All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 864
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NewsArgo rules US charts in third weekend on $12.4m
A weak session at the box office saw Warner Bros’ Academy Awards frontrunner climb to the top of the pile to reach a respectable $60.8m while stablemate Cloud Atlas led the new arrivals and opened in third place on $9.4m.
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NewsRaven Banner acquires Justin McConnell's The Eternal
The Toronto-based company arrives at the AFM with worldwide rights on the vampire tale to star Michael Biehn. Raven Banner to produce with Unstable Ground Inc.
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NewsLionsgate International boards Pawn Sacrifice for AFM
Ed Zwick directs Tobey Maguire in the Cold War tale of volatile chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer in a welcome A-list project to drop into the upcoming market.
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Jeff Berg announces departure from ICM Partners
In a move that had been expected since the management buyout in May, the former chairman and CEO of ICM said on Friday (26) that he was leaving the company.
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NewsFilmDistrict snaps up US rights to Olympus Has Fallen
Antoine Fuqua directed the Millennium Films White House thriller starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman.
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Any Day Now, Quartet, Central Park Five triumph in Chicago audience awards
The 48th Chicago International Film Festival announced the Audience Choice Awards on Friday (26).
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NewsBond is back to challenge Paranormal Activity 4
The 23rd James Bond film Skyfall bursts on to the screen in the UK, Russia, France, South Korea, Brazil and Belgium this weekend through Sony Pictures Releasing International.
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NewsInaugural Baja International Film Festival unveils slate
Eighty films including Pablo Larrain’s Chilean Oscar submission No and Peter Ramsay’s Rise Of The Guardians will screen from Nov 14-17 at the first Los Cabos event founded by Corona Beer heir and Mexican property developer Eduardo Sanchez Navarro.
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Gravitas Ventures bulks up Halloween slate
The digital distributor has announced its upcoming VoD horror acquisitions for October and November.
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Eli Roth cements The Green Inferno cast ahead of Peru shoot
Worldview Entertainment’s eco-horror film is on the runway for a Nov 5 start. Exclusive Media will commence sales at the AFM and Roth will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Aftershock co-writer Guillermo Amoedo.
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The Exchange nabs international rights to Rob The Mob
Brian O’Shea and Nat McCormick will attend the AFM with the real-life Bonnie And Clyde thriller to star Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda.
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NewsFilmNation heads to AFM with Hold On To Me
Carey Mulligan and Robert Pattinson will star in James Marsh’s thriller in the vein of To Die For. CAA represents US rights.
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NewsDark Corners, Jet Black among Solar Pictures maiden slate
Co-CEOs Kearie Peak [pictured] and Christopher Taylor said the LA-based finance and production company has lined up Dark Corners, Jonestown, Jet Black and The Girl Who Knew Too Much for the first half of 2013.
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NewsPanorama to commence sales at AFM on The Voices
EXCLUSIVE: Marjane Satrapi will direct Ryan Reynolds in the psychological thriller for producers Mandalay Vision and Vertigo Entertainment. Panorama sales chief Kim Fox will introduce the project in Santa Monica next week.
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NewsJohnny Depp in talks to star in Alcon’s Transcendence
Wally Pfister’s feature directorial debut is set to commence shooting early next year and will go through the company’s output deal with Warner Bros.
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Breakthrough Entertainment to show Cas & Dylan footage at AFM
Jason Priestley makes his feature directorial debut on the caper to star Richard Dreyfuss and Tatiana Maslany.
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CommentArgo continues as a frontrunner; Flight shows an irresistible Denzel Washington
Screen’s US editor Jeremy Kay also surveys where Lincoln, The Life of Pi and The Sessions stand in the awards race so far.
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Film Independent unveils 12th Producing Lab participants
The intensive five-week course offers producers support and advice on their feature projects.
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NewsLionsgate targets Globes for Stand Up Guys
The Sidney Kimmel and Lakeshore Entertainment comedy will screen for one week in New York at Lincoln Center and in Los Angeles at Arclight Hollywood and The Landmark starting on Dec 14.
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Academy unveils five Nicholl Fellows for screenwriting
Each writer will receive a $35,000 prize, the first instalment of which will be distributed at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on Nov 8.