All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 775

  • Pacific Rim
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    Pacific Rim to cross $250m

    2013-08-09T03:43:00Z

    Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi international hit has reached $218m and is favourite to hold on to the international crown this weekend.

  • Mark Damon
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    Foresight, Envision set Englishman

    2013-08-09T02:39:00Z

    Foresight Unlimited and Envision Entertainment, riding high on the number one North American release of 2 Guns, will finance and produce the $30m action film.

  • News

    Music Box gets Bettie Page

    2013-08-08T18:02:00Z

    Music Box has picked up US rights to Mark Mori’s Bettie Page Reveals All. Separately, Tribeca Film has acquired North American rights to teen drama S#x Acts.

  • Her
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    Spike Jonze's Her to close NYFF

    2013-08-08T17:39:00Z

    The world premiere of Spike Jonze’s Her starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde and Scarlett Johansson will close the 51st New York Film Festival on Oct 13.

  • toronto
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    TIFF execs: get entry visas early

    2013-08-08T17:32:00Z

    Top brass at the Toronto International Film Festival have urged visitors to get their travel arrangements in order as soon as possible in light of the ongoing strike by Canadian foreign office workers.

  • Turbo
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    DWKs Animation hires Taubin

    2013-08-08T15:57:00Z

    Dawn Taubin has joined DreamWorks Animation as chief marketing officer, replacing the recently departed Anne Globe.

  • Pierce Brosnan
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    Bold lands $35m facility

    2013-08-08T15:32:00Z

    Heading into Cannes the word was that Bold Films was about to ramp up operations and so it has proved to be as the hierarchy announced on Thursday [8] a revolving credit line with Comerica Bank.

  • Tula The Revolt
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    Tula: The Revolt to close Trinidad and Tobago fest

    2013-08-08T03:25:00Z

    The slave uprising drama starring Danny Glover will close this year’s trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) on Oct 1.

  • lovelace
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    Judge dismisses Lovelace suit

    2013-08-08T02:08:00Z

    A New York federal Judge ruled in favour of Lovelace filmmakers and distributor RADiUS-TWC.

  • Enemy
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    TIFF unveils Canadian line-up

    2013-08-07T23:45:00Z

    Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.

  • Katherine Oliver
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    Gotham to honour Oliver

    2013-08-07T16:41:00Z

    The Commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment will receive the 23rd annual Industry Tribute at the 23rd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Dec 2.

  • News

    Full Moon to stream films

    2013-08-07T15:58:00Z

    Full Moon Features has launched a subscription-based video streaming service to further monetise its library.

  • Hailee Steinfeld
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    D Films finds Romeo & Juliet

    2013-08-07T15:33:00Z

    The distributor has acquired exclusive, long-term Canadian rights in all media from Speranza13 Media to the Shakespearean tragedy adapted by screenwriter Julian Fellowes.

  • Bela Kiss
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    Continental sells Bela to UK

    2013-08-07T00:00:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Continental Media, run by partners Matthew Shreder and James Andrew Felts, has closed an all-rights deal with Tony Taglienti’s 4Digital Media for the vampire-serial killer story.

  • Yale Chasin
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    Yale Chasin swells ranks at UTA

    2013-08-06T22:02:00Z

    The international sales and distribution executive has left Relativity Media for UTA Independent Film Group.

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    FilmNation finds Good House

    2013-08-06T21:11:00Z

    FilmNation has acquired film rights from Tribeca Productions’ Jane Rosenthal to The Good House, which will mark the reunion of Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro for the first time in 17 years.

  • blood_brother_sundance_doc
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    Mongrel gets Brother for Canada

    2013-08-06T19:25:00Z

    Mongrel Media has acquired Canadian rights to Steve Hoover’s Sundance 2013 US Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner Blood Brother.

  • Nina Jacobson
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    Color Force goes crazy for Asians

    2013-08-06T18:57:00Z

    Nina Jacobson’s production entity has acquired feature rights to Kevin Kwan’s comedic bestseller Crazy Rich Asians.

  • Signs Of Light
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    Creatives, Sganzerla win at HBRFest

    2013-08-06T16:42:00Z

    The Moving Creatures by Caetano Gotardo was named best narrative fiction award as the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival (HBRFest) climaxed on Aug 4.

  • Christopher McQuarrie
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    McQuarrie to direct M:I5

    2013-08-05T23:24:00Z

    Paramount and financing partner Skydance Productions have announced that Christopher McQuarrie will direct the next instalment on the Mission: Impossible franchise starring Tom Cruise.