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FeaturesAFM buzz: US sellers
New titles include Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street and Panorama’s The Voices. Jeremy Kay reports.
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NewsSynchronicity maiden slate to include Elijah Wood in Cooties
President of international distribution Ruzanna Kegeyan arrives at the market with the first three titles since The Solution Entertainment Group and LA-based Siren Studios launched the genre production and sales outfit last summer.
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NewsCelluloid Dreams boards sales on Bone Tomahawk
Wild Side has made a preemptive mid-six figure swoop on French rights to the AFM horror Western to star Kurt Russell, Peter Sarsgaard, Richard Jenkins and Jennifer Carpenter. CAA and UTA co-represent the package and US rights.
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Lightning strikes bundle of sales on AFM slate
The Santa Monica-based production and sales company has licensed action title Dead Drop, Liam Hemsworth wartime romance Love And Honor and comedy Struck By Lightning to Pinnacle Films/All Interactive Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsExclusive Media brings JFK drama Parkland to AFM
Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver have signed on to the JFK feature Parkland. Exclusive Media will finance, jointly produce with Playtone and handle world sales.
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Red Sea Media boards world sales on Free Samples, Sleeping Around
Roman Kopelevich’s LA-based production and sales company announced the pair of new projects on the eve of AFM.
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NewsDylan Wilcox named svp acquisitions at Relativity Media
The veteran executive will report to Relativity president Tucker Tooley and production president Robbie Brenner.
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NewsSierra/Affinity to start AFM talks on The Keeping Room
The Civil War era thriller will star Olivia Wilde, Hailee Steinfeld and Nicole Beharie. Wind Dancer Films will finance and produce with Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content. WME Global arranged financing and represents North American rights.
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Strand acquires North American rights to The Condemned
Roberto Busó-García’s psychological thriller will open in spring 2013. Meanwhile Grindstone Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Viking invasion tale The Darkest Day.
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Michael Madsen among cast on The Lost Tree
Lacey Chabert will also star on the horror project alongside Scott Grimes, Clare Kramer and Thomas Ian Nicholas.
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CJ Entertainment America to channel ancillary through Inception
Inception Media Group has signed a deal to act as the US home video and digital distributor of the CJ Entertainment America pipeline.
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NewsStorm Sandy disrupts AFM travel plans
East Coast-based industry professionals have been revising itineraries frantically as they attempt to reach Santa Monica in time for the first day of the market on Wednesday (31).
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NewsSperanza13 Media to commence sales at AFM on Molly Moon
Camela Galano will introduce Amber Entertainment’s family adaptation to buyers in Santa Monica this week.
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NewsDistribution round-up: Breaking Glass takes Laurence Anyways
The third film from Xavier Dolan will open in the US and earned Suzanne Clement a best actress win at Cannes in Un Certain Regard as well as best Canadian film in Toronto. Separately, Kino Lorber has picked up Ain’t In It For My Health.
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NewsJoe Swanberg, AJ Bowen among cast on The Sacrament
The producers have spilled the beans on the cast of Ti West’s horror film financed by Worldview Entertainment and IM Global genre division Octane. The latter will continue talks with international buyers at the AFM this week and CAA represents US sales.
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NewsDrafthouse Films appoints marketing, distribution executive
Sumyi Khong Antonson [pictured] is named vp of marketing and distribution and reports to Drafthouse COO James Emanuel Shapiro.
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NewsReunion Pictures restructures corporate management team
The Canadian film and TV production company announced the move in light of “a significant increase in its production, development and business activities.”
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NewsStarz Denver Film Festival to honour Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
The siblings directed Italy’s foreign language Oscar submission Caesar Must Die [pictured] and will collect the fourth annual Maria and Tommaso Maglione Italian Filmmaker Award.
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NewsRealD strikes deal with China’s Womei Theater Chain
The licensor of 3D technologies will equip 100 screens across the chain’s theatres.
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NewsBond is back with a vengeance: Skyfall opens on $80.6m
UPDATE: Sony Pictures and MGM’s 23rd entry in the James Bond pantheon delivered an astonishing result as it opened top in all 25 markets, seven of them through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) markets and the remainder through MGM licensees.