All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 525
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NewsBorderline Presents launches for Sundance
Borderline Films co-founders Josh Mond, Sean Durkin and Antonio Campos have unveiled a label to board projects as executive producers starting with Park City selection The Eyes Of My Mother.
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NewsOscilloscope buys Sundance entry 'The Fits'
The distributor has acquired US rights from Mongrel International ahead of the NEXT selection’s North American premiere in Park City on Friday.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Yao Huang, 'Pleasure. Love.'
The dreamy intimacy of Yao Huang’s debut feature is a departure from the more mannered Chinese film-making to which Western audiences have become accustomed.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Elite Zexer, 'Sand Storm'
Elite Zexer’s feature debut stems from her love for the Bedouin people and in particular her fascination with the role of women.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Alejandro Fernández Almendras, 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Alejandro Fernández Almendras won the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic prize in 2014 with To Kill A Man and he mines the familiar terrain of social and legal injustice in his return to Park City.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Rebecca Daly, 'Mammal'
Australian actress Rachel Griffiths usually inhabits gregarious characters but plays against type in Mammal as a woman who loses a son and weaves a complicated relationship with a teenage boy.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Agnieszka Smoczynska, 'The Lure'
Agnieszka Smoczynska had already collaborated with screenwriter Robert Bolesto on her short films but the impetus for her trippy $1.6m (€1.5m) feature debut came as a surprise.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Felix van Groeningen, 'Belgica'
Relationships and music are the beating heart of Belgica, as they were in Felix van Groeningen’s 2014 Belgian Oscar submission The Broken Circle Breakdown.
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NewsSony sets Jennifer Lawrence for 'Marita'
The Oscar nominee has been cast as Fidel Castro’s lover Marita Lorenz based on a pitch by American Hustle co-writer Eric Warren Singer.
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NewsNetflix international subscribers reaches 30m
The streaming service saw just over 4m new members outside the US in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to an influx of 1.56m from within the US.
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NewsA24 acquires 'American Honey'
Newcomer Sasha Lane stars alongside Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough in the British filmmaker’s latest feature, currently in post.
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NewsMongrel International in tune with 'Lovesong'
EXCLUSIVE: Charlotte Mickie and her team have come on board to represent international sales on Sundance regular So Yong Kim’s US Dramatic Competition entry ahead of its world premiere in Park City.
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FeaturesSundance: the year starts here
The Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) is embracing virtual reality, web and TV series, and world cinema to offer a characteristically eclectic selection of films.
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Features'The Revenant' producer Mary Parent on the biggest challenge of her career
After the Golden Globes, Bafta and Oscar nominations, The Revenant has become this awards season’s front-runner. Jeremy Kay talks to producer Mary Parent about bringing the most challenging project of her career to fruition
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FeaturesBox Office 2015: A grand year abroad
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: The blockbusters got bigger in 2015 and so did the box office, but how did the top 10 US films perform around the world?
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NewsRola Bauer lands StudioCanal US post
The CEO of the French studio’s Tandem Productions will lead all production and co-production television activities in the US, it was announced on Monday.
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NewsSpike Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith to boycott Oscars
Two of Hollywood’s most prominent African-Americans used the Martin Luther King Jr public holiday in the US to declare they will stay away from the 88th annual Academy Awards on February 28 as the #OscarsSoWhite backlash gathered momentum.
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NewsAMPAS head vows diversity review
Referring to the all-white roster of this year’s Oscar acting nominees, Cheryl Boone Isaacs said she was “heartbroken and frustrated”.
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NewsBuyers eye Sundance discoveries; 34 titles to watch
As Sundance and Slamdance prepare to kick off this week some insiders have predicted there could be a surge of activity from digital platforms besides Netflix and Amazon Studios.
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News'Ride Along 2' cruises to US title on $41.6m
JAN 18 UPDATE: Universal’s comedy sequel opened at number one and dethroned Star Wars: The Force Awakens after five sessions at the top.