All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 576
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News‘Ultron’ scores $33.9m China opening day
Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron stormed into China on Tuesday, pushing Disney past the $2bn worldwide box office mark for the second consecutive year.
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NewsRoadside, Lionsgate snap up ‘The Sea Of Trees’
The Competition entry starring Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts and Ken Watanabe has found its US home.
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NewsIM Global partners on Valor Entertainment
IM Global and talent managers Carlos Bobadilla and Brandon Guzmán have launched a joint venture management and production company with a focus on Latino talent.
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NewsSearch Engine acquires 'Standing Tall'
Search Engine Films has acquired Canadian rights from Elle Driver to Cannes festival opener Standing Tall (La Tête Haute).
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NewseOne to sell 'Life On The Road'
eOne in association with BBC Films has come on board to finance Ricky Gervais’ upcoming Life On The Road featuring David Brent, the character he immortalised in The Office.
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NewsContent to sell world on ‘Callas’
Noomi Rapace will play the most influential female opera singer of the 20th century in what is set to be one of the most glamorous projects on the market as Content commences talks with buyers this week.
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NewsChristopher Woodrow launches Vendian
EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Woodrow flies into Cannes with a new finance and production venture that has raised $100m in equity and got behind six of the biggest titles to hit the market in the last two years.
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NewsConquistador to show Odyssea 3D footage
EXCLUSIVE: The company has unveiled its Cannes slate led by Jean-Michel Cousteau’s nature documentary.
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News‘Mad Max’ rolls into 68 markets this week
Warner Bros has unveiled details of the action film’s international roll-out on more than 16,000 screens in the coming days.
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NewsAmPav unveils Cannes ‘Industry In Focus’ programme
Special guests at The American Pavilion during the festival will include Amy Poehler, Salma Hayek and John C Reilly.
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NewsIFC Midnight picks up ‘One & Two’
ROUND-UP: The distributor has acquired US rights to the supernatural thriller following the premiere in Berlin’s Generation strand. Separately the comedy Balls Out has found buyers in North and Latin America.
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NewsDavid Lyle named first PactUS president
TV veteran David Lyle has been named inaugural president of the new television and content producers’ trade association.
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NewsHFG to introduce ‘The Delivery Man’
Floria Sigismondi of The Runaways fame will direct the drama about broken lives and new beginnings in Las Vegas.
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NewsA24 swoops on ‘Remember’, ‘Monsters’
The distributor has picked up two films on offer in the market, taking US rights to Atom Egoyan’s Remember starring Christopher Plummer and Bryan Bertino’s upcoming There Are Monsters.
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NewsEuropaCorp lines up 'Valerian' adaptation
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne will star in Luc Besson’s big-screen adaptation of the French sci-fi graphic novel.
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NewsAnne Hathaway boards Voltage’s 'Colossal'
The Oscar winner will star in the genre film that Voltage Pictures is fully financing and produces with Nahikari Ipiña via her Sayaka Producciones. Voltage commences pre-sales on the Croisette this week.
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NewsSeville International secures ‘Juste La Fin’ sales
Heading into the market eOne’s boutique sales arm has announced key territories on Xavier Dolan’s upcoming drama to star Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Gaspard Ulliel.
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NewsMyriad Pictures boards 'Brand: A Second Coming'
The Santa Monica-based sales agent will handle international rights in Cannes on the documentary that recently opened SXSW.
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NewsIM Global lines up ‘Samarkand’
Tom Hardy, Cannes-bound with Mad Max: Fury Road, is lining up to star in what would be a red-hot market title as an SAS veteran with PTSD in Journey To Samarkand.
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FeaturesBloom: a first year to remember
With Gus Van Sant’s The Sea Of Trees in Competition and several titles in post-production, Alex Walton tells Jeremy Kay why Bloom’s first year has been one to remember.