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All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 754
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NewsWeinsteins confirm Macbeth deal
The Weinstein Company has confirmed its acquisition of North American rights from StudioCanal to Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Macbeth, previously reported on Screendaily.
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NewsTom Hardy to play Elton John
Focus Features has confirmed the in-demand star will portray Elton John and said it will distribute Rocket Pictures and Icon/AI Film’s biopic in the US after incoming CEO Peter Schelssel brought it over from FilmDistrict.
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NewsTriStar, New Regency staff up
TriStar Productions chairman Tom Rothman has named his first production executives. Separately, New Regency president and CEO Brad Weston has appointed a production head.
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NewsNotebook launches Hungarian fest
Hungary’s official foreign-language Oscar submission The Notebook will open the 13th Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, set to run from November 15-21.
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NewsDCDC launches distribution platform
The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) has gone live with the launch of its North American satellite and terrestrial digital distribution platform to 17,000 screens across 1,200 venues.
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NewsShooting underway on Pawn Sacrifice
Michael Stuhlbarg has joined the cast of Gail Katz Productions and Material Pictures’ drama directed by Ed Zwick. Production on the scheduled 41-day shoot has begun in Montreal and will wrap in Los Angeles.
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NewsTFI, A+E back doc workshop
The Tribeca Film Institute today announced a feature doc workshop for five filmmaking teams in partnership with A+E Films.
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NewsElectric’s Wannabe rounds out cast
Vincenzo Amato, David Zayas, Neal Huff, Mike Starr and Slaine have joined Patricia Arquette on the cast of The Wannabe and Dean Devlin’s nascent Electric Entertainment will commence pre-sales at the AFM next month.
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NewsMonuments Men pushed to 2014
George Clooney’s film about a team of soldiers and art experts sent behind Nazi lines to recover priceless works of art is out of this year’s awards race.
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NewsIFC buys Jimmy P
The distributor has acquired US rights from Worldview Entertainment to Arnaud Desplechin’s drama Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian starring Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric.
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NewsAFI FEST rounds out programme
Festival top brass have announced the outstanding World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programmes.
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NewsCatching Fire gets China release
The Hunger Games sequel has been approved for a November 21 release on more than 3,000 screens in China.
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NewsSFFS launches Fall Celebration
Top brass at the San Francisco Film Society are seeking to get an early jump on awards season by staging the inaugural Fall Celebration, an annual event to honour “creativity, innovation, collaboration and inspiration in cinema.”
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NewsCarl Icahn cashes in on Netflix
The self-styled activist investor has sold roughly half of his stake in the streaming service.
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NewsAcademy selects Nicholl Fellows
Four individual writers and one writing team have been chosen as winners of the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.
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NewsIMAX, Cinepolis in LatAm deal
IMAX Corporation and Cinepolis have signed a deal to instal eight new IMAX(R) theatres in existing Cinepolis multiplexes throughout Latin America.
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NewsEllen Page to produce, star in 'Forest'
Ellen Page will produce and star opposite Evan Rachel Wood in Into The Forest, based on the adaptation of Jean Hegland’s novel of the same name.
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NewsGoldwyn, Phase 4 say hello Goodbye
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Phase 4 Films have jointly acquired all US rights to Denis Henry Hennelly’s Goodbye World.
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NewsContinental Media sells Solo to UK
EXCLUSIVE: The Los Angeles-based boutique sales agency founded by James Andrew Felts and Matthew Shreder has licensed the horror film to Kaleidoscope Entertainment.
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NewsLionsgate lines up AFM power slate
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate International will commence pre-sales at AFM next month on the Johnny Depp action comedy Mortdecai that has begun shooting in London (October 21) as well as the action epic Gods Of Egypt with Gerard Butler.