All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 774
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NewsFactory 25 takes All The Light
Factory 25 has acquired US rights to director Joe Swanberg’s All the Light in the Sky.
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NewsRelativity boards Hope
Relativity Media has acquired worldwide rights to finance, produce and distribute Not Without Hope (working title) with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson attached to star.
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NewsNight sells for XYZ Films
XYZ Films has closed a raft of deals at AFM on The Night Comes For Us, its Indonesian and English-language action-thriller collaboration with Gareth Evans’ PT Merantau Films.
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NewsHighland buyers find Mind
EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has closed key territories at AFM on the contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
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NewsDouble Dutch reports strong AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Double Dutch International has concluded further business at the market with a slew of deals on Detour, Saving Santa and Dorfman In Love, among others.
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NewsVladar sells Generation Iron
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based The Vladar Company has closed a trio of high-profile deals at AFM on the documentary.
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NewsBahamas to honour Glover
Danny Glover has been selected to receive the Bahamas International Film Festival’s (BIFF) Career Achievement Award.
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NewsGun violence in film rises
The level of gun violence in PG-13 films in 2012 exceeded that of R-rated releases in the same year, according to a report out this week.
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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.