All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 849
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NewsHobbit to soar past $200m international box office
Warner Bros/New Line/MGM’s fantasy stands on the cusp of $189m through Warner Bros Pictures International after its first week in release and is expected to dominate the weekend session.
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NewsUniversal Pictures sets $2.9bn box office record
The studio’s astonishing turnaround was underlined emphatically on Thursday (20) when top brass announced that 2012 will mark the best year at the global box office in Universal’s 100-year history with theatrical grosses surpassing $2.927bn to date.
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Palm Springs International Film Festival unveils festival roster
Pablo Berger’s Spanish foreign language Oscar submission Blancanieves and Paul Andrew Williams’ Unfinished Song will bookend the festival as organisers announced the galas, premieres and New Visions / New Voices strands.
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Imogene gets release date, new name
The Toronto 2012 entry starring Kristen Wiig is now called Girl Most Likely and will go out theatrically through Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions on Jul 19.
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Capri, Hollywood Festival honours Silver Linings Playbook
Festival top brass have anointed David O Russell’s rom-com and awards season contender its Best Film Of The Year.
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NewsTLA, Spain’s filmin form online partnership
TLA Releasing’s LGBT catalogue will be available to the Spanish market.
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Breaking Glass acquires North America on From The Head; world on Stuck To Your Pillow
UPDATED: George Griffith’s From The Head stars Matthew Lillard as the charismatic bathroom attendant of a seedy New York strip joint and was shot entirely in a bathroom.
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Awards round-up: Judd Apatow; WGA
The comedy powerhouse will receive the Critics’ Choice Louis XIII Genius Award at the 18th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Jan 10.
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NewsRelativity Foreign launches; company hires Camela Galano
UPDATED: Relativity Media has cemented its international ambitions with the launch of a new division that creates another sales agency in what has been a busy year for the space.
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NewsOpen Road sets Jan 24 release for Ten
David Ayer directs Arnold Schwarzenegger in the thriller. QED International financed and handled international sales.
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Constantin Film acquires film rights to Unwind
Neal Shusterman’s young adult sci-fi bestseller takes place in a dystopian future where parents can elect to donate their teenage children’s organs.
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NewsClare Stewart, Nadine Labaki among Sundance 2013 jurors
Sundance Institute announced today 19 members of five juries heading into the Park City event, scheduled to run from Jan 17-27.
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NewsZac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden join Parkland
The pair boost a cast that includes previously announced Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver on Exclusive Media and Playtone’s upcoming drama. Financier Exclusive Media holds worldwide rights.
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NewsAngelina Jolie sets directorial follow-up at Universal, Walden
The star’s second outing after In The Land Of Blood And Honey is Unbroken, a survival story based on Laura Hillenbrand’s novel Unbroken: A World War II Story Of Survival, Resilience, And Redemption.
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NewsAwards round-up: Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hooper, Mychael Danna
Day-Lewis will receive the 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Montecito Award on Jan 26.
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NewsBully to receive PGA 2013 Stanley Kramer Award
The documentary’s director Lee Hirsch and producer Cynthia Lowen will collect the honour on Jan 26 in Beverly Hills.
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BAFTA/LA elects Gary Dartnall chair, announces board
Screen International’s North American advertising chief Nigel Daly has been voted in as deputy-chairman.
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NewsLakeshore, SKE add cast to Walk Of Shame
Bill Burr, Liz Carey, Ken Davitian and Willie Garson are among those who join Elizabeth Banks on the comedy. Sierra/Affinity and Lakeshore introduced the project to international buyers at the recent AFM.
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Industry moves: veterans Steven DeMille and Garrett Lee join IMG
DeMille is named evp of marketing and sales at Inception Media Group while Lee becomes evp of product development.
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Bron Studios to make animated debut on Sole Mates
The Vancouver-based company is teaming up with Hidden Empire Film Group on the tale of love lost and found.