All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 609
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News‘Fast & Furious 7' crosses $525m
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and the gang are expected to hold on to the global box office crown this weekend as the film reached $526.8m through Thursday morning.
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NewsLionsgate plots Comic-Con S-VOD channel
Busy Lionsgate made two significant and separate announcements on Thursday, lining up an S-VOD service with the organisers of Comic-Con and extending its Grindstone partnership with Emmett/Furla Films.
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News'Wasp' flies to Breaking Glass Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: The distributor has picked up North American rights to the LGBT drama from Swiss feature directorial debutant Philippe Audi-Dor.
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NewsRightsTrade launches cloud-based deal service
The online global marketplace for film and television rights has unveiled DealWizard to handle complex data and terms and recognise the key role that relationships play in negotiating and closing deals.
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NewsAcademy dates Oscars through 2018
The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences and ABC Television Network have revealed dates for the next three Oscars shows.
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NewsD J Gugenheim joins Andrew Lauren Productions
The former Lotus Entertainment executive arrives as president of production and will get to work on a director-driven, commercial slate.
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NewsSFFS / KRF grantees unveiled
The San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (KRF) have selected the finallists for the latest round of SFFS / KRF Filmmaking Grants.
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NewsBold Films eyes May start on 'Shot Caller'
Bold’s Michel Litvak and Matthew Rhodes have announced the company’s first project since its awards season duo Whiplash and Nightcrawler.
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NewsDistribution: Kino Lorber, Zeitgeist in action
Kino Lorber has acquired all US and Canadian rights from Le Pacte to Israeli film-maker Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher.
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NewsTribeca unveils Latin America Fund grantees
Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) has announced the 10 recipients of the 2015 TFI Latin America Fund and introduced Los Cabos Film Festival and Labodigital as new partners.
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NewsXLrator Media acquires 'Five Star'
The distributor cut the North American deal on the inner-city drama with XYZ Films.
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NewsLionsgate lines up 'The Odyssey'
The studio is teaming up with its family of The Hunger Games film-makers and taking on Homer’s paean to ancient Greek heroism and ingenuity.
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NewsUPI crosses $1bn in record time
Top brass at Universal Pictures International (UPI) said the studio was on course to reach the box office milestone in record time on Wednesday (April 8).
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NewsDrishyam, Sundance unveil screenwriter fellows
Sundance Institute and Drishyam have unveiled the artists and creative advisors for the inaugural Drishyam | Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab set to run in Goa, India, from April 12-16.
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NewsTribeca Film Institute announces Sloan grantees
The Tribeca Film Institute has announced the 2015 recipients of the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund.
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NewsDisney pushes back 'The Finest Hours'
Imax Corporation and The Walt Disney Studios have renewed their exhibition relationship with a multi-film deal that runs from this year through 2017.
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NewsNew Mexico improves ‘Breaking Bad’ incentives
Production companies in New Mexico will be allowed to pre-assign tax rebates to third parties under a new law approved on Wednesday by Governor Susana Martinez.
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NewsChina-US alliance plots 'Need For Speed 2'
The Chinese JV triumvirate of China Movie Channel Program Center, Jiaflix Enterprises and 1905 Pictures are teaming up with Electronic Arts on the English-language sequel.
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NewsBroad Green acquires 'The Dark Horse'
The company has picked up US rights from Seville Pictures International to James Napier Robertson’s festival favourite starring Cliff Curtis as the New Zealand chess prodigy and youth leader Genesis Potini.
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NewsJohn Short joins Radiant Films International
President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer has hired the former Voltage Pictures senior executive as she seeks to broaden the company’s content creation mandate.