All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1272
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Walden, Phoenix hire Kwapis to direct teen mayor project
Walden Media has hired Ken Kwapis to direct its untitled teen mayor project that Phoenix Pictures' Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messner will produce.Surf's Up co-writers Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse have come aboard as screenwriters on the story of a high school slacker who runs for mayor to bolster his ...
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Sulzer leaves Universal for job as svp, media at Overture
Former Universal Pictures marketing executive Elana Sulzer has joined Overture Films as senior vice president of media.Sulzer will report directly to Overture's president of worldwide marketing, distribution and new media Peter Adee.Sulzer started her career at Universal nearly 10 years ago and rose through the marketing ranks to the position ...
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Kimmel has strong Cannes with Synecdoche, Unthinkable
Kimmel International chief Mark Lindsay has reported a successful Cannes in which he and his team closed key territories on Charlie Kaufman's feature directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, and Tarsem Singh's upcoming thriller Unthinkable.Rights to Synecdoche, New York, which is being produced by Spike Jonze and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, ...
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Knocked Up spawns knockout domestic opening, but Pirates clings on
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End took a big tumble in its second weekend but still had enough puff to sail past $200m and see off the challenge of Universal's much lauded comedy Knocked Up.Buena Vista's juggernaut fell 62.4% to an estimated $43.2m as it raised its domestic tally ...
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Pirates 3 crosses international $400m mark in record time
As expected Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End ruled the waves in its second weekend as an estimated $105.4m propelled the international running total past $400m in record time.The weekend haul from 17,500 theatres in 103 countries boosted the tally to $408.8m, making this latest high seas episodic the ...
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Little Film Company takes on rights to Satanas
The Little Film Company has acquired worldwide rights from Dynamo & Rionegro Producciones to Andres Baiz' thriller Satanas. Rodrigo Guerrero (Maria Full Of Grace) produced the film, which stars Damian Alcazar, Marcela Mar and Blas Jaramillo in a story that explores the ripple effect of misguided actions on a group ...
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H20 closes Cannes sales on Poor Things and Opium
H20 Motion Pictures has closed multiple territories on the dark comedy Poor Things and the psychological drama Opium. Poor Things has sold to South America (IDC), Portugal (Castello Lopes), Israel (Forum Films), Poland (Monolith), the Middle East (Front Row), Romania and Bulgaria (New Films), and Hungary and the Czech ...
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IM Global celebrates 'exceptional' debut Cannes
IM Global president Stuart Ford has reported an 'exceptional' market debut for the company on the back of roaring sales on Stopping Power and Untitled Larry Charles Project. A major US distributor has picked up North America and all English-speaking territories to Jan de Bont's upcoming action title in ...
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Warner Bros takes rights to Irish children's book series
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired film rights to the children's book Skulduggery Pleasant by Irish author Derek Landy.The deal incorporates all future books in a potential nine-title series based on the contemporary Dublin-set tale about a skeleton detective who works tirelessly to thwart the return of the Faceless Ones.The first ...
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Hyde Park make big hits with Streetfighter
Hyde Park International (HPI) has closed major territory sales on Streetfighter headed by a UK deal with Entertainment. Rights have gone to Brazil (Swen), CIS and Baltics (MGN), Spanish speaking Latin America (Gussi), Portugal (Lusomundo), South Africa (Nu Metro), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Middle East (Phars), Philippines (Pioneer), Thailand (M ...
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Erik Lomis takes senior international role at MGM
Erik Lomis has been appointed executive vice president ofinternational theatrical and home entertainment at MGM.Lomis, who has served in a consultant capacity to MGM, joins thestudio formally to oversee the marketing and distribution of theinternational theatrical and home entertainment releases, which arehandled by Fox.He will be the primary executive working ...
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IFC swoops on Cannes official selections
IFC has swooped on Cristian Mungui's Romanian competition entry 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Un Certain Regard opener Flight Of The Red Balloon.Both films will be released in North America through IFC'ssimultaneous theatrical and VOD distribution platform IFC First Take.Abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks ...
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Sales erupt on Polanski's Pompeii
Summit International has closed pre-sales on Roman Polanski's upcoming epic Pompeii to IDC in Mexico and Brazil and Mars in South Korea.Entertainment is understood to be the frontrunner for UK rights, however Summit could not confirm the deal last night.Meanwhile Summit Entertainment top brass and the film's producer Robert Benmussa ...
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Myriad closes more deals on Death Defying Acts
Myriad Pictures has sold the romantic adventure Death Defying Acts starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones to Italy (Eagle), South Korea (Screen) and Brazil (Imagem).Rights also went to Mexico (Gussi), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Russia and The Baltics (Pyramid), Greece (Audiovisual), Israel (Shapira), Portugal (LNK), Eastern Europe (AQS), Indonesia (PT Camila), the ...
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Kadison moves to Fox Atomic from Gold Circle
Former Gold Circle senior vice president of production Zak Kadison has joined Fox Atomic as vice president of production.Kadison will report to Fox Atomic president of production Debbie Liebling. One of his first projects will be Larry Doyle's I Love You, Beth Cooper, produced by 1492 Pictures.At Gold Circle Kadison ...
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Lightning strikes on Bonneville deal
Aimee Schoof and Isen Robbins have partnered with Los Angeles production and sales company New Films International (NFI) to build aslate of up to 10 films a year.The producing duo, formally of New York-based Intrinsic Value Films,teamed with NFI on the recent thriller The Alphabet Killer, which isin post-production and ...
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Brett Ratner and Quincy Jones team for Carnaval 3D
Brett Ratner and Quincy Jones are teaming up on the US-Brazil co-production Carnaval 3D: The Magic And The Music.Jones will appear on camera profiling the high and low life surrounding the week-long Rio De Janeiro Carnaval. A portion of the film's profits will go improving the lives of impoverished Brazilian ...
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Pearce, Neill and Beresford on Reliant Pictures International roster
Reliant Pictures International headed by London-based managing director Penny Wolf has been meeting with buyers at its inaugural Cannes to introduce a diverse slate featuring projects with Guy Pearce, Sam Neill and Bruce Beresford.Pearce and Neill are about to begin shooting alongside Miranda Otto on the Australian thriller How To ...
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Sam Neill joins Daybreakers cast
Sam Neill has joined Ethan Hawke on the cast of Lionsgate's upcoming vampire thriller Daybreakers, which is set to begin filming in Australia in July. The story takes place in 2017 as of a clandestine group of vampires discovers the key to saving the human race from a ...
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Inferno prepares dog story remake with Richard Gere
Los Angeles-based Inferno Distribution is gearing up for a September shoot on the English language remake Hachiko: A Dog's Story with Richard Gere attached to star.Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel's financing, production and sales company acquired remake rights to the 1987 Japanese drama Hachiko Monogatari from Shochiku and is financing ...