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NewsBond is back with a vengeance: Skyfall opens on $80.6m
UPDATE: Sony Pictures and MGM’s 23rd entry in the James Bond pantheon delivered an astonishing result as it opened top in all 25 markets, seven of them through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) markets and the remainder through MGM licensees.
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NewsArgo rules US charts in third weekend on $12.4m
A weak session at the box office saw Warner Bros’ Academy Awards frontrunner climb to the top of the pile to reach a respectable $60.8m while stablemate Cloud Atlas led the new arrivals and opened in third place on $9.4m.
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NewsLionsgate International boards Pawn Sacrifice for AFM
Ed Zwick directs Tobey Maguire in the Cold War tale of volatile chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer in a welcome A-list project to drop into the upcoming market.
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Jeff Berg announces departure from ICM Partners
In a move that had been expected since the management buyout in May, the former chairman and CEO of ICM said on Friday (26) that he was leaving the company.
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NewsFilmDistrict snaps up US rights to Olympus Has Fallen
Antoine Fuqua directed the Millennium Films White House thriller starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman.
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Any Day Now, Quartet, Central Park Five triumph in Chicago audience awards
The 48th Chicago International Film Festival announced the Audience Choice Awards on Friday (26).
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NewsHorowitz, Rhodes, Ronson among speakers at Nov 5 conference in LA
Magnet Media Group, Forrest Equity Management and the Film Finance Awards are planning a top-level International Film Finance, Production and Distribution Conference to be held in Los Angeles on Nov 5, during the American Film Market.
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Gravitas Ventures bulks up Halloween slate
The digital distributor has announced its upcoming VoD horror acquisitions for October and November.
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Eli Roth cements The Green Inferno cast ahead of Peru shoot
Worldview Entertainment’s eco-horror film is on the runway for a Nov 5 start. Exclusive Media will commence sales at the AFM and Roth will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Aftershock co-writer Guillermo Amoedo.
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The Exchange nabs international rights to Rob The Mob
Brian O’Shea and Nat McCormick will attend the AFM with the real-life Bonnie And Clyde thriller to star Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda.
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NewsFilmNation heads to AFM with Hold On To Me
Carey Mulligan and Robert Pattinson will star in James Marsh’s thriller in the vein of To Die For. CAA represents US rights.
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NewsDark Corners, Jet Black among Solar Pictures maiden slate
Co-CEOs Kearie Peak [pictured] and Christopher Taylor said the LA-based finance and production company has lined up Dark Corners, Jonestown, Jet Black and The Girl Who Knew Too Much for the first half of 2013.
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NewsPanorama to commence sales at AFM on The Voices
EXCLUSIVE: Marjane Satrapi will direct Ryan Reynolds in the psychological thriller for producers Mandalay Vision and Vertigo Entertainment. Panorama sales chief Kim Fox will introduce the project in Santa Monica next week.
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NewsJohnny Depp in talks to star in Alcon’s Transcendence
Wally Pfister’s feature directorial debut is set to commence shooting early next year and will go through the company’s output deal with Warner Bros.
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Film Independent unveils 12th Producing Lab participants
The intensive five-week course offers producers support and advice on their feature projects.
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NewsLionsgate targets Globes for Stand Up Guys
The Sidney Kimmel and Lakeshore Entertainment comedy will screen for one week in New York at Lincoln Center and in Los Angeles at Arclight Hollywood and The Landmark starting on Dec 14.
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Academy unveils five Nicholl Fellows for screenwriting
Each writer will receive a $35,000 prize, the first instalment of which will be distributed at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on Nov 8.
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Miami Fest to stage 29-day retrospective countdown
Organisers of next year’s 30th anniversary of the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) will count down with a 29-day retrospective commencing on Jan 26 2013 with a screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s Dark Habits (Entre Tinieblas).
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NewsAl Pacino, Jeremy Renner, Julianne Moore topline Mister Smith’s Imagine
Al Pacino will star as an ageing rocker who reconnects with his son and his music in Dan Fogelman’s directorial debut.
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NewsSanta Barbara acquisitions dates revealed
The second annual acquisitions programme of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) will run from Jan 24-27 2013.