All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 753
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NewsFamke Janssen joins Kickback
The Dutch star takes her place on the crime thriller alongside John Cusack, Sean Astin, Misha Barton, Michael Biehn, John Hannah, Rutger Hauer, Stelio Savante, Tom Sizemore and Sean Young.
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NewsMPAA hires Steven Fabrizio
The new senior evp and global general counsel is a leading copyright and content protection lawyer and played a critical role in the MPAA’s recent legal victory over cyberlocker Hotfile.com.
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NewsRocket, Giant triumph at AFI FEST
As the festival comes to a close on November 14, top brass have announced the grand jury short film and audience award winners.
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NewsRed Compass lines up vampire horror
William Sadler (pictured), John Heard, James Russo, Andrew Keegan and Thomas Ian Nicholas will star in Red Compass Media’s found footage film Living Among Us.
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NewsFoosball kicks off Baja fest
The second edition of the Baja International Film Festival 2013 kicked off on November 13 with the opening night screening of Juan Jose Campanella’s Latin American box office hit.
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NewsAFI launches China fellowship
The American Film Institute on November 11 unveiled the AFI/IDG China Story Fellowship to develop feature-length screenplays that foster “greater understanding of Chinese history, culture and literature.”
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NewsNYFCC sets vote date
The New York Film Critics Circle will stage its annual awards ceremony on January 6 2014 at The Edison Ballroom.
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NewsPhilomena earns PG-13 rating
The Weinstein Company’s (TWC) latest ratings battle has resulted in a victory after the MPAA overturned Philomena’s R classification.
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NewsFactory 25 takes All The Light
Factory 25 has acquired US rights to director Joe Swanberg’s All the Light in the Sky.
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NewsRelativity boards Hope
Relativity Media has acquired worldwide rights to finance, produce and distribute Not Without Hope (working title) with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson attached to star.
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NewsNight sells for XYZ Films
XYZ Films has closed a raft of deals at AFM on The Night Comes For Us, its Indonesian and English-language action-thriller collaboration with Gareth Evans’ PT Merantau Films.
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NewsHighland buyers find Mind
EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has closed key territories at AFM on the contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
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NewsDouble Dutch reports strong AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Double Dutch International has concluded further business at the market with a slew of deals on Detour, Saving Santa and Dorfman In Love, among others.
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NewsVladar sells Generation Iron
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based The Vladar Company has closed a trio of high-profile deals at AFM on the documentary.
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NewsBahamas to honour Glover
Danny Glover has been selected to receive the Bahamas International Film Festival’s (BIFF) Career Achievement Award.
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NewsGun violence in film rises
The level of gun violence in PG-13 films in 2012 exceeded that of R-rated releases in the same year, according to a report out this week.
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NewsVision finds Comedy Warriors
Vision Films has acquired worldwide sales rights and to Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor and will distribute directly in the US and Canada.
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NewsSummit takes Hercules for US
Summit Entertainment has picked up Millennium Films’ Hercules: The Legend Begins starring Kellan Lutz.
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NewsDisney eyes box office record
Fired up by the antics of Thor 2, Walt Disney Studios top brass said the company was on course to break its previous global box office record of $3.791bn set in 2010.
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NewsWinfrey for SBIFF honour
Oprah Winfrey will collect the Montecito Award at the 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 5 2014.