All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 683
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NewsCinedigm picks up Bunyan And Babe
The distributor has acquired North American rights to Exodus Film Group and Toonz Entertainment’s film featuring the voice talent of John Goodman, Kelsey Grammer and Jeff Foxworthy.
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NewsIndustry moves: Legendary, Sundance Selects
Legendary Entertainment has announced three promotions, while separately Steven Cardwell has joined Sundance Selects/IFC Films.
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NewsSierra to produce Highsmith thriller
Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Imogen Poots and Toby Jones have joined the cast of the Untitled Patricia Highsmith film that Sierra/Affinity will take to Cannes. CAA represents US rights.
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NewsMax Steel sells for Dolphin, IM Global
Dolphin Films International and IM Global have announced sales for Max Steel, the live-action feature based on Mattel’s superhero property that launched at the EFM in Berlin.
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NewsEmptying The Skies sells for Submarine
Submarine has sold all US rights excluding TV to Douglas Kass’ documentary Emptying The Skies to Music Box Films and has licensed Canadian rights to Films We Like.
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NewsDianne Wiest, Rosie Perez board Maine
Dianne Wiest and Rosie Perez have joined David Oyelowo in the upcoming Five Nights In Maine. CAA represents US sales.
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NewsOccupant’s The Woods starts shoot
Joseph Mawle (pictured) and Bojana Novakovic star in the horror tale that has begun production in Ireland. Altitude Films Sales will introduce the project in Cannes.
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NewsRon Perlman launches Wing
Seeking to create “a haven for the artists that I love and admire”, the actor has launched production company and film fund Wing And A Prayer Pictures and will attend Cannes to introduce the venture.
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NewsOpen Road acquires The Gunman
Open Road has taken a major independent production off the table, acquiring US rights to StudioCanal’s action thriller by Pierre Morel starring Sean Penn.
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NewsThe Exchange sparks to Electric Sky
CEO Brian O’Shea has added 3D documentary Under The Electric Sky to his Croisette war chest and will start talks with buyers next week.
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NewsHistory Of Fear triumphs at SFIFF
Benjamín Naishtat’s History Of Fear (pictured) won the New Directors Prize and a $10,000 cash prize as the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival came to a close (7).
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NewsWitherspoon, Vergara in MGM, New Line caper
The studios will partner on the upcoming Untitled Reese Witherspoon/Sofia Vergara Comedy.
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NewsTWC acquires 'Sunshine Girl'
Weinstein Books and The Weinstein Company have acquired the film and publishing rights ton adapted from the hit YouTube web series of the same name.
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NewsContent’s Speeds moves ahead
Leif Tilden’s Life At These Speeds starring Douglas Booth, Billy Crudup, AnnaSophia Robb and Sam Rockwell will start production in autumn and Content will introduce to Cannes buyers.
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NewsDavid Reckziegel to leave eOne
The president of North American Films will depart effective May 31 to launch a media finance venture.
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NewsDolan’s Mommy sparks sales
EXCLUSIVE: Xavier Dolan’s competition entry has triggered a wave of preemptive business in the run-up to its world premiere on the Croisette.
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NewsIt Follows sells for Visit Films
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kampe’s New York-based Visit Films has closed two key deals on David Robert Mitchell’s second feature ahead of its world premiere in Critics’ Week.
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NewsLiam Neeson joins Bayona fantasy
EXCLUSIVE: The star joins Felicity Jones on J A Bayona’s A Monster Calls, which Patrick Wachsberger and his Lionsgate International team will introduce on the Croisette.
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NewsJoe Berlinger to direct Facing The Wind
Fabrication Films will introduce buyers in Cannes to the documentarian’s true-crime saga to star Vera Farmiga, Evan Rachel Wood and Alessandro Nivola.
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NewsLouisiana FF to screen Venus In Fur
Venus In Fur and God’s Pocket are among the line-up at the 2014 Louisiana International Film Festival and Mentorship Program, set to run from May 8-11.