All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 704
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NewsRightsTrade marches on with new signings
Fortissimo, GK Films, Lightning Entertainment and Odin’s Eye Entertainment are the latest companies to sign up to the online entertainment rights licensing marketplace.
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NewsIM Global enters The Killing Pool
EXCLUSIVE: The LA-based production, sales and financing company will co-produce the Liverpool-set crime episodic with the UK’s Red Union Films and Pinewood Pictures.
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NewsDolby pledges $12m Academy gift
Dolby Laboratories is to provide a $7m gift for audiovisual technology in the Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures’ theatres and has committed an additional $5m to the Academy Museum’s capital campaign.
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NewsIra Sachs in Newfest honour
New York-based non-profit NewFest wil recognise the director with the third annual NewFest Visionary Award at its annual LGBT jamboree that runs from July 24-29.
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NewsReading Promise for Relativity, Walden
The companies will jointly develop, finance and produce a feature adaptation of Alice Ozma’s memoirs.
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NewsDisney discovers its Mowgli
A global search has resulted in the opportunity of a lifetime for 10-year-old New York newcomer Neel Sethi.
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NewsMarina Cordoni launches new venture
The executive producer and former Breakthrough Entertainment executive Marina Cordoni has set up her new venture and announced a partnership with Breaking Glass Pictures in the US.
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NewsTFI announces second StoryLab
The Tribeca Film Institute has announced the second annual New York-set StoryLab for film-makers in partnership with A&E IndieFilms.
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NewsTrumbull among TIFF speakers
The tech pioneer Douglas Trumbull headlines the Industry Conference, while Legendary East CEO Peter Loehr will give the opening address at the Asian Film Summit and Michael Moore will take part in a keynote conversation at Doc Conference.
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NewsFox 2000, Color Force forge pact
The studio announced on Tuesday (15) the three-year production deal with The Hunger Games producer and longtime champion Nina Jacobson and partner Brad Simpson.
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NewsLionsgate, Alibaba in stream deal
Lionsgate has struck a deal with e-commerce titan Alibaba Group to stream its content in mainland China in a service that is expected to commence in August.
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NewsAnna Friel joins The Master Cleanse
The British actress has joined the Bron Studios and Gilbert Films fantasy-horror and replaces replaces Chloë Sevigny who had a scheduling conflict. Production commenced in Vancouver on July 11.
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NewsChild 44 to open spring 2015
Lionsgate has set the release date for the Summit Entertainment thriller starring Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace.
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NewsTriCoast Worldwide expands into UK
The US distribution and production company has formalised UK partnerships to distribute its titles across multiple platforms.
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NewsSerendipity Points’ Remember starts shoot
Principal photography has begun on Atom Egoyan’s thriller starring Chrisopher Plummer, Martin Landau and Bruno Ganz.
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NewsThe Orchard checks into Harmontown
The Orchard has acquired North American and UK theatrical and digital rights to Harmontown.
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NewsParamount sets Ninja Con show
The studio has set its Hall H presentation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for July 24 — but for the time being is keeping mum over other possible show highlights.
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NewsAnnapurna in talks to board Revenant
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures is in talks to board the revenge tale as co-financier while it is understood New Regency is sticking to its intended September start date.
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NewsTransformers 4 surges past $500m
UPDATE JULY 14: Paramount Pictures International’s behemoth generated a superb confirmed $100.3m in its third weekend of duty to raise the score to $540.6m as the global tally climbed to $749.4m.
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NewsApes storm to US summit on $73m
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes won the North American session hands-down, arriving on an estimated $73m as the studio said it had passed $1bn for the year-to-date.