All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 731
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Natalia Smirnoff, Lock Charmer
Jeremy Kay talks to the Argentinian director about her Sundance World Cinema Dramatic entry.
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TFI Doc Fund announces grantees
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) have unveiled the 11 2014 TFI Documentary Fund grantees who collectively will receive $175,000.
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Sundance 2014: The winter's tale
Sundance’s John Cooper and Trevor Groth celebrate the US and international independent scene ahead of the festival’s 30th anniversary. Jeremy Kay reports.
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Distribution: Mood Indigo, Smiling Faces
Drafthouse Films has picked up from Studiocanal all US rights to Michel Gondry’s surreal romance starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris. Separately Tribeca Film has acquired Hide Your Smiling Faces.
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Damien Chazelle, Whiplash
Jeremy Kay speaks to the Harvard graduate about the feature version of his prize-winning 2013 short.
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Lone Survivor secures US pinnacle
Peter Berg’s war film starring Mark Wahlberg and Taylor Kitsch climbed 37 places to number one after expanding in its second weekend through Universal and grossing an excellent $39m.
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Frozen ices rivals on $28m
UPDATE JAN 13: Golden Globe winner Frozen brought in an estimated $27.8m through 50 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International territories as the running total climbed to $394.6m and the worldwide tally soared to $712.3m.
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Broken Circle Breakdown triumphs in Palm Springs
UPDATED JAN 12: Lakshmi wins narrative audience award; Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia earns doc honours.
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Film Independent unveils Spirit grants
The organisation’s top brass announced on January 11 the recipients of the three Spirit Awards filmmaker grants at the annual Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch in Los Angeles.
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Andrea Pallaoro, Medeas
Jeremy Kay catches up with the director of the tense family drama, which on January 11 was named winner of the New Voices/New Visions award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
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Powley to star in Diary
Caviar and Cold Iron Pictures will finance and produce the coming-of-age feature The Diary Of A Teenage Girl starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard.
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Distribution: Stray Dogs finds a home
The Cinema Guild has acquired US rights from Urban Distribution International to Tsai Ming Liang’s Venice grand jury prize-winner Stray Dogs
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O-Scope to feast on Banquet
Oscilloscope has taken world rights to Wayne Wang’s documentary Soul Of A Banquet following a work-in-progress benefit screening in 2013 at the San Francisco Film Society.
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Gravity, Slave earn ACE nods
The American Cinema Editors (ACE) unveiled their nominees on January 10 ahead of the 64th annual ACE Eddie Awards show on February 7 in Los Angeles.
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Production begins on Marigold 2
Shooting is underway in India on The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2, Fox Searchlight’s first ever sequel and follow-up to the 2012 $135m global hit.
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Slamdance to honour Nolan
The Slamdance Film Festival hierarchy announced that Christopher Nolan will receive the inaugural Slamdance Founder’s Award.
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Tom Hanks & Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi come from wildly different backgrounds but find truth in their roles in Captain Phillips, they tell Jeremy Kay.
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JC Chandor, All Is Lost
The director talks to Jeremy Kay about why he knew Robert Redford was right for the challenging lead role in All Is Lost.
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Kokowaah 2 scores for WB in 2013
EXCLUSIVE: The Til Schweiger comedy led the way for Warner Bros as the studio’s local-language pipeline generated approximately $270m in the calendar year.
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Smaug, Frozen eye BO crown
Both The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug and Frozen grossed more than $50m last weekend and are locked in a battle for international supremacy.