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NewsAcademy sets 2014/15 changes
Rules governing how a two-person producing team can be considered a single producer when considering who is eligible for best picture nomination have changed.
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NewsNew cast added to Mickey Rourke's Ashby
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Michael Lerner (Barton Fink) [pictured], Kevin Dunn (Veep), and Zach Knighton (Happy Endings) have joined Mickey Rourke in Ashby, which started shooting this week in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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NewsEurocinema On Demand launches on Mediacom
North American VOD channel Eurocinema is now available on Mediacom Communications.
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NewsVyer Films, NYAFF partner on Himizu
Film curation and streaming start-up Vyer Films has set the online premiere of Sion Sono’s film and struck an alliance with NYAFF operators Subway Cinema.
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NewsCBS Films explores Atlantis Gene
CBS Films has acquired rights to A G Riddle’s bestselling ebook Atlantis trilogy.
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NewseOne Films acquires Miss Meadows
The distributor, which recently reconfigured operations to focus primarily on digital distribution and will maintaining a theatrical presence where appropriate, has picked up US and Canadian rights to the Katie Holmes vehicle.
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Peter Kiernan joins Free Association
Peter Kiernan has joined 22 Jump Street star Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin as partner in their renamed production company Free Association.
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NewsJoe Roth sells Revolution Studios
Fourteen years after launching the studio, founder Joe Roth has sold Revolution Studios to Fortress Investment Group in a deal reportedly worth $250m that sees him segue into a strategic advisor role.
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FeaturesDavid Oyelowo, Nightingale
Having starred in films like Jack Reacher and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, UK-born David Oyelowo talks to Elbert Wyche about his lead role in Nightingale, which premiered at the LA Film Festival in June.
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NewsMusic Box acquires Fabrice du Welz’s Alleluia
Tale of real-life 1940s serial killers and lovers premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week.
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NewsAcademy revises music category rules
Music Branch members are no longer allowed to contact each other to promote the nomination of their own song in any way, according to new Academy rules.
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NewsGravitas picks up The Longest Week
Gravitas Ventures has taken all US rights to the comedy starring Jenny Slate, Olivia Wilde, Billy Crudup and Jason Bateman.
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NewsSundance brass unveil NEXT FEST
Sundance Institute has pulled back the curtain on the films and music acts set to headline the LA festival from August 7-10.
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NewsRooney Mara to star in Somali kidnap drama
The memoir A House In The Sky will be developed as a starring vehicle for Mara, who will also serve as a producer alongside Annapurna’s Megan Ellison, with whom she optioned the rights.
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NewsTate Taylor boards Moon Disaster
Tate Taylor will direct In The Event Of A Moon Disaster, which FilmNation is producing and will sell internationally.
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NewsEli Wallach dies aged 98
Eli Wallach, the veteran character actor whose film credits included The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, has died. He was 98.
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NewsMitch Singer lands at Verance
Former Sony Pictures Entertainment chief digital strategy officer Mitch Singer has been named special advisor of industry affairs at Verance Corporation.