All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 788
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NewsAnchor Bay tastes Blood
Anchor Bay Entertainment has acquired North American rights to In The Blood, the action thriller starring former MMA fighter Gina Carano.
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NewsGoDigital picks up Dumbbells
GoDigital has picked up rights to the buddy comedy starring Carl Reiner, Tom Arnold, Jay Mohr (pictured), Jaleel White and Andy Milonakis and plans a January 10 2014 day-and-date release across multiple platforms.
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NewsGordon lines up Narnia
A fourth Narnia episode is in the works after The Mark Gordon Company secured rights from the C.S. Lewis Company to jointly develop and produce The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Silver Chair.
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NewsVertical finds Secret Village
Vertical Entertainment has picked up US home entertainment rights to horror-thriller The Secret Village ahead of the limited October 18 theatrical release through SD Digital Creations. ITN Distribution has acquired UK DVD rights and will release on October 14.
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Power, Two prevail in Arpa awards
The Power Of Few won the 16th Annual Arpa International Film Festival’s Best Feature prize as the event closed on September 29 in Los Angeles.
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NewsWB, RatPac-Dune team up
The Warner Bros hierarchy has filled the financing void left by the departure of Legendary Entertainment.
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NewsCaptain Phillips to open on IMAX
Captain Phillips will be digitally remastered into IMAX and released in select theatres worldwide starting on October 11.
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NewsMelaza, Fighter triumph at ttff
Carlos Lechuga’s Melaza has won the juried best feature prize at the 2013 trinidad+tobago film festival.
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NewsBlack Box heads to MIPCOM
Worldwide sales agent Sierra/Engine Television will launch its upcoming ABC medical procedural The Black Box at MIPCOM.
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NewsDWKs sets Son remake
DreamWorks Studios confirmed on Monday (30) it has bought remake rights to Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda’s film Like Father, Like Son.
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NewsMillennium finds King
Millennium Entertainment has acquired all US rights to the uplifting drama Life Of A King starring Cuba Gooding Jr.
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NewsMadame Bovary starts shoot
Logan Marshall-Green, Olivier Gourmet and Laura Carmichael have joined Madame Bovary, which commenced shooting on Monday (30) in Normandy, France.
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NewsAFI FEST to premiere Furnace
Top brass at AFI FEST unveiled additional Centerpiece Galas including the world premiere of Scott Cooper’s Out Of The Furnace, Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty.
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NewsLD, Aiello plot Bible epic
LD Entertainment will produce and finance the New Testament story Resurrection from producer Patrick Aiello with Kevin Reynolds set to direct.
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NewsCNN cancels Clinton doc
CNN said on Monday (30) it had cancelled its Hillary Clinton documentary after Oscar-winning director Charles Ferguson pulled out due to what he described as difficulties in getting potential interviewees to talk and wide political disapprobation.
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NewsFDM falls for Language
EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media (FDM) has come on to handle all digital rights to Rocky Powell’s rom-com Language Of A Broken Heart and will release on VOD and DVD on October 1.
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NewsFergurson joins Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber has hired Alan Fergurson as svp of home entertainment, replacing vp Eric Wilkinson who will leave the company to pursue other opportunities.
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NewsCloudy 2 tops US on $35m
Box office climbed 34% over the previous session as Sony’s Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 stormed to the top on an estimated $35m.
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NewsDetective Dee rules int'l BO
UPDATED SEPT 30: A second Asian film in two weeks led the international box office as Tsui Hark’s Young Detective Dee: Rise Of The Sea Dragon generated an estimated $17m debut. Meanwhile, Despicable Me 2 crossed $500m for UPI.
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NewsEgypt selects Winter for Oscar
Winter Of Discontent to represent Egypt as foreign language Oscar submission.