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NewsSanta Barbara Festival unveils line-up, awards honourees
Pablo Larraín’s Chilean Oscar contender No gets pride of place in the 2013 Santa Barbara International Film Festival as the International Gala.
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NewsIrish actor Jack Reynor joins Transformers 4 cast
Michael Bay announced on his website on Tuesday [8] that he has cast Reynor in the upcoming Transformers 4.
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NewsJosh Brolin signs up to Sin City 2
Aldamisa International introduced Sin City: A Dame To Kill For to buyers in Cannes last summer.
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NewsVisit Films heads to Park City with four new titles
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kampe’s New York-based sales agency has acquired rights to The Future, It Felt Like Love, Halley and A Teacher.
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NewsMetrodome nabs Baumbach’s Frances Ha
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor picks up rights to Telluride and Toronto comedy from Celluloid Dreams.
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NewsAmber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen join McG thriller
EuropaCorp and Relativity Media made the announcement on Monday [7]. The new cast join previously announced Kevin Costner on the untitled project.
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NewsAcquisitions: Lorber tastes Honey, Freestyle sets inAPPropriate
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights to festival favourite More Than Honey ahead of the documentary’s US premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
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NewsValiant Entertainment shuffles Shamdasani, Kothari
Co-founder and chief creative officer Dinesh Shamdasani is named chief executive while founding CEO Jason Kothari has been appointed vice-chairman of the board.
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GE and Cinelan announce Focus Forward prize winners
Jurors included Sundance senior programmer Caroline Libresco, actress Daryl Hannah, Barbara Kopple, Jose Padilha and Joe Berlinger.
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NewsJoseph Gordon-Levitt bulks up 3D Sin City sequel
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For was one of the hot market titles in Cannes last summer, when Aldamisa International introduced sales. North American distributor Dimension Films made the casting announcement on Monday [7].
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NewsLes Misérables crosses $100m in US in record 13 days
Working Title’s awards contender on Sunday [6] became the fastest musical to pass the milestone in North America after grossing $16.1m through Universal to reach $103.6m.
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NewsAmour, Emmanuelle Riva, Michael Haneke top NSFC poll
The National Society Of Film Critics announced its annual winners on Saturday [50] when Amour was a big winner.
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NewsFlight, The Master, Silver Linings among WGA nominees
Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Amour were ineligible under WGA regulations.
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NewsChris Dodd appoints Diane Strahan MPAA COO
The MPAA chairman made the announcement on Friday [4] and hailed the new executive’s ” break-through strategies for high growth players.”
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NewsJinga sells Ghett’a Life to US
MVD picks up Jamaica’s highest grossing box office hit for DVD and VOD.
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NewsOpen Road snaps up US rights to jOBS in preemptive deal
Another product of the independent space has found a US distributor after Open Road announced on Thursday [3] it had acquired rights to the Sundance Film Festival closing night film jOBS, stealing a march on Sony’s rival biopic.
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NewsAcademy announces scientific and technical achievements
Twenty-five individual recipients will attend the annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation in Beverly Hills on Feb 9.
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NewsCodeblack Films picks up Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
The acquisition kicks off the partnership established with Lionsgate in May 2012 to build a production and distribution slate for the urban market.
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NewsLionsgate secures US rights to Reasonable Doubt
Samuel L. Jackson thriller is Bavariapool’s first international co-production.
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NewsSFFLA embraces Baltic cinema for first time
Latvia’s Oscar submission Gulf Stream Under The Iceberg will receive its North American premiere in January at the Scandinavian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (SFFLA).