All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 851
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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.
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NewsArsenal Pictures, The G-Machine partner on new slate
The Los Angeles-based companies have teamed up with production company Content Aggregator to jointly produce, finance and sell a slate of films kicking off at the EFM.
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NewsVisit Films boards sales on Upstream Color
Shane Carruth’s follow-up to his acclaimed thriller Primer will receive its international premiere in Panorama on Sunday [10] following last month’s Sundance debut.
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NewsShoreline Entertainment checks into Geography Club
Morris Ruskin’s Los Angeles-based production and sales company has picked up world sales rights to Huffington Pictures’ coming-of-age drama.
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News2+2 a hot seller for Rud's FilmSharks
FilmSharks has closed multiple territories on Diego Kaplan’s swingers drama 2+2 (A Couple With A Couple).
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NewsTod Williams to direct Cell for Cargo Entertainment
Cargo Entertainment has attached Tod “Kip” Williams to direct John Cusack in the Stephen King adaptation Cell. Mark Lindsay is presenting the project to buyers company handles international pre-sales while Paradigm represents US rights.
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NewsDDA PR promotes Dana Archer to president and partner
CEO Lawrence Atkinson and COO John Stannard made the announcement on Friday [8].
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NewsContent boards A Long Way Home for EFM
Content has acquired worldwide sales rights to the Peter Dinklage epic adventure A Long Way Home and is introducing to buyers at EFM.
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NewsWeinstein acquires Grandmaster
The Weinstein Company has picked up key territories to Wong Kar Wai’s Berlinale opener The Grandmaster, taking all US and English-speaking Canadian territories from Annapurna as well as UK, Australian and New Zealand rights from Wild Bunch.
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NewsLaika, Focus unveil third partnership on Boxtrolls
Laika has begun production on its third feature The Boxtrolls. Focus Features holds worldwide rights while Universal Pictures International will distribute outside North America and eOne will release in Canada.
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NewsFocus, Random House snap up films rights to Longbourn
Random House Studio and Focus Features have moved on film rights to Longbourn, a revisionist take on Pride And Prejudice that tells Jane Austen’s story from the point of view of the Bennet family estate servants.
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NewsJinga closes territories on genre slate
UK-based Jinga Films has reported strong business on seven titles on the slate, led by a three-film deal with 101 Films.
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108 Media boards John Leguizamo’s Fugly!
108 Media has added John Leguizamo’s autobiographical comedy Fugly! to its EFM sales slate and plans a US release in the third quarter.