All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 597
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NewsHigh female count among 140 Project Forum entries
More than half of the Independent Filmmaker Project’s (IFP) 140 titles at the upcoming Project Forum in Septembers’ IFP Independent Film Week hail from women.
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NewsEnsemble cast joins '37'
Regner Grasten Film and Game 7 Films on Wednesday announced the ensemble cast for their fictional account of the night Kitty Genovese was murdered in 1964.
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NewsOpen Road acquires 'Mother’s Day'
The distributor has picked up all US rights to rom-com to star Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis.
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NewsBroad Green, Uni strike home ent deal
Under the multi-year distribution services agreement Universal Pictures will exclusively manage back-room distribution services for all Broad Green titles for Blu-ray and DVD.
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NewsCargo Film & Releasing boards Tony Vaccaro doc
New York-based sales company Cargo Film & Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to the upcoming documentary.
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NewsAsif Kapadia, Jia Zhangke among TIFF industry guests
The Toronto International Film Festival’s industry office announced on Tuesday the first raft of participants confirmed to attend the seven-day conference.
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NewsGerry Lopez to step down as AMC CEO
In a sudden move, the president and CEO of the second largest exhibitor in the US is to depart the company on August 6 “to pursue another opportunity.”
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NewsRoadside Attractions sets 'Stonewall' date
The drama about the 1969 Stonewall riots will open on September 25. Separately, Sundance Selects has acquired A Ballerina’s Tale and Gravitas Ventures has picked up Unbranded.
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NewsChristina Lazaridi joins ttff industry team
Top brass at the 2015 trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) announced on Tuesday that the Oscar-nominated short film writer will serve as facilitator for this year’s RBC Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion in September.
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NewsTeri Everett to head Uni corporate comms
The executive will start work as evp of global communications for Universal Filmed Entertainment on August 17 and replaces outgoing Kori Bernards, who is leaving after seven years.
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NewsTyler Perry joins ‘Brain On Fire’
The multi-hyphenate joins Chloë Grace Moretz and Carrie-Anne Moss on the Broad Green, Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features adaptation. Separately, Clea DuVall lines up a directorial debut and Olympian Kerri Walsh Jennings is the subject of a documentary.
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NewsARC Entertainment acquires 'Molly Moon'
The North American rights deal has cued up an August 14 release on VOD and in select theatres for Christopher N Rowley’s adaptation.
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NewsBron Studios launches The Realm
Garrick Dion will head the new label focused on director-driven films across multiple genres, managing director Aaron L Gilbert of the British Columbia-based Bron announced on Monday.
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NewsProducers tee up Moe Norman golf biopic
EXCLUSIVE: David Carver Films and Scott Duncan are developing a feature based on the life of the man whom they claim was one of the most misunderstood golfers in history.
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NewsRosamund Pike joins 'High Wire Act'
The Oscar-nominated star of Gone Girl joins Jon Hamm on Radar Pictures’ political action-thriller that Good Universe represents internationally.
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News'Monster Hunt' rules int’l on $72m
UPDATED JULY 20: The $30m Chinese-language fantasy adventure secured top berth at the international marketplace ahead of Hollywood’s Minions, which was the biggest global earner of the session, as well as China’s superhero spoof Jian Bing Man and a bona fide US superhero in the shape of Ant-Man.
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CommentNew York Asian Film Festival 2015
The 2015 festival came to a conclusion on July 11 with the screening of Coin Locker Girl.
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News‘Ant-Man’ swarms over US box office on $57m
JULY 20 UPDATE: The final film of Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe debuted top in North America as Universal comedy Trainwreck arrived at number three on $30.1m.
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News'A Sinner In Mecca' among 2015 Outfest winners
Parvez Sharma’s pilgrimmage to Mecca shot on an iPhone picked up a prize as the LGBT festival in Los Angeles came to a close on Sunday night.
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NewsBold acquires spec script ‘The Edge Of Normal’
The production and finance company has acquired the spec script by Matt Venne based on the novel by Carla Norton.