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NewsSundance: Elle Driver takes int’l rights to Twenty Feet
Elle Driver/Wild Bunch negotiated the deal for the opening night film with busy Submarine in the run-up to the EFM in Berlin next month. Separately, HBO Documentary Films has snapped up US television rights to Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer.
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NewsSundance: Talks intensify on Don Jon, Look Of Love
Don Jon’s Addiction’s North American sales representatives CAA and WME have been spending Sunday hearing marketing pitches from around seven suitors as the asking price is understood to have reached $4-5m.
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NewsAmour scores hat trick at London Critics’ awards
Michael Haneke’s Amour has picked up awards for Best Film, Actress and Screenwriter at the 33rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
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NewsHorror tale Mama opens top in US on $28.1m
Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain stars in the top two releases in North America after Mama debuted at number one and Zero Dark Thirty slipped one place to number two. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first starring role in almost a decade, The Last Stand, flopped in tenth place.
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NewsSundance: Dirty Wars finds home at Sundance Selects
Sales representative Submarine and distributor Sundance Selects have concluded negotiations for a North American deal on Richard Rowley’s documentary, their second piece of business together in two days following Saturday’s deal for The Summit.
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NewsDjango Unchained rules international on $48.1m debut
Quentin Tarantino’s revenge Western opened on 6,235 screens in 54 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) in an emphatic launch that finished some 30% higher than the aggregated opening weekends of Inglourious Basterds in the same markets.
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NewsSundance: Women In Film awards $30,000 in grants
The organisation announced the awards at its seventh annual Sundance Filmmakers Panel discussion and brunch on Sunday.
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NewsSundance: The Summit sells to Sundance Selects
UPDATE JAN 19: Heading into Sunday, acquisitions teams including The Weinstein Company and Relativity Media were understood to be in the mix for Don Jon’s Addiction, while another Friday premiere, The Spectacular Now, was also drawing heat.
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NewsMichael Gambon, Alfred Molina join Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange
Parts & Labor announced the casting on Friday [18] and said the romance was scheduled to commence shooting in New York this summer.
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NewsAmour continues winning streak at French Lumière Awards
Rust and Bone, Camille Rewinds (Camille Redouble) also come away with prizes.
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Slamdance, JuntoBox Films announce screenplay contest
This year’s Grand Prize by collaborative studio JuntoBox Films is the largest offered by Slamdance to the winning writer in the 19 years of the competition’s history.
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Epoch Founder Mindy Goldberg expands role
The managing director at the New York, Los Angeles and London-based production company will continue to chart the long-term vision of the production and extends day-today oversight of operations.
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NewsSundance: Ford Foundation lends support to eight films
The Foundation’s social justice fund JustFilms has awarded grants totalling $20m to films and film-makers over the last two years.
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NewsLincoln Center to honour Barbra Streisand
The iconic performer, who starred in recent release The Guilt Trip [pictured], will collect the Film Society Of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award on Apr 22.
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NewsSundance: RADiUS-TWC buys Twenty Feet From Stardom
UPDATE: In the first on-site deal of the festival the distributor has acquired North American rights in a low seven-figure deal and plans a theatrical release this summer. Separately, Anchor Bay has acquired Leland Orser’s drama Morning.
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NewsSnagFilms closes $6m financing round
The capital investment will enable the online distributor to expand its 4,000-strong film library to 5,000 by the middle of the year.
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NewsRotterdam Lab to welcome 74 young film producers
Participants of CineMart’s successful event for emerging producers have been nominated by the 29 Rotterdam Lab partner organisations.
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NewsLionsgate and StudioCanal appoint Dersley to head Elevation Sales
StudioCanal and Lionsgate UK have appointed Kevin Dersley as managing director of joint home entertainment venture Elevation Sales.
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NewsBerlinale competition adds Before Midnight, Dark Blood, Prince Avalanche
New films from Richard Linklater, Bille August, David Gordon Green among final competition titles.
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NewsTony Drury's Megan's Game set for big screen treatment
Oscar nominated writer Crispian Sallis is currently developing the screenplay, with a shoot aimed for August 2013.