All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 772
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NewsUni dates The Purge 2
Universal Pictures has set the release date for its follow-up to this year’s micro-budget horror hit.
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NewsSAG mails awards ballots
Ballots for the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations will be posted to the SAG Awards film and television nominating committees on November 20.
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NewsGotham tribute for Gandolfini
Steve Buscemi will present an award in honour of the late James Gandolfini on December 2 in New York, Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) top brass said.
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NewsGravity pulls early $13.2m in China
UPDATED: Early numbers from Warner Bros Pictures International put the tentpole at an estimated Rmb 80.5m after the first three days.
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NewsDOC NYC unveils winners
Mahdi Fleifel’s A World Not Ours (pictured) won the Viewfinders Competition’s Grand Jury Prize on the eve of the final day of programming.
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NewsNational Archives honour for Spielberg
Steven Spielberg collected the 2013 Records Of Achievement Award from the Foundation for the National Archives this week.
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NewsPNP checks in to Le Week-End
Pacific Northwest Pictures (PNP) has acquired all Canadian rights to Roger Michell’s rom-com Le Week-End starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum.
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FeaturesSan Francisco Film Society: Fall Celebration
Outgoing San Francisco Film Society executive director Ted Hope joined film-makers at the inaugural Fall Celebration on November 14 at new hot spot The Battery.
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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.