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NewsFilm Movement falls for Amour Fou
The New York-based film distributor has acquired US rights from Coproduction Office to Jessica Hausner’s Cannes selection.
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NewsCSA to honour Richard Linklater
The director of Boyhood will collect the Casting Society Of America’s Career Achievement Award at the 30th Annual Artios Awards on January 22.
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NewsMillennium buys Amplify LA operations
Millennium Entertainment has made its first buy since the management take-over earlier this year led by Bill Lee and acquired the LA operations of Amplify in a move that demonstrates its digital ambitions.
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NewsPalm Springs to honour Rosamund Pike
The star of Gone Girl will receive the 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s (PSIFF) Breakthrough Performance Award on January 3.
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NewsCairo Drive, Home Less triumph at DOC NYC
Festival top brass have announced their 2014 award-winners and declared this year’s event drew a record 25,000 attendance, up 28% on 2013.
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NewsAcademy unveils live-action shorts contenders
The Academy has whittled down 141 submissions to a shortlist of ten films in the running for the 87th Academy Awards.
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NewsEvan Katz to direct You’ll Be The Death Of Me
Lionsgate will distribute the Mandeville Films comedy thriller.
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NewsSteve McQueen to direct Widows
New Regency is reuniting with the director of its Oscar-winning 12 Years A Slave on the heist thriller as the studio continues to assemble its stable of prestige filmmakers.
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NewsSix law partners flock to Latham & Watkins
Joe Calabrese, Lisbeth Savill and four other entertainment, sports and media partners from law firm O’Melveny & Myers have moved to Latham & Watkins.
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NewsWarsaw Uprising to open AFI EU showcase
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the complete slate for the 2014 edition of its AFI European Union Film Showcase, set to run from December 3-21 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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CommentGreen Room first-look picture
Patrick Stewart plays the head of a white supremacist group in Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to Blue Ruin from Broad Green Pictures.
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NewsMike Nichols, Graduate director, dies aged 83
The Graduate director Mike Nichols has died aged 83.
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NewsSony abandons Jobs biopic
The studio is understood to have put the project about the life of the Apple founder in turnaround, with one report claiming that Universal is now actively in the hunt.
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NewsFed Up tops doc digital charts for RADiUS
The food activism documentary Fed Up ranks as the top-grossing documentary for the year-to-date on iTunes and Amazon and has become the ninth biggest of all time on iTunes, according to distributor RADiUS.
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NewsThe Orchard takes The Yes Men Are Revolting
The distributor has acquired all North American rights to the comic documentary directed by Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno.
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NewsProduced By Conference sets 2015 date
The Producers Guild Of America (PGA) has set its seventh annual Produced By Conference for May 29-31 on the Paramount lot in Hollywood.
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NewsRelativity plots Black Or White awards run
Mike Binder’s drama starring Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer will open in the US for one week on December 3.
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NewsGravitas acquires Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus
Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus starring Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams. Separately, Cinema Guild has acquired Asghar Farhadi’s 2009 mystery About Elly.
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NewsNielsen to track Netflix data
The research company is poised to introduce a potentially game-changing metric that for the first time will provide data on TV viewership on platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime, according to the Wall Street Journal.