All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 941
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NewsParamount, Bad Robot extend first-look deal
The key exclusive relationship between the studio and J J Abrams’ production company will now run through December 2015.
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NewsIndomina takes The Imposter for North America
The Sundance deals continued to trickle in on Tuesday [Feb 21] as Indomina announced it had acquired rights to Bart Layton’s directorial debut and was planning a 2012 theatrical release.
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NewsUniversal signs two-year deal with Paul Walker’s Laguna Ridge
The first project to go under the production arrangement is the action thriller Skyscraper based on an original idea by Mike Sobel.
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NewsSundance Selects takes North America on Ai Weiwei doc
Alison Klayman’s acclaimed Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry premiered at Sundance last month and will benefit from a “major” summer theatrical roll-out planned to coincide with the activist’s first trip outside China since his recent detention.
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NewsDel Toro, Reel FX team up on Day Of The Dead
Jorge R Gutierrez will direct the Romeo And Juliet-style CG animation from a screenplay he is writing with Doug Langdale set against the Mexican folklore milieu. Guillermo De Toro is on board as creative collaborator and will also present the film.
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NewsWeinstein, Netflix content deal includes The Artist
The Oscar frontrunner will receive its pay-TV premiere on the streaming service rather than on traditional premium cable following a multi-year deal between the parties.
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FeaturesWinter Warmer
Jeremy Kay analyses the deals from Sundance — including the $6m deal for The Surrogate [pictured] and looks ahead to Berlin’s European Film Market.
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NewsAlcon to finance, Summit Int'l to sell Beautiful Creatures
Alcon Entertainment has secured rights to Kami Carcia and Margaret Stohl’s bestselling trilogy to star Oscar nominee Viola Davis. Richard LaGravenese will direct from his adaptation.
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NewsCargo stocks up for EFM with Rob Cohen thriller Undone
The New York and LA-based sales, financing and production company will commence talks with buyers in Berlin on the action-thriller.
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NewsRed Sea Media heads for Berlin with maiden slate
Chairman and CEO Roman Kopelevich has acquired international sales rights to the starry duo of heist thriller Pawn and revenge tale Officer Down and will commence talks with EFM buyers next week.
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NewsCamelot Entertainment Group has Berlin slate including Norman, Herbals
President Steven Istock and co-presidents of Camelot Distribution Group and DarKnight Pictures Michael Kananack and Jessica Kelly will attend the EFM next week.
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NewsMeyers Media Group EFM slate includes 7 Red, Midnight Sun
The sales veteran Larry Meyers and Bobby Meyers will attend EFM with their new business and a roster of sales titles for buyers in Berlin.
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NewsSharon Stone joins Attachment for W2 Media
Stone will play a married woman who has a one-night stand with a college student who stalks her and her family. Tony Kaye will direct from Christopher Denham’s screenplay.
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NewsSony, Film District, Alliance team up for Insidious sequel
Leigh Whannell will once again write the script and James Wan is in talks to reprise his role as director. FilmDistrict will distribute in the US, while the project financier Alliance will release in Canada, the UK and Spain and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions will handle remaining territories.
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NewsFocus, Working Title sign Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall for thriller
The stars will play former lovers who must collaborate on the defence team at a terrorism trial. Focus owns worldwide rights and Focus Features International plans to commence pre-sales at the EFM next week ahead of April’s start of production in the UK.
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NewsMyriad brings Chastain-Edgerton double feature to EFM
Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain and rising Australian star Joel Edgerton have signed on to The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Hers – a double project that will shoot back-to-back offering alternate perspectives from the male and female protagonists.
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NewsThe Raid producers to make sequel later this year
Gareth Huw Evans returns to direct his The Raid star Iko Uwais on the project, which will shoot in Indonesia towards the end of the year. Celluloid Nightmares has already closed a slew of territories and SPWA holds US and select territory rights.
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NewsLightning Entertainment boards international sales rights to Five Thirteen
The thriller joins the EFM slate for Berlin buyers and marks the Hollywood debut of French filmmaker Kader Ayd.
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NewsCode Name Geronimo shoot gets underway in New Mexico
Filming began on Wednesday (Feb 1) on Voltage Pictures’ story about the Navy SEAL mission to kill Osama Bin Laden.
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NewsSPC swoops on Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone
The distributor negotiated terms with Hengameh Panahi of Celluloid Dreams to North America, Latin America and East European rights to the filmmaker’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2009 Cannes world premiere A Prophet.