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NewsBleiberg Entertainment boards 'Christmas Eve'
EXCLUSIVE: Beverly Hills-based Ehud Bleiberg and his team will launch international sales at the AFM on the ensemble comedy starring Patrick Stewart and Cheryl Hines.
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NewsA24 begins 'Moonlight' shoot in Miami
The New York-based company continues its surge into production, announcing on Wednesday that shooting has begun on the drama starring Naomie Harris, André Holland and Mahershala Ali.
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NewsLittle Film Company picks up 'Fair Haven' for AFM
Robbie Little has acquired worldwide sales rights to Kerstin Karlhuber’s directorial debut drama ahead of the market in Santa Monica next month.
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News'The Clan', 'Neon Bull', 'Dheepan' join AFI FEST slate
Festival top brass have unveiled the entire slate after they announced on Wednesday the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programmes set to screen from November 5-12.
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NewsChris Rock to host Oscars
The multihyphenate will return to preside over the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood on February 28, 2016.
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NewsRyan Kavanaugh group says Relativity acquisition complete
With bankruptcy hearings still ongoing, the investor group led by Ryan Kavanaugh said on Wednesday it had completed its acquisition of Relativity assets.
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News'Hacksaw Ridge' adds new finance partners
OCTOBER 21 UPDATE: Demarest Media has joined Cross Creek as producer-financier along with financier Kilburn Media on Mel Gibson’s war film, currently shooting in New South Wales, Australia.
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NewsMAP Holdings, Arsenal Pictures strike alliance
EXCLUSIVE: Heading into AFM, Yarek Danielak’s Los Angeles-based production and sales company has entered into a key strategic partnership.
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US BRIEFS: 'Crash Pad' begins shoot; Imax exec to give US-China summit keynote
Plus… VRWERX, Paramount and AMC Theatres bring ‘Paranormal Activity’ virtual reality game to theatre lobbies; Anchor Bay, Foresight Features and Raven Banner line up ‘The Hexecutioners’.
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NewsEva Husson signs with UTA
The French director and actress made her feature film debut with the recent world premiere in Toronto of Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story).
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NewsAbramorama boards Philippine’s 'Heneral Luna'
The distributor will release Philippine’s foreign language Oscar submission in New York on October 30 followed by a Los Angeles release on November 6.
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NewsJake Gyllenhaal confirmed for SXSW programme
Nine days of panels and workshops will include Christian Slater discussing hit TV show Mr. Robot and authenticity on the small screen and Kerry Washington talking about the rules of social stardom.
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US BRIEFS: Submarine boards Diane Kennedy doc; Shout! takes 'Fender Bender'; Gravitas finds 'Actor For Hire'
Plus… Moon River lines-up James Brown doc; Adaptive hires ex-Paramount exec; Chez Upshaw filmmakers to self-distribute; and more.
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NewsParamount, Skydance start 'Jack Reacher' sequel
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back starring Tom Cruise has begun shooting in New Orleans and will open via Paramount Pictures on October 21 2016.
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NewsRoute One, Lost City, Maiden Voyage partner on 'The Shave'
Thomas White and Miles Hubley wrote the screenplay and Route One and Lost City will produce and finance with Maiden Voyage on board to produce.
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NewsCovert Media launches TV division
Paul Hanson’s production, financing and distribution company has hired former Electus development executive Saul Goldberg.
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NewsGermany's One Two Films to co-produce Laura Dern-starrer 'The Tale'
Berlin-based One Two Films is making its first foray into Stateside production as the co-producer on Jennifer Fox’s fiction feature debut The Tale, which begins shooting at locations in Louisiana today (Oct 20).
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NewsRelativity completes TV unit sale
UPDATED OCTOBER 21: An investor group led by Ryan Kavanagh has sold the television division for $125m as it emerged that financing issues continued to complicate the chairman and CEO’s plans to steer his company into clear waters.
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NewsJoe Dante to direct supernatural thriller 'Labirintus'
Goldcrest boards thriller from iconic comedy-horror director.
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NewsMagnolia promotes Scott Veltri, Robert Maylor
Former director of international sales Veltri becomes vice-president while former manager Maylor is named director.