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NewsSharon 1.2.3. starts shoot
Second feature from Forest Whitaker’s digital studio JuntoBox Films was greenlit last year at AFM.
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NewsHighland buyers find Mind
EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has closed key territories at AFM on the contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
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NewsVladar sells Generation Iron
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based The Vladar Company has closed a trio of high-profile deals at AFM on the documentary.
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NewsBahamas to honour Glover
Danny Glover has been selected to receive the Bahamas International Film Festival’s (BIFF) Career Achievement Award.
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NewsGun violence in film rises
The level of gun violence in PG-13 films in 2012 exceeded that of R-rated releases in the same year, according to a report out this week.
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NewsVision finds Comedy Warriors
Vision Films has acquired worldwide sales rights and to Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor and will distribute directly in the US and Canada.
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NewsSummit takes Hercules for US
Summit Entertainment has picked up Millennium Films’ Hercules: The Legend Begins starring Kellan Lutz.
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NewsWinfrey for SBIFF honour
Oprah Winfrey will collect the Montecito Award at the 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 5 2014.
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NewsLionsgate gets Angriest Man
The distributor has swooped on North American rights to The Angriest Man In Brooklyn. Cargo Entertainment handles international sales. Separately, Film Movement has taken For A Woman.
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NewsFIP, Ivanhoe partner up
Fox International Productions (FIP) and Ivanhoe Pictures have signed a four-year, multi-film co-financing deal for local language films in India, South Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan.
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NewsAFM buyer attendance climbs
AFM top brass claimed this year’s event, which wraps on November 13, registered a 3% gain in
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NewsKino Lorber takes Dayani
The distributor has acquired US rights to Marc Silver’s Sundance 2013 documentary Who Is Dayani Cristal?
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Bullets sequel shoot underway
Shooting commenced last month in Beijing on Sony’s local language 3D production Gone With The Bullets, the second in Jiang Wen’s trilogy.
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NewsDasym launches $100m fund
Exclusive Media head of international sales Alex Walton and his team will handle sales on the Dasym Media family multimedia fund.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires Sarnos
Film Movement has picked up US rights at AFM to The Sarnos – A Life In Dirty Movies.
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News120dB backs Reclaim, Barely Lethal
120dB Films closed film loans on the John Cusack thriller Reclaim and Barely Lethal starring Samuel Jackson and Hailee Steinfeld.
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NewsThor delivers $86.1m hammer blow
Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Dark World stormed to the top of the North American charts on an estimated $86.1m to produce the ninth biggest November debut in history.
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NewsMPI enters Willow Creek
MPI Media Group has taken all US rights to Bobcat Goldthwait’s Bigfoot title Willow Creek starring Bryce Johnson and Alexie Gilmore.
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NewseOne finds Hunted, Apocalypse
eOne Films US has pounced on North American rights to horror thriller The Hunted and zombie comedy April Apocalypse.
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NewsRLJ finds The Suspect
EXCLUSIVE: RLJ Entertainment subsidiary One Village Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to psychological thriller The Suspect. ITN Distribution handles international sales at AFM.