All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 975
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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.
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NewsAcademy sets Sept 1 short doc deadline
To be eligible for consideration in the 84th Academy Awards, the documentaries must complete a seven-day commercial run in a theatre in either Los Angeles County or in the Borough of Manhattan in New York from Jan 1-Dec 31 2011.
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NewsJeb Brody named president of production at Focus Features
The executive arrives from his parallel role at Vendome Pictures and replaces John Lyons, who is returning to work as a producer and devoting more time to philanthropy.
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NewsNYFF to screen revised Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory with new ending
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Toronto-bound miscarriage of justice documentary will receive its US premiere with the fresh new ending that includes the release of the West Memphis 3.
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Features
Kino Lorber takes US rights to Moroder's Metropolis
The distributor will open Giorgio Moroder’s version of Fritz Lang’s classic in more than 20 markets before it launches on Blu-ray and DVD on Nov 15. The official title will be Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis.
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CommentAnd she does her own stunts...
She’s known for her scorching on-screen performances, but Kate Winslet will forever be remembered by Richard Branson’s family for her heroism after she rescued the entrepreneur’s mum from a blaze on Necker Island.
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Legendary East unveils Ed Zwick adventure as first project
Zwick will direct The Great Wall and is co-writing with longtime writing and producing partner Marshall Herskovitz based on a story by Legendary Entertainment chairman and CEO Thomas Tull and Max Brooks.
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Ben Stiller to receive BAFTA LA’s Charlie Chaplin comedy award
The actor will collect the honour at the 2011 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards on Nov 30 in Beverly Hills.
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NewsBeth Minehart, Dylan Wilcox swell ranks at Miramax Films
In two significant hires that speak to the company’s ambitions, CEO Mike Lang (pictured) has brought on NBC Universal’s former evp of international new media Minehart and installed Universal’s former director of acquisitions Wilcox.
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NewsUniversal signs production deal with Justin Lin’s Barnstorm
Hot on the heels of the $607m global smash Fast Five the studio has wasted little time cementing a formal partnership with the filmmaker and announced that the Lin-directed Fast And Furious 6 will open on May 24, 2013.
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Ellis Perez to head new Dominican Republic film commission
The announcement in Los Angeles on Monday [22] follows the passage of Law #108-2010 which provides a 25% tax credit on features and TV shows shot in the country.
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Shooting begins on comedy 21 And Over
The Hangover and The Change Up writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore will direct from their own screenplay. Mandeville Films is producing in association with Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced and Relativity will handle worldwide distribution.
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Production underway on Big Beach Johnny Knoxville comedy
Knoxville and Patton Oswalt star in Todd Rohal’s untitled follow-up to this year’s Sundance entry The Catechism Cataclysm.
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Raven Banner acquires H P Lovecraft adaptation
The Toronto-based sales company has picked up world rights to The Whisperer In Darkness from Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival.