All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1510
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Zeidman leaves Landmark for Lions Gate, Peckos leaves Lions Gate for Landmark
Marty Zeidmanhas joined Lions Gate Films Releasing as senior vice president and generalsales manager, at the same time as Jay Peckos has left Lions Gate from his postas vice president of distribution to become film buyer at Landmark.Zeidman was headfilm buyer for the US arthouse theatre circuit, and in his ...
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8 Mile opens big in Korea for Universal/UIP
Universal's drama 8Mile grossed $2.9m from 1,469theatres in 25 markets over the weekend, raising its international runningtotal to $77.7m with 12 markets still to open. The picture had a strong Koreanbow with $524,000 from 75 screens, and took $18,000 from nine screens on itsopening day in Slovenia, marking Universal's fourth ...
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Miramax music president Spendlove renews contract
Randy Spendlove,Miramax's president of motion picture music, has re-signed with thecompany and will continue heading up the music department, Miramax co-chairmenBob and Harvey Weinstein announced today (Feb 25). Spendlove will remain inMiramax's Los Angeles office and will report directly to the Weinsteins.Directors of music Joe Rangel and Rachel Levy will ...
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Modern classics for sale at UK's 3DD
UK distributor 3DD Entertainment is offering its newly acquired library of modern classics for sale at the AFM, including rarely seen film versions of Peter Hall's adaptation of the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters directed by Lawrence Olivier. 3DD acquired all worldwide media rights (excluding ...
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Armada pre-sells One Point Zero
Chris Sievernich's Armada Pictures International has announced a raft of pre-sales on Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Steiner Thorsson's thriller One Point Zero. New Select has picked up the film for Japan, New Legend has bought for Germany, A-Film Distribution for the Netherlands, Cinema Park for Russia and Jumbo Film for ...
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Hannibal knocks on Dylan's door
Richard Rionda Del Castro's Los Angeles-based Hannibal Pictures has acquired all rights to Masked And Anonymous in Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Turkey from Nigel Sinclair and Guy East's Spitfire Pictures. Larry Charles' picture, which stars Bob Dylan as a singer on the comeback trail, premiered at Sundance and was ...
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BVI opens Jungle Book 2 in Benelux, Chicago in Italy
Buena Vista International (BVI) opened The Jungle Book 2 in second place in Belgium over the weekendon $460,000 from 69 screens, roughly the same as previous bows for Atlantis and Ice Age. In Holland the animated sequel took$235,000 from 113 screens, about the same as the bow for Lilo and ...
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Warner acquires Small Voices for the Philippines
Warner Bros Pictures hasacquired theatrical and home video rights in the Philippines to the Philippinefilm Mga Munting Tinig (SmallVoices), the country's submission for the foreign language film Academy Award and winner of the AudienceFavorite Award at the recent Palm Springs International Film Festival. Theannouncement was made today by Francis Soliven, ...
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Wellspring boards Dumont's latest as co-producer
Wellspring Media has boarded Bruno Dumont's upcoming drama 29Palms as co-producer,with production due to wrap in time for a screening in Cannes this year. Thestory centres on a young pair of photographers who are scouting for locationsin the Joshua Tree National Park when their lives are changed forever by ashocking ...
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Goodbye Lenin soars in Germany for Warner Bros
Warner Bros Pictures International's local language picture Goodbye,Lenin rose by aremarkable 47% in its second week in Germany to claim top spot with anestimated $3.6m (Euros 3.4m) from 328 prints. Wolfgang Becker'sfall-of-the-wall comedy-drama has grossed an estimated $7.3m (Euros 6.8m). Two Weeks Notice continued its strong international run, taking $13.4m ...
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Kaye Cooper-Mead named president of IS FIlm Distribution
Kaye Cooper-Mead has been named president of IS Film Distribution,the international sales and marketing joint venture launched recently byIntermedia and Summit Entertainment. Cooper-Mead will supervise day-to-daymanagement of contracts as well as the delivery, marketing and theatricaladministration divisions of the joint venture. She will report to IS'soperating committee members, Bahman Naraghi, ...
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Palm teams with Jonze, Gondry and Cunningham for DVD specials
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures is teaming up with acclaimeddirectors Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham on a series of DVDsfeaturing a collection of music videos, shorts and commercials hand-picked bythe film-makers, along with storyboards, alternate versions and unseen shortfilms. Releases from the three directors will be out in August, ...
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Daredevil scores in Philippines, Jamaica openings
Fox International opened its superhero adaptation Daredevil at number one in Jamaica over theweekend, grossing $29,000 from six screens. The picture also opened top of thecharts in the Philippines, taking $743,000 from 143 screens to register Fox'sfifth biggest bow of all time and the industry's second biggest February bow inthe ...
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IMAX signs with Regal for two more US IMAX systems
IMAX Corporation announced today (Feb 24) that it has signed adeal with Regal Entertainment Group to install two additional IMAX(R) theatresystems, increasing the number of IMAX theatres operated by Regal to 14 - morethan any other third party operator in the world. The two theatres will belocated in Boise, Idaho ...
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AFM conference assesses film funding jigsaw
In the wake of Germany's Neuer Markt collapse, global television's retreat from film buying and the general economic downturn, independent production and distribution companies are being forced to reassess their business models and rely on a funding jigsaw from an ever broader and enterprising array of sources, a wide-ranging AFM ...
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Daredevil still flies high
Fox/Regency's Daredevil heroically held off the competition and clung on top spot over the weekend with an $18.9m haul that took its running total after 10 days to $70.3m, according to studio estimates released today (Feb 23). The Marvel Comics adaptation, which stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, is set ...
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DIC signs UK video deal
UK independent DVD distributor Prism Leisure has signed a multi-picture deal with DIC Entertainment, the children's entertainment and programming producer and distributor, to exclusively distribute DIC's feature-length animated titles in the UK. Among the titles are Sabrina, Dennis The Menace, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and Inspector Gadget's Last Case. ...
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Lions Gate goes trucking with Monsterman
Lions Gate has pre-bought all domestic rights to Michael Davis' Monsterman, an upcoming road picture that centres on a pair of college friends en route to a wedding who realise they are being pursued by a monster in a truck. The project, which is currently in pre-production, will star Eric ...
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Blake Edwards remakes 10 with MDP
MDP Worldwide is to produce 10 Again, Blake Edwards’ remake of his 1979 hit, 10, MDP chairman and CEO Mark Damon announced at the AFM. Edwards will write and direct the picture, which originally starred Dudley Moore as the lovelorn jet setter in search of the perfect mate, famously played ...
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Susan Sarandon to star for Andrew Stevens' Powerhouse
Susan Sarandon is in final talks to star in the drama A Whale In Montana for Powerhouse Entertainment, the multimedia outfit headed up by Franchise Pictures co-founder Andrew Stevens that is making its AFM debut this year.Whale In Montana centres on a widowed, small town doctor whose life is transformed ...