All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 958
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Myriad to start sales in Toronto on Jennifer Lynch’s Chained
Vincent D’Onofrio and Julia Ormond star in the psychological thriller. Anchor Bay holds US rights and has tentatively set a spring 2012 release.
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Shooting begins on Stoker for Scott Free, Searchlight, Indian Paintbrush
Park Chan-wook’s first English-language feature stars Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney and Jacki Weaver.
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NewsSundance Selects reunites with Herzog on Into The Abyss
The acquisition of North American rights follows the collaboration on Werner Herzog’s Cave Of Forgotten Dreams, which remains the highest grossing documentary release of the year-to-date.
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Phase 4, Submarine to partner on Rid Of Me in North America
President and CEO Berry Meyerowitz said the company will partner with Submarine on an “aggressive” theatrical run in the autumn on James Westby’s black comedy.
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NewsIcahn, Lionsgate cease hostilities as corporate raider sells stake
The activist shareholder and his son Brett are to sell up to 44,161,971 of their shares of Lionsgate common stock in a move that ends their long-running battle for control of the company.
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NewsDreamWorks Animation, Youku strike landmark Chinese deal
Leading Chinese internet television company Youku.com will make the Kung Fu Panda franchise films available across multiple devices in the first time DreamWorks Animation product is being offered online in China.
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Well Go USA drawn to Shimizu’s Tormented, Shock Labyrinth
The distributor has acquired all North American rights to the upcoming horror Tormented from Fortissimo Films in a preemptive swoop before the film’s Venice world premiere and has also taken The Shock Labyrinth.
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Bumble Ward to head Fox domestic publicity machine
In recent years the veteran has developed expertise in social media marketing. She begins in her new role as evp of publicity on Tuesday (Aug 30)
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Hollywood Film Festival unveils first wave of honourees
The Hollywood Awards ceremony will take place in Beverly Hills on Oct 24.
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NewsPedro Almodóvar named AFI FEST guest director
The feted filmmaker, whose latest work The Skin I Live In is likely to figure in the upcoming awards season, will present a screening of his 1986 film Law Of Desire and curate a sidebar of films that have inspired his work.
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NewsSmurfs surge past $250m at international box office
In a tight weekend outside North America Sony Pictures Releasing International’s (SPRI) The Smurfs clung on to supremacy with an estimated $25.5m haul from 8,418 screens in 55 markets to propel the running total to a confirmed $256.9m.
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CMG, producer Chad A Verdi team up on Loosies
Ed Noeltner’s Beverly Hills–based sales company Cinema Management Group will commence talks with buyers in Toronto on Michael Corrente’s Manhattan-set romantic thriller which IFC will release in North America.
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NewsThe Help weathers storm to rule North America on $14m
Domestic box office took a battering from Hurricane Irene as audiences on the storm-lashed East Coast hunkered down, allowing The Help to consolidate its grip and surge towards $100m as reports claimed box office dropped by more than 23% compared to the same session in 2010.
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SF Film Society executive director Graham Leggat dies at 51
Leggat, who died on Aug 25 following an 18-month battle with cancer, was a widely admired and beloved figure who transformed the Society.
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NewsFilmNation hires Paul Solet to direct The Faces
FilmNation Entertainment and Sonny Mallhi are producing the story of newlyweds who escape a brutal kidnapping and unwittingly fall into the clutches of a shadowy group that uses terror as a means of entertainment.
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NewsSmurfs, Cowboys, Apes vie for international supremacy
Sony’s The Smurfs stood at more than $211m as of last weekend and face an international showdown with Cowboys & Aliens heading into the new session.
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NewsOlivia Wilde gets taste for Occupant’s Chemistry
The star of Cowboys & Aliens and Tron: Legacy is understood to have joined Sam Rockwell and Michelle Monaghan on the darkly comedic Better Living Through Chemistry, set to shoot this autumn in Maryland.
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Miramax hires Adrienne Gary as svp organisational strategy and admin
The third announced hire in a week sees the “human capital executive” come aboard to oversee all recruiting, organisational structure, global HR and corporate administration.
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NewsQuinto's Banshee Chapter finds cast ahead of New Mexico shoot
Ted Levine, Katia Winter and Michael McMillian will star in horror feature The Banshee Chapter, which Zachary Quinto is producing through his Before The Door Pictures alongside Sunchaser Entertainment and German producer Christian Arnold-Beutel.
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Brazilian culture promoter Inffinito launches digital platform
MediaFundMarket.comis billed as the first digital platform and marketplace to generate private and public production funding for shorts, features and documentaries by Brazilian filmmakers and will facilitate the acquisition and distribution of Brazilian product at the markets.