All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 516
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News'Trainwreck', 'Sicario' earn WGA nominations
Amy Schumer’s comedy and Denis Villeneuve’s cartel thriller are among the screenplay nominees announced on Wednesday by The Writers Guild Of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild Of America, East (WGAE) ahead of the 2016 Writers Guild Awards.
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NewsNetflix expands into 190 countries
The streaming service has gone live in a further 130 countries in additional to the previous 60 where it was operational, CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings told the CES conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
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News'Force Awakens' tops US all-time chart
JANUARY 7 UPDATE: The latest accolade for Disney/ Lucasfilm’s behemoth arrived on Wednesday as it overtook the five-year record of Avatar to become the biggest film ever at the North American box office on $764.4m.
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News'Mad Max', 'Revenant' among ASC nominees
The cinematographers group on Wednesday unveiled its nominations for the 30th American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards on February 14 in Los Angeles.
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FeaturesThe 54 films to tempt festival directors in 2016
From debut feature directors to seasoned veterans, Screen looks ahead to the films most likely to tempt international festival directors in 2016
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NewsKevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti to run Relativity Studios
Relativity Media is buying Trigger Street Productions and Ryan Kavanaugh has brought in the production company’s heads to run his film studio.
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NewsUS Briefs: Andrew Rodgers takes Denver Film Society post
Plus: to Bobby Moresco to write Lamborghini – The Legend for AMBI; Uwe Boll prepares final film… for a while; and more…
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NewsCartagena to stage Brillante Mendoza tribute
The 56th edition of the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI) set to run from March 2-7 has announced a retrospective of the Filipino filmmaker’s work.
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NewsMagnolia to kick off EFM sales on 'Harry Benson'
The distributor has acquired world rights to Harry Benson: Shoot First and will commence international sales in Berlin next month. Separately, HBO Documentary Films has moved on upcoming Sundance premiere Jim: The James Foley Story.
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NewsPGA snubs 'Carol', 'The Force Awakens'
Denis Villeneuve’s cartel thriller Sicario received timely awards attention in The Producers Guild Of America’s (PGA) theatrical motion picture nominations on Tuesday while Carol and Star Wars: The Force Awakens failed to make the cut.
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NewsDisney grossed $5.85bn in 2015
The Walt Disney Studios announced its record-breaking calendar year results as combined grosses for all releases amounted to $5.845bn – the second biggest score ever behind Universal’s $6.88bn from last year.
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NewsToronto critics hail 'The Forbidden Room'
Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson will share the C$100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award following the critics group’s gala dinner on January 5.
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News'The Force Awakens' sets biggest third weekend in North America
JANUARY 5 UPDATE: With the North American box office record poised to fall on Tuesday or Wednesday, Disney confirmed that Star Wars: The Force Awakens added $8m on Monday to reach $750.2m following a $90.2m weekend that wiped out Avatar’s $68.5m third-weekend mark from exactly five years ago.
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NewsNSFC names 'Spotlight' best film of 2015
The National Society Of Film Critics elected Tom McCarthy’s ensemble drama Best Picture of the Year 2015.
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NewsUS Briefs: 'The Hateful Eight' triumphs in Capri
Quentin Tarantino’s Western was named best movie as the 20th edition of Capri, Hollywood - The International Film Festival closed at the weekend.
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News'The Deer Hunter' cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond dies aged 85
Visionary cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, who escaped his native Hungary to set up in Hollywood and became one of the most acclaimed practitioners of his generation, has died aged 85 in Big Sur, California.
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News'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' scales $1.54bn global
JAN 5 UPDATE: Disney/Lucasfilm’s juggernaut added $14.5m internationally on Monday to reach $786.1m and the global haul climbed by $22.5m to $1.536bn.
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NewsUniversal hits $6.9bn global in 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Combined box office for all the studio’s films released in 2015 from January 1 through December 31 reached a world record $6.88bn worldwide.
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NewsNew Year’s Honours for Idris Elba, David Oyelowo
Leading lights from the British Isles have been recognised for their contributions to drama in the annual list.
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NewsFox, Warner Bros each cross $2bn international
With the top two distributors of 2015 Disney and Universal yet to report final calendar year results, two others each came in at more than $2bn.