All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 776
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DreamWorks enters Bully Pulpit
DreamWorks Studios has closed a preemptive deal to acquire feature rights to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s upcoming book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, And The Golden Age Of Journalism.
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NewsOrb Media launches Ironpond
Orb Media Group has launched a Chinese-language and China-based production and financing entity and announced a multi-pronged collaboration with fantasy martial arts writer Shiao Yi.
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NewsThe Exchange finds Accident
Brian O’Shea’s Los Angeles-based sales and financing company has added the 3D thriller to its slate in the lead-in to AFM.
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NewsFSC boards trio for AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has come on to represent three documentaries in the run-up to the Santa Monica market.
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NewseOne AFM-bound with Mommy
EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography is underway in Montreal on French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan’s follow-up to Tom At The Farm.
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NewsLotus to sell Candy Store
Worldview Entertainment has come on to finance and produce crime thriller Candy Store starring Robert De Niro, Jason Clarke and Omar Sy. Lotus Entertainment will kick off sales at the AFM.
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NewsCrash Reel sets US release date
Phase 4 Films has set a theatrical release for Lucy Walker’s snowboarder documentary.
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NewsRecord Chinese registrations for AFM
AFM organisers have announced that more than 100 Chinese distributors, producers and executives from more than 50 companies will attend the market next week.
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News007 producers earn PGA award
James Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions will receive the 2014 David O Selznick Achievement Award in Motion Pictures.
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NewsCMG snatches heist thriller
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group will screen Gateway Films’ Plastic and commence talks with AFM buyers next week.
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News108 Media boards He Never Died
Toronto-based 108 Media has licensed the AFM-bound drama He Never Died starring Henry Rollins to Take One for Scandinavia and Benelux.
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NewsWIA elects co-presidents
Heading into its 20th anniversary year in 2014, Women In Animation (WIA) has relaunched under new executive leadership.
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NewsQED to sell The Outsider at AFM
EXCLUSIVE: The AFM projects continued to heat up this week as it emerged that Worldview Entertainment has come on to finance and produce the Yakuza thriller previously set up at Silver Pictures.
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NewsDemme champions Horses Of God
Jonathan Demme has come out in support of Nabil Ayouch’s official Morocco’s Oscar submission and will present the film for distribution in the US.
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Kramer to direct Myriad's Caught Stealing
Wayne Kramer has signed on to direct Caught Stealing for Myriad Pictures, who will bring the project to the AFM next week. In separate production news, Gnosis and Whisper Pictures are moving ahead on Tusk: Hannibal’s Favorite Elephant.
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NewsVisit Films boards It Follows
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kampe will commence sales at AFM next week on David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to The Myth Of The American Sleepover.
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NewsBlackfish, Killing among IDA nominees
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced nominations for the 2013 IDA Documentary Awards.
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NewsFive join AMPAS science & tech council
Wendy Aylsworth, Rob Bredow, Douglas Greenfield, Rob Hummel and Bev Pasterczyk have accepted invitations to join the Science And Technology Council of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences.
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NewsAFI FEST unveils Conversations
Steve McQueen, Annette Bening and a round table of emerging stars including Dane DeHaan are the focus of the AFI FEST Conversations programme.
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NewsLondon Has Fallen heads to AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Nu Image will kick off talks on what is likely to become one of the must-haves of the market as Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman prepare to reprise their roles from the original action smash.