All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 714
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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 ...
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NewsMGM, Warner Bros to reboot Stargate
MGM and Warner Bros are teaming up with Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin on a feature trilogy of the 1994 feature.
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NewsLarry Charles to write NFI comedy
Larry Charles will write and may direct a reimagined version of the cult Australian hit The Man Who Sued God for New Films International (NFI).
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NewsNoble, Caller drive strong Cannes for Continental
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Shreder and James Andrew Felts’ LA based Continental Media have reported a strong response to the Cannes slate led by Nobel and Unknown Caller.
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NewsGoldstine named Universal marketing head
Josh Goldstine has been appointed the studio’s president of worldwide marketing.
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NewsRADiUS builds Lego doc deal
RADiUS has acquired the bulk of worldwide rights from Submarine to Daniel Junge and Kief Davidson’s Beyond The Brick: A Lego Brickumentary.
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NewsWhite Horse saddles up first film
Production has begun on A Faster Horse, the first film from Nigel Sinclair and Guy East’s White Horse Pictures.
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NewsSing Street sells for FilmNation
EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation, coming off a strong Cannes market, is close to selling out John Carney’s upcoming Sing Street, featuring music from U2’s Bono and The Edge.
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NewsMaleficent, X-Men in BO battle
Disney’s fantasy romp starring Angelina Jolie stormed into the UK on May 28 ahead of a 47-market weekend invasion that will face off with Fox International’s proven juggernaut X-Men: Days Of Future Past.
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NewsMagnolia acquires White God
EXCLUSIVE: The distributor is understood to have picked up North American rights to Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s Un Certain Regard winner.
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NewsInception walks with Barefoot
EXCLUSIVE: Inception Film Partners has licensed rights in Cannes to more than 25 territories on the Evan Rachel Wood and Scott Speedman rom-com Barefoot.