All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 780
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NewsCinedigm takes Easy Money sequels
Cinedigm has acquired all North American rights from TrustNordisk to Easy Money: Hard To Kill and Easy Money: Life Deluxe based on the bestselling books by Jens Lapidus. Separately, FilmBuff has acquired Someone Marry Barry.
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NewsWrekin Hill takes iNumber Number
Wrekin Hill Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Donovan Marsh’s South Africa-set heist thriller iNumber Number.
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NewsContent gets The Diabolical
Content heads to the AFM with the latest title from its Preferred Film & TV joint venture with producer Ross M Dinerstein.
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NewsTransmission takes Made In America
EXCLUSIVE: The Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea announced that the distributor has acquired Australia and New Zealand for the documentary about Jay Z’s benefit concert.
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NewsAFI FEST to honour Russell
David O Russell will be the subject of a special tribute on November 8.
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NewsThor 2 flies to $45.2m int'l start
UPDATE: Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World has drawn first blood from its initial foray into 33 territories this weekend, racing to an estimated $45.2m from the first three days to outpace the original almost everywhere.
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NewsDustin Hoffman to star in Boychoir
Dustin Hoffman will star in Informant Media’s drama alongside Alfred Molina and Kathy Bates. Embankment Films handles international sales and will introduce at AFM next week.
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NewsXLrator, Bleiberg strike Feed deal
XLrator Media has acquired all US rights from Bleiberg Entertainment’s genre label Compound B to the Bigfoot thriller Feed The Gods.
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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.