All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 965
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NewsLionsgate announces start of production on The Last Stand
Kim Jee-Woon’s thriller is shooting in New Mexico and Nevada and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing the project, which has been a strong pre-sale title for Lionsgate.
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Rocket, Big Air Studios take North American rights to 11-11-11
The US-based distributors will partner on the release of Darren Bousman’s apocalyptic tale and appropriately enough have set the launch date for Nov 11 this year.
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NewsAaron Eckhart to play Dennis Wilson in The Drummer
Unclaimed Freight’s Randall Miller and Jody Savin, the filmmaking team behind Bottle Shock, return with a biography about the Beach Boy who drowned in Los Angeles in 1983.
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NewsKino Lorber takes all US rights to Alps
Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to Dogtooth marks the second collaboration with the company which also previously released his Oscar nominated foreign language entry for Greece.
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Myriad Pictures, Future Films complete shooting on Breaking The Girl
The thriller stars Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner and Shawn Ashmore and is being directed by Jamie Babbit.
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NewsFox, Sony form home entertainment venture in Brazil
Fox–Sony Pictures Home Entertainment do Brasil Ltda (FSPHEB) will launch in the first quarter of 2012 and will be run by general manager Jefferson Pugsley, former vp and MD of Paramount Home Entertainment Brazil.
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NewsReal Steel retains international box office crown on $24m
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International reported an estimated $24.2m haul for DreamWorks’ family drama as it climbed to $57.5m after two weekends. The Three Musketeers was in swashbuckling form on $20.4m and The Smurfs crossed $400m.
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NewsLe Havre, Tyrannosaur among Chicago winners
Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre (pictured) won the Chicago International Film Festival’s international feature competition Gold Hugo for his “stylized yet very humane depiction of illegal immigration.”
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NewsReal Steel holds on to pole position in US with $16.3m
Monday’s actual results will determine whether Buena Vista’s estimate for its DreamWorks father-son drama starring Hugh Jackman was enough to fend off the lukewarm debut of Paramount’s dance remake Footloose on $16.1m. Regardless, this was another weak weekend at the domestic box office.
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AFI FEST announces more selections, Swanberg tribute
AFI Fest 2011 organisers have unveiled the selections from the Young Americans and New Auteurs strands as well as the films in the Joe Swanberg tribute. The festival is set to run from Nov 3-10.
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Magnolia takes on Gaby Dellal's Angels Crest
Magnolia Pictures has taken all US rights to Angels Crest, which premiered at Tribeca earlier this year.
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Odyssey acquires film rights to Hank The Cowdog
John Foster’s company negotiated the deal with Rising Star Studios on the children’s property and plans to create an animated feature.
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NewsBop cops it as Woody Allen fiddles with film title
The director claims few people understood the meaning of previous title The Bop Decameron, and has changed the name to Nero Fiddled. Allen’s first shoot in Rome wrapped over the summer and will open in 2012.
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Patty Jenkins lands Thor gig for Marvel Studios
Jenkins previously directed Monster and becomes the first woman to direct a superhero film.
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US-China Summit scheduled for Nov 1 in Los Angeles
Sponsored by East West Bank and Loeb & Loeb, the half-day event is being hosted by the Asia Society Southern California’s Entertainment & Media/Asia Initiative.
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NewsUniversal backs down over Tower Heist PVoD plan
The studio said on Wednesday (12) that in response to a letter from theatre owners it would delay it planned premium VoD experiment.
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Rio Market: co-production partners show first footage of Rouge Bresil
The $11m epic set during the French expedition to Brazil in the 16th century is being produced by France’s Pampa Films, Brazil’s Conspiracao Filmes and CD Films from Canada and marks the first TV project for Rio de Janeiro’s investment and p&a fund RioFilme.
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FeaturesToronto: a festival with benefits
There were only a couple of all-night bidding wars at this year’s Toronto, but that didn’t mean buyers weren’t buying with confidence.
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NewsAlmanya to open 5th German Current Showcase
Yasemin Samdereli’s comedy of manners Almanya: Welcome To Germany will kick off the event in Los Angeles, presented by The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, German Films and The American Cinematheque.