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NewsRiver Road dips toes into the wilds of Fordlandia
Bill Pohlad has hired Ben Coccio, screenwriter of upcoming Toronto world premiere The Place Beyond The Pines, to adapt the story about Henry Ford’s ill-fated Brazilian utopia project.
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NewsFocus Features throws Promised Land into awards race
Insiders had spoken of a fifth film that would join Anna Karenina, Hyde Park On Hudson, Moonrise Kingdom and ParaNorman on the company’s slate and on Thursday Focus revealed it will be the latest film from Gus Van Sant.
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Sony Pictures, Scott Sanders team up on stage partnership
The studio has signed a five-year deal with Scott Sanders Theatrical Productions (SSTP) to develop and produce stage versions of Sony films.
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NewsMark Gooder joins The Weinstein Company as president of acquisitions
Dan Guando and Negeen Yazdi are promoted at TWC.
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NewsTribeca New Media Fund grantees include Lance Weiler
A total of $400,000 was given to six projects.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires North American rights to Clandestine Childhood
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Clandestine Childhood (Infancia Clandestina), the debut feature from Argentina’s Benjamin Avila.
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NewsMarVista acquires three young adult features
The company has picked up telefilms Pop Star, I Kissed A Vampire and Circle Of Lies for global distribution.
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Deals round-up: IFC Midnight falls for Maniac, O-Scope courts Disaster
Franck Khalfoun’s thriller is a remake of William Lustig’s 1980 slasher film of the same title and is based on a screenplay by Alex Aja and Gregory Levasseur about a repressed mannequin store owner with homicidal urges.
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Poverty Row names Mary Pickford biopic The First
Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia’s production company began official discussions in Cannes on the project based on Eileen Whitfield’s biography Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood.
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NewsSenator in talks to take over Relativity's sales operations
Berlin-based Senator Entertainment is in negotiations with Los Angeles-based Relativity Media for Senator to take over Relativity’s foreign sales operations.
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NewsGlobal boost for Left Bank in £40m SPT deal
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) plans to turn Left Bank Pictures into a global scripted powerhouse; SPT will be first in line to sell the indie’s future feature films.
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NewsKim and Jim slate includes Rosenbaum's directorial debut
Old Days will mark the feature writing-directing debut of actor Michael Rosenbaum.
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NewsIndican takes on 'Vicente Fernandez'
Indican Pictures has acquired North American rights to Ernest Borgnine’s final film, The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernández.
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NewsMagnet takes worldwide rights to Coscarelli's John Dies At The End
The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired worldwide rights to John Dies At The End.
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NewsMila Kunis, Casey Affleck, James Franco join Third Person cast
Kunis, Affleck, Franco set to join Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde in Paul Haggis’ romance-drama Third Person.
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NewsNicole Kidman, Richard Pena to be feted at NYFF
Lee Daniels’s The Paperboy joins NYFF’s main slate.
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NewsRichard Gere to receive Zurich career award, Arbitrage gets gala premiere
Gere will introduce new thriller Arbitrage at gala screening.
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NewsFeed the Dog rounds out cast, shoot underway
Nat Wolf, Selena Gomez, Mary Louise Parker, Jason Acuna among cast; Starboard Partners LP is fully financing the Mad Chance production.
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NewsDimension acquires US rights to Stamm's Angry Little God
Remake of Thai thriller is backed by IM Global.
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News2013 Golden Globes ceremony set for January 13
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and producer Dick Clark Productions announced the timetable on Tuesday (21). Nominations for the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards will come out on Dec 13.