submission Revanche was awarded the FIPRESCI prize for best foreign language film of the year as the The 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival came to a close on January 19.Natar Ungalaaq received the FIPRESCI Award for best actor for his performance in ...
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IFC broadens VOD initiative with South By Southwest
IFC has broadened its video on demand initiative in a partnership with the South By Southwest Film Festival that will broadcast five films from March's festival simultaneously on the IFC Festival Direct platform.The line-up includes Joe Swanberg's latest drama Alexander The Last, which will receive its world premiere at the ...
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Sony stumps up $2m for domestic rights to Black Dynamite
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquistions Group has paid what is believed to be in the region of $2m for all North American rights to Scott Sanders' blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite.The division and Black Dynamite's sales agent Endeavor Independent finally closed the festival's first all-night negotiation at about 6am today [January 19] ...
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IFC picks up US rights to I'm Gonna Explode
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Canana Films' madcap Mexican drama I'm Gonna Explode (Voy A Explotar) and will push the film out later this year through its Festival On Demand VOD platform.Gerardo Naranjo's film will screen in Berlin next month and charts the exploits of two mischoevous ...
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Seven Pounds claims international crown with $19.8m take
Will Smith was the number one Hollywood attraction overseas at the weekend as Seven Pounds grossed an estimated $19.8m from 3,502 screens in 25 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International and has now reached $40.8m.Warner Bros Pictures International had not reported estimates on its wide launch of Bollywood title Chandni ...
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Sony's Paul Blart a smash at powerful domestic holiday weekend
Sony's comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop starring Kevin James in his first solo lead role shunted Warner Bros' Gran Torino into second place as it stormed to the top on an impressive $33.8m estimated launch.The PG-rated comedy is expected to reach $40m by the end of the Martin Luther King ...