Month: February 2014

By Leo Barraclough February 13, 2014 BERLIN — Bruce Willis sci-fi title “Vice” is on the verge of selling out, with Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur’s K5 Intl. selling the pic to 37 countries in just under a week. Sales on Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films’ “Vice,” produced by Randall Emmett, George Furla and Adam Goldworm, stretched across Scandinavia, Russia, Benelux, Japan, …

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By Ashley Lee February 12, 2014 Hoping to seduce men over the long Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day weekend, Jose Padilha‘s reboot of RoboCop opened Wednesday, after taking nearly a decade to make. The sci-fi remake from Sony and MGM stars Joel Kinnaman as police officer Alex Murphy, alongside Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman and Samuel L. Jackson, and opens 27 years after Paul Verhoeven‘s original debuted. Based …

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By Pamela McClintock February 8, 2014 Berlin — Dimension and Radius-TWC have picked up U.S. rights to Everly, the action-thriller starring Salma Hayek that director Joe Lynch is now in post-production with. They are planning to release the film later this year. The acquisition comes only hours after The Weinstein Co., parent company of Dimension and Radius, plunked down $7 million …

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By Dave McNary February 8, 2014 Dimension and Radius-TWC have acquired U.S. rights to Salma Hayek’s action-thriller “Everly,” and plan a fourth-quarter release. Directed by Joe Lynch, the film co-stars Togo Igawa, Masashi Fujimoto and Hiroyuki Watanabe. Sierra/Affinity is handling international sales at Berlin. Hayek portrays a woman who’s down on her luck and forced to …

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By Leo Barraclough February 5, 2014 BERLIN — K5 Intl. has secured the rights to futuristic action sci-fi pic “VICE,” starring Bruce Willis. K5 will be pre-selling at Berlin’s European Film Market. Pic also toplines Ambyr Childers (“The Master,” Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”), and Thomas Jane (“The Mist,” HBO’s “Hung”). It is set to be directed by Brian A. Miller (“The …

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By Nancy Tartaglione February 2, 2014 There are strong debuts and holds for Hollywood in the international marketplace this week, despite a drop of about 25% from the similar frame last year when Django Unchained was the top film overseas. (Last week, international box office was off about 50%, so that’s an improvement of sorts.) Still, a fair …

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