All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 598
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News'Rogue Nation' top of world on $93.5m
AUGUST 10 UPDATE: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation retained the global, international and North American crowns with ease as the second session generated a confirmed $65m from 58 territories and $28.5m in North America.
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NewsCinema Slate, Fandor in Brazilian film pact
Cinema Slate, a new distributor focused on Latin American cinema launched by Rodrigo Brandão, has struck a deal with streaming service Fandor to release four films.
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NewsColorado theatre shooter to get life sentence
James Holmes, who massacred 12 people during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in the Colorado suburb Aurora three years ago, is to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
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News'Mission 5' battles 'Fantastic Four'
Paramount/Skydance’s Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation heads into the second session and will have to muster all its charm to resist the advance of Fantastic Four.
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NewsBold Films, Jake Gyllenhaal in pact
The Los Angeles-based producer-financier has struck a first-look production deal with its Nightcrawler star.
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NewsRLJ Entertainment acquires 'Pay The Ghost'
The distributor has taken all US rights to the Nicolas Cage horror film from the international sales agent Voltage Pictures.
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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.