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Silver Linings Playbook, On The Road to open Mill Valley
David O Russell’s crowdpleaser and Walter Salles’ Jack Kerouac adaptation will open the festival on Oct 4 in Marin County, California. Ang Lee’s Life Of Pi will close the event.
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Lincoln Centre appoints programming duo
Kent Jones joins as director of programming at the New York Film Festival and Robert Koehler is named director of programming, year-round.
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NewsSamuel Goldwyn Films falls for Toronto drama Still
Michael McGowan’s story about a couple in their twilight years stars James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold and will open in 2013.
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NewsToronto deals: Magnolia buys Teapot, Cinedigm finds Play
As the Toronto deals continued to come in, Magnolia Pictures announced on Friday (14) it had taken North American rights to The Brass Teapot.
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NewsGraham King returns to Warner Bros
The Oscar winning producer has signed an exclusive first-look deal for one year with his frequent studio partner.
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NewsMillennium takes US rights to Writers as TIFF deals flow
EXCLUSIVE: Josh Boone’s family drama stars Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly and Lily Collins and premiered in Toronto over the weekend. Millennium Entertainment brokered the low seven-figure domestic deal with CAA on the day when deals also closed for The Reluctant Fundamentalist, No Place On Earth, How To Make Money Selling ...
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NewsIFTA extends contracts for Jean Prewitt, Jonathan Wolfe
The top executives will continue to serve as the Independent Film And Television Alliance through 2015.
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NewsPalm Springs to host awards gala on Jan 5 2013
The Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) is scheduled from January 3-14, 2013.
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NewsRecapitalised San Diego Film Festival unveils line-up
Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires [pictured] and the pair of Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet and Stephen Gyllenhaal’s Grassroots bookend the festival, set to run from Sept 26-30.
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NewsAlcon acquires screen rights to sci-fi adventure Icons
The forthcoming novel is written by Margaret Stohl [pictured]. Erwin Stoff brought the project to Alcon and will produce alongside Alcon co-founder and co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.
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NewsEwan McGregor joins cast of August: Osage Country
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts star in Jean Doumanian/ Smokehouse Production’s family drama, which is set to begin shooting on Sept 24.
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NewsMillennium buys Maisie, XLrator snaps up Thale
The Toronto deals continued to trickle in on Wednesday (12) as it emerged that Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s family drama What Maisie Knew and Norwegian fantasy thriller Thale had found domestic buyers. In addition Freestyle Releasing has acquired Jinn.
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NewsWarner’s Bruce Rosenblum to keynote at MIPCOM
Warner Brothers Television Group president to give speech on the future of media, entertainment and broadcasting.
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NewsLionsgate, Roadside swoop on Much Ado, Sharing
Following their domestic buy on Imogene, the distribution partners have taken North American rights in Toronto to Joss Whedon’s Shakespearean comedy adaptation Much Ado About Nothing and US rights to Stuart Blumberg’s Thanks For Sharing.
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NewsLionsgate strikes Spanish output deal with Alliance
The multi-year agreement covers features from the Lionsgate and Summit slates and will go out through Alliance-owned Aurum.
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NewsIndustry moves: Federbush to Sundance Institute, Harris to Dolby
Paul Federbush [pictured] has joined the Sundance Institute as international director of the Feature Film Programme (FFP).
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NewsAFI Awards date set for Jan 11, 2013
The honourees for this upcoming awards season will be announced on Dec 10.
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NewsProduction round-up: The 33, Fishing Without Nets, The Shipkiller, Cheap Thrills
Mike Medavoy announced on Tuesday (11) that Patricia Riggen has come on board to direct The 33, based on the story of the trapped Chilean Miners.
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NewsMarisa Tomei and Sam Rockwell up for laughs with Godere and Martin
EXCLUSIVE: Parts & Labor, newly signed to WME, on board for low-budget comedy to shoot in November.
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NewsShoreline finds Habib Faisal’s action-drama Ishaqzaade
EXCLUSIVE: Faisal’s action-drama, which took $10m in India, will have its world premiere today [11] in Toronto.