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  • Richard Linklater
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    SFFS Founder’s Directing Award to Linklater

    2014-03-12T22:57:00Z

    Richard Linklater, riding high on critical acclaim for Boyhood and Before Midnight, will collect the honour during the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival on May 1.

  • Chen Kaige
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    Columbia beefs up China co-pros

    2014-03-12T22:36:00Z

    In a move to expand its footprint in China, Columbia Pictures has revisited its local production ties and entered into split-rights deals with Chinese production companies. 

  • Can You Imagine?
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    Sony lines up all-CG Smurfs film

    2014-03-12T21:51:00Z

    Sony Pictures Animation has hired Kelly Asbury to direct an entirely computer-animated untitled Smurfs feature that is being viewed as a fresh take on the property rather than a third entry in the franchise.

  • Pleasure or Pain
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    Kino Lorber strikes Zalman King deal

    2014-03-12T18:19:00Z

    Kino Lorber has come on to handle packaged media and digital distribution to the Zalman King Company library.

  • Leslie Mann
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    Leslie Mann to receive CinemaCon award

    2014-03-12T17:53:00Z

    The star of Fox’s April 25 release The Other Woman release will collect the CinemaCon Comedy Star Of The Year Award in Las Vegas on March 27.

  • Saving Mr. Banks
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    AFI FEST 2014 sets dates

    2014-03-12T17:43:00Z

    Festival hierarchy have announced the dates for the 28th edition of the festival in Hollywood.

  • Cary Elwes
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    Sugar Mountain bulks up cast

    2014-03-12T12:04:00Z

    Cary Elwes, Jason Momoa, Drew Roy, Haley Webb and Shane Coffey have joined the Yellow Brick Films comedy-thriller.

  • The Patrol
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    Epic goes on The Patrol

    2014-03-12T10:16:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Epic Pictures to distribute Afghanistan war film The Patrol in US.

  • Gurinder Chadha
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    NYIFF to fete Gurinder Chadha

    2014-03-12T08:06:00Z

    The British filmmaker will be the subject of a Spotlight retrospective at the 14th Annual New York Indian Film Festival, set to run from May 5-10 in New York.

  • Fort Tilden
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    Fort Tilden wins top SXSW award

    2014-03-12T02:12:00Z

    Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers’ comedy earned the narrative feature competition grand jury prize while Margaret Brown’s Deepwater Horizon disaster film The Great Invisible prevailed in the documentary section.

  • Cate Blanchett
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    Cameras set to roll on Carol

    2014-03-11T23:19:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Production is about to kick off in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 12 on Number 9 Films and Killer Films’ Patricia Highsmith adaptation, reuniting Todd Haynes with recent Oscar winner Cate Blanchett.

  • From Dusk Till Dawn
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    eOne, El Rey cut deals on Dusk

    2014-03-11T19:36:00Z

    Robert Rodriguez’s new US-based cable network El Rey Network and eOne Television have struck a slew of digital deals on From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, set to receive its broadcast premiere on Tuesday night (11).

  • Harpo
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    Harpo gets Kidd's Wings

    2014-03-11T19:01:00Z

    Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago-based Harpo Films has acquired film rights to The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd.

  • Blended
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    CinemaCon honours for Barrymore, Sandler

    2014-03-11T18:54:00Z

    Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler are to receive the 2014 CinemaCon Female Star Of The Year Award and Male Star Of The Year Award respectively.

  • Josh Duhamel
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    Lost In The Sun finishes shoot

    2014-03-11T18:02:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Production on the Josh Duhamel thriller is due to wrap on Wednesday [12] in Austin, Texas. Cargo Entertainment represents international sales and has concluded a number of deals.

  • Beats Bugs
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    Grace secures Beatles rights

    2014-03-11T17:51:00Z

    Filmmaker Josh Wakely’s Australia and US-based production company Grace has acquired world rights from Sony/ATV Music Publishing to the Beatles’ music catalogue for the animation series.

  • We Gotta Get Outta This Place
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    Starz Digital Media enters Place

    2014-03-11T17:28:00Z

    Starz Digital Media has acquired US and Canadian rights to The Hawkins Brothers’ directorial debut We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.

  • Amanda Palmer
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    TFF 2014 unveils shorts line-up

    2014-03-11T16:33:00Z

    Programmers at the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T unveiled on Tuesday (11) the programme of 58 short films, 29 of which are world premieres.

  • Tim Sarnoff
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    Technicolor names new division head

    2014-03-11T11:26:00Z

    Tim Sarnoff named president of new production services division and Claude Gagnon is svp, content solutions and industry relations.

  • Lynne Ramsay
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    Lynne Ramsay, Jane Got a Gun producers reach agreement

    2014-03-11T10:11:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Producers quash pending civil action after private resolution.