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All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 753
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NewsCheadle to direct Trumpet Player
UPDATED EXCLUSIVE: IM Global will look to strike a chord at AFM with Don Cheadle’s feature directorial debut, the Miles Davis biopic Kill The Trumpet Player.
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NewsIFC Midnight bites into Wolf
The distributor has picked up US rights to Jim Taihuttu’s Dutch crime thriller. XYZ Films will continue international sales at AFM.
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NewsThai roadshow heads to LA
Thailand’s deputy prime minister and minister of commerce will lead a delegation to Los Angeles this week for the Thai Film and Animation Business Alliance Roadshow.
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NewsSarandos: exhibition “might kill movies”
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos delivered a timely jeremiad at the weekend (October 26) in which he warned Hollywood’s more traditional elements to be mindful of audience needs.
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NewsBad Grandpa tops US on $32m
A muscular launch for Paramount’s comedy generated the second biggest launch in the Jackass family as Fox’s The Counselor flopped and Oscar contender 12 Years A Slave broke into the top ten in its second session.
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NewsGravity stays top of int'l on $38m
UPDATE: Gravity held on to its number one international berth for the fourth consecutive weekend as a confirmed $37.7m boosted the score to $164.4m. SPRI’s Stalingrad reached $45.8m to become the biggest Russian film of all time.
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NewsMyriad promotes Theresa Won
Theresa Won has been promoted to manager, productions and acquisitions at Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures, it was announced today by Myriad CEO Kirk D’Amico.
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NewsElectric heads to AFM with Transit
EXCLUSIVE: Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has acquired all worldwide sales excluding the Philippines to the country’s official Oscar submission.
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NewsLike Me wraps in Sweden
EXCLUSIVE: Production has wrapped in Stockholm on Cinemantrix and G4C Innovation’s English-language Sweden-US thriller Like Me.
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NewsSBFF honour for Whitaker
Forest Whitaker will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s eighth annual Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film.
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NewsReports – King, Robinov in talks
UPDATE: Graham King and former Warner Bros Motion Picture Group president Jeff Robinov have been taking meetings with Hollywood players over a potential venture.
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NewsGravity crosses $300m worldwide
BOX OFFICE: Warner Bros space epic races to $129m from international markets
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NewsCompound B tastes Blood
EXCLUSIVE: Bleiberg Entertainment’s Compound B genre division will introduce AFM buyers next month to Strange Blood.
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NewsSarah Gabriel joins Lotus
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Gabriel has joined Lotus Entertainment as vice-president of sales in the run-up to AFM.
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NewsFilmTrack hires sales duo
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Dawidzik and Andrew Goldstein have been named directors of sales at FilmTrack, the software-as-a-service (SaaS), rights and content management company.
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NewseOne, Amaze sign first-look
eOne has signed an exclusive three-year first-look deal with Teza Lawrence and Michael Souther’s production company Amaze Film + Television.
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NewsMonuments Men, Jack Ryan moved back
Sony and Fox have rescheduled The Monuments Men to open on February 7 2014.
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NewsSubmarine Deluxe acquires Champion
Submarine Deluxe has acquired US rights to the Formula 1 documentary Weekend Of A Champion and will release the film theatrically on November 22 in New York followed by nationwide roll-out.
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NewsIFP unveils Gotham nominees
12 Years A Slave has earned three nods in the 23rd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, while Blue Caprice, Concussion, Fruitvale Station, Inside Llewyn Davis and Upstream Color earned two apiece.
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NewsSpotlight lines up Child Of God for AFM
Heading into AFM Spotlight Pictures has acquired international rights to the crime thriller Child Of God in its third collaboration with RabbitBandini.