All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 628
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NewsNightcrawler opens top in US charts
The independent drama starring awards contender Jake Gyllenhaal as a freelance LA crime reporter dominated a weak Halloween weekend session on $11m.
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NewsChina fires Turtles past $240m
UPDATED NOVEMBER 3: Paramount Pictures International’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles used a confirmed $26.5m opening in China to power a $34.9m overall weekend.
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NewsFox International sets record
BOX OFFICE: Fox International has set a new industry box office record as the company’s year-to-date score reached $3.254bn.
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NewsEpic to sell UK war film Fraternity
EXCLUSIVE: Epic Pictures Group has acquired world sales rights heading into the AFM to Mike Carter’s film.
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NewsShoreline AFM-bound with Charlie’s Farm
EXCLUSIVE: The slasher film stars Tara Reid, Nathan Jones, Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley.
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NewsLightning invites buyers to Bravetown
Lightning Entertainment has bolstered its AFM slate with international sales rights to the drama starring Lucas Till, Josh Duhamel and hot awards contender Laura Dern.
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NewsVoltage boards Blunt Force Trauma
Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has strengthened its AFM war chest with international rights to the action title starring Ryan Kwanten, Freida Pinto and Mickey Rourke.
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NewsAMPAS receives 134 doc submissions
Citizenfour, Life Itself, Red Army, Warsaw Uprising among long-list contenters for the 87th Academy Awards.
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NewsQED to sell Magic City feature
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Olga Kurylenko, Danny Huston and Kelly Lynch will star in the adaptation that QED will introduce at AFM.
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NewsRed Sea Media to handle Gridlocked at AFM
EXCLUSIVE: The action-thriller stars Dominic Purcell, Danny Glover, Cody Hackman and Stephen Lang and is in post.
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NewsUS-China forum to welcome Michelle Yeoh
The 2014 US-Sino Co-Production Film Forum will host a panel discussion about partnership opportunities on November 3 in Pasadena.
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NewsIFP to kick off Boulevard sales
Inception Film Partners will be at AFM screening and selling international territories on the Tribeca world premiere starring the late Robin Williams.
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NewsAnnabelle to soar past $150m
Last weekend’s international box office champion Annabelle is expected to soar past $150m this session.
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NewsSierra/Affinity boards Godmother
EXCLUSIVE: Sierra/Affinity looks set to fire up the market with its biopic starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as Colombian drug boss Griselda Blanco.
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FeaturesJavier Fuentes-Léon, The Vanished Elephant
The LA-based writer-director came to attention outside his native Peru in 2010 when Undertow (Contracorriente) scooped an audience award at Sundance. Now he’s back with another meditation on reality, albeit one that inhabits the noir milieu.
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NewsLittle Film Company rides high on Northern Soul
EXCLUSIVE: Robbie Little’s The Little Film Company swings into the AFM looking to find a US buyer and close outstanding territories on UK art house smash Northern Soul.
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NewsOpen Road, FilmNation strike pact
Tom Ortenberg is pushing into international sales and distribution and has formed an alliance with Glen Basner to assist in selling and servicing the slate.
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NewsDDI takes flight with Byrd And The Bees
EXCLUSIVE: Double Dutch International (DDI) heads to the AFM with the coming-of-age story starring Tracy Spiridakos, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
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NewsGood Universe AFM-bound on A Man In The Dark
The company will launch pre-sales next week on A Man In The Dark from Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures.
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CommentEx Machina US-only teaser trailer
To erase the line between man and machine is to obscure the line between men and gods. If this sounds like a high-falutin’ Screen editorial meeting, it isn’t.