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  • Blended
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    CinemaCon honours for Barrymore, Sandler

    2014-03-11T18:54:00Z

    Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler are to receive the 2014 CinemaCon Female Star Of The Year Award and Male Star Of The Year Award respectively.

  • Josh Duhamel
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    Lost In The Sun finishes shoot

    2014-03-11T18:02:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Production on the Josh Duhamel thriller is due to wrap on Wednesday [12] in Austin, Texas. Cargo Entertainment represents international sales and has concluded a number of deals.

  • Beats Bugs
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    Grace secures Beatles rights

    2014-03-11T17:51:00Z

    Filmmaker Josh Wakely’s Australia and US-based production company Grace has acquired world rights from Sony/ATV Music Publishing to the Beatles’ music catalogue for the animation series.

  • We Gotta Get Outta This Place
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    Starz Digital Media enters Place

    2014-03-11T17:28:00Z

    Starz Digital Media has acquired US and Canadian rights to The Hawkins Brothers’ directorial debut We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.

  • Amanda Palmer
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    TFF 2014 unveils shorts line-up

    2014-03-11T16:33:00Z

    Programmers at the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T unveiled on Tuesday (11) the programme of 58 short films, 29 of which are world premieres.

  • Tim Sarnoff
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    Technicolor names new division head

    2014-03-11T11:26:00Z

    Tim Sarnoff named president of new production services division and Claude Gagnon is svp, content solutions and industry relations.

  • Lynne Ramsay
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    Lynne Ramsay, Jane Got a Gun producers reach agreement

    2014-03-11T10:11:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Producers quash pending civil action after private resolution.

  • '71
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    Demange's '71 finds US home

    2014-03-10T21:51:00Z

    Roadside Attractions and Black Label Media have acquired all US rights to Yann Demange’s thriller.

  • The Better Angels 1
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    Amplify to release The Better Angels

    2014-03-10T21:27:00Z

    The recent Berlin world premiere from Terence Malick’s longtime collaborator AJ Edwards premiered in Sundance and screened in Berlin.

  • Carla Hacken
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    Carla Hacken joins Sidney Kimmel

    2014-03-10T21:17:00Z

    The studio veteran arrives at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment as president of production, effective March 17.

  • This_Means_War
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    Simonds Jr leads China venture

    2014-03-10T17:26:00Z

    Days after Jeff Robinov announced his Studio 8 venture with Huayi Brothers and details emerged of the Disney partnership with Shanghai Media Group, longtime Adam Sandler producer Robert Simonds Jr is at the heart of the latest US-China venture.

  • God's Pocket
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    Philip Seymour Hoffman's final film sold to UK

    2014-03-10T15:12:00Z

    Electric Entertainment marks first major territorial sale of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final film as a leading man to Arrow Films in the UK.

  • Nicolas Cage
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    Cage, Schrader wrap Dying of the Light

    2014-03-10T12:04:00Z

    Action film executive produced by Nicolas Winding Refn.

  • 300 Rise of an Empire
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    300 sequel conquers US on $45m

    2014-03-09T21:27:00Z

    Warner Bros’ 300 sequel beat off the competition from DreamWorks Animation’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman, while Fox Searchlight capitalised on 12 Years A Slave’s Oscar glory and scored a massive limited debut on The Grand Budapest Hotel.

  • Exists
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    Lionsgate believes in Exists

    2014-03-08T15:11:00Z

    The studio has picked up North American rights at SXSW to Eduard Sanchez’s Bigfoot film, which International Film Trust handles for international sales.

  • Scott Kalvert
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    Scott Kalvert dead at 49

    2014-03-07T18:48:00Z

    The director of The Basketball Diaries starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg has been found dead at this home in Woodland Hills outside Los Angeles. He was 49.

  • Ivan Reitman
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    CinemaCon honour for Ivan Reitman

    2014-03-07T18:31:00Z

    Ivan Reitman will receive the CinemaCon Lifetime Achievement Award at the Las Vegas convention on March 27.

  • The Hangover Part III
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    Report highlights CA production drop

    2014-03-06T20:37:00Z

    California’s film czar Paul Audley has called on the state legislature to boost tax incentives in light of a sobering report that illustrates the extent of the state’s decline as a production hub.

  • The Amazing Catfish
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    SFIFF unveils New Directors, GGA

    2014-03-06T20:00:00Z

    Top brass at the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) have announced the films in competition for the New Directors Prize and the Golden Gate Award contenders in the documentary category.

  • Alex Fragen
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    Alex Fragen joins UTA in distribution role

    2014-03-06T19:30:00Z

    The former head of domestic television distribution at Summit has joined the agency in the new role of global distribution strategist.