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NewsCompound B tastes Blood
EXCLUSIVE: Bleiberg Entertainment’s Compound B genre division will introduce AFM buyers next month to Strange Blood.
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NewsSarah Gabriel joins Lotus
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Gabriel has joined Lotus Entertainment as vice-president of sales in the run-up to AFM.
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NewsFilmTrack hires sales duo
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Dawidzik and Andrew Goldstein have been named directors of sales at FilmTrack, the software-as-a-service (SaaS), rights and content management company.
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NewsMonuments Men, Jack Ryan moved back
Sony and Fox have rescheduled The Monuments Men to open on February 7 2014.
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NewsSubmarine Deluxe acquires Champion
Submarine Deluxe has acquired US rights to the Formula 1 documentary Weekend Of A Champion and will release the film theatrically on November 22 in New York followed by nationwide roll-out.
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NewsIFP unveils Gotham nominees
12 Years A Slave has earned three nods in the 23rd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, while Blue Caprice, Concussion, Fruitvale Station, Inside Llewyn Davis and Upstream Color earned two apiece.
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NewsWikiLeaks backs second film
Julian Assange’s second film as producer is a doc about El Salvador.
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NewsHuffman, Garber join Big Game cast
First image released of stars Samuel L Jackson and Onni Tommila.
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NewsSpotlight lines up Child Of God for AFM
Heading into AFM Spotlight Pictures has acquired international rights to the crime thriller Child Of God in its third collaboration with RabbitBandini.
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NewsWeinsteins confirm Macbeth deal
The Weinstein Company has confirmed its acquisition of North American rights from StudioCanal to Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Macbeth, previously reported on Screendaily.
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NewsTom Hardy to play Elton John
Focus Features has confirmed the in-demand star will portray Elton John and said it will distribute Rocket Pictures and Icon/AI Film’s biopic in the US after incoming CEO Peter Schelssel brought it over from FilmDistrict.
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NewsTriStar, New Regency staff up
TriStar Productions chairman Tom Rothman has named his first production executives. Separately, New Regency president and CEO Brad Weston has appointed a production head.
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NewsViacom targets Generation C
Generation C, the group of youngsters who love to create, curate and comment online, are the next demographic in the sights of Viacom International Media Networks.
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NewsNotebook launches Hungarian fest
Hungary’s official foreign-language Oscar submission The Notebook will open the 13th Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, set to run from November 15-21.
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NewsDCDC launches distribution platform
The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) has gone live with the launch of its North American satellite and terrestrial digital distribution platform to 17,000 screens across 1,200 venues.
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NewsUTA: Twitter first screen for many
Agents are increasingly looking to harness social media as multi-screen viewing grows.
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NewsShooting underway on Pawn Sacrifice
Michael Stuhlbarg has joined the cast of Gail Katz Productions and Material Pictures’ drama directed by Ed Zwick. Production on the scheduled 41-day shoot has begun in Montreal and will wrap in Los Angeles.
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NewsTFI, A+E back doc workshop
The Tribeca Film Institute today announced a feature doc workshop for five filmmaking teams in partnership with A+E Films.
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NewsGerman sales agents unveil AFM titles
German sales agents have revealed a raft of market premieres to be presented at the forthcoming American Film Market (AFM) (Nov 6-13).
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NewsDiscovery plans to diversify content
Discovery Networks International is focussed on diversifying the range of its content and boosting its free-to-air TV distribution, according to chief executive Mark Hollinger.