All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 752
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NewsExchange boards Men With No Fear
EFM: The Exchange has come on to finance and handle world sales on crime thriller Men With No Fear, which Nicolas Cage is understood to be circling. Separately, producers have announced the multi-director project Fear Paris.
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NewsVisit lines up busy EFM
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based Visit Films’ EFM slate includes the world premiere of Berlinale selection History Of Fear, Sundance award winner 52 Tuesdays and a couple of Rotterdam Tiger competition titles.
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NewsSynchronicity takes Bleed to EFM
Miles Teller, star of Sundance hit Whiplash, will play the lead alongside Aaron Eckhart in Bleed For This. Synchronicity will introduce to international buyers at EFM this week.
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NewsOn My Way to open Rendez-Vous
The 19th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema will run from March 6-16 backed by the Film Society Of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films.
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NewsGravitas takes Ping Pong Summer
Gravitas Ventures has picked up Michael Tully’s recent Sundance world premiere Ping Pong Summer.
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CommentIndie cinema’s new stars
By all accounts this year’s Sundance sparked relatively modest activity from buyers, although acquisitions teams still found plenty to enjoy.
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FeaturesEuropean Film Market 2014
The current market is focused on smart money and smart deals, not volume of product. Jeremy Kay examines the prospects for deals and new packages at Berlin’s European Film Market (Feb 6-14).
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CommentPalm Springs Directors Retreat
Around 18 filmmakers took time out from screening films to talk about their method and madness… and climate change.
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NewsExclusive pulls Hoffman project
In the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s sudden death, Exclusive Media will not present Ezekiel Moss at the Berlin market this week.
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NewsRide Along stays top in US on $12m
Superbowl Weekend allows Universal buddy comedy to make hay.
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NewsChina one-two rules int’l BO
UPDATE: The emerging might of China was plain for all to see once again as two films dominated the international box office over the Chinesen new year.
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NewsWGA, Annies, ASC hail winners
The Writers Guild Of America announced its winners in simultaneous bicoastal shows on February 1 and in the process shed some light on the two of the more inscrutable races of the season. Separately, animation and cinematography came under the spotlight in stand-alone shows.
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NewsSPC acquires Polar Bear
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has finalised its deal for North American, German, UK, Scandinavian, Eastern European and Russian rights to Maya Forbes’ directorial debut Infinitely Polar Bear following the recent world premiere in Sundance.
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NewsExclusive lines up Ezekiel Moss
EXCLUSIVE: The latest hot property to drop into the Berlin market will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, both of whom have drawn heat during awards season.
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NewsMyriad boards Barney Thomson
Robert Carlyle’s EFM-bound feature directorial debut The Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson to star Emma Thompson and Ray Winstone.
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NewsJackie Collins, Amber to adapt novel
The bestselling author and her Chances Inc has teamed with Amber Entertainment to adapt her forthcoming novel Confessions Of A Wild Child.
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NewsJessica Alba to star in The Wright Girls
Highland Film Group will introduce the Atlas Independent project to buyers at the EFM next week.
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NewsIrons, Eisenberg join Superman-Batman
Jeremy Irons has been cast as Alfred in Warner Bros’ untitled superhero mash-up.
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NewsCinemaCon honour for Craig Dehmel
Fox International svp of sales and strategic planning Craig Dehmel will receive CinemaCon’s Passepartout Award at the International Day Luncheon in Las Vegas on March 24.
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NewsWolf crosses $130m international
BOX OFFICE: Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio head into the weekend eying a third consecutive period of international domination with The Wolf Of Wall Street perched on $231.2m worldwide.