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Production underway in Los Angeles on Electric Slide
Jim Sturgess and Isabel Lucas star in Electric Slide, which has commenced production in Los Angeles. The film is a Myriad Pictures presentation of a Killer Films Production in association with Media House Capital. Myriad is handling international sales at the AFM and will partner with UTA on US rights.
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NewsMadagascar 3 crosses $500m at international box office
Top brass at distributor Paramount Pictures International said the family smash is on course to overtake Shrek Forever After’s $513.9m mark to become DreamWorks Animation’s biggest hit outside North America.
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Rainstorm fires up Duff McKagan biopic
Rainstorm Entertainment will produce It’s So Easy And Other Lies, based on the autobiography of Guns N’ Roses bass player Duff McKagan.
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Drafthouse Films acquires US rights to The Act Of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer’s Danish documentary premiered at Telluride and Toronto and enlists former members of the Indonesian death squad to reenact their atrocities in a range of cinematic genres.
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AFI FEST announces Presentations and Conversations
The Presentations comprise a restored version of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard on Saturday (3) and a chance to see finallists in the Levi’s Show Us The Way Short Film Showcase on Nov 7.
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Lionsgate seals French output deal with Metropolitan
The development follows other similar deals with StudioCanal in Germany, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Alliance network’s Aurum in Spain and Roadshow Pictures in Australia. The self-distribution partnership with IDC in Latin America was recently extended.
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NewsJohn Cusack to star in Cargo's Stephen King adaptation Cell
EXCLUSIVE: The star is getting back into the Stephen King business after the global hit 1408. New York and LA-based Cargo Entertainment arranged financing on Cell and president of distribution Mark Lindsay will introduce what is expected to become one of the buzz titles of the AFM to international buyers. ...
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Premiere Entertainment to start AFM talks on The Outsider
EXCLUSIVE: Elias Axume and svp of sales and acquisitions Jack Campbell will talk up the thriller, which has started shooting and stars Jason Patric, James Caan, the UK’s Craig Fairbrass and Shannon Elizabeth.
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NewsCinedigm, Alloy Digital strike digital distribution deal
EXCLUSIVE: Digital distributor and theatre conversion specialist Cinedigm Entertainment Group has struck a deal with Alloy Digital to deliver packaged content from the latter’s SMOSH and Clevver YouTube channels to ancillary platforms.
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NewsChristine D'Souza moves to WME Global
EXCLUSIVE: The highly regarded executive will operate alongside Graham Taylor and the core independent financing and packaging team.
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NewsClive Owen, Morgan Freeman to star in The Last Knights
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Johnson’s IF Entertainment arrives at its first AFM with the action adventure The Last Knights.
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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.