All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 851
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RadioactiveGiant launches RG360
The Santa Monica-based multi-media development, production and distribution studio has formed a film and TV sales and distribution division.
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Rainmaker sets Escape follow-up
The Vancouver-based animation studio announced on Wednesday [20] it will commence production on its latest feature on Mar 4.
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NewsO-Scope hires publicity chief
Charlie Olsky has been named head of publicity at Oscilloscope Laboratories and will start work in his new post on Mar 4.
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NewsQED partners on Bruce Lee film
Bill Block’s QED International will fully finance and jointly produce with Michael London’s Groundswell Productions Birth Of The Dragon.
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NewsSilver Linings players reunite
David O Russell and Jennifer Lawrence will work together again on The Ends Of The Earth, worldwide distributor The Weinstein Company announced on Tuesday [19].
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NewsElWardi joins The Solution
The popular executive has left IM Global and joins Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s production, financing and distribution company as head of acquisitions and development.
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NewsCBS Films find Coen Brothers
The distributor has acquired US rights to the Oscar-winning film-makers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. StudioCanal holds international sales rights. Separately, Samuel Goldwyn has boarded Home Run.
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NewsO-Scope takes Disaster to Vine
Oscilloscope Laboratories said on Tuesday [19] it had become the first film distributor to release a feature through the Twitter-owned video-looping app.
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NewsDie Hard scores on $62m int’l
Fox International reported on Sunday evening [17] that Bruce Willis’ fifth outing as the indefatigable ex-cop grossed an estimated $61.5m from 9,595 screens in 63 markets.
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NewsDie Hard rules US on $25m
If the return of Fox’s John McClane drew the most film-goers in North America over Presidents Day weekend, it was only slightly more edifying than a second helping of Universal’s Identity Thief.
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NewsArgo among ACE winners
The American Cinema Editors group has announced the four winners of its major theatrical feature categories.
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NewsSubmarine sells Vivian Maier doc
Submarine announced it had closed pre-sales at the EFM on John Maloof and Charles Siskel’s Finding Vivian Maier.
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NewsO-Scope buys After Tiller
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired Sundance premiere After Tiller. Separately, Tribeca Film has picked up What Richard Did, The Cinema Guild has acquired Centro Historico and Viramundo and RBC Film Group and Alternate Ending Studios will release The Kill Hole.
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NewsIFC Films buys The Canyons
Paul Schrader’s crowdfunded neo-noir thriller is based on a screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis and stars Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen.
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NewsLansing, Friedkin in DIFF honour
The Dallas Film Society will present former Paramount CEO Sherry Lansing and her husband William Friedkin with Dallas Star Awards.
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NewsFox unleashes Die Hard 5
The Bruce Willis action thriller arrives in 58 territories this weekend.
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NewsAcademy urges quick vote
As questions remain over the effectiveness of online Oscar voting, the Academy on Thursday [14] urged members to return paper ballots well in advance of the Feb 19 deadline.
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NewsWWE Studios goes Cruisin’
WWE Studios is developing the action comedy Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’, an action-filled comedy from writer-director Adam Bhala Lough.
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NewsWell Go buys New World
Well Go USA Entertainment announced on Thursday [13] it had acquired all North American rights in Berlin to Hoon-jung Park’s South Korean action thriller.
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NewsCinedigm hires Laura Sok
Sok arrives as director of theatrical publicity and most recently served as director of national and regional publicity at Oscilloscope Laboratories.