All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 529
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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.
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News'The Force Awakens' surges to $1.4bn worldwide
JAN 2 UPDATE: A further estimated $59.5m from the global box office on Friday saw Disney/Lucasfilm’s behemoth reach $1.391bn.
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News'Force Awakens' Disney's biggest North American release
JAN 1 UPDATE: Star Wars: The Force Awakens – already Disney’s biggest film in North America since Thursday – is on the cusp of being crowned the biggest release of 2015.
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NewsGeorge Lucas: 'I sold Star Wars to 'white slavers''
As record-breaking Star Wars: The Force Awakens crossed $1.23bn worldwide the franchise’s creator has made clear his views on the tone of the reboot and selling the property to Disney.
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News'The Big Short' to receive PSIFF ensemble award
Top brass at the 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced their final honour on Tuesday heading into the January 2 2016 awards gala.
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News‘Force Awakens’ scales $1.3bn global
JANUARY 1 UPDATE: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars behemoth added $38m worldwide on December 31 to reach $1.33bn and rank as the eighth biggest release of all time.
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AMBI revs up with Lamborghini project
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi have optioned the life rights to Ferruccio Lamborghini and dropped another motoring biopic into the market alongside Enzo Ferrari.
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News'The Hateful Eight' expands wide one day early
Buoyed by the early $5.7m roadshow performance of Quentin Tarantino’s latest Western, The Weinstein Company is taking it wide on Wednesday.
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NewsPSIFF 2016 to honour Bryan Cranston
Riding high on SAG and Golden Globe nods for his lead role in Trumbo, the actor will receive the 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s (PSIFF) Spotlight Award, Actor.
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NewsAwards publicist Murray Weissman dies aged 90
The renowned publicist who represented the likes of Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg, has died of pancreatic cancer surrounded by family at his Studio City home. He was 90.