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NewsADG honour for Scorsese
Martin Scorsese will receive the Art Directors Guild’s highest honour, the Cinematic Imagery Award, at the 18th Annual Art Directors Guild’s Excellence In Production Design Awards.
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NewsCastlight buys rights to sea survivor story
Days after footage of the remarkable rescue of a shipwrecked Nigerian sailor went viral, LA-based Castlight Pictures has snapped up worldwide rights to the story.
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NewsGenre kings target Park City
Tommy Wirkola’s Dead Snow sequel, Adam Wingard’s The Guest and XYZ Films’ Killers from The Mo Brothers are among the Park City At Midnight line-up as festival heads also unveiled Spotlight selections and the inaugural Sundance Kids section on December 5.
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NewsSundance unveils New Frontier
Sundance Institute executives announced on December 5 that the festival will feature new work from artist Doug Aitken as well as Klip Collective’s external projections on the Egyptian Theatre.
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NewsLatAm market hails Blood Window
Blood Window, the first Latin American Fantastic Film Market, has been attracting plenty of interest at the fifth edition of Ventana Sur (Dec 3-6) in Buenos Aires.
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NewsNymphomaniac gets US date
Lars von Trier’s anticipated two-part erotic journey will open in March 2014.
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NewsThe Veil to star William Levy
Cuban-born telenovela star William Levy has been cast in the lead on the sci-fi adventure The Veil.
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NewsDavid Magee to adapt The Silver Chair
The Life Of Pi screenwriter has been hired to script the next big screen episode from the seven-title Chronicles Of Narnia series.
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NewsStrand enters Wetlands
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to David Wnendt’s Wetlands ahead of the film’s US premiere in Sundance in January.
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NewsWalden Media restructures
Walden Media has announced a restructure as it emerged that David Weil, current CEO of parent company Anschutz Film Group (AFG), will leave the company at the end of the year.
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Shoot begins on Dynamite
Tate Steinsiek has begun shooting his feature directorial debut Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale.
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NewsFilm Movement bites into Cannibal
Manuel Martin Cuenca’s dark romance [pictured] to open theatrically in US and Canada in Q3 2014, followed by VOD and DVD release.
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NewsJeremy Irons joins biopic Infinity
Edward R Pressman-produces biopic of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, to be played by Dev Patel.
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NewsCatching Fire, Thor cross $600m
UPDATE: Lionsgate’s sequel to The Hunger Games and Thor 2 have both reached $600m at the worldwide box office.
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NewsDominic Cooper in talks for Warcraft
Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures are in final negotiations with the UK star and have closed deals with Ben Foster and Paula Patton.
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NewsStrand acquires Cat Fish
Strand Releasing has acquired US rights to Claudia Sainte-Luce’s The Amazing Cat Fish from Pyramide International.
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NewsWeinsteins board Veronica’s Room
Bob and Harvey Weinstein’s fledgling TWC-Dimension label will finance, distribute and serve as executive producer on the adaptation of Rosemary’s Baby author Ira Levin’s 1973 Broadway thriller.
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NewsTWC to re-release Butler
The Weinstein Company is seeking to boost the ensemble drama’s awards profile and will re-release it this week.
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NewsSundance unveils first wave
Festival top brass announced on December 4 the US and world cinema dramatic and documentary competition entries as well as 11 NEXT titles for the upcoming 30th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, set to run in Utah from January 16-26 2014.
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NewsContinental Media sells Unknown Caller
EXCLUSIVE: Continental Media has closed early sales on the thriller Unknown Caller that the company boarded during the recent AFM.