All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 555
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NewsNetflix dates 'Winter On Fire'
The streaming service has set its worldwide digital release date for Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary about the birth of the civil rights movement in Ukraine.
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NewsXLrator Media acquires 'Mateo'
XLrator Media has acquired North American rights to the SXSW documentary Mateo by Aaron I. Naar.
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NewsTodd Haynes to receive Gothams honour
The filmmaker, in awards contention this upcoming season for Carol, will receive the Director Tribute at the 25th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York on November 30.
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News'Dragon Ball Z' scores US opening day hit
FUNimation Entertainment announced a mighty opening night for the theatrical release of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F.
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NewsRADIUS co-heads exit company
Screendaily has confirmed that Tom Quinn and Jason Janego, the pair who founded the theatrical and VOD day-and-date enterprise four years ago under the auspices of TWC, have left the mothership.
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NewsSony Pictures unveils 2016, 2017 slates
The studio, urgently in need of lucrative franchises and facing the possibility it could lose the James Bond series in a competitive auction later this year after it releases Spectre, has announced 16 key releases over the next two years.
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NewsSPC picks up awards contender ‘Miles Ahead’
Sony Pictures Classics has pounced on a hot awards prospect, acquiring US rights and all available territories on Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic and feature directorial debut.
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NewsUni hits record global box office
Universal Pictures top brass announced on Wednesday that after seven months the studio had reached $5.53bn, overtaking $5.52bn set by Fox in 2014 for a new industry record.
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NewsTennessee theatre gunman shot dead
UPDATE: Police have identified the man they shot dead at a Nashville suburban multiplex as 29-year-old Vincente David Montano. They also said he had been carrying what turned out to be an air pistol and not a gun.
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NewsBig World Pictures acquires 'Aferim!'
Big World Pictures has acquired US rights from Beta Cinema to Romania’s foreign language Oscar submission.
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NewsToronto announces Canadian line-up
World premieres for Patricia Rozema, Guy Édoin and Stephen Dunn are among the selection scheduled to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
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NewsAlchemy boosts board, hires strategy and planning exec
Pat Fitzgerald and Mitch Lowe have joined the board of directors while Kelly Summers arrives as svp of strategy and planning.
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NewsCheryl Boone Isaacs re-elected Academy president
The board of governors announced the news on Tuesday night adding that 20th Century Fox chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos will embark on his first officer stint as treasurer.
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NewsCanada’s Touchwood PR opens LA office
Former president of District PR Kevin McLean will lead the operation as director while international film publicist Kara MacLean is manager and previously worked with Touchwood PR in Toronto.
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NewsRLJ Entertainment snaps up 'Bone Tomahawk'
The Caliber Media Western stars Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Lili Simmons and Richard Jenkins.
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News'Ultron' drives Disney studio unit in 3Q
The Walt Disney Company chairman and CEO Bob Iger hailed strong performance of “unparalleled brands, franchises and creative content” as the entertainment giant reported third quarter earnings of $2.5bn.
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NewsWoody Allen bulks up cast on latest project
Jeannie Berlin, Corey Stoll from Ant-Man and Ken Stott have joined the cast ahead of a production start later this month in New York and Los Angeles.
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NewsARC acquires 'Chloe And Theo'
Ezna Sands directed the drama starring Dakota Johnson, Mira Sorvino and Theo Ikummaq.
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News'Rogue Nation' tops US on $55.5m
AUGUST 3 UPDATE: Tom Cruise returned to pole position at the North American box office and bucked the trend of diminishing debuts for the last two episodes in the spy franchise, playing his part in helping 2015 box office stay 8.1% ahead of last year by the same stage.
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NewsTom Cruise rules world on $120m
AUGUST 3 UPDATE: The action icon who defies the slide of age returned to the fray over the weekend as Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation dominated the international arena on a confirmed $64.5m from 40 territories and ruled North America on $56m.