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NewsCinereach announces 22 grant recpiients
The organisation announced on Wednesday [16] it will award grants totalling more than $500,000 to 22 feature-length film projects that applied for support in 2012.
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NewsNew Directors/New Films unveils first seven films
Shane Carruth’s Sundance entry Upstream Color is among the line-up for the 42nd edition, set to run under the auspices of MoMA and Lincoln Center from Mar 20-31 in New York.
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Busan West expands programme, launches competition
The annual pan-Asian film festival staged by Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film And Media Arts in partnership with South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival takes place from Mar 8-10 in California.
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NewsA24 acquires US rights to Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
The ambitious New York distributor made the announcement on the eve of Sundance [16]. FilmNation handles international sales on the story of real-life affluent friends who robbed the homes of the Hollywood wealthy.
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Distribution: Inception Media Group, Factory 25 in action
IMG has acquired the Luke Goss thriller Pressed from Double Dutch International and A Haunting At Silver Falls from Outsider Pictures.
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Dylan McDermott joins Envision Media Arts’ Freezer
The action-thriller shoots this month in Canada. Mikael Salomon will direct from a script by Tom Doganoglu and Shane Weisfeld.
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Industry moves: SPWA hires Chan Phung
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) made the announcement about the new vp of acquisitions on Wednesday [16].
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NewsPeter Kujawski expands role at NBC Universal
The evp of worldwide acquisitions will now oversee acquisitions for Focus Features in addition to his role as top buyer at Universal, where he has overseen the recent acquisition of territories for Zero Dark Thirty and The Wolf Of Wall Street.
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NewsHanWay to handle world sales on Sundance entry Houston
Bastian Günther’s World Dramatic Competition film charts the meltdown of a German headhunter in pursuit of a Texan oil executive.
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NewsSearchlight to re-release Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin’s Academy Award nominee will return to select cities for a special engagement on Jan 18.
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NewsJohn Hegeman takes top QED marketing, acquisitions job
CEO Bill Block [pictured] announced on Wednesday [16] that the executive had joined QED International in the newly created role of president of worldwide marketing and acquisitions.
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NewseOne aims to release most UK films, add another territory in 2013, build on US partnerships
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Hamilton and Patrice Theroux discuss the structure of the eOne-Alliance merger; Lara Thompson, Robert Walak and Jo Sweby will lead acquistion team in Berlin.
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NewsIncognito Pictures signs on to action thriller Surrounded
The Los Angeles-based company founded by former PayPal executive Jack Selby and Scott Stone will serve as producer alongside Patrick Aiello and Industry Entertainment.
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NewsBerneys resurrect Picturehouse, line up Metallica drama
New York-based husband-and-wife team Bob and Jeanne Berney are back in business and have reopened Picturehouse four-and-a-half years after then parent company Warner Bros closed down the distributor.
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NewsDistribution: ro*co films, Zeitgeist Films, Factory 25 in action
ro*co films educational, the educational documentary distribution arm of ro*co films, will handle the non-theatrical release of How To Survive A Plague [pictured] and A Place At The Table.
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NewsShane Carruth goes it alone on Upstream Color
Shane Carruth’s company erbp will self-distribute Upstream Color, the director’s upcoming US Dramatic Competition entry and follow-up to his 2004 Grand Jury Prize-winner Primer. Meanwhile Gravitas Ventures has taken worldwide VoD and digital rights to Sound City.
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NewsRo*co Films International boards Sundance pair
EXCLUSIVE: The sales division has signed on to represent the US Documentary Competition titles After Tiller and American Promise.
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NewsMiami FF to host last River Phoenix film
Dark Blood co-starring Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis will screen for the first time in the US at the 30th edition of the Miami International Film Festival, set to run from Mar 1-10.
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NewsVendome Pictures acquires spec script The Widow
Vendome will produce and CEO Philippe Rousselet will produce with Steve Golin and Alix Madigan of Anonymous Content.
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NewsFull Frame unveils thematic programme and tribute
This years’ Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will honour Academy Award winning filmmaker Jessica Yu with the Full Frame Tribute. The festival is set to run from Apr 4-7 in Durham, North Carolina.