All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 834
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NewsGood Universe send out Search Party
EXCLUSIVE: Good Universe has added Gold Circle’s upcoming comedy Search Party to its EFM slate. Universal Pictures will distribute in the US following the companies’ recent partnership on Pitch Perfect.
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Meyers Media Group boards Hangman
Los Angeles-based Meyers Media Group is in Berlin talking up a packed slate led by Pete Travis’ thriller Hangman.
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NewsImage snaps up Paradise
RLJ Entertainment subsidiary Image Entertainment has picked up all US rights from WME Global and Mandate Pictures to Diablo Cody’s feature directorial debut Paradise. Lionsgate International handles sales outside the US.
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NewsSynchronicity takes God Only Knows
The Solution Entertainment Group’s genre production and sales division Synchronicity Entertainment has picked up international sales on mob thriller God Only Knows starring Ben Barnes and Toby Jones.
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NewsK5 Int'l boards Blue Angel
EXCLUSIVE: Clive Owen will star in the Parts & Labor drama about a disillusioned college professor reinvigorated by a gifted writing student. K5 has commenced talks with international buyers at the EFM.
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NewsSearchlight picks out Birdman
EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight and New Regency are in discussions to co-finance and distribute Alejandro González Iñárritu’s upcoming comedy Birdman.
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NewsContent stirs up interest on The Pact 2
Content has commenced international pre-sales on horror title The Pact 2.
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NewsCinedigm buys US rights to Berlin Job
Arclight Films has licensed US digital, DVD and VoD rights on Berlin Job to Cinedigm.
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NewsFanning, Macdonald join Every Secret Thing
Dakota Fanning and Danielle Macdonald have joined Diane Lane and Elizabeth Banks on Amy Berg’s Every Secret Thing. Hyde Park International in talks with EFM buyers.
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NewsStrand Releasing acquires US rights to Zaytoun
Stephen Dorff stars in Eran Riklis’ story of an unlikely alliance between a 12-year-old Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot shot down over Beirut in 1982.
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NewsSycamore Pictures lines up Christmas Miracle
The Way, Way Back producers Sycamore Pictures will produce and finance the dysfunctional holiday comedy A Friggin’ Christmas Miracle. Hyde Park International will introduce to buyers at EFM.
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Image takes US rights to The Colony
Image Entertainment has picked up US rights to the $16m sci-fi thriller The Colony. Sierra / Affinity handles international sales and screens the film on Sunday [10].
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NewsKino Lorber snaps up Computer Chess
The distributor has acquired all US rights to Andrew Bujalski’s comedy following its world premiere at Sundance last month.
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NewsMyriad circles Jessica Alba for Weightless
Kirk D’Amico has begun pre-sales at EFM and announced on Friday [8] that Jessica Alba is in final negotiations to star.
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NewsEllen Page to direct Anna Faris
Ellen Page will make her feature directorial debut on Miss Stevens with Anna Faris attached to star in the title role.
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NewsYoung Ones sells for 6 Sales, The Exchange
Tristan Orpen Lynch of Ireland’s Subotica and Michael Auret of Spier Films have commenced production in South Africa on Jake Paltrow’s Young Ones.
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NewsExclusive sells key territories on Quiet Ones
Sales chief Alex Walton has licensed multiple territory rights to the Hammer supernatural thriller to star Jared Harris [pictured] and Sam Claflin.
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NewsBeta reports Physician, Devil’s Violinist sales
Beta has closed pre-sales on Philip Stoelzl’s adventure epic The Physician with Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard and Tom Payne, as well as Bernard Rose’s mystical biopic The Devil’s Violinist.
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NewsFocus reunites with Mike Leigh on Turner biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features International (FFI) will handle worldwide sales on the film about the celebrated English landscape painter J M W Turner to star Timothy Spall and will co-finance with BFI and Film4.
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NewsStreisand mulls directing gig
Aldamisa International has signed the iconic entertainer to direct a film in what will be her first outing in the role since 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces.