All United States articles – Page 1145
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NewsLes Misérables crosses $100m in US in record 13 days
Working Title’s awards contender on Sunday [6] became the fastest musical to pass the milestone in North America after grossing $16.1m through Universal to reach $103.6m.
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NewsAmour, Emmanuelle Riva, Michael Haneke top NSFC poll
The National Society Of Film Critics announced its annual winners on Saturday [50] when Amour was a big winner.
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NewsFlight, The Master, Silver Linings among WGA nominees
Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Amour were ineligible under WGA regulations.
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NewsChris Dodd appoints Diane Strahan MPAA COO
The MPAA chairman made the announcement on Friday [4] and hailed the new executive’s ” break-through strategies for high growth players.”
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NewsJinga sells Ghett’a Life to US
MVD picks up Jamaica’s highest grossing box office hit for DVD and VOD.
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NewsOpen Road snaps up US rights to jOBS in preemptive deal
Another product of the independent space has found a US distributor after Open Road announced on Thursday [3] it had acquired rights to the Sundance Film Festival closing night film jOBS, stealing a march on Sony’s rival biopic.
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NewsAcademy announces scientific and technical achievements
Twenty-five individual recipients will attend the annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation in Beverly Hills on Feb 9.
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NewsCodeblack Films picks up Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
The acquisition kicks off the partnership established with Lionsgate in May 2012 to build a production and distribution slate for the urban market.
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NewsLionsgate secures US rights to Reasonable Doubt
Samuel L. Jackson thriller is Bavariapool’s first international co-production.
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NewsSFFLA embraces Baltic cinema for first time
Latvia’s Oscar submission Gulf Stream Under The Iceberg will receive its North American premiere in January at the Scandinavian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (SFFLA).
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NewseOne cleared to acquire Alliance for $228m
Waiting period expires to pave way for major indie acquisition.
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NewsMaggie Gyllenhaal, Artificial Eye board Frank
Michael Fassbender, Domnhall Gleeson also star in Lenny Abrahamson’s comedy, which gets underway this week.
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NewsAl Jazeera acquires Current TV in $500m deal
International news operator Al Jazeera has acquired Al Gore’s Current TV in a move that will give it significant access to the US market.
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NewsPGA announces motion picture nominations one day early
The Master and The Dark Knight Rises miss the cut but James Bond smash Skyfall is among the 10 nominees for the Darryl F Zanuck Award For Outstanding Producer Of Theatrical Motion Pictures.
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NewsLeonardo DiCaprio to receive Santa Barbara Fest honour
The actor will receive the American Riviera Award. Festival organisers also announced on Wednesday [2] that the annual jamboree will open on Jan 24 with The US premiere of Henry-Alex Rubin’s ensemble drama Disconnect.
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NewsCapri honours Silver Linings, Beasts
David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook was named Best Film Of The Year as the Italian event came to a close on Wednesday [Jan 2].
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NewsPSIFF unveils Talking Pictures programme
Palm Springs International Film Festival top brass have lined up events with Peter Greenaway, Naomi Watts, Tom Hooper and Eddie Redmayne and Alan Cumming.
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FeaturesWes Anderson
The director talks about Moonrise Kingdom, a film inspired by children’s literature and Americana
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NewsHobbit stays top in US; Zero Dark Thirty stuns in limited bow
The fantasy saga from New Line/MGM/Warner Bros stayed atop the box office despite a 57% slide and grossed an estimated $36.7m to climb to $149.9m heading into the holidays. Disney crossed the $1.5bn mark for the year-to-date.
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NewsDisney completes $4.1bn LucasFilm acquisition
At closing Disney issued 37.07m shares and made a cash payment of $2.2m. Based upon the closing price of Disney shares on Dec 21 at $50, the transaction had a total value of approximately $4.06bn.