All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 772
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NewsSmurfs 2 targets $200m milestone
Sony Pictures Releasing International top brass expect two major markets to push The Smurfs 2 past the threshold this weekend. The family animation stands at more than $191.6m and opens in China and Australia.
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NewsD Films takes Wiig comedy
D Films has acquired Canadian rights from Cargo Entertainment to Welcome To Me starring Kristen Wiig.
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NewsThirlby joins Wedding Ringer
Olivia Thirlby has joined the cast of the Screen Gems and Miramax comedy The Wedding Ringer that has begun shooting in Los Angeles. Separately, Feed The Gods starts production on Friday in Canada for Random Bench.
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NewsOpen Road, XLrator get Hendrix
Open Road Films has picked up its second title of Toronto after The Green Inferno, moving on North American rights with XLrator Media to John Ridley’s Jimi Hendrix tale All Is By My Side.
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NewsOpen Road snaps up Green Inferno
Open Road has acquired US rights to The Green Inferno, Eli Roth’s cannibal thriller that premiered in Toronto last weekend.
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NewsBreaking Glass grabs Unhung Hero
Documentary about whether “size matters” proved a hit at SXSW.
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NewsFilm Movement buys Le Démantèlement
The distributor will release in the US and license to world airlines following a deal in Toronto with eOne Films International.
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NewsRio Film Festival unveils line-up
Titles include Alfonso Cuaron’s acclaimed Gravity and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
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NewsWell Go buys TIFF drama McCanick
Well Go USA has acquired all US rights from Bleiberg Entertainment to the crime drama McCanick starring David Morse and the late Cory Monteith.
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NewsTWC buys Rigby, Railway Man
Sources confirmed that The Weinstein Company had paid $3m for North America, the UK and France on The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby and $2m for US on The Railway Man. Both will open in 2014.
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NewsCMG closes Khumba sales
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has licensed rights on the animation and Toronto selection to Transmission in Australia, Kaleidoscope in the UK and Eagle for Italy.
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NewsGary Sanchez on Sleeping With Other People
Leslye Headland to direct Kirsten Dunst in their follow-up collaboration after Bachelorette.
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NewsFSC takes world on Filthy Gorgeous
The Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide sales rights to Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story, Barry Avrich’s documentary that premiered on Monday night (September 9).
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NewsVirgil Films finds Foreclosure
Virgil Films has closed a US deal in Toronto on the horror tale Foreclosure starring Michael Imperioli from The Sopranos.
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Cohen takes Unjust doc
Cohen Media Group has acquired all North American rights to Shoah director Claude Lanzmann’s Toronto entry The Last Of The Unjust.
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NewsNonStop finds When Jews Were Funny
EXCLUSIVE: NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavian, Icelandic and Baltic rights from The Film Sales Company to Alan Zweig’s documentary When Jews Were Funny.
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NewsCBS Films confirms F Word deal
UPDATED SEPT 10: CBS Films top brass said on Tuesday evening (September 10) they had acquired US rights to Michael Dowse’s The F Word in a deal understood to fall between $2.5m and $3m.
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FeaturesDaniel Brühl and Niki Lauda, Rush
After Sunday’s (September 8) gala presentation North American premiere at Roy Thompson Hall, Rush star Daniel Brühl and Niki Lauda sat down with Jeremy Kay to talk about the film. Lauda flew in to attend the premiere.
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NewsFogelson out at Universal
In a stunning development Adam Fogelson has left Universal Pictures as chairman and Jeff Shell has been named chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.