All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 985
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NewsPirates 4 becomes third biggest international release
The latest entry in Disney’s Pirates canon reached the milestone on Wednesday [22] and is bearing down on $1bn worldwide. Disney stablemate Cars 2 from Pixar revs up for the first wave of international markets.
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NewsWarner Bros, Imagine team up on Blood Wars
The studio has came on board to handle film and television rights on the action property while Imagine’s Brian Grazer will serve as producer.
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NewsRiver Road's Bill Pohlad to move ahead on Brian Wilson biopic
The River Road founder first revealed the long-gestating project to Screendaily last summer and has hired Oscar nominee Oren Moverman to write the screenplay.
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NewsLionsgate confirms Alliance-Maple acquisition
Alliance’s successful $38.5m play for Lionsgate-owned Maple and its film library gives the ambitious Canadian operation distribution rights to the Lionsgate slate for the next five years.
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Maya to launch third Indie Film Series in July
Maya Entertainment’s third annual tour will bring acclaimed Latino-themed films to seven cities and kicks off in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago on Jul 29.
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NewsWorking Title options rom-com novel Charlotte Street
Danny Wallace’s upcoming debut novel follows a disillusioned teacher in London who tracks down an unknown woman in a series of photographs.
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NewsAFM to launch five-day conference in November
The series will cover finance, pitching, marketing, production and distribution and run concurrently with the market from Nov 4-8 in Santa Monica.
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NewsWatchmen's Alex Tse to adapt The Crow
Relativity Media is producing along with Ed Pressman and Apaches Entertainment and Tse will get to work adapting the comic book series and strip by James O’Barr.
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Van Damme signs up to MPCA's Six Bullets
Brad Krevoy’s MPCA has signed a second deal in a week with Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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Kanter plans to bring Steinbeck field trip to life
Emmy Award-winning television producer Robert Kanter has acquired exclusive worldwide documentary rights to John Steinbeck’s non-fiction work The Log From The Sea Of Cortez.
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NewsWoody Allen unveils cast for The Bop Decameron
The director’s first film to be financed by Medusa Film is currently in pre-production ahead of a Jul 11 start date in Rome.
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NewsDirty Girl, Buck among Provincetown audience favourites
Abe Sylvia’s Dirty Girl (pictured) won the HBO Audience Award Best Narrative Feature at the closing ceremony of the 2011 Provincetown International Film Festival.
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Relativity Media promotes Kyle Davies to head global distribution
The executive steps into the shoes vacated by former head of worldwide distribution and marketing Peter Adee, who announced back in April that he was stepping down.
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Alliance, Lionsgate prepare to unveil Maple Pictures sale
Alliance Films is close to paying in the region of $40m for Lionsgate-owned Canadian distributor Maple Pictures, according to press reports.
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NewsWME Global head Taylor urges filmmakers to embrace revolution
Graham Taylor gave attendees at the Los Angeles Film Festival an upbeat appraisal of the independent space on Saturday [18], highlighting a “time of revolution, when the only way to act is entrepreneurially.”
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NewsGreen Lantern opens top in US on $53m for Warner Bros
Green Lantern opened top of the charts on $52.7m according to Warner Bros estimates, though box office observers were quick to point out it was the lowest debut for a superhero film this summer.
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NewsPanda 2 stays top overseas for PPI on $55m hold
DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2 held on to the top spot overseas through PPI as a confirmed $55.4m from 11,110 sites in 51 countries boosted the running total to $281.4m.
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NewsContrafilm’s Beau Flynn, Trip Vinson part ways
After 10 years together the executives have chosen to pursue individual projects and will continue to collaborate on titles.
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NewsAcademy awards posthumous membership to Restrepo co-director
The late war photographer Tim Hetherington died in April while covering the conflict in Libya.
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NewsPirates 4 becomes fourth film to cross $700m overseas
Disney’s locomotive is now the company’s biggest grosser internationally after reaching $700.9m on Wednesday [15].