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Saban expands exec roster
Saban Films is gearing up for its first release of The Homesman and has hired Azniv Taschyan as vp of finance and Jonathan Saba as vp of marketing.
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Open Road sets Rosewater release
Jon Stewart’s feature directorial debut and potential awards contender is set to premiere in Toronto next month.
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BAFTA taking Yann Demange to US
Director of ‘71 to be showcased at New York and Los Angeles events.
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China’s But Always set for N America
China Lion Film picks up Nicholas Tse, Gao Yuanyuan starrer But Always from Emperor Motion Pictures for North America, Australia/New Zealand
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The Way He Looks wins at NewFest
Daniel Ribeiro’s The Way He Looks was named best feature at New York’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender film festival while Brumby Boylston’s Cruising Electric took audience award for best short.
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Lionsgate picks up Down A Dark Hall
The studio has acquired feature rights to Lois Duncan’s 1974 novel Down A Dark Hall and set Rodrigo Cortés to direct and Twilight saga author Stephenie Meyer to produce.
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Sea Of Trees commences shoot
Waypoint Entertainment and Netter Productions’ drama has begun shooting and will film on location in Massachusetts and Japan. Ken Kao and Alex Walton’s Bloom represents international rights and launched pre-sales in Cannes.
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FIP hires Michael Andreen
Fox International Productions has named Michael Andreen svp of production, effective August 1.The appointment marks Andreen’s second return to the studio, having previously served in various creative production capacities on Master and Commander and The Day After Tomorrow, among others.He most recently worked at Narratology as a consultant to Chinese ...
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Gotham honour for Ted Sarandos
Leaders at the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) said the chief content officer will receive this year’s Industry Tribute at the 24th annual Gothams in New York on December 1.
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Warner Bros names Harry Potter team
Team will be based in London and Burbank, and follows an expanded partnership between the studio and J.K. Rowling.
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Kino Lorber takes Decent One, Winter
The distributor has acquired all US rights to Vanessa Lapa’s documentary on the secret personal writings and photographs of Heinrich Himmler as well as mystery Winter In The Blood.
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Cinedigm, Great Point Media strike pact
Cinedigm Corp and Robert Halmi Jr’s Great Point Media have signed a multi-picture distribution and production output deal.
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IFC Midnight embraces Inner Demons
Seth Grossman directed Schorr Pictures’ horror film about an intervention-style reality TV show.
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Brazilian delegation set for Locarno
Film-maker Kleber Mendoça, who won the FIPRESCI Prize at Rotterdam and Wroclaw’s New Horizons for his fiction feature debut Neighbouring Sounds in 2012, will be in Locarno next month as part of an almost 60-strong Brazilian delegation.
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Comic-Con: WB leads social buzz
Comic-Con 2014 sparked 1.7m social media mentions as Warner Bros dominated the conversation, according to social media experts Way To Blue.
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Buyers take The Devil’s Hand
EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Management Group has licensed the Rufus Sewell horror-thriller from Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment in a slew of markets.
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DWKs Animation hires Mark Zoradi
The former president of Buena Vista International has been named COO of DreamWorks Animation while Ann Daly is promoted to president.
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IM Global ventures into TV
Former Syfy president of original content Mark Stern has come on board as president and partner in the new venture, IM Global Television.
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Sundance unveils summer Labs
Sundance Institute has announced the participants for its annual Creative Producing Labs and Creative Producing Summit, both of which take place from July 28-August 1 at the Sundance Resort in Utah.
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Comic-Con D4: WB rules social media
Hollywood rolled out the big guns at Comic-Con on Saturday as Zach Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice promotion topped the chart of social mentions with 112,108 according to Way To Blue.