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21st Century Fox Shareholder Al Waleed Bin Talal’s Rotana Pledges $36M To Arab Films

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Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal, a longtime ally of Rupert Murdoch and 21st Century Fox’s no. 2 shareholder, plans to invest around $36 million in Arab films through his Rotana Media Group. The announcement comes following a shake-up in the Arab film and TV biz with the entry of Netflix and Qatar’s pay TV platform beIN Media into the region. Rotana will concentrate on commercial Egyptian producers for a large part of the planned investment, working closely with the likes… Read

Paramount Shows Off ‘Turtles’, ‘Trek’, ‘Ben Hur’ & Oscar Bait As Exhibitors Eat It All Up – CinemaCon

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Back in their usual CinemaCon Monday night kickoff slot after a detour last year to a morning berth, Paramount and Vice-Chairman Rob Moore seemed much more comfortable leading the parade of product reels and star visits that the major studios, along with STX and Lionsgate, will be showing off all week at the big annual exhibitors confab at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The giant advertising posters adorning the outside of the massive Colosseum indicated the studio was… Read

‘Deadpool’ Creators Were As Surprised By Success As The Rest Of Us

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Despite some very promising test screenings, the creative team behind 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool were as shocked by the film's global success as the rest of the industry. "There was certainly a lot of anxiety, neuroses, and Judaism involved," joked producer Simon Kinberg, who gathered with star Ryan Reynolds, co-star Ed Skrein, director Tim Miller and scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills to tout the film’s May 10 Blu-ray… Read

Obit: Don Harris, Executive At Paramount, DreamWorks And AMC Was 65

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Don Harris, the former president of domestic distribution at Paramount and before that at DreamWorks and a former exec at AMC Theaters, has passed away after battling brain cancer, his family said. His children, his wife and twin brother were by his bedside when he passed on April 1. He was 65. Harris was a well-known name in both the distribution and exhibition industries but also was a big philanthropist which many in the industry were not aware of. Harris, through… Read

‘The Jungle Book’ Review: Disney’s New Version Is A Stunning Visual Marvel

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It is simply astonishing to think that director Jon Favreau’s new screen version of the Rudyard Kipling classic The Jungle Book, which Disney releases Friday, was entirely shot in some buildings in downtown L.A. With the magic of CGI and special effects, he and his team have created a stunning visual marvel with something for everyone. As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), this PG-rated family adventure has laughs, excitement, an exceptional voice… Read

North Korea Defector Was Senior Officer In Group That FBI Blames For Sony Hack; Ruzanna Kegeyan Joins Arclight Films – Global Briefs

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The South Korea government says a man who defected from North Korea last year was a senior-level officer in the Reconnaissance General Bureau, the elite military spy organization that the FBI holds responsible for "overseeing" the 2014 hack attack against Sony. The RGB handles cyberwarfare for Pyongyang and is one of the key units of the North Korean People’s Army. “It is a particularly nasty operation,” ex-CIA analyst Bruce Klingner told CNN today. “It’s not only… Read

Grasshopper Grabs Berlin Docu ‘Portrait Of A Garden’; Uncork’d Entertainment Nabs Indie Supernatural Thriller ‘Restoration’

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Newly established distribution outfit Grasshopper Film has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Portrait of a Garden. Directed by Rosie Stapel and produced by Daan van der Have, the documentary follows two long time friends, 85 year-old pruning master and the gardener on a country estate, tracking one year in their lives as they tend to a historically significant garden. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and will open in the US theatrically this fall. The… Read

Steven Spielberg Sets ‘The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara’ Next; Tony Kushner Script, Mark Rylance Is Pope Pius IX

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EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg has found his next film. He’ll direct for Amblin Entertainment The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara, an adaptation of the the book by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Kertzer that Tony Kushner has adapted. Mark Rylance, who won the Best Supporting Oscar for Spielberg’s Bridge Of Spies and who plays the title character in Spielberg’s The BFG, will star as Pope Pius IX. The Bridge Of Spies producing team of Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko… Read

Writer-Director Stella Meghie Signs With CAA

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CAA has signed writer-director Stella Meghie for representation in all areas. Meghie’s first feature Jean Of The Jonses premiered in March in the Narrative Spotlight section at SXSW. Inspired by Meghie’s own family life, though not strictly autobiographical, the film centers on a family, one of whom dies at the start of the movie. The paramedic who answers the 911 call falls for rambunctious Jean, but the courtship goes south during a calamitous funeral. Meghie also is… Read

Does Sumner Redstone Oppose Sale Of Paramount Stake?

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Is Sumner Redstone opposed to the sale of a minority stake in Paramount? You’d sure think so based on a Wall Street Journal story posted late today that describes the background of the close relationship between Redstone, who controls 80% of Viacom’s voting shares, and its CEO Philippe Dauman. It says that after the CEO announced in February the plan to sell a minority stake in Paramount, Redstone told Dauman, Paramount chief Brad Grey and others that he opposed the… Read

Barbra Streisand’s ‘Gypsy’ Back On At STX

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STX Entertainment is taking on the task of reviving Gypsy for the big screen, with Barbra Streisand still attached to star as Momma Rose and Barry Levinson aboard to direct Richard LaGravenese’s script, which Streisand also is involved in. Studio sources confirmed that a deal is being finalized now after Deadline broke the story last fall that Universal had put the musical project into turnaround after a long development period. Uni had rights to the project as far back… Read

‘Jungle Book’ Sequel From Jon Favreau In Works At Disney; FilmRise Acquires Sundance Drama ‘White Girl’

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Disney’s The Jungle Book comes out Friday and already has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The studio confirmed today that it is in negotiations to reunite the team behind the live-action/CGI pic for a sequel. Director-producer Jon Favreau and screenwriter Justin Marks would reprise their roles along with producer Brigham Taylor. The film retells Rudyard Kipling’s classic story of Mowgli, the man-cub raised by wolves and forced to leave the jungle amid threats by… Read

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