All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 967
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NewsUTA to handle global sales on Paul Walker vehicle Hours
Hot off the $600m-plus global success of Fast Five, Walker will star as a father desperate to keep his newborn alive in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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Cinedigm deploys record number of digital screens in quarter
Cinedigm this week reported the biggest quarter in its history in terms of digital cinema installation.
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Blacklight Transmedia, Random House Worlds strike partnership
Zak Kadison’s Los Angeles-based company has signed a direct-to-publisher development partnership with Random House Publishing Group’s intellectual property creation and development division.
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Dodge College, Busan partner on Busan West Asian Film Festival
Chapman University’s ambitious film school said the festival will run in Orange County, California, from Nov 11-13 when Bong Joon-ho will receive the inaugural Busan West Icon Award.
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MPAA chief Chris Dodd joins AFI board of trustees
The former Senator for Connecticut was one of several new inductees in a list that includes Verizon Digital Media Services David Rips.
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Henry Hoberman named MPAA global general counsel
Motion Picture Association Of America chairman and CEO Chris Dodd made the announcement on Wednesday (5).
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NewsWilde, Crowe linked to Cross Creek / EMG F1 project Rush
Olivia Wilde is in line to play the 70s model Suzy Miller, who wed racing driver James Hunt only to get a quick divorce and tie the knot with his friend Richard Burton.
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As Lion King reaches $80m, Disney plans quartet of 3D re-releases
Encouraged by the box office performance of The Lion King (In 3D) the studio announced on Tuesday it would give the same treatment to Beauty And The Beast, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc and The Little Mermaid.
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Tribeca Institute announces recipients of inaugural TFI New Media Fund
The Institute has awarded grants amounting to $400,000 for six non-fiction projects including The Tillman Story Interactive Edition and a broader experience based on Steve James’ The Interrupters.
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NewsGK Films hires Robert Towne to script Battle Of Britain drama
Graham King and business partner Tim Headington will produce the project, based on a screenplay that Towne will write about the legendary fight over London between the RAF and the Luftwaffe that played a pivotal role in the second world war.
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IMAX, South Korea’s CJ CGV to install theatres in China
The deal to install 15 systems will make CJ CGV Holdings the second largest IMAX exhibitor in Asia and the fourth largest in the world.
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Curtis Jackson in Pursuit for Emmett / Furla, Cheetah Vision
Soul Plane and Gun director Jessy Terrero has signed a three-film deal with the producers and will kick off on this story about a police officer and a criminal who hunt down a bank robber.
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Obituary: Rob Remley
Remley most recently served as svp of international marketing and distribution at Warner Bros and died of cancer on Sept 27 in Los Angeles.
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Rose McGowan joins Film Bridge’s MIPCOM-bound thriller Napa
Ellen Wander announced on Monday (Oct 3) that McGowan will play an Afghanistan veteran who is assigned the role of sheriff in her home town of Napa where she gets involved in a romantic mystery.
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Cinedigm promotes Mizel, Loffredo
Adam Mizel named COO and CFO, Gary Loffredo appointed president of digital cinema services at Cinedigm.
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Lionsgate to develop young adult trilogy Chaos Walking
Doug Davison will produce the trilogy by bestselling author Patrick Ness through Davison’s Quadrant Pictures
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NewsFestival do Rio unveils full programme line-up
With three days to go before the opening night screening on Oct 6 of Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, organisers at the Rio De Janeiro International Film Festival have announced the full roster.
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NewsDolphin surfs low domestic box office tide on $14m
A dismal domestic weekend saw Warner Bros’ family tale climb two places to the top as a cadre of lacklustre new releases failed to ignite the box office.
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NewsSmurfs stays top internationally as Abduction performs well
Sony Pictures Releasing International’s (SPRI) blue wave ruled yet again at the box as an estimated $10.7m weekend gross from 5,400 screens in seven markets boosted the tally to a confirmed $380.6m.
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NewsSPC expected to announce Hysteria deal shortly
The distributor is understood to have acquired domestic and possibly select territory rights to Tanya Wexler’s period rom-com in a deal that Screendaily first learned about on Wednesday (28) but is yet to be confirmed.