All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 802
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NewsParamount promotes Megan Wahtera
The executive becomes head of the studio’s interactive marketing department and succeeds Amy Powell who was named head of Paramount Television last week.
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NewsWolverine slices $55m in US
Fox’s X-Men tale put a lot of space between itself and the competition as the action release debuted top in North America on an estimated $55m, even though the result will have disappointed studio executives. TWC’s awards hopeful Fruitvale Station vaulted seven places to number 10.
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NewsWolverine grosses $86m int’l
UPDATED JUL 29: Fox International unleashed the beast to deliver a confirmed $87.2m debut on 15,435 screens in 101 countries, a powerful launch in which Argentina was the only market not to return a number one result.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires Salvo
The distributor has picked up North American rights to Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s Salvo, winner of the Critics Week Grand Prix and the France 4 Visionary Award in Cannes.
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NewsDoppelgänger lands Smash
Music Box Films’ genre arm has acquired US rights to Smash & Grab: The Story Of The Pink Panthers, Havana Marking’s documentary about the world’s most successful diamond thieves.
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NewsAlcon lines up Dolphin Tale 2
Harry Connick Jr, Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman will return for Alcon’s Dolphin Tale 2 following the $72m North American success of the original family drama in 2011 through Warner Bros.
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NewsParkland to open on Sept 20
Exclusive Releasing will roll out the JFK assassination drama in theatres following the autumn festival debuts in Venice and Toronto.
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NewsCNN boards Sole Survivor
CNN Films top brass made the announcement on Friday [26] ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan on Saturday.
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NewsFox Int'l unleashes The Wolverine
Hugh Jackman returns in his sixth outing as the mutant with adamantium claws in The Wolverine and Fox International’s action release is the favourite to tear through the competition this weekend.
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NewsRush to open Sept 20
Universal Pictures has revised the release scheduled for the F1 drama and switched to exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles on Sept 20 followed by wide expansion one week later.
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NewsSony acquires Cold Comes The Night
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has acquired all worldwide rights to Tze Chun’s Cold Comes The Night starring Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston and Logan Marshall-Green.
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NewseOne acquires Badassdom
The distributor has picked up North American rights to Knights Of Badassdom starring Peter Dinklage, Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn and Summer Glau.
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NewsSFFS unveils Doc Fund winners
The recipients of 2013 San Francisco Film Society Documentary Film Fund awards totalling $100,000 are Anne Bogart and Holly Morris’ The Babushkas Of Chernobyl, Jamie Meltzer’s Freedom Fighters and Jimmy Goldblum and Adam Weber’s Tomorrow We Disappear.
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NewsMagnolia takes How I Live Now
Kevin Macdonald’s apocalyptic thriller stars Saoirse Ronan. Genre arm Magnet has earmarked an autumn theatrical release in the US.
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NewsBruce, Pinker rise at Falco Ink
Falco Ink partners Janice Roland and Shannon Treusch announced the promotions on Wednesday [24]
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NewsIMAX, Wanda grow footprint
IMAX Corporation announce separate deals on Wednesday [24] with Wanda Cinema Line and Wanda-owned AMC that effectively turn Wanda into IMAX’s biggest single exhibition partner in the world.
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Intramural shoots kicks off
Ralph Smyth Entertainment has commenced production on the comedy in Austin, Texas.
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NewsStrand finds Missing Picture
Strand Releasing has acquired Rithy Panh’s Un Certain Regard winner following its recent world premiere in Cannes.
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NewsIFT hires Joseph Lanius
The legal and finance expert has joined International Film Trust (IFT) from After Dark Films in the newly created post of head of business and legal affairs.
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NewsSean McManus to leave FIND
Board chair Mary Sweeney said on Wednesday [24] that McManus was stepping down as co-president after 15 years at Film Independent to pursue other opportunities.