All Screen articles in June 6 2014 – Page 6
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Digital event hears what Millennials want
Millennials, the demographic that content creators and advertisers cannot hear enough about, give new TV shows a 10-minute probation period and will not commit to a series unless Season 2 has the greenlight.
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Worldview CEO in shock exit
The CEO has departed the ambitious New York-based financier-producer with immediate effect.
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QED sells out Rock The Kasbah
EXCLUSIVE: Production on the comedy has kicked off in Marrakech, Morocco. Open Road will distribute in the US in spring 2015 and QED International handled sales.
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Magnolia Int'l seals deals on Life Itself
EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures International has secured a handful of key sales on the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself, which screened in Cannes Classics.
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Oliver Stone to direct Snowden Files
The controversial filmmaker renowned for his fiercely intelligent accounts of US history has come on board to direct the tale of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in what will be a race to the screen with rival project No Place To Hide.
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IFT sells out on Velocity
International Film Trust (IFT) has sold all overseas territories to Peter Sollett’s upcoming comedy You Shall Know Our Velocity starring Daniel Radcliffe.
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XYZ spins Master Cleanse sales
EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has reported a strong response from Cannes buyers to The Master Cleanse, the fantasy horror that launched on the Croisette and will star Johnny Galecki, Chloë Sevigny and Anjelica Huston.
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Lupita Nyong'o joins Star Wars 7
12 Years a Slave Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o has been cast in Star Wars: Episode VII.
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Bark Ranger begins production
Principal photography on Breakthrough Entertainment’s family comedy has started in Toronto.
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Kim Ki-duk to open Venice Days
Kim Ki-duk’s One on One is to open the Venice Film Festival’s independantly run Venice Days section.
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Russian cash for Solondz, Fiennes projects
Films by Todd Solondz, Ralph Fiennes and Andrei Konchalovsky as well as an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights, starring Daniel Brühl, are among 12 projects to be supported by Russia’s Ministry of Culture this year.
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Take Down first to $50m Welsh fund
Take Down, a thriller starring Jeremy Sumpter [pictured] from the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer, is to be the first feature to receive investment through the Welsh Government’s new £30m ($50m) Media Investment Budget.
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Maleficent enchants UK box office
Disney’s reimagining posts excellent $11m (£6.6m) debut, including previews, to top the chart; Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past nears £20m after just 11 days in play.
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Busan names Asian Cinema programmer
Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has appointed Kim Young-woo as Asian Cinema programmer, to handle documentaries and short films from Asia.
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eOne acquires Phase 4 Films
Phase 4’s Berry Meyerowitz to preside over eOne’s US film and distribution business
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Koch takes Son Of A Gun for UK
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor’s Cannes haul includes crime-drama Son of a Gun.
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E.L. Katz, Cheap Thrills
Ian Sandwell talks to the US film-maker about his feature directorial debut.
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Angelina Jolie rules US on $70m
Four years since the world last saw Jolie in a lead live-action role, the star returned to winning ways in Maleficent with a career-best launch courtesy of Disney’s fantasy romp.