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Director John Carney’s distinct filmmaking style, previously on display with the Oscar- (and eventually Tony) winning Once, as well as Begin Again, is back again in the small but infinitely charming coming-of-ager, Sing Street, which The Weinstein Company is rolling out starting today. Just as in the other two films…

EXCLUSIVE: “Lost Stars”, the Oscar-nominated song from last summer’s music-business dramedy feature Begin Again, gets a last-minute buffing for the last couple of days of awards voting with this animated lyric video. The band New Radicals performs the song, which is written by former child actor Danielle Brisebois and…

An Academy voter yesterday told me she wished there was one place to hear all five of the Oscar-nominated songs at once. Alhough the Academy sends out a lavish DVD package of the Foreign Language, Documentary Feature and Live Action, Documentary and Animated Shorts, it does nothing regarding the songs, which at best…

These announcements will come fast and furious now as the Oscar producers begin lining up talent for the 87th Academy Awards on February 22. The Best Original Song category is loaded with big names on the writing and performing fron, none as big as Maroon 5 frontman and The Voice judge Adam Levine, who will perform “Lo…

EXCLUSIVE: Begin Again sparked a major bidding war in Toronto in 2013 when it was called Can A Song Save Your Life, going to the Weinstein Company for a $7 million minimum guarantee and a P&A commitment of at least $20 million. Regardless if you thought the title change was helpful or not, the John Carney-directed…

With such varied films as Pride & Prejudice (which earned her an Oscar nom) and Pirates of the Caribbean (which earned huge boxoffice), Keira Knightley nonetheless is extremely passionate about her current project, The Imitation Game. "This is a story that speaks to everyone," she says of the Morten Tyldum-directed…

Songwriters Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois talk about creating ‘Lost Stars,’ a key song in “Begin Again,” the latest music-minded film from writer/director John Carney (Once). The film stars Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, along with a fine collection of veteran co-stars. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Ivanhoe Pictures and Beijing Galloping Horse Film Co. have gotten official approval to slot the John Carney-directed Begin Again for 2015 theatrical rollout in China. The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto under the title Can A Song Save Your Life, and became the festival’s biggest acquisition deal when The…

Boyhood bowed spectacularly this weekend, piling audiences into five theaters for the initial run of Richard Linklater‘s tour de force that was 12 years in the making. As we mentioned earlier this morning, the IFC Films title is coming in with a $360 – 385K weekend estimate for a stratospheric $72K to 77K PTA…

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Begin Again continued its strong beginning as it expansed and Snowpiercer did decent business in the second week of a truncated theatrical release as Weinstein-owned companies had solid box-office performances in the Specialty arena amid other titles’ tepid troubles on a rain-soaked holiday weekend. Newcomers…

Starting their bid for a Best Song Oscar nomination early, The Weinstein Company is releasing Adam Levine‘s video for the Greg Alexander-penned song, “Lost Stars”  from Begin Again which expands to over 45 markets tomorrow.  Taking a cue from director John Carney’s Once  which won the Best Song Oscar for “Falling…