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NewsWes Anderson “would” make 3D movie
Moonrise Kingdom director says he would consider making a 3D film; and would like to turn his new short for Prada into a series set around the world.
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NewsAFI launches China fellowship
The American Film Institute on November 11 unveiled the AFI/IDG China Story Fellowship to develop feature-length screenplays that foster “greater understanding of Chinese history, culture and literature.”
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NewsNYFCC sets vote date
The New York Film Critics Circle will stage its annual awards ceremony on January 6 2014 at The Edison Ballroom.
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NewsPhilomena earns PG-13 rating
The Weinstein Company’s (TWC) latest ratings battle has resulted in a victory after the MPAA overturned Philomena’s R classification.
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NewsFactory 25 takes All The Light
Factory 25 has acquired US rights to director Joe Swanberg’s All the Light in the Sky.
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NewsRelativity boards Hope
Relativity Media has acquired worldwide rights to finance, produce and distribute Not Without Hope (working title) with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson attached to star.
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NewsNight sells for XYZ Films
XYZ Films has closed a raft of deals at AFM on The Night Comes For Us, its Indonesian and English-language action-thriller collaboration with Gareth Evans’ PT Merantau Films.
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NewsFifty Shades moves to 2015
Highly anticipated adaptation moves to Feb 13, 2015 from Aug 2014 release.
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NewsSharon 1.2.3. starts shoot
Second feature from Forest Whitaker’s digital studio JuntoBox Films was greenlit last year at AFM.
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NewsHighland buyers find Mind
EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has closed key territories at AFM on the contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
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NewsVladar sells Generation Iron
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based The Vladar Company has closed a trio of high-profile deals at AFM on the documentary.
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NewsBahamas to honour Glover
Danny Glover has been selected to receive the Bahamas International Film Festival’s (BIFF) Career Achievement Award.
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NewsGun violence in film rises
The level of gun violence in PG-13 films in 2012 exceeded that of R-rated releases in the same year, according to a report out this week.
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NewsVision finds Comedy Warriors
Vision Films has acquired worldwide sales rights and to Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor and will distribute directly in the US and Canada.
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NewsSummit takes Hercules for US
Summit Entertainment has picked up Millennium Films’ Hercules: The Legend Begins starring Kellan Lutz.
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NewsWinfrey for SBIFF honour
Oprah Winfrey will collect the Montecito Award at the 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 5 2014.
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NewsLionsgate gets Angriest Man
The distributor has swooped on North American rights to The Angriest Man In Brooklyn. Cargo Entertainment handles international sales. Separately, Film Movement has taken For A Woman.
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NewsFIP, Ivanhoe partner up
Fox International Productions (FIP) and Ivanhoe Pictures have signed a four-year, multi-film co-financing deal for local language films in India, South Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan.
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NewsAFM buyer attendance climbs
AFM top brass claimed this year’s event, which wraps on November 13, registered a 3% gain in
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NewsKino Lorber takes Dayani
The distributor has acquired US rights to Marc Silver’s Sundance 2013 documentary Who Is Dayani Cristal?