All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 903
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NewsNorton Herrick joins 2 Guns as producer
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg star and Baltasar Kormákur is currently shooting in New Orleans.
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Magnolia Home Entertainment, Phase 4 snap up Sushi Girl
The revenge thriller stars Mark Hamill and Tony Todd and received its international premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival on Jul 21.
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Dada Films picks up US rights to Excuse Me For Living
MJ Peckos and Steven Raphael’s distributor will release the rom-com on Oct 12 in theatres and VoD. Osiris Entertainment has acquired TV and DVD rights.
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NewsParamount, Facebook unite on Paranormal Activity 4 campaign
The partnership will allow fans of the upcoming horror franchise release to watch the film free in 25 cities around the world using Facebook’s Want It application. It also gives the studio a three-month start on building awareness through the viral platform of social media.
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Nancy Fishman Film Releasing acquires Six Million And One
Bay Area distributor Nancy K Fishman has picked up Israeli director David Fisher’s documentary Six Million And One, which recounts the filmmaker’s search for his father’s history during the Holocaust.
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NewsProducer Hawk Koch elected Academy president
UPDATE: Koch replaces the outgoing Tom Sherak who steps down after a three-year term. The board of governors cast their votes on Tuesday night (Jul 31) in Los Angeles. Koch will temporarily step down from his role as PGA president and Mark Gordon will continue as sole preisdent.
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Variance Films takes US rights to Head Games
Steve James’ documentary explores the subject of concussion in sports and will open on Sept 21 in select cities and expand into major markets through October.
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Cinedigm, ARC partner on Nitro Circus The Movie 3D
The performance film about the cutting-edge action sport collective is set to open nationwide in theatres on Aug 8.
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NewsDeVon Franklin named Columbia svp production
Franklin will work with all of film divisions within the Sony Pictures fold and his next project will be the adaptation of bestseller Heaven Is For Real.
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NewsToronto adds world premieres including Dredd, Alex Gibney's Catholic doc, Finding Nemo 3D
Festival brass announced the second wave of programming on Tuesday (Jul 31), unveiling entries in the Vanguard, Midnight Madness, TIFF Docs, City To City, TIFF Cinematheque and TIFF Kids sections.
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NewsBrendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch join The Grand Seduction
Don McKellar will direct the $12.7m project from a screenplay by Michael Dowse and Ken Scott who wrote the original French film, Le Grande Seduction. Alliance Films holds Canadian rights and Voltage Pictures is the international sales agent.
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NewsDKR reaches $252m for Warner Bros Pictures Int’l
UPDATE: The distributor confirmed on Monday morning (30) that The Dark Knight Rises added $126.2m over the weekend and drew approximately 18m admissions from 17,200 screens in 57 markets.
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Sony Pictures Classics acquires The Gatekeepers
Dror Moreh’s documentary premiered at the recent Jerusalem International Film Festival.
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NewsPeter Jackson confirms third Hobbit film in Facebook post
The New Zealand director hinted at it during Comic-Con and now the news is official – the two-part JRR Tolkien adaptation will become a trilogy.
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Blanc Biehn, Valladares Films to remake Hidden In The Woods
The news follows hot on the heels of the recent premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival of Blanc Biehn’s thriller The Victim.
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All The Wrong Reasons starts production in Halifax
Myriad Pictures handles international sales outside Canada on the drama about the aftermath of traumatic stress on four intersecting lives.
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Wolfe Video takes worldwide DVD and VoD onThe Wise Kids
The distributor plans a November VoD launch followed by DVD in January.
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Emmett / Furla, Envision raise another $275m
The partners made the announcement on Monday (30) with the likes of EFM hit 2 Guns, Lone Survivor and Motor City in the pipeline.
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NewsThe Dark Knight Rises up to $248m internationally
Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film grossed an estimated $122.1m on approximately 17,000 screens in 57 markets through Warner Bros Pictures International. Fox International’s Ice Age 4 crossed $500m and SPRI’s The Amazing Spider-Man has swept past $400m.
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NewsSony crosses $1bn domestic box office milestone
The studio passed the mark in its second fastest time on Jul 11 and has reached $1bn 11 times in a row.