All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 844
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Guardians edges out Twilight to rule international on $26m
DreamWorks Animation’s Rise Of The Guardians dominated a tight international session as the family release reached an estimated $90.5m in its fourth weekend through Paramount Pictures International (PPI).
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Los Angeles critics honour Amour, The Master
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named (9) Michael Haneke’s meditation on mortality, Amour, the 2012 film of the year. Best picture runner-up The Master is a major presence, earning four awards including best director for Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Alejandro González Iñárritu to tackle comedy
The Mexican auteur behind such intense work as Babel and Biutiful has lined up a dramatic change of direction and plans to direct Birdman from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo.
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Sundance reveal premiere line-up
Joshua Michael Stern’s Steve Jobs biopic, Alex Gibney’s Wikileaks documentary and Stoker, the English-language debut of Park Chan-Wook, are among a dynamic Sundance Premieres and Documentary Premieres line-up.
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Twilight franchise finale rules international on $49m
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 stands on the cusp of $450m following a third dominant weekend through Lionsgate International and has become the biggest of the five-film franchise outside North America.
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Mike Figgis to chair Capri, Hollywood Festival
The 17th iteration will take place across the Isle of Capri from Dec 27-Jan 2. Writer and archeologist Valerio Massimo Manfredi will serve as president of the festival.
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Breaking Dawn Part 2 holds on in sluggish US session
Traditionally the post-Thanksgiving weekend is a slow one and so it proved to be as Lionsgate’s Twilight finale held on to number one spot in its third weekend, adding an estimated $17.4m to reach $254.6m.
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Gabriela Tagliavini ready to shoot The Anatomist’s Secret
The Italian director of Ladies’ Night and Without Men has lined up her next project, a drama based on Argentinian author Federico Andahazi’s book about the 16th century surgeon who discovered the clitoris.
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PGA unveils documentary feature nominees
The winner will be announced at the Producers Guild Of America’s (PGA) 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards on Jan 26.
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Leaders of the pack
With a host of contenders now screening for awards voters, the front runners are becoming clearer. Jeremy Kay reports
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Academy extends deadline for paper ballot vote request
Since the organisation announced it would introduce electronic voting for the first time this year, some members have been confused about their options.
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John Hawkes
John Hawkes talks to Jeremy Kay about tackling two of US cinema’s biggest taboos in The Sessions.
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Breaking Dawn – Part 2 heads for the history books
Lionsgate International’s franchise finale could overtake the $430.9m mark set by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 by the end of its third session to become the biggest in the series outside North America.
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AMC, Indomina Releasing to partner on LUV
Sheldon Candis’ Sundance 2012 drama will open on Jan 18 and play exclusively at nationwide AMC locations through the AMC Independent programme.
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Eleven live-action shorts advance in Oscar race
A tie in the nominations balloting resulted in 11 films being shortlisted. One hundred and twenty-five pictures originally qualified in the category.
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Sundance unveils Spotlight, Midnight, New Frontier sections
Park City At Midnight features cannibalism, demonic possession and the follow-up to the 2012 festival’s shocker, V/H/S. Spotlight entries include Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, Chilean Oscar submission No and acclaimed Israeli documentary The Gatekeepers.
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Cloud Atlas, Huntsman, Pi make Oscar FX shortlist
The Academy has announced the 10 visual effects contenders for the prize before visual effects branch members consider who will become the five nominees.
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Hugh Jackman to receive MMI salute in New York
The star of Les Misérables will collect his honour at a ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on Dec 11.
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eOne takes North American rights to Cuban Fury
The distributor negotiated with StudioCanal for Big Talk’s rom-com starring Nick Frost, Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd, Ian McShane and Olivia Colman.
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Cherien Dabis, Sebastián Silva return to Sundance
The filmmakers behind Park City hits Amreeka and The Maid are back with new work as festival organisers unveiled the US and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary competition slate and the NEXT selections on Wednesday [28].