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Johnny Lin partners with Ted Field, Stan Lee on The Guardian Project
Taiwanese businessman and head of Studio Solutions Group Lin is partnering with veteran producer Field and comic book icon and POW! Entertainment head Lee on NHL enterprise and Lin also announced he is teaming up with Field and others on Trauma Records 2.
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NewsParanormal 4 rules US box office with $30.2m debut
Horror returned to the top of the North American charts over the weekend as the prevailing genre franchise stormed to the top through Paramount. Overall box office for the top 12 releases climbed approximately 12% against the same period last year when Paranormal Activity 3 opened top on $52.6m.
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Sparrows Dance, Informant win at Austin Film Festival
Noah Buschel’s Sparrows Dance claimed the narrative feature prize while Jamie Meltzer’s Informant won top documentary feature honours.
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Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures moves ahead
Award-winning architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali have designed the first major US museum dedicated to the history and ongoing development of motion pictures.
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Fort Lauderdale to screen The Sapphires, Quartet
Stefan Ruzowitzky and actors Dabney Coleman and Garret Dillahunt are set to attend this year’s Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
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NewsHoly Motors earns three awards at 48th Chicago Int’l Film Festival
Leos Carax’s surreal drama won the international competition Gold Hugo for best film and Silver Hugos for best actor Denis Lavant and cinematographers Yves Cape and Caroline Champetier.
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NewsThe Door, Just The Wind to open Hungarian Film Festival Of LA
Bunyik Entertainment presents the 12th Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, to run from Nov 15-22.
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NewsXLrator Media launches Screamfest and Macabre labels
The multi-platform releasing labels will cater to the horror and genre demographics.
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NewsWell Go USA takes Tai Chi Hero, Cinedigm finds Call Me Kuchu
Tai Chi Hero is the second in a trilogy from director Stephen Fung, Detective Dee And The Mystery Of Phantom Flame producer Chen Kuofu and action director Sammo Hung.
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NewsForesight Unlimited to finance, produce And So It Goes…
Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton will star in the rom-com and Mark Damon and Tamara Birkemoe will introduce to buyers at the AFM.
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NewsBeasts, Bernie among Gotham nominee leaders
Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Bernie, Moonrise Kingdom and Middle Of Nowhere each earned two nominations in the run-up to IFP’s 22nd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Nov 26 in New York.
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NewsIndomina lines up Ewan McGregor, Kate Hudson for King
The Scot is confirmed while Kate Hudson is in talks to star in Born To Be King, a rom-com that Peter Capaldi will direct. Indomina Releasing will commence worldwide sales at the AFM.
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NewsOpen Road acquires US rights to Machete Kills
Robert Rodriguez’s revenge action sequel – the second in a trilogy –becomes the latest broad commercial title in the distributor’s stable. A wide release is planned for 2013. Aldamisa International handles sales outside the US.
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NewsPuppet Master X: Axis Rising among Full Moon AFM roster
Charles Band’s [pictured] genre distributor will introduce buyers to a packed slate that includes the tenth instalment in the killer puppets thriller.
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NewsLightning Entertainment takes int’l rights to Drugs
How To Make Money Selling Drugs premiered in Toronto where it became one of the must-see docs at the festival. Lightning will commence sales at the AFM later this month.
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NewsCMG to screen new Sarila footage at AFM
Nancy Florence Savard directed The Legend Of Sarila and Cinema Management Group head Edward Noeltner plans to show a trailer of the 3D family adventure.
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Cinedigm signs deal with Caribbean Cinemas
The first large-scale deployment outside the US is part of an international expansion plan underway at the digital conversion specialist and independent cinema and alternative content distributor.
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NewsO-Scope catches Wasteland, Virgil takes Boateng doc
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up US rights to Rowan Athale’s feature debut Wasteland [pictured] following a deal with Bankside Films.
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CAA form joint venture with Indian talent agency KWAN
The new company will represent local talent on the sub-continent and throughout South Asia across a slate of portfolios that includes entertainment, sports consulting, licensing, merchandising, live events and business developments.
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NBA all star Chris Webber, Hoop Dreams producer Peter Gilbert form Webber Productions
The film production company will make fictional and documentary features focused on the intersection of sport, culture and society.