All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 596
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NewsVoltage lines up Bruce Willlis action comedy
Voltage Pictures will finance and produce an untitled Bruce Willis action comedy and is in the midst of talks with Cannes buyers.
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NewsMPI Media Group boards 'Uncle Nick'
MPI Media Group has acquired all US distribution rights to the comedy starring Brian Posehn.
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NewsDavid Oyelowo joins 'Three Seconds'
The actor is on board Otto Bathurst’s thriller starring Luke Evans, which Bloom is touting here to buyers.
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NewsUS buyers circle Croisette offerings
US acquisitions teams in Cannes continued to swirl around prestige titles and packages heading into Saturday night including Competition selection The Lobster starring Colin Farrell.
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NewsFortitude boards Will Ferrell comedy 'Tom's Dad'
Lasse Hallström will direct the story of a struggling nightclub performer forced to babysit his estranged 12-year-old son. Fortitude International is selling in Cannes.
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NewsKMI to sell 'Monumental'
EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Irons, Virginia Madsen, rising star AnnaSophia Robb and Rory Culkin have joined the action comedy, which Kathy Morgan International has introduced to Cannes buyers.
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NewsLionsgate UK swoops on 'Turbo Kid'
Epic Pictures has reported a roaring trade here on its Sundance pick-up Turbo Kid led by a deal with Lionsgate for the UK.
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NewsWWE Studios, Gene Simmons sparks to Voltage
EXCLUSIVE: WWE Studios and Gene Simmons’ Erebus Pictures joint venture has struck a sales deal with Voltage Pictures, who are in Cannes talking up the pipeline.
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NewsLittle Studio Films options Joe Pepitone story
EXCLUSIVE: The company has optioned rights to the sports biopic Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud about New York Yankee starn and is talking to buyers on the Croisette.
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NewsGoff Productions ready 'Night Dream'
EXCLUSIVE: Producers Rene Sheridan and Gina G Goff of Goff Productions are lining up an adaptation of Oliver Stone’s autobiographical novel A Child’s Night Dream.
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NewsFilmSharks lures 'Francis' buyers
EXCLUSIVE: FilmSharks’ Francis: Pray For Us promo continues to draw buyers as Metropolitan has swooped on French rights to the Vatican-endorsed biopic of the current Pope.
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NewsMarc Butan launches MadRiver Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: Marc Butan has launched the company to develop, finance and produce three to four star-driven films a year in the $15-50m range.
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NewsRaven Banner, Sony strike 'Sky Sharks' deal
EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto-based company has struck a deal with Sony Pictures for home entertainment rights to the Nazi zombie creature feature Sky Sharks.
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NewsRed Sea Media to sell AIP genre slate
EXCLUSIVE: Roman Kopelevich’s LA-based sales company has come on to handle international sales on a reboot slate of ten American International Pictures genre classics from the 1950s.
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NewsBlock Entertainment sells out Leslie Mann comedy
Bill Block and John Friedberg have sold out the world on Untitled Lucas/Moore Project to star Leslie Mann following last week’s US deal with Paramount.
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NewsAlchemy finds ‘The Survivalist’
The distributor has acquired North American rights to Screen 2013 Star Of Tomorrow’s Stephen Fingleton’s post-apocalyptic thriller following its premiere in Tribeca last month.
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News‘Ultron’ crosses $1bn global
Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron was on course to reach the milestone on Friday, its 24th day of release.
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NewsIM Global lines up ‘The Fifth Beatle’
IM Global, writer Vivek J Tiwary and Simon Cowell‘s Syco Entertainment will co-produce the adaptation of Tiwary’s graphic novel about the band’s manager Brian Epstein.
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NewsTed Sarandos stirs up Cannes
Ted Sarandos moved to allay concerns over the fate of the traditional theatrical business on Friday in Cannes although he may have achieved the opposite as he said Netflix would side-step theatrical distribution in France.
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NewsKatee Sackhoff joins 'Don't Knock Twice'
The actress has signed on to star in Red & Black Films’ supernatural horror film on the Content international sales slate.