All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 770
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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.
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NewsLionsgate gets Angriest Man
The distributor has swooped on North American rights to The Angriest Man In Brooklyn. Cargo Entertainment handles international sales. Separately, Film Movement has taken For A Woman.
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NewsFIP, Ivanhoe partner up
Fox International Productions (FIP) and Ivanhoe Pictures have signed a four-year, multi-film co-financing deal for local language films in India, South Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan.
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NewsAFM buyer attendance climbs
AFM top brass claimed this year’s event, which wraps on November 13, registered a 3% gain in
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NewsKino Lorber takes Dayani
The distributor has acquired US rights to Marc Silver’s Sundance 2013 documentary Who Is Dayani Cristal?
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Bullets sequel shoot underway
Shooting commenced last month in Beijing on Sony’s local language 3D production Gone With The Bullets, the second in Jiang Wen’s trilogy.
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NewsDasym launches $100m fund
Exclusive Media head of international sales Alex Walton and his team will handle sales on the Dasym Media family multimedia fund.
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NewsTIFF unveils strategic plan
TIFF director and CEO Piers Handling has announced the organisation’s vision through 2017 in an ambitious document that aims to transform TIFF into the global centre of film.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires Sarnos
Film Movement has picked up US rights at AFM to The Sarnos – A Life In Dirty Movies.
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News120dB backs Reclaim, Barely Lethal
120dB Films closed film loans on the John Cusack thriller Reclaim and Barely Lethal starring Samuel Jackson and Hailee Steinfeld.
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NewsThor delivers $86.1m hammer blow
Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Dark World stormed to the top of the North American charts on an estimated $86.1m to produce the ninth biggest November debut in history.
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NewsThor 2 adds thunderous $94m
UPDATED: Thor: The Dark World continued to impress as it generated an estimated $94m from 66 territories through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International to boost the running total to $240.9m.
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NewsMPI enters Willow Creek
MPI Media Group has taken all US rights to Bobcat Goldthwait’s Bigfoot title Willow Creek starring Bryce Johnson and Alexie Gilmore.
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NewseOne finds Hunted, Apocalypse
eOne Films US has pounced on North American rights to horror thriller The Hunted and zombie comedy April Apocalypse.
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NewsRLJ finds The Suspect
EXCLUSIVE: RLJ Entertainment subsidiary One Village Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to psychological thriller The Suspect. ITN Distribution handles international sales at AFM.
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NewsNun on the run for Arclight
EXCLUSIVE: Arclight Films has been at AFM talking up The Letters starring Juliet Stevenson as Mother Theresa.
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NewsExclusive talks Moon, Front Row
Exclusive Media has partnered on Untitled Keith Moon biopic under an expanded relationship with Da Vinci Media Ventures and has also extended its Middle East output deal with Front Row by four years.