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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.
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Epoch Founder Mindy Goldberg expands role
The managing director at the New York, Los Angeles and London-based production company will continue to chart the long-term vision of the production and extends day-today oversight of operations.
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NewsSundance: Ford Foundation lends support to eight films
The Foundation’s social justice fund JustFilms has awarded grants totalling $20m to films and film-makers over the last two years.
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NewsLincoln Center to honour Barbra Streisand
The iconic performer, who starred in recent release The Guilt Trip [pictured], will collect the Film Society Of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award on Apr 22.
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NewsSundance: RADiUS-TWC buys Twenty Feet From Stardom
UPDATE: In the first on-site deal of the festival the distributor has acquired North American rights in a low seven-figure deal and plans a theatrical release this summer. Separately, Anchor Bay has acquired Leland Orser’s drama Morning.
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NewsSnagFilms closes $6m financing round
The capital investment will enable the online distributor to expand its 4,000-strong film library to 5,000 by the middle of the year.
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FeaturesLife of Pi: Eye of the tiger
For his adaptation of Life of Pi, Ang Lee opted to work in 3D for the first time and returned to shoot in Taiwan. The film-makers speak to Jeremy Kay about tackling the epic story of a boy and a Bengal tiger
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NewsSony unleashes Django in more than 60 markets
UPDATED JAN 18: Sony Pictures Releasing International launches Quentin Tarantino’s best picture Oscar nominee this weekend in the UK, Germany, Russia and France.
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NewsSundance: Anchor Bay runs with Midnight entry The Rambler
In the second preemptive buy of the festival, Anchor Bay Films has snapped up rights for North America, the UK and Australia to the genre tale from AKA Pictures, XYZ Films and Brooklyn Reptyle. Celluloid Nightmares handles international sales.