All Screen articles in 25 Oct 2012
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NBA all star Chris Webber, Hoop Dreams producer Peter Gilbert form Webber Productions
The film production company will make fictional and documentary features focused on the intersection of sport, culture and society.
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CAA form joint venture with Indian talent agency KWAN
The new company will represent local talent on the sub-continent and throughout South Asia across a slate of portfolios that includes entertainment, sports consulting, licensing, merchandising, live events and business developments.
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NewsO-Scope catches Wasteland, Virgil takes Boateng doc
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up US rights to Rowan Athale’s feature debut Wasteland [pictured] following a deal with Bankside Films.
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Cinedigm signs deal with Caribbean Cinemas
The first large-scale deployment outside the US is part of an international expansion plan underway at the digital conversion specialist and independent cinema and alternative content distributor.
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NewsCMG to screen new Sarila footage at AFM
Nancy Florence Savard directed The Legend Of Sarila and Cinema Management Group head Edward Noeltner plans to show a trailer of the 3D family adventure.
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NewsLightning Entertainment takes int’l rights to Drugs
How To Make Money Selling Drugs premiered in Toronto where it became one of the must-see docs at the festival. Lightning will commence sales at the AFM later this month.
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NewsPuppet Master X: Axis Rising among Full Moon AFM roster
Charles Band’s [pictured] genre distributor will introduce buyers to a packed slate that includes the tenth instalment in the killer puppets thriller.
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NewsOpen Road acquires US rights to Machete Kills
Robert Rodriguez’s revenge action sequel – the second in a trilogy –becomes the latest broad commercial title in the distributor’s stable. A wide release is planned for 2013. Aldamisa International handles sales outside the US.
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NewsIndomina lines up Ewan McGregor, Kate Hudson for King
The Scot is confirmed while Kate Hudson is in talks to star in Born To Be King, a rom-com that Peter Capaldi will direct. Indomina Releasing will commence worldwide sales at the AFM.
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NewsPower to the Pixel: Baumgartner’s "masterpiece of engagement"
Michel Reilhac, outgoing executive director at Arte France Cinéma, has hailed Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking skydive as “a masterpiece of engagement” and questioned how to reproduce the same effect in film.
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NewsBeasts, Bernie among Gotham nominee leaders
Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Bernie, Moonrise Kingdom and Middle Of Nowhere each earned two nominations in the run-up to IFP’s 22nd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Nov 26 in New York.
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NewsForesight Unlimited to finance, produce And So It Goes…
Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton will star in the rom-com and Mark Damon and Tamara Birkemoe will introduce to buyers at the AFM.
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NewsPPI unleashes first wave of Paranormal Activity 4
Halloween approaches and so the horror returns. The fourth entry in the global horror smash goes out day-and-date with North America this weekend.
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NewsZhang Yimou honoured at opening of Mumbai film festival
The 14th Mumbai film festival opened last night (Oct 18) with a screening of Silver Linings Playbook and the presentation of the lifetime achievement award to Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Among the new films on Screenbase is thriller Mindscape starring Mark Strong and the third film in Easy Money trilogy, Life Deluxe.
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NewsWell Go USA takes Tai Chi Hero, Cinedigm finds Call Me Kuchu
Tai Chi Hero is the second in a trilogy from director Stephen Fung, Detective Dee And The Mystery Of Phantom Flame producer Chen Kuofu and action director Sammo Hung.
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NewsXLrator Media launches Screamfest and Macabre labels
The multi-platform releasing labels will cater to the horror and genre demographics.
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NewsThe Door, Just The Wind to open Hungarian Film Festival Of LA
Bunyik Entertainment presents the 12th Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, to run from Nov 15-22.