All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 671
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NewsRhys Meyers joins Stonewall
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman and Joey King have joined Jeremy Irvine on the cast of Stonewall
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NewsNetflix to debut football doc
This Is Not A Ball will premiere on June 13, one day after the World Cup kicks off in Brazil.
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NewsRADiUS acquires It Follows
The US rights deal to David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to The Myth Of The American Sleepover closed after the recent world premiere in Critics’ Week.
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NewsFumi Nikaido in Screen NYAFF honour
Fumi Nikaido will receive the inaugural Screen International Rising Star Award at the 13th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), set to run from June 27-July 14.
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NewsDigital event hears what Millennials want
Millennials, the demographic that content creators and advertisers cannot hear enough about, give new TV shows a 10-minute probation period and will not commit to a series unless Season 2 has the greenlight.
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NewsWorldview CEO in shock exit
The CEO has departed the ambitious New York-based financier-producer with immediate effect.
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NewsQED sells out Rock The Kasbah
EXCLUSIVE: Production on the comedy has kicked off in Marrakech, Morocco. Open Road will distribute in the US in spring 2015 and QED International handled sales.
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NewsMagnolia Int'l seals deals on Life Itself
EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures International has secured a handful of key sales on the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself, which screened in Cannes Classics.
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NewsOliver Stone to direct Snowden Files
The controversial filmmaker renowned for his fiercely intelligent accounts of US history has come on board to direct the tale of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in what will be a race to the screen with rival project No Place To Hide.
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NewsIFT sells out on Velocity
International Film Trust (IFT) has sold all overseas territories to Peter Sollett’s upcoming comedy You Shall Know Our Velocity starring Daniel Radcliffe.
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NewsXYZ spins Master Cleanse sales
EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has reported a strong response from Cannes buyers to The Master Cleanse, the fantasy horror that launched on the Croisette and will star Johnny Galecki, Chloë Sevigny and Anjelica Huston.
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NewsBark Ranger begins production
Principal photography on Breakthrough Entertainment’s family comedy has started in Toronto.
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NewsAngelina Jolie rules US on $70m
Four years since the world last saw Jolie in a lead live-action role, the star returned to winning ways in Maleficent with a career-best launch courtesy of Disney’s fantasy romp.
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NewsMaleficent storms to $106.1m int'l
UPDATED JUNE 2: Disney’s Maleficent scored a better-than-estimated $106.1m international debut in 47 territories to beat Fox’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past as the studio crossed $2bn worldwide.
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NewsContinental to sell Recovery
LA-based Continental Media has picked up worldwide sales rights to EBF Productions’ upcoming thriller Recovery.
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NewsIFC Midnight finds Asmodexia
The US rights deal for Marc Carrete’s feature directorial debut follows the recent world premiere at Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.
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NewsDoc specialist Cargo picks up trio
New York-based Cargo Film & Releasing has secured international sales rights to 1971, Bronx Obama, and David & Me.
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NewsSony moves FX hub to Vancouver
Lured by British Columbia’s enticing 58% tax incentives, Sony Pictures Imageworks is relocating its headquarters from Los Angeles to Vancouver.
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NewsARC takes Plastic for North America
Cinema Management Group founder Edward Noeltner has struck a deal for ARC Entertainment to distribute the credit card scam thriller in North America.
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NewsSony, Annapurna team on Sausage Party
The companies have set June 3 2016 for the release of the Seth Rogen animated comedy.Sausage Party, another collaboration between Sony and Annapurna following their work on the early awards contender Foxcatcher, is based on a screenplay by Rogen, frequent collaborator Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir.The script is ...