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NewsEden to open Tribeca/ESPN sports
The world premiere of the 30 For 30 documentary When The Garden Was Eden marking actor Michael Rapaport’s feature directorial debut will kick off the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival on April 17.
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NewsTwo killed in SXSW car crash
UPDATE: Police have confirmed that two people - one from the Netherlands - died after a car drove into a crowd of pedestrians at the South By Southwest festival.
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NewsSFFS Founder’s Directing Award to Linklater
Richard Linklater, riding high on critical acclaim for Boyhood and Before Midnight, will collect the honour during the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival on May 1.
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NewsColumbia beefs up China co-pros
In a move to expand its footprint in China, Columbia Pictures has revisited its local production ties and entered into split-rights deals with Chinese production companies.
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NewsSony lines up all-CG Smurfs film
Sony Pictures Animation has hired Kelly Asbury to direct an entirely computer-animated untitled Smurfs feature that is being viewed as a fresh take on the property rather than a third entry in the franchise.
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NewsKino Lorber strikes Zalman King deal
Kino Lorber has come on to handle packaged media and digital distribution to the Zalman King Company library.
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NewsLeslie Mann to receive CinemaCon award
The star of Fox’s April 25 release The Other Woman release will collect the CinemaCon Comedy Star Of The Year Award in Las Vegas on March 27.
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NewsAFI FEST 2014 sets dates
Festival hierarchy have announced the dates for the 28th edition of the festival in Hollywood.
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NewsSugar Mountain bulks up cast
Cary Elwes, Jason Momoa, Drew Roy, Haley Webb and Shane Coffey have joined the Yellow Brick Films comedy-thriller.
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NewsEpic goes on The Patrol
EXCLUSIVE: Epic Pictures to distribute Afghanistan war film The Patrol in US.
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NewsNYIFF to fete Gurinder Chadha
The British filmmaker will be the subject of a Spotlight retrospective at the 14th Annual New York Indian Film Festival, set to run from May 5-10 in New York.
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NewsFort Tilden wins top SXSW award
Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers’ comedy earned the narrative feature competition grand jury prize while Margaret Brown’s Deepwater Horizon disaster film The Great Invisible prevailed in the documentary section.
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NewsCameras set to roll on Carol
EXCLUSIVE: Production is about to kick off in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 12 on Number 9 Films and Killer Films’ Patricia Highsmith adaptation, reuniting Todd Haynes with recent Oscar winner Cate Blanchett.
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NewseOne, El Rey cut deals on Dusk
Robert Rodriguez’s new US-based cable network El Rey Network and eOne Television have struck a slew of digital deals on From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, set to receive its broadcast premiere on Tuesday night (11).
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NewsHarpo gets Kidd's Wings
Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago-based Harpo Films has acquired film rights to The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd.
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NewsCinemaCon honours for Barrymore, Sandler
Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler are to receive the 2014 CinemaCon Female Star Of The Year Award and Male Star Of The Year Award respectively.
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NewsLost In The Sun finishes shoot
EXCLUSIVE: Production on the Josh Duhamel thriller is due to wrap on Wednesday [12] in Austin, Texas. Cargo Entertainment represents international sales and has concluded a number of deals.
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NewsGrace secures Beatles rights
Filmmaker Josh Wakely’s Australia and US-based production company Grace has acquired world rights from Sony/ATV Music Publishing to the Beatles’ music catalogue for the animation series.
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NewsStarz Digital Media enters Place
Starz Digital Media has acquired US and Canadian rights to The Hawkins Brothers’ directorial debut We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
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NewsTFF 2014 unveils shorts line-up
Programmers at the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T unveiled on Tuesday (11) the programme of 58 short films, 29 of which are world premieres.