All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 868
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NewsAmy Adams to receive Santa Barbara Vanguard honour
The star of The Master will collect the 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Cinema Vanguard Award on Jan 31.
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Tribeca Film, Focus World take Greetings From Tim Buckley
The partners have acquired US rights to Dan Algrant’s film, which chronicles two generations of musicians – Tim and Jeff Buckley. Separately, The Cinema Guild has taken select rights to An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty.
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NewsAmerican Film Institute unveils 10 best films of 2012
Life Of Pi, Argo and Beasts Of The Southern Wild are among the Institute’s honours roster, while The Master, Flight and The Hobbit fail to make the cut.
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NewsSundance Institute sets touring film roster
Festival top brass have selected the 10 entries and arthouse venues that comprise the Sundance Film Festival USA.
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Glenn Close, Nick Nolte join Always On My Mind
The Golden Globe-winning pair have signed on to Occupant Entertainment’s music-driven drama.
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NewsBradley Cooper to receive Desert Palm Achievement
The star of Silver Linings Playbook will collect his honour at the 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) gala on Jan 5.
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NewsWashington critics reward Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) became the latest East Coast critics group to honour Kathryn Bigelow and her Osama Bin Laden film. A varied winners’ roster also rewarded Cloud Atlas and ParaNorman.
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Baby, How’d We Ever Get This Way begins shooting
EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography is underway in Toronto on Scythia Films and Phenomenal Films’ Baby, How’d We Ever Get This Way.
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NewsSkyfall becomes biggest-ever global release for Sony
Sony, MGM and Eon’s James Bond smash added $20.3m internationally to reach $656.6m and a number one North American haul of $11m for $261.6m to overtake Sony’s previous best of $890m set by Spider-Man 3.
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PGA to stage annual Produced By conference in June
The event will take place at 20th Century Fox Studios in Century City, from Jun 8-9.
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NewsJames Bond produces $11m to dominate North America
In a slow session Skyfall leapfrogged The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 to reclaim its earlier number one spot and reach $261.6m after five weekends.
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NewsGuardians edges out Twilight to rule international on $26m
DreamWorks Animation’s Rise Of The Guardians dominated a tight international session as the family release reached an estimated $90.5m in its fourth weekend through Paramount Pictures International (PPI).
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NewsLos Angeles critics honour Amour, The Master
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named (9) Michael Haneke’s meditation on mortality, Amour, the 2012 film of the year. Best picture runner-up The Master is a major presence, earning four awards including best director for Paul Thomas Anderson.
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NewsAlejandro González Iñárritu to tackle comedy
The Mexican auteur behind such intense work as Babel and Biutiful has lined up a dramatic change of direction and plans to direct Birdman from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo.
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Sundance reveal premiere line-up
Joshua Michael Stern’s Steve Jobs biopic, Alex Gibney’s Wikileaks documentary and Stoker, the English-language debut of Park Chan-Wook, are among a dynamic Sundance Premieres and Documentary Premieres line-up.
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NewsTwilight franchise finale rules international on $49m
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 stands on the cusp of $450m following a third dominant weekend through Lionsgate International and has become the biggest of the five-film franchise outside North America.
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Mike Figgis to chair Capri, Hollywood Festival
The 17th iteration will take place across the Isle of Capri from Dec 27-Jan 2. Writer and archeologist Valerio Massimo Manfredi will serve as president of the festival.
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NewsBreaking Dawn Part 2 holds on in sluggish US session
Traditionally the post-Thanksgiving weekend is a slow one and so it proved to be as Lionsgate’s Twilight finale held on to number one spot in its third weekend, adding an estimated $17.4m to reach $254.6m.
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NewsGabriela Tagliavini ready to shoot The Anatomist’s Secret
The Italian director of Ladies’ Night and Without Men has lined up her next project, a drama based on Argentinian author Federico Andahazi’s book about the 16th century surgeon who discovered the clitoris.
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NewsPGA unveils documentary feature nominees
The winner will be announced at the Producers Guild Of America’s (PGA) 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards on Jan 26.