All United States articles – Page 1228
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NewsIndustry pays tribute to Bingham Ray
The highly regarded and beloved independent pioneer died on Monday (23) after suffering a series of strokes while attending Sundance. He was 57.
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NewsPark Circus expands with US sister company
UK-based film sales and distribution company Park Circus has opened a sister company in the US, Park Circus LLC.
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GE, Cinelan announce Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge
The initiative was unveiled at Sundance on Monday morning (23) and will award $200,000 in cash to the top five entries with $100,000 reserved for the grand prize winner.
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NewsPGA awards honour The Artist, Tintin
The Artist produced by Thomas Langmann won the 23rd annual Producers Guild Of America’s Darryl F Zanuck producer of the year award in theatrical motion pictures in Los Angeles on Saturday night (21).
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Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds to star in Big Eyes
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will write and direct the biopic of Margaret and Walter Keane, whose ‘Big Eye’ paintings shot to fame in the 1960s.
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NewsSundance: SPC, Magnolia first out of the gate
Submarine has completed a rare two-for-two, selling its first pair of Sundance screenings as it emerged on Friday (20) that Magnolia had paid low-to-mid six figures for North American rights excluding TV to The Queen Of Versailles.
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NewsCinedigm to release Slamdance entry No Room For Rockstars
The digital distributon specialist has set limited US engagements on Mar 1 for Parris Patton’s documentary about the Vans Warped Tour.
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NewsLionsgate, Wrekin Hill, Row 1 swim with Dark Tide
Lionsgate and Wrekin Hill in association with Row 1 Productions have acquired US rights to the Halle Berry shark thriller from IM Global.
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NewsFriedman, Wachsberger to lead Lionsgate motion picture group
The contracts have been signed and Summit chiefs Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger have been named co-chairs of Lionsgate Motion Pictures Group in the wake of last week’s merger.
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NewsContent Film, Preferred Content strike genre deal
The partners will produce a slate of six “elevated” genre, formalising an existing sales relationship on current Sundance entry The Pact and Content’s long-running collaboration with producer and Preferred Content partner Ross Dinerstein.
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NewsJan De Bont to remake crime drama Five Minutes To Live
The director has teamed up with Joseph and Jack Nasser, executive producers on the Sundance Premieres entry For A Good Time, Call…, to remake the 1961 Johnny Cash film Five Minutes To Live.
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NewsFrancisco Barreiro to star in Here Comes The Devil
The rising Mexican star will play the lead in MPI Media Group and Mexico City-based Salto de Fe Films’ supernatural thriller to be directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano.
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NewsUS in Progress to expand to Paris Film Festival in June
US in Progress, the work-in-progress event that was kicked off during the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland in November 2011, is now also planning an event to run during the Paris Film Festival (June 7-10).
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NewsAnchor Bay picks up Slasher Films’ Nothing To Fear
Content is handling international sales and introduced the film to buyers at the recent AFM.
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Joel Cox, Doug Ibold to receive ACE lifetime recognition
The veteran editors will be honoured with the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Lifetime Career Achievement Award at the Eddie Awards Feb 18 in Beverly Hills.
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NewsAMC Networks’ Josh Sapan to give MIPTV 2012 keynote
Sapan will discuss the value of original programming and how to create brands.
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NewsAR Films, Media Talent Group launch $120m US fund
Producer Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Films and Geyer Kosinski’s Media Talent Group have launched the fund to develop and produce up to six films in the US over the next two years.
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Camelot Distribution Group takes domestic rights to The Holding
David Bradley, Kierston Wareing and Vincent Regan star in the tale of a mother who lives with a dark secret. Lionsgate UK released the thriller last September.
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Sony Pictures to distribute drama Johnny Two Guns
Oak Street Films and Zero Gravity Management will produce the film, which follows a failed musician who becomes an enforcer for a violent Nashville gangster.
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FeaturesPeter Baxter, Slamdance
The Slamdance festival director and co-founder talks about hot titles at the 2012 festival and the event’s growing digital presence year-round.