All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 779
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NewsMoviecity backs Encuentros
EXCLUSIVE: Latin American pay-TV network Moviecity has signed on as presenting sponsor of the 11th edition of Miami International Film Festival (MIFF)’s post-production development programme.
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NewsFilmTrack gets $20m backing
The cloud-based content, contract and rights management service has closed a $20m equity investment from Insight Venture Partners, the private investors who backed Twitter and Tumblr.
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NewsMidnight Sun wraps shoot
Roger Spottiswoode directs the story about a young boy who attempts to reunite a polar bear cub with its mother in the Canadian wilderness. eOne holds Canadian rights and Hyde park International handles sales outside North America.
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NewsNYFF unveils extra films
The Film Society Of Lincoln Center has added programming to the New York Film Festival (NYFF) that includes documentaries and restored works.
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NewsButler stays top in US on $17m
Lee Daniel’s The Butler held on to top spot at a lacklustre box office weekend that marked the penultimate session of blockbuster season.
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NewsJurassic Park storms China
UPDATED AUG 26: Universal Pictures International’s Jurassic Park 3D grossed a confirmed $28.9m from 3,373 theatres in 11 territories, fuelled by a $28m launch in China. Despicable Me 2 crossed $800m worldwide.
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NewsDisney crosses $2bn int'l
The studio announced on Friday [23] that it had crossed the threshold in record time.
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NewsNu Image eyes TIFF sales
The Los Angeles-based sales agent will arrive in Toronto looking to round out international sales on six titles in post including action title Automata and thriller Before I Go To Sleep starring Nicole Kidman.
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NewsStar Wars cinematographer Gilbert Taylor dies
The lauded British cinematographer who crafted iconic imagery in Star Wars, Dr Strangelove and The Omen, died on Friday [23] with his family by his bedside on the Isle Of Wight. He was 99.
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NewsOctane fired up for Haunted 2
A Haunted House 2 is scheduled to kick off production on Monday [26] through IM Global’s Octane genre division. Open Road will distribute in the US on Mar 2014.
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NewsElysium eyes UK launch
Sony Pictures Releasing International’s champion of last weekend, Elysium, opens in the UK in what is expected to be a low-key international session that also sees Disney-Pixar’s Monsters University arrive in China and Italy.
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NewsBen Affleck to play Batman
Warner Bros has announced that one of the studio’s most prized collaborators, Ben Affleck, will play Batman in the studio’s forthcoming Man Of Steel sequel.
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NewsDrafthouse to play in Hell
EXCLUSIVE: Drafthouse Films has picked up North American rights to Japanese director Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play In Hell? ahead of its Venice world premiere.
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NewsTye Sheridan joins The Forger
The star of imminent Venice world premiere Joe has joined John Travolta in the heist thriller. Code Entertainment and The Solution Entertainment Group are jointly producing and financing and The Solution will handle international sales in Toronto.
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NewsSundance Selects gets Bastards
The distributor has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Claire Denis’ Un Certain Regard premiere and has set an Oct 25 release. Separately, FilmBuff and Abramorama are teaming up on Broadway Idiot while The Cinema Guild has picked up Agnes Varda’s five-part autobiographical documentary series.
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NewsNYFF to honour Blanchett, Fiennes
The Film Society Of Lincoln Center hierarchy announced that Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes will be the subjects of this year’s NYFF Gala Tributes.
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Turbo Kid to get Canada-NZ support
The representatives of EMAfilms, T&A Films, the RKSS Collective and Jason Eisener announced that the Canada-New Zealand co-production will receive finding from Telefilm Canada and the New Zealand Film Commission.
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NewsLlewyn Davis to close Chicago
ThThe Coen Brothers’ Palme d’Or winner Blue Is The Warmest Color and Big Bad Wolves are among the first wave of 12 films at the Chicago International Film Festival, set to run from Oct 10-24.
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NewsEpic sets Vikingdom debut
UPDATED AUG 29: Epic Pictures Releasing has set Oct 4 for the release of Yusry A Halim’s action adventure, which will screen in 3D in select theatres.
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Fantastic Fest unveils co-pro projects
Organisers have announced the 16 projects selected for the inaugural edition of its international co-production market: Fantastic Market | Mercado Fantastico.