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NewsRichard Gere to star in Franny
Gere has set his first film since the acclaimed Arbitrage and will star in the drama from Treehouse Pictures, TideRock Media, Big Shoes Media, Magnolia Entertainment and Soaring Flight Productions. QED International will commence pre-sales in Toronto.
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NewsCMG to sell Revolution
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group will commence pre-sales in Toronto on Rob Stewart’s eco documentary.
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NewsCynthia Kim to Blumhouse Int’l
Heading into Toronto, Jason Blum of fledgling Blumhouse International announced he has hired the former Exclusive Media executive as svp of international sales and distribution.
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NewsXYZ Films to sell Wolf
The Los Angeles-based company has taken on all rights excluding Benelux to Jim Taihuttu’s Dutch crime thriller and will start talks with buyers in Toronto.
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NewsSpader to play Avengers villain
The actor has been cast as the villain in Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron, which Disney will release on May 1 2015.
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NewsBernal to star in Desierto
Fresh from the triumph of his Venice opener Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron will produce the Gael Garcia Bernal illegal immigrant drama Desierto this winter.
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NewsFilmBuff takes Double Play
New York distributor FilmBuff announced that it will release the documentary and Venice Classics selection Double Play: James Benning And Richard Linklater in 2014. Meanwhile XLrator Media has cut a pioneering first-window deal with DIRECT CINEMA for CBGB.
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NewsGravitas finds Sunlight Jr
Gravitas Ventures has picked up all North American rights to Laurie Collyer’s Sunlight Jr starring Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus and Matt Dillon.
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NewsPreferred Content boards Dark Matter of Love
EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Iwashina’s Preferred Content has boarded US rights to Sarah McCarthy’s Toronto-bound documentary The Dark Matter of Love.
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NewsTrier's Louder Than Bombs shelved
Joachim Trier’s first English-language feature, starring Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne and Jesse Eisenberg, has been postponed just a month before shooting due to financial difficulties.
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NewsRooney Mara replaces Mia Wasikowska on Carol
Dragon Tattoo star joins Todd Haynes’ period lesbian drama opposite Cate Blanchett; spring 2014 shoot planned.
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NewsOpen Road extends credit line
Open Road Films and its lenders have agreed to extend the company’s $100m revolving credit facility for an additional five years through 2018.
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NewsCathy Schulman joins Dodge
Mandalay Pictures president Cathy Schulman and Tropic Thunder set designer John Chichester have joined the faculty at Chapman University’s Dodge College Of Film And Media Arts.
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NewsNYFF unveils Convergence
The 2013 NYFF Convergence transmedia event will run from Sept 28-30 during the first days of the 51st New York Film Festival.
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NewsTelluride unveils 40th line-up
Twenty-seven new features will screen over the extended five-day anniversary event and there will be tributes to Robert Redford, T-Bone Burnett, the Coen Brothers and Mohammad Rasoulof - and there has already been a US acquisition.
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NewsAct of Killing to be distributed free in Indonesia
Drafthouse Films to make Oppenheimer’s genocide documentary available as a free download from Sept 30.
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NewsStung swells for XYZ, Rat Pack
EXCLUSIVE: Rat Pack Filmproduction and XYZ Films have signed Matt O´Leary, Jessica Cook, Peter Stormare and Lance Henriksen to the horror comedy.
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NewsFocus World, Screen Media get Birder's
Focus World and Screen Media Films have partnered for a third time on US distribution of A Birder’s Guide to Everything.