All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 997
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NewsColin Firth, Emily Blunt line up for dark comedy with Focus
Academy Award winner Colin Firth will star opposite Emily Blunt in an untitled dark comedy that Focus Features International is introducing to buyers this week.
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NewsOpen Road Films takes US on Killer Elite starring DeNiro, Statham
New distributor has scheduled for a nationwide release this autumn in more than 2,000 theatres and is committing a $25m p&a spend.
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NewsKatie Holmes, Chace Crawford are Responsible Adults for Myriad
Myriad Pictures holds international rights and commences talks with buyers this week on the rom-com to be directed by Jon Poll, who previously directed Charlie Bartlett and produced Dinner For Schmucks.
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NewsHannibal Classics boards Sleight Of Hand with Depardieu, Sutherland, Cantona
Hannibal Classics is selling action comedy Sleight Of Hand here in Cannes, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Gerard Depardieu, Til Schweiger, Thomas Jane, Johnny Hallyday, Jon Lovitz and Eric Cantona.
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NewsDiCaprio to star in Wolf for Red Granite, Appian, EMJAG
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in The Wolf Of Wall Street for new LA-based Red Granite Pictures, based on the memoir of the convicted fraudster turned motivational speaker Jordan Belfort.
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NewsFilmNation to fully finance, sell Oren Peli project
EXCLUSIVE: Glen Basner’s FilmNation is to fully finance its first film, a prestige genre title from Paranormal Activity creator Oren Peli set to go this summer.
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Trevor Wright head to Cannes as Unified sales consultant
Sales veteran Trevor Wright has joined Unified Pictures in a consultancy role and will attend Cannes with Unified founder Keith Kjarval and president of distribution and acquisitions Ann Dubinet.
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LA Greek Festival to celebrate fifth anniversary
The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) will kick off its fifth anniversary event on Jun 9 with the gala screening of Lea Binzer’s documentary Pelican’s Watch.
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NewsEcho Bridge to handle foreign sales on Active sci-fi trio
The agreement covers international sales on three new CGI sci-fi films from Active Entertainment and producer Ken Badish.
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NewsJoe Pichirallo named chair of film and TV at Tisch
Pichirallo was one of the executives hired by Fox to set up Fox Searchlight where he was promoted to svp before going on to serve as evp at Focus Features.
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NewsFox International promotes Kearey to key marketing and distribution role
Rebecca Kearey has been promoted to evp of international marketing and distribution and previously served as svp at Fox Searchlight International.
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NewsParlay Films to sell Something For Your Birthday in Cannes
Lisa Wilson’s Parlay Films has picked up all international rights on the rom-com to star Malin Akerman and James Marsden.
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NewsAmerican World Pictures Cannes-bound with five new titles
The LA-based production, sales and distribution company arrives on the Croisette with a fresh slate that includes Mercy, based on a screenplay by Scott Caan.
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NewsAl Pacino joins Fiore Films' mob project Gotti: Three Generations
The veteran actor is the latest high-profile name to join the project, which Barry Levinson is set to direct in late autumn for a late 2012 release.
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NewsEssential to commence sales on Pan starring Eckhart, Robb
Aaron Eckhart and AnnaSophia Robb will star in the dark spin on Peter Pan that was originally set up at New Line as a directing vehicle for Guillermo del Toro.
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NewsLionsgate to commence production on Chainsaw Massacre
The film partners Lionsgate with Nu Image. Lionsgate holds US rights and Nu Image is selling in Cannes.
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NewsFocus takes US rights to Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World
Steve Carell and Keira Knightley will star in the story of neighbours who fall for each other as earth faces imminent destruction.
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HFPA welcomes trio of new members
Kirpi Uimonen Ballesteros, Barbara Gasser and Mirai Konishi have been admitted to the organisation.Ballesteros writes for the Ilta-Sanomat, Kouluainen and Suosikki (Finland), while Gasser writes for M-Starmedia Verlag and Maxima (Austria) and Konishi writes for CUT and eiga.com (Japan).All three were voted in at the membership meeting on May 6 ...