All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 735
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NewsFlame, Origin prep Mother Theresa biopic
Flame Ventures, Origin Entertainment and The Mother Teresa Center have hired Keir Pearson to I Thirst, the first exclusively authorised biopic of Mother Teresa.
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NewsNetflix eyes Euro expansion
The streaming and DVD mailing service has reached 44 million subscribers worldwide and expects to grow that number to 48 million by the end of the quarter.
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NewsGreenaway's Eisenstein casts up
EXCLUSIVE: South African actor Stelio Savante has joined the cast of Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein In Guanajuato.
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NewsMarc Butan joins Sierra/Affinity
The traditional pre-market shuffle intensified as it emerged that the Panorama co-founder was leaving to become co-president of Sierra/Affinity, signalling a major move into production for Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg’s company.
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NewsDinosaur 13 draws int’l buyers
Sundance: Dogwoof Global has taken international rights, while Madman has picked up Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and Jaguar Distribution landed international airline rights.
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NewsA24 takes US on Violent Year
The busy distributor announced from Park City it has picked up US rights to Participant Media’s thriller A Most Violent Year, JC Chandor’s follow-up to All Is Lost.
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NewsGod's Pocket heads to EFM
Electric Entertainment has acquired international rights and IFC has taken the US on John Slattery’s feature directorial debut. Separately, Kinology has acquired international sales on A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, IFC also acquired Cold In July and SPC picked up Land Ho!.
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NewsCMG boards Ratchet & Clank for EFM
Cinema Management Group (CMG) will bring the 3D animation to Berlin on behalf of Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment and Blockade Entertainment of LA.
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NewsRutger Hauer joins Sights Of Death
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Italian development, finance and production company AMBI Pictures has announced key casting on its upcoming action thriller.
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NewsSundance: I Origins wins Sloan
Mike Cahill’s story of an eye researcher who uncovers profound truths has won the $20,000 Sundance Institute’s Alfred P Sloan Feature Film Prize – making it two for two for the filmmaker.
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NewsSundance: Sepideh sparks int’l sales
Berit Madsen’s Sundance World Documentary competition entry has sparked a number of key sales outside North America.
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NewsSundance / Mahindra winners unveiled
Sundance Institute and Mahindra have announced the winners of the 2014 Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award.
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NewsUTA's Dreyfus joins Ride Along producer
Ride Along producer Will Packer has hired UTA motion picture literary agent Barbara Dreyfus as head of motion pictures for his new Will Packer Productions.
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NewsCooties, Skeleton, Calvary sell
As the industry heads home from Park City, Lionsgate acquired North American rights to Cooties and teamed up with Roadside Attractions for US on The Skeleton Twins while SPWA took international. Fox Searchlight has acquired US and select territories to Calvary.
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NewsMaiden Voyage lines up Mediterranea
Jonas Carpignano will direct the feature version of his Venice 2011 award-winning short A Chjana, one of several films backed by new company Maiden Voyage Pictures.
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NewsFortitude Int'l heads to EFM
International sales agent Nadine de Barros, financier-producer Daniel Wagner and veteran producer Robert Ogden Barnum have teamed up to launch the LA-based sales and financing venture.
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FeaturesIgor Shteyrenberg, Miami Jewish Film Festival
On the eve of the 17th annual Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF), director Igor Shteyrenberg talks Woody Allen and Ida.
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NewsWild Bunch moves on Babadook
SUNDANCE: In the most high-profile piece of European business thus far at the festival, eOne and Wild Bunch have struck a deal over Jennifer Kent’s buzzy genre film.
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NewsCAS to honour Edward Zwick
The veteran filmmaker will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 50th Annual CAS Awards on February 22.