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NewsAcademy announces final voting round schedule
Final balloting will begin on Feb 8 at 8 am PT and close on Feb 19 at 5pm PT.
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NewsSony production admin chief Gary Martin retires
The executive has served 32 years at Columbia Pictures and 51 years in the industry overall.
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NewsHobby and Hubbell launch Tangerine Entertainment
Production company will partner with other organisations to promote film work by women.
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NewsSundance: Relativity takes Don Jon, TWC picks Fruitvale
UPDATED: The traditional Monday landslide kicked in as Relativity paid around $4m and made a $25m p&a commitment for US rights to Don Jon’s Addiction, while The Weinstein Company stumped up between $2-3m for North American and English-speaking distribution rights and international sales rights to Fruitvale.
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NewsGravitas Ventures snaps up Slamdance trio
The VoD distributor has acquired rights to Steven Feinartz’s documentary The Bitter Buddha, Michael Urie’s comedy He’s Way More Famous Than You and Peter Baxter’s Shrovetide Football documentary Wild In The Streets.
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NewsSundance: gender study reveals five causes of imbalance
Women comprised 29.8% of film-makers from all Sundance Film Festival Entries between the years 2002 and 2012, Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam and Women In Film Los Angeles president Cathy Schulman announced on Monday [21].
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NewsSundance: Outfest names Kristin Pepe director of programming
Monday morning’s [21] announcement came out of the annual Outfest Queer Brunch, when it was revealed that Pepe would replace Kim Yutani, who has been named artistic director.
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NewsSundance: Mundial bulks up EFM slate with Dayani Crystal
The joint sales venture between IM Global and Canana has made its first international rights acquisition on the eve of Berlin.
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NewsWar Witch, A Royal Affair join SBIFF line-up
Programming chiefs at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival have added 15 films to the roster, the festival announced on Monday [21].
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CommentSundance rocks
Sundance is always a great occasion to catch live music but few gigs will match the sheer logistical ambition and star-power of Sound City Players, who played to a sold-out Park City Live on Friday [18].
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NewsSundance: IFC finds Love, A24 gets Spectacular
UPDATED JAN 21: IFC’s North American deal for The Look Of Love closed on Sunday evening following a negotiation with StudioCanal. Meanwhile A24 confirmed it had acquired North American rights to The Spectacular Now for what was believed to cost $1.5m after Screendaily was the first to report on Sunday ...
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NewsSundance: Elle Driver takes int’l rights to Twenty Feet
Elle Driver/Wild Bunch negotiated the deal for the opening night film with busy Submarine in the run-up to the EFM in Berlin next month. Separately, HBO Documentary Films has snapped up US television rights to Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer.
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NewsSundance: Talks intensify on Don Jon, Look Of Love
Don Jon’s Addiction’s North American sales representatives CAA and WME have been spending Sunday hearing marketing pitches from around seven suitors as the asking price is understood to have reached $4-5m.
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NewsHorror tale Mama opens top in US on $28.1m
Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain stars in the top two releases in North America after Mama debuted at number one and Zero Dark Thirty slipped one place to number two. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first starring role in almost a decade, The Last Stand, flopped in tenth place.
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NewsSundance: Dirty Wars finds home at Sundance Selects
Sales representative Submarine and distributor Sundance Selects have concluded negotiations for a North American deal on Richard Rowley’s documentary, their second piece of business together in two days following Saturday’s deal for The Summit.
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NewsDjango Unchained rules international on $48.1m debut
Quentin Tarantino’s revenge Western opened on 6,235 screens in 54 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) in an emphatic launch that finished some 30% higher than the aggregated opening weekends of Inglourious Basterds in the same markets.
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NewsSundance: Women In Film awards $30,000 in grants
The organisation announced the awards at its seventh annual Sundance Filmmakers Panel discussion and brunch on Sunday.
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NewsSundance: The Summit sells to Sundance Selects
UPDATE JAN 19: Heading into Sunday, acquisitions teams including The Weinstein Company and Relativity Media were understood to be in the mix for Don Jon’s Addiction, while another Friday premiere, The Spectacular Now, was also drawing heat.
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NewsMichael Gambon, Alfred Molina join Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange
Parts & Labor announced the casting on Friday [18] and said the romance was scheduled to commence shooting in New York this summer.
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Slamdance, JuntoBox Films announce screenplay contest
This year’s Grand Prize by collaborative studio JuntoBox Films is the largest offered by Slamdance to the winning writer in the 19 years of the competition’s history.