All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 687
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NewsLino DiSalvo joins Paramount Animation
Sixteen-year Disney veteran Lino DiSalvo has joined Paramount Animation as creative director.
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NewsThe Circle to open NewFest
The 26th edition of New York’s LGBT festival NewFest will run from July 24-29 and features 16 narrative and five documentary features.
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NewsAcademy sets 2014/15 changes
Rules governing how a two-person producing team can be considered a single producer when considering who is eligible for best picture nomination have changed.
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NewsTransformers 4 opens in China on $30m
UPDATE: Paramount’s behemoth is off to a flying start and has raced to $80m internationally and $121.6m worldwide.
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NewsVyer Films, NYAFF partner on Himizu
Film curation and streaming start-up Vyer Films has set the online premiere of Sion Sono’s film and struck an alliance with NYAFF operators Subway Cinema.
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NewsCBS Films explores Atlantis Gene
CBS Films has acquired rights to A G Riddle’s bestselling ebook Atlantis trilogy.
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NewsUniversal dates Pacific Rim 2
Guillermo del Toro returns will return to the director’s chair for the Legendary Pictures sci-fi sequel.
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NewsAcademy invites 271 people to join
Paolo Sorrentino, Denis Villeneuve, Sally Hawkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Lupita Nyong’o are among those invited to join the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences.
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NewseOne Films acquires Miss Meadows
The distributor, which recently reconfigured operations to focus primarily on digital distribution and will maintaining a theatrical presence where appropriate, has picked up US and Canadian rights to the Katie Holmes vehicle.
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Peter Kiernan joins Free Association
Peter Kiernan has joined 22 Jump Street star Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin as partner in their renamed production company Free Association.
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NewsJoe Roth sells Revolution Studios
Fourteen years after launching the studio, founder Joe Roth has sold Revolution Studios to Fortress Investment Group in a deal reportedly worth $250m that sees him segue into a strategic advisor role.
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NewsAcademy revises music category rules
Music Branch members are no longer allowed to contact each other to promote the nomination of their own song in any way, according to new Academy rules.
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NewsGravitas picks up The Longest Week
Gravitas Ventures has taken all US rights to the comedy starring Jenny Slate, Olivia Wilde, Billy Crudup and Jason Bateman.
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NewsSundance brass unveil NEXT FEST
Sundance Institute has pulled back the curtain on the films and music acts set to headline the LA festival from August 7-10.
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NewsRooney Mara to star in Somali kidnap drama
The memoir A House In The Sky will be developed as a starring vehicle for Mara, who will also serve as a producer alongside Annapurna’s Megan Ellison, with whom she optioned the rights.
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NewsTate Taylor boards Moon Disaster
Tate Taylor will direct In The Event Of A Moon Disaster, which FilmNation is producing and will sell internationally.
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NewsEli Wallach dies aged 98
Eli Wallach, the veteran character actor whose film credits included The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, has died. He was 98.
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NewsDream Factory to run in IFB 2014
EXCLUSIVE: IM Global CEO Stuart Ford has curated the two-day film event, set to run in July during the International Festival Of Business 2014 (IFB 2014) in Liverpool.
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NewsMitch Singer lands at Verance
Former Sony Pictures Entertainment chief digital strategy officer Mitch Singer has been named special advisor of industry affairs at Verance Corporation.
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News400 Days ends production
The 20-day shoot has wrapped on New Artists Alliance and XLrator Media’s psychological sci-fi starring Brandon Routh, Dane Cook and Caity Lotz from UK hit The Machine.