All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 504
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NewsUS Briefs: Roadside Attractions tastes 'Bitter Harvest'
Plus: Strand Releasing acquires Sundance selection Lovesong; Talent incubator Resonance launches; and more…
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NewsCBS Films picks up 'Winchester'
The distributor has acquired US rights from to Bullitt Entertainment and Diamond Pictures the thriller that will star Helen Mirren.
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NewsBusy SPC snaps up 'Norman', rest of Almodovar library
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North America, Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia excluding South Korea to Richard Gere starrer Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires 'Harmonium'
The New York-based film distributor has picked up Koji Fukada’s family drama and upcoming North American premiere Special Presentation selection at Toronto.
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News'Suicide Squad' smashes US August record on $133.7m
AUGUST 8 UPDATE: After a patchy 2016 Warner Bros has a rare North American opening weekend to crow about as its comic book adaptation destroyed the previous high-water mark for the late summer month and the studio crossed the $1bn milestone for the 16th consecutive year.
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NewsDavid Kosse hires Andy Leyshon as STX UK managing director
STX International president David Kosse has named his first big hire, bringing in the distribution specialist and former sales director for Universal Pictures UK and Eire.
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News'Suicide Squad' races to $30m at international box office
AUGUST 5 UPDATE: The R-rated comic book adaptation opened top in 33 new markets on Thursday led by a record $3.9m industry opening day in Russia as the overall international running total climbed to $29.6m.
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NewsProducer Liz Watts joins 'Mary Magdalene'
The founder of Sydney-based Porchlight Films has teamed up with the UK’s See-Saw Films on the prestige drama ahead of a European production start later this year.
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NewsWarner Bros dates 'Fantastic Beasts' sequel
With a little over three months to go before the release of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, the studio confirmed a follow-up to the Harry Potter spin-off is in the works.
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NewsSamuel Goldwyn Films to make TV series 'The Surge'
The company is partnering with producers Michael S. Emerson and Colonel F. Lee Reynolds to adapt the book Battle For Baqubah: Killing Our Way Out by retired First Sergeant Robert S. Colella.
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News'The Lost City Of Z' to close NYFF
James Gray’s adventure has been a long time coming but audiences will finally get a chance to see it as the closing night world premiere screening at the 54th New York Film Festival on October 15.
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NewsCheryl Boone Isaacs re-elected Academy president
The board of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences on Tuesday night voted its president to a fourth term heading into what could become an impassioned season of Oscar campaigning fuelled by the diversity agenda.
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NewsToronto unveils Canadian titles
A heavyweight roster of world premieres from the leading lights of Canada’s film industry will grace the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
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CommentOliver Stone’s views on mobile telephony
Want to get the audience to switch off their phones before a screening? This is how the Snowden director does it.
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NewsUS Briefs: Woody Harrelson starrer 'Wilson' gets 2017 release
Fox Searchlight will open Wilson in limited release on March 3, 2017.
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NewsSTX Entertainment pulls out of 'Gypsy'
The studio will no longer distribute and co-finance the Barbra Streisand project about Momma Rose, according to reports.
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NewsWill Poulter, Ben O’Toole, Jack Reynor join 'Untitled Detroit Project'
The trio of up-and-comers have boarded Kathryn Bigelow’s crime drama that is scheduled to shoot later this summer.
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News'The Secret Life Of Pets 2' gets greenlight
Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment top brass announced the development on Tuesday, the day The Secret Life Of Pets crossed $400m worldwide.
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NewsJimmy Fallon to host 74th Golden Globes
The comedian credited with revitalising NBC’s The Tonight Show will emcee the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual jamboree on January 8, 2017.
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NewsAnton Yelchin’s parents sue Fiat Chrysler
Victor Yelchin and Irina Yelchina have filed papers with the Los Angeles Superior Court alleging the auto giant and others were responsible for their son’s wrongful death.