Jeremy Kay
Americas Editor at Screen Daily
@Screendaily Americas Editor... Former freelance @guardian, sports reporter, travel writer. @LFC fan. Opinions belong to me, facts belong to us all.
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5 days ago |
screendaily.com | Jeremy Kay
Source: Columbia Pictures / Disney / Focus Features In their second weekends, Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning added an estimated $63m and $27.3m respectively in North America, while Wes Anderson’s Cannes Competition premiere The Phoenician Scheme delivered the highest per-theatre score of the year to date.
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1 week ago |
screendaily.com | Jeremy Kay
Source: Cannes International Film Festival Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama Amrum following the recent world premiere in Cannes Premiere. Akin and frequent collaborator Hark Bohm, whose credits include In The Fade and Goodbye Berlin, co-wrote the screenplay based on Bohm’s personal experiences growing up on Amrum Island.
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1 week ago |
screendaily.com | Jeremy Kay
Source: Disney / Paramount Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch and Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning kicked off summer blockbuster season with a record-breaking four-day Memorial Day weekend, securing the top two slots on an estimated $183m and $77m, respectively. Over three days, the dynamic duo earned $145m and $63m.
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2 weeks ago |
screendaily.com | Jeremy Kay |Mona Tabbara
Source: Mathilde Gardel / FDC Buyers and sellers in Cannes have reported a steady flow of business in a market that threatened to be upended before it began by Donald Trump’s nebulous pre-Cannes tariff threat. It has been estimated that sellers brought 140 packages to the Croisette this year, and prices remain high on the bigger titles. Lionsgate is reportedly asking $25m for Germany for The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping, which begins production this summer.
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2 weeks ago |
screendaily.com | Jeremy Kay
Source: Satchel Lee / Brian Bowen Smith Denzel Washington received a surprise Palme d’Or at Monday night’s world premiere of Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest in Cannes. The Oscar-winning actor, attending the festival for the first time in his career, sat through a montage of his credits cued up by festival head Thierry Fremaux prior to the screening. Lee then took to the stage to present the award to his longtime collaborator, who have worked on five films dating back to Mo’ Better Blues in 1990.
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