All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 621
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NewsSpongeBob rules US on $56m
Paramount’s children’s comedy The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water arrived in grand style thanks to an estimated $56m that scored the fifth biggest February launch of all time.
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NewsJupiter Ascending grosses $33m int'l box office
Jupiter Ascending grossed $32.5m from a little under 10,200 screens in 65 countries led by $4.7m from 1,900 in Russia and $2.5m from 392 in France.
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NewsBerlin: Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups in $6.5m US deal
Ambitious start-up Broad Green has paid $6.5m in Berlin for US rights to Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups ahead of its festival premiere as well as the director’s untitled follow-up.
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NewsAlejandro G Iñárritu wins DGA for Birdman
The Birdman director has edged into the lead in a tantalising Oscar race as he earned top feature honours at the Directors Guild Of America’s 67th annual DGA Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday [February 7].
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NewsWerner Herzog to direct supervolcano thriller
EXCLUSIVE: Golden Bear contender Werner Herzog is eying an April start on Salt And Fire, his Queen Of The Desert follow-up that is generating heat for sales agent International Film Trust.
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NewsRelativity updates key distribution deals
EXCLUSIVE: Company signs new deals with Tele München Group, Viva and Imagem.
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NewsBloom announces key hires
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Walton and Ken Kao’s company announces string of key hires in marketing, sales, finance and business affairs.
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NewsBuyers target Scott Adkins' Close Range
EXCLUSIVE: Blue Box International closes key territories on Scott Adkins action-thriller.
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NewsTWC dates Underdogs, No Escape
The Weinstein Company has announced a pair of scheduling changes, moving Underdogs back by four months and renaming The Coup as No Escape.
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NewsBerlin: Sony Pictures Classics takes 13 Minutes
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights from Beta Cinema to 13 Minutes, Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Hitler assassination drama that plays out of competition in Berlin.
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NewsArclight talks up The Confirmation
Clive Owen will play a down-on-his-luck carpenter in Arclight Films sales title The Confirmation.
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NewsOlga Kurylenko to star in Myriad's Duelo
Myriad Pictures is handling world sales here on the thriller Duelo starring Olga Kurylenko.
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NewsAldamisa boards Royal Ice
EFM: Aldamisa has acquired sales rights to Royal Ice, based upon the life story of Prince Albert II of Monaco.
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NewsTWC tunes into The Eichmann Show
Company acquires US rights to Paul Andrew Williams’ drama about the televised trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
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NewsHighland introduces Tooken at EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Action spoof stars Donnie Wahlberg, Jenny McCarthy and Lukas Haas.
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NewsXLrator, RNR ink production deal
EXCLUSIVE: XLrator Media will co-produce, release in the US and oversee international distribution on three action-thrillers.
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NewsPope biopic Francisco sells to Poland
EXCLUSIVE: FilmSharks is showing first footage of the first officially endorsed biopic of Pope Francis at the EFM.
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NewsPure Flix talks up Do You Believe?
EXCLUSIVE: Follow-up to US box office hit God’s Not Dead is set to open in US on March 20.
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NewsConstantin acquires Extortion
EXCLUSIVE: 13 Films licenses Germany and all German-speaking rights in all media to Constantin Film.