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NewsLionsgate announces start of production on The Last Stand
Kim Jee-Woon’s thriller is shooting in New Mexico and Nevada and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing the project, which has been a strong pre-sale title for Lionsgate.
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Rocket, Big Air Studios take North American rights to 11-11-11
The US-based distributors will partner on the release of Darren Bousman’s apocalyptic tale and appropriately enough have set the launch date for Nov 11 this year.
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NewsAaron Eckhart to play Dennis Wilson in The Drummer
Unclaimed Freight’s Randall Miller and Jody Savin, the filmmaking team behind Bottle Shock, return with a biography about the Beach Boy who drowned in Los Angeles in 1983.
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Retrace, Glass Tiger 3 to open Hungarian Film Festival
Ambassador Balazs Bokor and Bunyik Entertainment president Bela Bunyik announced on Monday (17) that the Hungarian Film Festival will take place in Los Angeles from Nov 9-18.
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NewsKino Lorber takes all US rights to Alps
Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to Dogtooth marks the second collaboration with the company which also previously released his Oscar nominated foreign language entry for Greece.
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NewsRetrace to open Hungarian Film Festival in Los Angeles
Festival runs Nov 9-18; Zsigmond to be honoured.
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Composer Rolfe Kent on board to score Gambit
Kent is best known for Sideways and Up In The Air and is the final talent piece to fall into place on the comedy, which is currently in post-production in London.
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Myriad Pictures, Future Films complete shooting on Breaking The Girl
The thriller stars Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner and Shawn Ashmore and is being directed by Jamie Babbit.
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NewsUK's Soda Pictures moves into US with Red Flag partnership for Norwegian Wood
New Video’s Flatiron to handle DVD/digital release in US.
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NewsLe Havre, Tyrannosaur among Chicago winners
Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre (pictured) won the Chicago International Film Festival’s international feature competition Gold Hugo for his “stylized yet very humane depiction of illegal immigration.”
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NewsReal Steel holds on to pole position in US with $16.3m
Monday’s actual results will determine whether Buena Vista’s estimate for its DreamWorks father-son drama starring Hugh Jackman was enough to fend off the lukewarm debut of Paramount’s dance remake Footloose on $16.1m. Regardless, this was another weak weekend at the domestic box office.
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AFI FEST announces more selections, Swanberg tribute
AFI Fest 2011 organisers have unveiled the selections from the Young Americans and New Auteurs strands as well as the films in the Joe Swanberg tribute. The festival is set to run from Nov 3-10.
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NewsTop Brazilian filmmakers launch new distribution company
Jose Padilha, Fernando Meirelles are among filmmakers seeking greater control of their box-office revenues.
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Magnolia takes on Gaby Dellal's Angels Crest
Magnolia Pictures has taken all US rights to Angels Crest, which premiered at Tribeca earlier this year.
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Odyssey acquires film rights to Hank The Cowdog
John Foster’s company negotiated the deal with Rising Star Studios on the children’s property and plans to create an animated feature.
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Patty Jenkins lands Thor gig for Marvel Studios
Jenkins previously directed Monster and becomes the first woman to direct a superhero film.
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US-China Summit scheduled for Nov 1 in Los Angeles
Sponsored by East West Bank and Loeb & Loeb, the half-day event is being hosted by the Asia Society Southern California’s Entertainment & Media/Asia Initiative.
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Cinereach unveils summer 2011 grant recipients
Cinereach, which supports fiction and nonfiction filmmakers through grants and awards, has awarded 17 feature-length film projects amounting to $350,000.
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GFI announces summer grant winners
Ten films will be awarded production funding by the Global Film Initiative during the summer 2011 granting cycle, with each filmmaker set to receive $10,000.
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NewsRioFilme in talks to back Noyce's Bloodsport remake
Underlining its growing enthusiasm for supporting high profile international productions, Brazilian outfit RioFilme is in talks to back Phillip Noyce’s remake of martial arts film, Bloodsport. This follows on the city-owned audiovisual investment company’s $500,000 investment in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.