All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 768
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NewsIndiegogo, IndieReign team up
Online marketplace IndieReign has announced a partnership with crowdfunding platform Indiegogo
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NewsLarrikin launches Catalina Capital
The Weinstein Company has secured first-look privileges on the $50m fund announced by former Dune Entertainment chairman Greg Coote and private equity executive David Calvert-Jones.
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NewsHuffman, Leguizamo join Stealing
Dallas Buyers Club producer Rachel Winter has lined up the cast on her long-gestating next project, Stealing Cars.
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NewsKatzenberg, Spielberg in museum pledge
Two of the Academy’s deep-pocketed friends have each donated $10m to the forthcoming Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures.
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NewsSarah, Amazing Catfish triumph at Baja
Chloé Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run prevailed in the $15,000 Los Cabos Competition section as the second Baja International Film Festival came to a conclusion in Los Cabos, Mexico.
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NewsEmma Thompson in SBIFF honour
The star of Saving Mr Banks will receive the Modern Master Award at the 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) on February 8 2014.
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NewsHalcyon to adapt Ost memoirs
Terminator Salvation producers Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson have partnered with style icon Beatrix Ost to adapt her two memoirs My Father’s House: A Childhood In Wartime Bavaria and the forthcoming More Than Everything.
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NewsRobert Patrick joins Hellions
The actor has joined the cast of Toronto-based Whizbang Films and Storyteller Pictures’ thriller, currently shooting almost entirely in digital infrared.
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NewsBruce Dern to collect PSIFF honour
The star of Nebraska will attend the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala on January 4 2014 to receive the Career Achievement Award.
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NewsUniversal breaks company record
A spokesperson said on Monday (18) the studio had broken its previous best North American box office for a calendar year of $1.335bn set in 2012.
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NewsRigor Mortis sells for Fortissimo
Fortissimo Films closed key territories at AFM on Juno Mak’s Chinese vampire film and Hong Kong box office hit.
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NewsPeter Wintonick dies aged 60
The Canadian film-maker, journalist and documentary advocate has died in Montreal following a battle with cancer. He was 60.
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NewsFrontera, Watermark find homes
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to the crime drama Frontera, while eOne Films US has picked up the documentary Watermark.
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NewsMonsoon Shootout to open SAIFF
The South Asian International Film Festival will open on December 3 with the New York premiere of Monsoon Shootout.
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NewsTraverse to release Treachery
Traverse Media has acquired North American digital rights to the Blanc/Biehn Productions thriller starring Michael Biehn.
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NewsThor 2 adds $39m in US
Thor: The Dark World held on to the North American crown for its third and most likely final weekend ahead of the release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
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NewsThor 2 extends int’l rule on $53m
UPDATED: Thor: The Dark World used launches in Argentina, Paraguay and Hungary and a string of solid holds to boost the running total to $332.8m through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International.
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NewsImogen Poots to star in Ruins
The UK actress is attached to star in the 1960s Ligurian drama for Cross Creek Pictures and Smuggler Films.
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NewsSundance hires doc leader
Tabitha Jackson has been appointed director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program.
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NewsPalm Springs to honour Bullock
Sandra Bullock, riding high on critical acclaim for her role in the global hit Gravity, will receive the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s (PSIFF) Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress.