All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 880
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NewsDistribution round-up: Breaking Glass takes Laurence Anyways
The third film from Xavier Dolan will open in the US and earned Suzanne Clement a best actress win at Cannes in Un Certain Regard as well as best Canadian film in Toronto. Separately, Kino Lorber has picked up Ain’t In It For My Health.
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NewsJoe Swanberg, AJ Bowen among cast on The Sacrament
The producers have spilled the beans on the cast of Ti West’s horror film financed by Worldview Entertainment and IM Global genre division Octane. The latter will continue talks with international buyers at the AFM this week and CAA represents US sales.
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NewsDrafthouse Films appoints marketing, distribution executive
Sumyi Khong Antonson [pictured] is named vp of marketing and distribution and reports to Drafthouse COO James Emanuel Shapiro.
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NewsReunion Pictures restructures corporate management team
The Canadian film and TV production company announced the move in light of “a significant increase in its production, development and business activities.”
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NewsStarz Denver Film Festival to honour Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
The siblings directed Italy’s foreign language Oscar submission Caesar Must Die [pictured] and will collect the fourth annual Maria and Tommaso Maglione Italian Filmmaker Award.
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NewsRealD strikes deal with China’s Womei Theater Chain
The licensor of 3D technologies will equip 100 screens across the chain’s theatres.
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NewsBond is back with a vengeance: Skyfall opens on $80.6m
UPDATE: Sony Pictures and MGM’s 23rd entry in the James Bond pantheon delivered an astonishing result as it opened top in all 25 markets, seven of them through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) markets and the remainder through MGM licensees.
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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.