All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 740
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NewsPeabody rules US charts on $21.2m
DreamWorks Animation’s family release Mr. Peabody & Sherman climbed to the top in its second session through Fox after narrowly edging out Warner Bros’ 300 sequel with an estimated $21.2m.
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NewsSpeed takes pole on $46m
UPDATE MAR 18: DreamWorks’ Need For Speed powered to an estimated $45.6m in its first international wave of 40 territories through Disney and Mister Smith territories.
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NewsSXSW announces audience winners
Shawn Christensen’s Before I Disappear has won (15) the 2014 SXSW narrative feature audience award, while Diana Whitten’s Vessel triumphed in the documentary section.
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NewsMEETS unveils 11 projects
Organisers behind the MEETS Film Market have announced 11 of the 12 projects competing at the Latin American Co-Production Forum, set to run during the third International Film Festival Of Panama from April 7-9.
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NewsFilmNation lines up Aether
The company will produce, finance and handle worldwide sales on the sci-fi written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns.
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NewsCinemaCon attendance grows 5%
Data released by the National Association Of Theatre Owners (NATO) points to a 5% rise over 2013 in projected attendance for the upcoming convention in Las Vegas.
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NewsEden to open Tribeca/ESPN sports
The world premiere of the 30 For 30 documentary When The Garden Was Eden marking actor Michael Rapaport’s feature directorial debut will kick off the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival on April 17.
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News300 sequel battles Speed
300: Rise Of An Empire is expected to still be the one to beat heading into its second session, although it can expect a spirited challenge from DreamWorks’ Need For Speed.
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NewsSFFS Founder’s Directing Award to Linklater
Richard Linklater, riding high on critical acclaim for Boyhood and Before Midnight, will collect the honour during the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival on May 1.
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NewsColumbia beefs up China co-pros
In a move to expand its footprint in China, Columbia Pictures has revisited its local production ties and entered into split-rights deals with Chinese production companies.
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NewsSony lines up all-CG Smurfs film
Sony Pictures Animation has hired Kelly Asbury to direct an entirely computer-animated untitled Smurfs feature that is being viewed as a fresh take on the property rather than a third entry in the franchise.
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Strategic Partners focus on Ibero-America
The 17th annual co-production and co-financing market will shine a light on Ibero-America and the US when it runs in Halifax, Canada, from September 11-14.
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NewsKino Lorber strikes Zalman King deal
Kino Lorber has come on to handle packaged media and digital distribution to the Zalman King Company library.
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NewsLeslie Mann to receive CinemaCon award
The star of Fox’s April 25 release The Other Woman release will collect the CinemaCon Comedy Star Of The Year Award in Las Vegas on March 27.
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NewsAFI FEST 2014 sets dates
Festival hierarchy have announced the dates for the 28th edition of the festival in Hollywood.
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NewsSugar Mountain bulks up cast
Cary Elwes, Jason Momoa, Drew Roy, Haley Webb and Shane Coffey have joined the Yellow Brick Films comedy-thriller.
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NewsNYIFF to fete Gurinder Chadha
The British filmmaker will be the subject of a Spotlight retrospective at the 14th Annual New York Indian Film Festival, set to run from May 5-10 in New York.
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NewsFort Tilden wins top SXSW award
Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers’ comedy earned the narrative feature competition grand jury prize while Margaret Brown’s Deepwater Horizon disaster film The Great Invisible prevailed in the documentary section.
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NewsCameras set to roll on Carol
EXCLUSIVE: Production is about to kick off in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 12 on Number 9 Films and Killer Films’ Patricia Highsmith adaptation, reuniting Todd Haynes with recent Oscar winner Cate Blanchett.
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NewseOne, El Rey cut deals on Dusk
Robert Rodriguez’s new US-based cable network El Rey Network and eOne Television have struck a slew of digital deals on From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, set to receive its broadcast premiere on Tuesday night (11).