All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 797
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NewsU.N.C.L.E. sets shoot date
Guy Ritchie will direct Warner Bros’ spy update starring Man Of Steel lead Henry Cavill as Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer as Illya Kuryakin.
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NewsRio unveils Première Brazil
Top brass at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival have revealed the 11 features and eight documentaries that will compete for the Redentor prizes.
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NewsAnchor Bay gets MURPH: The Protector
Anchor Bay Films has acquired all rights to Mactavish Pictures’ MURPH: The Protector.
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NewsOpen Road picks up Testament
Open Road Films has acquired US rights to the supernatural thriller financed by Voltage Pictures and will release nationwide in the first quarter 2015.
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NewsItem 7, Nguyen line up Origin
EXCLUSIVE: Montreal–based producers Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin are back in business with Kim Nguyen after their collaboration on this year’s Canadian Oscar nominee War Witch.
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NewsVimeo dangles TIFF carrot
Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor said the platform will offer $10,000 advances for a 30-day exclusive digital window on world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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NewsSummer box office tops $5.99bn
SEPT 3 UPDATE EXCLUSIVE: The aggregated gross of Hollywood’s summer exports has surpassed the freshly minted $4.7bn record North American session by at least 22%.
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NewsAcademy to honour Gabriel Figueroa
Writer-director Gregory Nava, Gael García Bernal, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and Gabriel Figueroa Flores will celebrate the life and career of the renowned Mexican cinematographer on Sept 17.
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Pollak eyes comedy doc
Kevin Pollak will direct the documentary Misery Loves Comedy about the mind of the stand-up comic and those in the profession.
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NewsStudios serve up record summer
Lee Daniels’ The Butler restored supremacy at the top of the North American charts as a record four-day Labor Day weekend wrapped up a record $4.7bn summer.
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NewsKurylenko in talks for YSL biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Olga Kurylenko is in talks to join Mandarin Cinéma and Europacorp’s Yves Saint Laurent’s biopic, set to begin shooting in October.
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NewsIFC Midnight buys Haunt
EXCLUSIVE: The distributor has acquired all US rights to Mac Carter’s genre title starring Jacki Weaver. QED International handles sales outside the US.
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NewsTWC gets Tracks in US
The distributor has reunited with See-Saw Films, the producers behind Oscar winner The King’s Speech, and acquired US rights from HanWay Films to the true-life Australian drama.
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NewsOne Direction win LDW on $17m
The summer session neared a conclusion over Labor Day Weekend as One Direction: This Is Us, Morgan Spurlock’s documentary about the UK-Irish pop sensation, opened top on an estimated $17m through Sony’s TriStar label over three days.
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NewsElysium rules int’l on $18m
UPDATE: Sony Pictures Releasing International (SRI) executives reported that the sci-fi added an estimated $17.9m from 5,095 screens in 55 markets to reach the cusp of $100m.
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NewsUS premiere for 12 Years a Slave at NYFF
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave is to receive its US premiere at the 51st New York Film Festival (NYFF) on Oct 8.
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NewsBradley Cooper joins Guardians of the Galaxy
The Oscar nominated star has joined the cast of Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy and will voice the part of Rocket Raccoon.
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NewsParadigm to sell Cheerleaders
EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm is to jointly represent North American rights with Modern Distributors to the Toronto Midnight Madness world premiere All Cheerleaders Die.
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NewsRichard Gere to star in Franny
Gere has set his first film since the acclaimed Arbitrage and will star in the drama from Treehouse Pictures, TideRock Media, Big Shoes Media, Magnolia Entertainment and Soaring Flight Productions. QED International will commence pre-sales in Toronto.
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NewsCMG to sell Revolution
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group will commence pre-sales in Toronto on Rob Stewart’s eco documentary.