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CAA form joint venture with Indian talent agency KWAN
The new company will represent local talent on the sub-continent and throughout South Asia across a slate of portfolios that includes entertainment, sports consulting, licensing, merchandising, live events and business developments.
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NBA all star Chris Webber, Hoop Dreams producer Peter Gilbert form Webber Productions
The film production company will make fictional and documentary features focused on the intersection of sport, culture and society.
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NewsVice and Grolsch Filmworks' The Fourth Dimension launches on YouTube
Val Kilmer stars in three-part portmanteau feature.
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NewsHelen Lee-Kim, Brent Jack join Good Universe
In a timely development before AFM that ends months of speculation, co-founders Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane announced on Wednesday (17) that Lee-Kim has arrived as partner and president of international sales and Jack will serve as head of international marketing and publicity.
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NewsDiane Kruger, Anton Yelchin attached to 5 To 7
EXCLUSIVE: Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn of Mockingbird Pictures are producing the rom-com and The Solution Entertainment Group will commence pre-sales at AFM.
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NewsAdrien Brody, Maria Bello join Corsan's Third Person
Paul Haggis will direct the ensemble drama which as previously announced also stars Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Olivia Wilde, James Franco and Kim Basinger.
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NewsWillem Dafoe, Udo Kier join von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
Jean-Marc Barr, Caroline Goodall, Kate Ashfield, Saskia Reeves, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Michaël Pas and Omar Shargawi also on board.
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Robert De Niro to receive SBIFF Kirk Douglas Award
The actor and Tribeca Film festival co-founder will collect the Santa Barbara’s excellence in film honour from Douglas himself on Dec 8.
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DreamAgo, Hamilton International reunite for AFM screenwriting workshops
The non-profit and the Swiss watchmaker will host Hamilton Helps DreamAgo Connect during the AFM.
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NewsLatest projects from Porterfield, Andalman selected for US in Progress Wrocław
Two-day works in progress event to take place during third American Film Festival, which runs Nov 13-18.
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NewsElizabeth Banks to star in Lakeshore, SKE’s Walk Of Shame
EXCLUSIVE: FilmDistrict will distribute the comedy in the US and Lakeshore International and Sierra/Affinity will jointly handle pre-sales when they introduce the project at the AFM.
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JA Bayona to receive Chicago Fest’s Emerging Visionary Award
The Spanish director of The Impossible, which shattered four-day opening records in Spain last weekend when it debuted on $13.3m through Warner Bros, will collect the honour on Oct 18.
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NewsSony, Discovery and IMAX launch 3net
The global television production and distribution division will be led by president and CEO Tom Cosgrove and currently has 15-20 projects in active development.
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NewsFactory 25 acquires worldwide rights to New Jerusalem
Rick Alverson’s film has screened at Rotterdam, SXSW, and Sarasota and stars Will Oldham and Colm O’Leary.
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NewsFortissimo shops its way into Bergdorf documentary
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside of North America to Matthew Miele’s feature documentary Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s.
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NewsNew York Film Critics Circle to vote on Dec 3
The group has moved back its decision day after last year’s vote took place on Nov 28 as members jockeyed to be the first to announce winners and in the process excluded Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (pictured) from consideration.
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NewsParamount takes North America on Wolf Of Wall Street
After several rounds with the US majors, financier Red Granite has found a domestic distributor for its upcoming Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio reunion, teeing up what is expected to be a deluge of interest from international buyers at AFM.
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NewsCinedigm strikes distribution support deal with FilmDistrict
The digital conversion specialist and alternative content distributor has licensed its Theatrical Distribution System (TDS) to FilmDistrict and expects to implement the technical platform in time for FilmDistrict’s November release of Red Dawn [pictured].
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SPWA enter Small Apartments, IFC plays Would You Rather
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions concluded the deal for North America and most international territories with the film’s financiers and producers Ben Feingold and Ash R Shah.
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AFI FEST unveils World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, shorts
Pieta, The Hunt (pictured), War Witch, The Angels’ Share, Beyond The Hills and John Dies At The End among the line-up. The festival is set to run in Los Angeles from Nov 1-8.