All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 777
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NewsWell Go picks up Cavemen
Well Go USA has acquired all North American rights to Traverse Media and Fascination Films’ rom-com Cavemen.
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NewsMPLC names new CFO
Mark Malbon has been named evp and CFO of the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) and will assume financial oversight for all of MPLC’s companies worldwide.
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NewsLightning to sell Place
EXCLUSIVE: Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights for AFM to Zeke and Simon Hawkins’ Toronto and Fantastic Fest entry We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
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NewsIMAX signs home ent deal
IMAX Corporation has acquired a stake and a “significant option position” in PRIMA Cinema Inc, whose proprietary systems transmit theatrical releases for secure home viewing.
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NewsEmile Hirsch to play John Belushi
Emjag’s Alexandra Milchan, Bonnie Timmermann, Film 360’s Scott Lambert and Judy Belushi Pisano are serving as producers. Dan Aykroyd serves as executive producer.
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NewsGreat Beauty to open Cinema Italian Style
Cinema Italian Style 2013 will kick off on November 14 in Hollywood with the US premiere of Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian foreign-language Oscar submission The Great Beauty.
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NewsPGA to honour Chris Meledandri
The Producers Guild Of America (PGA) will present the founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment with the 2014 Visionary Award.
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NewsNoomi Rapace to star in Monday
Noomi Rapace will star in What Happened To Monday? for director Tommy Wirkola.
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NewsIncarnate to start shooting this week
Production is scheduled to commence on October 30 on the Aaron Eckhart horror tale from producer Jason Blum that IM Global and Blumhouse International are co-financing.
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NewsCheadle to direct Trumpet Player
UPDATED EXCLUSIVE: IM Global will look to strike a chord at AFM with Don Cheadle’s feature directorial debut, the Miles Davis biopic Kill The Trumpet Player.
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NewsIFC Midnight bites into Wolf
The distributor has picked up US rights to Jim Taihuttu’s Dutch crime thriller. XYZ Films will continue international sales at AFM.
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NewsThai roadshow heads to LA
Thailand’s deputy prime minister and minister of commerce will lead a delegation to Los Angeles this week for the Thai Film and Animation Business Alliance Roadshow.
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NewsSarandos: exhibition “might kill movies”
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos delivered a timely jeremiad at the weekend (October 26) in which he warned Hollywood’s more traditional elements to be mindful of audience needs.
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NewsBad Grandpa tops US on $32m
A muscular launch for Paramount’s comedy generated the second biggest launch in the Jackass family as Fox’s The Counselor flopped and Oscar contender 12 Years A Slave broke into the top ten in its second session.
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NewsGravity stays top of int'l on $38m
UPDATE: Gravity held on to its number one international berth for the fourth consecutive weekend as a confirmed $37.7m boosted the score to $164.4m. SPRI’s Stalingrad reached $45.8m to become the biggest Russian film of all time.
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NewsMyriad promotes Theresa Won
Theresa Won has been promoted to manager, productions and acquisitions at Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures, it was announced today by Myriad CEO Kirk D’Amico.
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NewsElectric heads to AFM with Transit
EXCLUSIVE: Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has acquired all worldwide sales excluding the Philippines to the country’s official Oscar submission.
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NewsLike Me wraps in Sweden
EXCLUSIVE: Production has wrapped in Stockholm on Cinemantrix and G4C Innovation’s English-language Sweden-US thriller Like Me.
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NewsSBFF honour for Whitaker
Forest Whitaker will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s eighth annual Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film.
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NewsReports – King, Robinov in talks
UPDATE: Graham King and former Warner Bros Motion Picture Group president Jeff Robinov have been taking meetings with Hollywood players over a potential venture.