All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 759
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Content strikes Street Fighter online deal
Heading into AFM, Content has sold worldwide online rights for Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist to a major global online channel for a short first window.
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NewsExchange to sell Allman biopic
The Exchange has added Randall Miller and Jody Savin’s upcoming Midnight Rider: The Gregg Allman Story to the AFM slate.
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NewsDrafthouse, Cinedigm find The Dog
Drafthouse Films and Cinedigm have jointly acquired North American rights to documentary The Dog.
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NewsTom Loftus joins Myriad
Tom Loftus has joined Myriad Pictures as svp, business affairs & general counsel.
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NewsACI revs up on Snake And Mongoose
American Cinema International (ACI) has come on to handle sales on family action film Snake and Mongoose and is screening the drama at the AFM.
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NewsPatty West named AFI DWW head
Producer Patty West has been named director for the AFI Directing Workshop For Women (AFI DWW).
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NewsMarcin Janowski joins IFT
International Film Trust (IFT) has appointed Marcin Janowski to the newly created position of head of international marketing and publicity, effective immediately.
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NewsPatrick Wilson joins Carrion Road
UPDATE: The Man On Carrion Road heads to AFM and marks the second of a two-film agreement under which Atlas Independent will produce, MICA Entertainment will finance and Relativity International will sell.
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NewsCinedigm takes Easy Money sequels
Cinedigm has acquired all North American rights from TrustNordisk to Easy Money: Hard To Kill and Easy Money: Life Deluxe based on the bestselling books by Jens Lapidus. Separately, FilmBuff has acquired Someone Marry Barry.
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NewsWrekin Hill takes iNumber Number
Wrekin Hill Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Donovan Marsh’s South Africa-set heist thriller iNumber Number.
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NewsContent gets The Diabolical
Content heads to the AFM with the latest title from its Preferred Film & TV joint venture with producer Ross M Dinerstein.
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NewsTransmission takes Made In America
EXCLUSIVE: The Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea announced that the distributor has acquired Australia and New Zealand for the documentary about Jay Z’s benefit concert.
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NewsAFI FEST to honour Russell
David O Russell will be the subject of a special tribute on November 8.
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NewsThor 2 flies to $45.2m int'l start
UPDATE: Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World has drawn first blood from its initial foray into 33 territories this weekend, racing to an estimated $45.2m from the first three days to outpace the original almost everywhere.
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NewsDustin Hoffman to star in Boychoir
Dustin Hoffman will star in Informant Media’s drama alongside Alfred Molina and Kathy Bates. Embankment Films handles international sales and will introduce at AFM next week.
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NewsXLrator, Bleiberg strike Feed deal
XLrator Media has acquired all US rights from Bleiberg Entertainment’s genre label Compound B to the Bigfoot thriller Feed The Gods.
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DreamWorks enters Bully Pulpit
DreamWorks Studios has closed a preemptive deal to acquire feature rights to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s upcoming book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, And The Golden Age Of Journalism.
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NewsOrb Media launches Ironpond
Orb Media Group has launched a Chinese-language and China-based production and financing entity and announced a multi-pronged collaboration with fantasy martial arts writer Shiao Yi.
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NewsThe Exchange finds Accident
Brian O’Shea’s Los Angeles-based sales and financing company has added the 3D thriller to its slate in the lead-in to AFM.
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NewsFSC boards trio for AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has come on to represent three documentaries in the run-up to the Santa Monica market.