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NewsAFI FEST unveils New Auteurs, shorts
AFI FEST 2013 presented by Audi top brass unveiled the New Auteurs and shorts sections that will screen at the festival, set to take place from November 7-14 in Hollywood.
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NewsMagnolia takes US on The Double
Magnolia Pictures has come on board to distribute The Double in the US following the recent world premiere in Toronto.
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NewsSXSW announces daily keynotes
Filmmakers Lena Dunham, Jason Blum and Casey Neistat will deliver daily keynote addresses at SXSW 2014.
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Altar Identity boards Big Stone Gap
Altar Identity Studios will co-produce and finance Donna Gigliotti, James Spies and J E Craig’s Big Stone Gap to star Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg.
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NewsNetflix orders thriller from Sony
Netflix has commissioned its first original series from a major Hollywood studio, a Sony-produced psychological thriller from the team behind legal drama Damages.
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NewsUTA signs Anthony Chen
Director won the Camera d’Or award at Cannes for his feature debut Ilo Ilo, which represents Singapore in the foreign language Oscar race.
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NewsFilm Sales Co finds Galapagos
EXCLUSIVE: The Film Sales Company president Andrew Herwitz has acquired international sales rights to Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller’s documentary The Galapagos Affair: When Satan Came To Eden.
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NewsLegendary acquires Reminiscence
Legendary Pictures has paid low seven figures for the sci-fi thriller spec script by Lisa Joy.
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NewsCrowe joins Voltage’s Fathers
Voltage Films has cast Oscar winner Russell Crowe in the lead of Gabriele Muccino’s upcoming love story Fathers And Daughters, igniting what is sure to become one of the must-have titles of the AFM.
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NewsGravity stays aloft on $44.3m
Audience demand kept Warner Bros’ all-categories Oscar contender at the top of the North American charts as an estimated $44.3m in the second session boosted the running total to $123.4m.
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NewsLAFCA to honour Richard Lester
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has selected to honour the director with its 2014 Career Achievement Award.
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NewsCharlie Hunnam exits Fifty Shades
Charlie Hunnam, the star of cable TV smash Sons Of Anarchy and last summer’s international hit Pacific Rim, has pulled out of Universal and Focus Features’ Fifty Shades Of Grey due to work commitments.
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Spotlight picks up Authors
Spotlight Pictures will introduce AFM buyers to the rom-com Authors Anonymous starring Kaley Cuoco from The Big Bang Theory alongside Chris Klein, Teri Polo and the late Dennis Farina in one of his final roles.
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NewsJean-Marc Vallee starts Wild shoot
Dallas Buyers Club director adapting true story, starring Reese Witherspoon.
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NewsQuentin Tarantino and Bong Joon Ho in conversation
Two of the world’s biggest genre geeks, Quentin Tarantino and Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, discussed Asian cinema, casting and creative independence at the Busan film festival on Friday.
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NewsButterfly Children wins Slamdance honours
Melanie Schiele’s Butterfly Children has won the $50,000 Slamdance 2013 Writing Competition grand prize and $10,000 in cash presented by JuntoBox Films.
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NewsEight doc shorts on Oscars shortlist
Voters from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences documentary branch have narrowed the field of 40 submissions.
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FeaturesRoger Hill, Flying Paper
In their film Flying Paper, political documentarian Roger Hill and co-director Nitin Sawhney travelled to the Kite Festival in Gaza in summer 2010 to shoot a world record kite-flying attempt.
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NewsMusic Box takes Kurosawa's Penance
Distributor takes psychological thriller for US, Canada, UK and Ireland.
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NewsRelativity talks scripted TV plans
US film producer Relativity is to use data gathered from its hit films, such as Mirror Mirror and Shark Night 3D, to move into scripted TV, in what chief executive Ryan Kavanaugh described as a “Moneyball approach to creating television”.