All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 857
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Global Eagle to buy Row 44, most of Advanced Inflight Alliance
Representatives of Global Eagle founders Harry Sloan and Jeff Sagansky said the deal created the largest entertainment and connectivity platform for the worldwide airline industry.
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Arpa to honour Frances Fisher, USC Shoah Foundation, Lusine Sahakyan
The 15th Annual Arpa International Film Festival will honour stage and film actress Frances Fisher with the Career Achievement Award.
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NewsParamount Pictures, MGM team up on Hercules
Brett Ratner will direct Dwayne Johnson in the adaptation of the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars.
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Morgan Compagnon, Pascale Marchand join Legend3D
Company president Ian Jessel made the announcements on Monday (5).
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NewsClive Owen, Juliette Binoche fall for Words And Pictures
Fred Schepisi will direct the rom-com and Curtis Burch produces through his Latitude Productions in association with Gary Cogill of Dallas-based Lascaux Films.
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Tim Robbins attached to direct, star in Man Under
Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloe Moretz will also star in the drama from EMJAG Productions and Film 360.
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NewsTWC takes select territories on Kon-Tiki
The deal with HanWay Films covers North America, the UK and Italy. Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg’s film is Norway’s official foreign language Oscar submission.
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NewsSkyfall surges past $320m internationally
The James Bond thriller reached the mark by the end of Tuesday and remains on course to finish well over $400m through Sony and MGM markets by the end of Sunday, not including its first three days in North America.
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NewsLiz Mackiewicz joins Cohen Media Group
The veteran sales executive arrives as svp of international distribution.
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NewsTo The Arctic crosses $11.7m worldwide on IMAX
The 3D release from MacGillivray Freeman Films, IMAX Filmed Entertainment and Warner Bros launched on Apr 20 and has amassed
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FeaturesJacqueline Lyanga
AFI FEST director Jacqueline Lyanga talks to Jeremy Kay about the festival ahead of the closing night gala.
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NewsDistribution round-up: SPWA snags Foxcatcher
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has acquired Latin America, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, South Africa from Panorama Media to Bennett Miller’s (pictured) Moneyball follow-up. In other developments, Phase 4 Films has picked up North American rights to Long Time Gone, while Factory 25 has acquired world rights to The Sheik And ...
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NewsMPAA honours Avex Group founder and TIFF chairman Tom Yoda
The ceremony took place on Nov 5 in Washington DC in recognition of Yoda’s “outstanding contribution to the Japanese filmmaking industry.”
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Jonathan Demme to receive CAS Filmmaker Award
The filmmaker will collect the honour at the 49th Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards on Feb 16 in Los Angeles.
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Interactor Media unveils Cavemen as maiden project
Herschel Faber’s directorial debut rom-com will be the first to go under producer Cole Payne’s new Los Angeles-based film and television production, distribution and management company.
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NewsAFM touts 6% buyer climb despite slow market
Market organisers on Monday projected data through the end of the market’s final day on Nov 7 and said the number of acquisitions executives rose from 1,523 in 2011 to 1,616.
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Here Media head Paul Colichman heralds advent of HTML 5
The next iteration of internet architecture will liberate filmmakers, cut out middle men and pave the way for potentially lucrative “differentiated content”, attendees at the International Film Finance, Production And Distribution Conference in Los Angeles heard on Monday (5).
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NewsLast Vegas begins principal photography in Las Vegas
CBS Films and Good Universe’s comedy starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline has commenced shooting in Las Vegas and will continue on to Atlanta, Georgia.
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Benaroya on board to produce Felony as shooting begins
Benaroya Pictures made the announcement on Monday (5) and joins Goalpost Pictures Australia and Blue-Tongue Films on the drama, which The Solution Entertainment Group has been selling at AFM. Village Roadshow will distribute in Australia.
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NewsUnion Pictures takes Canadian rights to Ginger & Rosa
Sally Potter’s Telluride world premiere stars Elle Fanning, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Annette Bening and newcomer Alice Englert.