All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 780
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NewsFSC adds two for TIFF
EXCLUSIVE: The Film Sales Company head Andrew Herwitz will introduce buyers in Toronto in September to the New Zealand mystery-thriller White Lies and documentary When Jews Were Funny.
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NewsSPC plots Blue Jasmine expansion
Sony Pictures Classics announced that it will expand Woody Allen’s box office hit Blue Jasmine this weekend from 229 screens to more than 1,200, making the awards contender Allen’s widest ever release.
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NewsBiteSize hails the King
Caleb Deschanel will direct BiteSize Entertainment’s Elvis Presley biopic Growing Up Graceland.
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NewsPaul Bettany to direct Shelter
Voltage Pictures will introduce international buyers at Toronto to Paul Bettany’s feature directorial debut produced and financed by Daniel Wagner of BiFrost Pictures. Bettany’s wife Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie will star.
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NewsJurassic Park 3D storms into China
Universal’s 3D reboot opened at number one in China on Tuesday [20] on an estimated $6.3m (CNY 38.5m) from 2,500 screens.
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NewsPGA sets 2014 dates
The Producers Guild Of America hierarchy has set the 25th Annual Producers Guild Awards for Jan 19 2014 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
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NewsMundial finds Wolf At The Door
The joint sales venture between IM Global and Mexico’s Canana has acquired international rights from Gullane and TC Filmes to the Brazilian thriller ahead of its Toronto world premiere.
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NewsNoah Segal to exit eOne
The co-president of eOne Films Canada will leave the Canadian giant on Aug 30 to launch production company Toy Boat Pictures.
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NewsShout! Factory, Herzog team up
Shout! Factory and Werner Herzog Film have signed an exclusive multi-platform distribution partnership involving 16 remastered titles from the Herzog library. Separately, Pantelion has picked up Hours and O-Scope has acquired The Kill Team.
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NewsMagnolia takes Alan Partridge
The distributor has set an early 2014 release for the UK comedy smash following a North American rights deal with StudioCanal.
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NewsAsia Releasing, Galaxy strike deal
The Los Angeles-based distributor has signed an agreement with Vietnam’s Galaxy Studio to handle the latter’s product in North America, Australia and diaspora markets.
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NewsNetflix, TWC strike deal
The companies have signed a multi-year licensing agreement that starts in 2016 and will turn Netflix into the exclusive US subscription service for The Weinstein Company’s first-run films.
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NewsSnowpiercer to screen at Deauville
Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer will close the 39th annual Deauville American Film Festival, set to run from Aug 30-Sept 8.
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NewsWatch Dogs heads to big screen
Ubisoft Motion Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment and New Regency are developing a feature based on Ubisoft’s forthcoming open world action-adventure video game.
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NewsToronto rounds out programme
Festival organisers announced the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters sections, details of the David Cronenberg: Transformation exhibition, a tenth Midnight Madness entry and introduced the Glenn Gould Studio to the festival’s stable of venues.
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NewsBuyers eye Toronto avalanche
EXCLUSIVE / UPDATED AUG 20: The annual stampede for Toronto acquisition titles is expected to return next month as programmers line up at least a dozen must-see premieres in the first weekend.
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NewsStrand enters Leather Bar
Strand Releasing has acquired North American, Latin American and Scandinavian rights to James Franco and Travis Matthews’ erotic drama Interior. Leather Bar.
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NewsExpendables 3 starts shoot
Production has commenced on location Bulgaria and at Nu Boyana Studios in Sofia on Lionsgate and Millennium Films’ The Expendables 3.
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NewsNebraska, Blue to play NYFF
Organisers at the 51st New York Film Festival have announced the official sections, including the Cannes trio of Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winner Blue Is The Warmest Color, the Coen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis and Alexander Payne’s Nebraska.
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NewsSchwartz, Precious join Relativity
Veteran marketing executive Russell Schwartz has joined Relativity Media as president of theatrical marketing.