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NewsMarcia Gay Harden signs on Get A Job for CBS Films
Dylan Kidd directs the tentatively titled multi-generational comedy about four college graduates who try to face up to the realities of adulthood.
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NewsSPWA takes US and Canadian ancillary to The First Time
Jonathan Kasdan’s teen romance premiered at Sundance and was produced by Friends With Benefits’ Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer.
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NewsCMG snares sales rights to heist thriller Get Lucky
Gateway Films and Atlas Independent are producing the film, currently in post. Atlas retains North American rights.
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Inception Media Group adds five to library
The Santa Monica-based company has acquired North America distribution rights to a quintet of old and new titles that will be made available across multiple platforms including VoD and digital.
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NewsContent Media secures Target agreement
Content Media has been appointed by the administrators of Target Entertainment as the “preferred distribution partner”.
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Chloe Moretz named CinemaCon Female Star Of Tomorrow
The actress will receive her honour at the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards on Apr 26.
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NewsJim Underwood lands top digital job at SPHE
The incoming evp of worldwide digital and commercial strategy will report to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment president David Bishop and assumes oversight of all transactional digital business worldwide.
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NewsDeals round-up: Freestyle travels down The Road
Meanwhile XLrator Media will release We The Party, Film Movement has acquired Teddy Bear, The Cinema Guild samples Step Up To The Plate and Wrekin Hill has acquired Sundance premiere The End Of Love.
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Table Ten Films announces cast on Clutter
Joshua Leonard, Carol Kane, Natasha Lyonne and Halley Feiffer will star in Diane Crespo’s dark comedy.
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NewsPathe boards Long Walk to Freedom
Pathe International has come on board for the Nelson Mandela biopic, described as “the largest South African production ever mounted.”
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Deals round-up: Well Go, Tribeca Film bulk up slates
Well Go USA has acquired all North American rights from Huayi Brothers Media to Tai Chi O, the first in a planned trilogy of films from Detective Dee And The Mystery Of Phantom Flame producer Chen Kuofu.
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NewsBruno Wu, Justin Lin form Perfect Storm Entertainment
Ambitious Wu’s Seven Stars Film Studios has created a joint venture with Lin to create a feature slate in the first of three multi-million dollar collaborations with leading filmmakers that Seven Stars expects to unveil in the coming weeks.
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NewsOscilloscope acquires North America on Bunohan
Easternlight Films represents international sales on Dain Said’s Malaysian action title Bunohan: Return To Murder.
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Kenneth Branagh to receive San Francisco Film Society honour
The British talent will collect the Founder’s Directing Award at the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival which runs from Apr 19-May 3.
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NewsSony-MGM's 21 Jump Street leads US charts on $35m
The action comedy starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum stormed the citadel to dominate the weekend, some way ahead of Universal’s The Lorax in second place which has reached an excellent $158m after three weekends.
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IFFLA heads towards tenth anniversary event in April
Bedabrata Pain’s Chittagong and Prashant Bhargava’s Patang bookend the Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (IFFLA) which will screen 33 films from around the world.
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NewsDenis Villeneuve to direct Hugh Jackman in Alcon’s Prisoners
The Incendies filmmaker with direct from Aaron Guzikowski’s story about a carpenter who goes after his daughter’s kidnappers and runs up against a big city detective assigned to the case.
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CommentBox Office Games
Media have been gloating over the failure of John Carter to connect to audiences. But it is not a cause for celebration and will lead to even less tentpole risk-taking.
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NewsSundance London shorts include Comedy winner The Arm
The new Sundance London festival has confirmed the eight shorts screening in its one short film programme.
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NewsBobby Paunescu, Jared Underwood among Solar Pictures co-founders
The financier and filmmaker Bobby Paunescu and former Comerica Entertainment senior executive Jared Underwood have partnered on the feature production venture with producer Kearie Peak and business affairs and acquisitions expert Christopher Taylor.