All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 805
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NewsCronenberg starts Maps shoot
eOne and Prospero Pictures executives have announced that principal photography has begun on David Cronenberg’s Maps To The Stars.
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NewsGravitas takes Calvin & Hobbes doc
Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights to Joel Allen Schroeder’s documentary Dear Mr. Watterson.
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NewsDespicable Me 2 stays top in US
Universal’s Despicable Me 2 led a strong weekend and stayed top in its second session as an estimated $44.8m beat Sony’s number two arrival Grown Ups 2 on $42.5m and a relatively mediocre $38.3m haul by Warner Bros’ Pacific Rim in third place.
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NewsPacific Rim impresses on int'l debut
Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi tentpole Pacific Rim delivered an encouraging $53m first foray outside North America but it was not quite enough to usurp Despicable Me 2 as the reigning champion generated $55.5m to climb to $243.2m. Fast & Furious 6 roared past $700m worldwide.
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NewsStudios scrap Hulu sale plans
Fox, NBCUniversal and Disney executives announced on Friday [12] they will retain ownership of the streaming site and arrange a $750m recapitalisation.
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NewsPacific Rim starts strong
International preview: Pacific Rim grosses $7.8m from the initial wave of weekend launches, while Man Of Steel and The Lone Ranger head to Brazil.
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NewsBAM: Colombia feels global pull
Colombian broadcast giant RCN is looking to shift its film production focus away from local product in favour of low budget English-language genre fare, top brass said on Thursday [11].
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NewsSKE lines up Legacy
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) will finance and produce Gregg Hurwitz’s spec script Legacy with Double Nickel Entertainment for the directorial debut of UK theatre director Thea Sharrock.
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NewsBAM: Dynamo lines up Elephant
Colombian production powerhouse Dynamo is preparing to shoot Peruvian co-production The Vanished Elephant as it enters post on Que Viva La Musica and Out Of The Dark.
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NewsStudios on board Producers Mark
All six of the US majors have now signed up for the industry certificate launched by the Producers Guild Of America.
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NewsLegendary lands at Universal
Buoyed by box office success, Universal’s summer just got even more impressive as the studio announced on Wednesday [10] it had struck a five-year co-financing and co-production deal with Legendary Entertainment.
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NewsBAM: economy fuels hopes
Colombia’s growing economy, attractive rebates, young workforce and diverse locations were highlighted by Invest In Bogota top brass at a meeting during the BAM Bogota audiovisual market.
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NewsContinental seals Coldwater deal
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Shreder and James Andrew Felts’ production and sales company Continental Media has licensed French rights to the prison break thriller to KMBO Distribution.
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NewsFantastic Fest gets Machete debut
Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills will receive its world premiere as opening night film on Sept 19 in Austin. Aldamisa International handled sales outside the US, where Open Road will release the film on Oct 4.
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NewsJoe's Mountain moves ahead
Breakthrough Entertainment has teamed up with Dutch Features Global Entertainment to jointly serve as executive producer on the drama Joe’s Mountain.
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NewsUnbroken to open late 2014
Distribution round-up: Universal has said [10] it will release Angelina Jolie’s upcoming second feature as director, Unbroken, on Dec 25 2014. Separately, ARC Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Standing Up, while Monterey Media has taken Approaching Midnight and Gravitas Ventures has picked up Ass Backwards.
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NewsScreen Media gets Awful Nice
The distributor has acquired US rights to Todd Sklar’s comedy and has earmarked a spring 2014 theatrical and VOD release preceded by a nationwide college tour of event screenings and interactive parties through Sklar’s Range Life.
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NewsElysium to get IMAX treatment
IMAX Corporation, TriStar Pictures and Media Rights Capital announced on Tuesday [9] that Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi is to be digitally remastered and will open on IMAX worldwide starting on Aug 9.
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NEXT WEEKEND unveils openers
Sundance Institute announced on Monday [8] that the inaugural Los Angeles event set to run from Aug 8-11 will kick off with an outdoor screening of Chris Smith’s documentary American Movie and Mark Borchardt’s horror film Coven.
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NewsGreg Foster promoted at IMAX
The executive has been named CEO of IMAX Entertainment and senior evp of IMAX Corp.