All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 604
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News'Game Of Thrones' cast reflect on roles
COMIC-CON: The panellists from HBO’s smash series took to the hallowed Hall H on Friday with their hands – and mouths – tied.
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News‘Star Wars’ panel feels the Force
As has happened so often in recent years, a Disney-owned property delivered a Comic-Con show-stopper as JJ Abrams rounded off Friday’s Star Wars love-fest by inviting the entire 6,000-plus capacity of Hall H to a live concert.
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News‘Minions’, ‘Genisys’ eye big weekend
Universal and Illumination’s Minions has reached $159m and will vie for international supremacy this weekend with Paramount and Skydance Productions’ sci-fi reboot.
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NewsLuc Besson talks ‘Valerian’ plans
The French filmmaker and EuropaCorp head flew into Comic-Con on Thursday for a rare and deeply personal presentation that featured concept art from his upcoming $180m space opera.
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NewsSundance Institute Native Filmmakers Lab selects two
Razelle Benally and Randi LeClair will take part in the Lab, set to run in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from July 10-14.
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NewsMarc Danon to oversee acquisitions at Broad Green
The company has hired the former Lionsgate senior executive as president of acquisitions and co-productions.
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NewsJennifer Lawrence, Bill Murray wow Comic-Con
Two pop culture superstars took part in separate panels in the legendary Hall H for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and Rock The Kasbah as the San Diego jamboree got underway on Thursday.
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NewsAbramorama to re-release ‘Montage Of Heck’
Richard Abramowitz’s distribution platform will release Brett Morgen’s documentary in select US theatres on August 7.
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NewsParamount, AMC in windows pact
In the boldest move yet by a studio and exhibition partner to challenge the traditional distribution structure, Paramount has struck a revenue-share deal with AMC Theatres and Canada’s Cineplex Entertainment that will see it roll-out two autumn releases digitally 17 days after the films dip below 300 theatres.
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NewsHumanoids, sci-fi icon strike deal
EXCLUSIVE: The LA-based graphic novel publisher has made its latest move in an aggressive push into film and TV, teaming on the eve of Comic-Con with multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Robert Silverberg.
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NewsProduction duo rise at Fox Searchlight
The studio’s president of production Claudia Lewis has promoted Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum to executive vice-presidents of production, effective immediately.
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NewsUPI sets $3bn industry record
Universal Pictures International (UPI) has reached the $3bn ticket sales milestone faster than any other studio in history, obliterating the previous mark set by Fox International in October 2014.
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NewsAndré Picard earns NFB stripes
The former director general of the National Film Board of Canada’s French Program has been named its director general, creation and innovation.
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NewsEllen Page to star in ‘Lioness’
The actress will play a US Marine in the drama inspired by the real-life female soldiers who deployed alongside Special Forces under the Lioness Program.
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NewsCinema On The Edge to show banned Chinese films
Organisers behind a New York-based festival highlighting films from the Beijing Independent Film Festival (BIFF) that fell foul of local authorities have turned to Kickstarter.
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NewsBarry Ward to star in ‘Never Walk Alone’
EXCLUSIVE: The star of last weekend’s US release Jimmy’s Hall from Ken Loach has come aboard KPI Entertainment and Deadpan Pictures’ Ireland-set contemporary generational drama.
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NewsChristopher Miller, Phil Lord board Han Solo film
The red-hot writer-directors behind The LEGO Movie and 22 Jump Street will direct the next episode in the anthology series of Star Wars films set to open on May 25, 2018.
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NewsBroad Green, Denver & Delilah, Foundation team on ‘Brain On Fire’
Screen LA Star Of Tomorrow Gerard Barrett will direct the adaptation of Susannah Cahalan’s memoir to star Chloë Grace Moretz.
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NewsVirgin Produced, Infinitum Nihil, City Entertainment ready ‘Muscle Shoals’ TV series
Richard Branson, Jason Felts and Justin Berfield’s Virgin Produced, City Entertainment’s Joshua D Maurer and Alixandre Witlin and Johnny Depp and Christi Dembrowski’s Infinitum Nihil will produce the drama series inspired by Greg Camalier’s Sundance 2013 documentary.
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NewsAcademy publishes 2015-16 deadlines
Submissions for the foreign language category in the 88th Academy Awards are due by 5pm PT on October 1.