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NewsFactory 25 acquires worldwide rights to New Jerusalem
Rick Alverson’s film has screened at Rotterdam, SXSW, and Sarasota and stars Will Oldham and Colm O’Leary.
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NewsNew York Film Critics Circle to vote on Dec 3
The group has moved back its decision day after last year’s vote took place on Nov 28 as members jockeyed to be the first to announce winners and in the process excluded Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (pictured) from consideration.
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NewsParamount takes North America on Wolf Of Wall Street
After several rounds with the US majors, financier Red Granite has found a domestic distributor for its upcoming Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio reunion, teeing up what is expected to be a deluge of interest from international buyers at AFM.
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NewsCinedigm strikes distribution support deal with FilmDistrict
The digital conversion specialist and alternative content distributor has licensed its Theatrical Distribution System (TDS) to FilmDistrict and expects to implement the technical platform in time for FilmDistrict’s November release of Red Dawn [pictured].
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SPWA enter Small Apartments, IFC plays Would You Rather
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions concluded the deal for North America and most international territories with the film’s financiers and producers Ben Feingold and Ash R Shah.
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AFI FEST unveils World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, shorts
Pieta, The Hunt (pictured), War Witch, The Angels’ Share, Beyond The Hills and John Dies At The End among the line-up. The festival is set to run in Los Angeles from Nov 1-8.
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NewsDisney to kick off summer 2013 with Iron Man 3 in 3D
The May 3 release date remains unchanged for the Marvel release, while Thor: The Dark World will also go out in 3D on Nov 11 2013 as previously announced and Ant-Man will debut on Nov 6 2015.
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MGM extends contract for motion picture group president
Jonathan Glickman’s term now runs until 2017. He will continue in his current role overseeing development and production for all features and identifying co-financing opportunities with other studios.
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NewsLife Of Pi wins 35th Mill Valley Film Festival audience award
Ang Lee’s closing night film scooped honours as the 11-day festival came to an end on Monday night (Oct 15). Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist won the audience award for world cinema and David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook took the audience award for US cinema.
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NewsTaken 2 delivers $45.1m int'l; Looper posts $109m; Impossible wows in Spain
UPDATE: EuropaCorp’s Liam Neeson thriller had too much in the tank for its competitors as distributor Fox International reported an estimated $134.8m running total after two weekends and $220.9m worldwide. Sci-fi Looper added $9m excluding China to cross the century mark after 17 days. And JA Bayona’s The Impossible [pictured] ...
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NewsTaken 2 staves off US newcomers on $23m hold
The EuropaCorp-Fox-Liam Neeson combination is a potent one and ensured a second weekend at the top for the thriller as the top 12 box office gained approximately 38% on the same session last year despite dropping 7.6% against last weekend.
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Cinedigm reaches independent conversion milestone
Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp in conjunction with the National Association Of Theatre Owners’ (NATO) Cinema Buying Group (CBG) said on Friday (12) it had signed more than 3,000 independent CBG screens for digital conversion.
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NewsProduction underway in Asia on My Lucky Star
As previously reported on Screendaily, the prequel to Chinese hit Sophie’s Revenge sees Zhang Ziyi reprise her role in the crime caper.
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NewsEuropaCorp's Taken 2 races towards $100m outside US
By Thursday Fox International reported that the Liam Neeson thriller had amassed more than $74.9m. Meanwhile Endgame Entertainment’s Looper will soar past $50m this weekend.
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NewsAcademy selects pool of eight documentary short contenders
The films graduated from a pool of 31 eligible entries and three to five will make it to the nominations stage on Jan 10 2013.
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NewsSilver Linings, Life Of Pi among AFI FEST programme
Festival top brass unveiled the roster of galas and special screenings on Thursday (11).
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NewsRadiant Films International to sell The Citizen
The 3K Pictures drama will screen for buyers after the international premiere on Oct 14 at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
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NewsRio Film Festival announces award winners
The Redentors were handed out for the Premiere Brazil strand of home-grown films as the festival came to a close on Thursday night (11).
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NewsAldamisa International expands into TV business
EXCLUSIVE: The feature film financing, international sales and production company made the announcement on Thursday (11) and will kick off with Emmett/Furla’s Dolph Lundgren vehicle Rescue 3.
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NewsNicholas Apps named Tribeca Film Institute deputy executive director
Effective Oct 15 the new arrival will report to executive director Beth Janson and lead individual giving and corporate sponsorship initiatives and marketing and communications.