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NewsUS Briefs: Sundance, Will and Jada Smith announce two-year pact
In a two-year commitment with the Sundance Institute unveiled in Park City on Monday, The Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation will support the Institute’s Screenwriters Intensive and year-round work with diverse independent filmmakers and artists.
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NewsSundance: Gravitas Ventures acquires US on 'Legion Of Brothers'
Passion Pictures and CNN Films produced the war documentary and Park City premiere.
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NewsSundance: Refinery29, TNT strike anthology deal
The partners on Monday announced at Sundance a new season of the Shatterbox Anthology film series that backed Kristen Stewart’s directing debut Come Swim.
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NewsFilmNation unveils more Sundance sales on comedy 'The Big Sick'
EXCLUSIVE: Further international sales on the hit Sundance comedy have emerged following Sunday’s $12m deal with Amazon Studios.
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NewsTerrence Malick's WWII drama 'Radegund' scores international deal
David Garrett’s Mister Smith boards period drama, currently in post-production.
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NewsChina-owned AMC to acquire Nordic Cinema Group in $929m deal
Nordic exhibitor is the largest theatre operator in Scandinavia and the Baltics.
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News'The Blind Christ' among Cartagena festival line-up
Christopher Murray’s Venice entry will screen in the fiction category of official selection when the 57th edition of the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI) gets underway on March 1.
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NewsBreaking Glass acquires Chilean festival hit 'Jesús'
The distributor has picked up North American rights to Fernando Guzzoni’s thriller, which premiered in Toronto last autumn.
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News'Split' earns M Night Shyamalan US box office crown on $40m (update)
JANUARY 23 UPDATE: Universal’s horror film starring James McAvoy as a kidnapper with multiple personalities soared to number one on its debut.
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NewsScreenings rescheduled after Redstone Cinemas power cut
UPDATE: Festvial programmers have found new slots for The Mars Generation, Landline and Dolores.
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NewsBleecker Street picks up 'Nostalgia' starring Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn
The New York-based distributor anounced in Sundance it has acquired North American rights to Mark Pellington’s film starring Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn and Catherine Keener.
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NewsSundance: SPC takes world on 'Novitiate'
The distributor is understood to have paid mid-seven figures for Maggie Betts’ U.S. Dramatic Competition entry in a deal that closed early on Sunday morning.
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NewsSundance: Deals for 'Thoroughbred', 'Ingrid Goes West', 'The Hero'
A flurry of deals emerged on Sunday evening as the snow smothered Park City and insiders predicted an imminent buy on Amanda Lipitz’s documentary crowd-pleaser Step.
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NewsSundance box office reopens after cyberattack
The Salt Lake City box office and online ticketing operations were up and running again on Saturday afternoon after hackers temporarily took them down earlier in the day.
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NewsSundance: Netflix acquires 'Chasing Coral'
The streaming giant is acquiring worldwide rights from Submarine to Jeff Orlowski’s U.S. Documentary Competition selection following its premiere on Saturday.
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NewsSundance: Thousands brave poor weather to join March On Main
Main Street was inundated during Saturday’s March On Main as approximately 4,000 people according to police estimates took over Park City.
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NewsUS Briefs: Sophia Dilley moves up at Route One
Route One has promoted Sophia Dilley to vice-president of production and development, effective immediately.
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NewsSundance: Buyers circle comedy 'The Big Sick'
Michael Showalter’s crowd-pleaser is being courted by at least three major buyers understood to include Amazon Studios following a rapturous response at Friday night’s world premiere.
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NewsUS Briefs: FilmRise acquires Slamdance entry 'Supergirl'
Jessie Auritt’s film screens on Saturday in Park City and explores the life of Naomi Kutin, an Orthodox Jewish pre-teen who broke powerlifting world records at the age of nine.
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NewsSundance: The Orchard, CNN team up on 'Trophy'
The North American deal understood to be a little over $2m was announced before the Friday world premiere of Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau’s U.S. Documentary Competition selection.