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NewsNot Waving wins $60,000 post-production award at Wroclaw's first Gotham In Progress
American filmmakers screened 11 projects to European sales companies and distributors, at the first edition of the event running alongside Wroclaw’s American Film Festival.
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NewsBreaking Dawn eclipses North American box office on $140m
The Twilight express rolled back into town with the fifth biggest domestic opening weekend in history on an estimated $139.5m – a tremendous achievement that ranks one place behind New Moon on $142.8m.
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NewsAction comedy Outrun finds US, international buyers
Open Road will distribute Dax Shepard’s caper in the US in 2012 while a slew of deals have closed outside North America following a strong market launch at AFM by Exclusive Films International.
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NewsGeorge Clooney to receive PSIFF’s Chairman’s Award
The star of awards season contenders The Descendants and The Ides Of March will collect the annual honour at the Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala on Jan 7.
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NewsDwayne Johnson learns Monster’s Hunt Survival Guide
The former wrestling star is attached to star in the comic book adaptation that Simon Kinberg will produce through his Genre Films label.
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J Martin Willhite joins Legendary Entertainment as general counsel
The partner is appointed to the new post and most recently served as partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.
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Provincetown Film Society secures grants for festival, Institute renovation
Massachusetts-based Provincetown Film Society has been awarded grants by MassDevelopment and The National Endowment For The Arts (NEA) to support the filmmaking community in Provincetown and Outer Cape.
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CommentUIP: The comeback?
The dramatic reorganization of Paramount Pictures International, which will see 80 people lose their jobs in the UK, raises big questions for all the studios’ international businesses.
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NewsFirst Run takes on US rights to Pink Ribbons Inc., Surviving Progress
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has sold US distribution rights to First Run Features for two of its documentaries, both of which screened in Toronto and are now in competition this week at IDFA.
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NewsSanta Monica Loews keen to keep AFM in 2013 and beyond
As uncertainty reigns over the future location of North America’s biggest film market, the managing director of Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel said he wants the establishment to host the event after the contract expires late next year.
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NewsAnchor Bay picks up North American rights to Touchback
The distributor initially planned to make the announcement during AFM regarding Don Handfield’s inspirational drama starring Kurt Russell.
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NewsGary Frenkel appointed to senior role at Take Part
As svp of digital products and communities at Participant Media’s digital arm, Frenkel will oversee product development as well as “user experience and community formation and activation activities.”
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NewsAustralian short film event Tropfest comes to New York
Tropfest, which organisers claim to be the world’s largest short film festival after launching in a café in Sydney, Australia, almost 20 years ago, is expanding to the US and will touch down in New York next June.
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NewsVirtual theatrical exhibitor Constellation launches
CEO James Lawler and co-founder Reid Carolin’s new business offers an enhanced VoD service that will allow viewers to book viewing times and take part in online chats with filmmakers.
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NewsBruce Tuchman appointed president of Sundance Channel Global
Former head of MGM Worldwide Networks joins AMC international division
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NewsDavid Gordon Green to direct romance Q for Columbia
The studio is in final discussions to acquire rights to Evan Mandery’s novel. Former Columbia Pictures co-president Matt Tolmach will produce.
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Adopt Films to release Mighty Fine on Memorial Day 2012
Jeff Lipsky has added a third title to the pipeline, taking US rights to Debbie Goodstein’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story.
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NewsSKE boards Caine melodrama Mr Morgan’s Last Love
Sandra Nettlebeck has begun shooting in Paris based on her adaptation of Françoise Dorner’s novel La Douceur Assassine. Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) will co-finance and co-produce and Michael Caine stars.
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Rob Marshall to receive CAS Filmmaker Award
The Cinema Audio Society (CAS) will present the director of Chicago and Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with the honour on Feb 18 in Los Angeles.
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NewseOne, Village Roadshow flock to Myriad's Goon
The ice hockey comedy starring Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber and Jay Baruchel drew the buyers at AFM.