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NewsSushi Girl, Crave, V/H/S, Wrong among first titles announced for Fantasia
16th edition, which runs July 19-August 7, also celebrates Jennifer Lynch with two special screenings, including world premiere of Chained [pictured].
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NewsGeorge Clooney, Grant Heslov to produce Osage Country
The business partners have boarded The Weinstein Company’s August: Osage Country based on Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play.
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Sundance selects 24 fellows, nine projects for doc labs
The 2012 intake doubles the amount of films and filmmakers the Institute is supporting in the post-production phase.
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Focus Forward expands to platforms including Amazon, Comcast, iTunes, Vudu
First 10 shorts go multi-platform on July 9.
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Elevado consultancy opens offices in Beverly Hills
Senior advisor Richard Kiratsoulis has negotiated financing transactions on behalf of clients including The Tomb starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Grey starring Liam Neeson.
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NewsFantasia unveil Off-Frontières projects
Selection includes seven from Canada, with five from Quebec.
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NewFest to open in New York with Four
The LGBT festival will kick off its event with Joshua Sanchez’s story about a quartet on a life-changing holiday.
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NewsKino Lorber picks up US rights to I Killed My Mother
French-Canadian actor Xavier Dolan’s feature directorial debut is a semi-autobiographical tale about a gay Quebecois teenager living with his single mother.
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NewsFilm Movement takes Directors' Fortnight entry Aliyah
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Elie Wajeman’s directorial debut starring Cedric Kahn.
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NewsBill Holmes earns business development stripes at Netflix
Holmes joined Netflix in 2008 and rises from vp of business development to the new role of chief business development officer.
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ARC Entertainment to handle ancillary on Fat Kid Rules The World
The distributor’s presence will boost theatrical plans as first time director Matthew Lillard and producer Whitewater Films line up a campaign through The Vans Warped Tour and Tugg.com this summer.
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NewsJohn Madden joins Endgame, Tower Hill's Murder Mystery
Hot on the heels of the $100m global success of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Madden has lined up the comedic whodunit with Charlize Theron in talks to star.
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Magnolia Pictures acquires US rights to Évocateur
On a busy day for domestic acquisition announcements (12), Strand Releasing takes North American rights to Yossi, Freestyle Digital Media and Word Entertainment partner on Loving The Bad Man and Well Go USA Entertainment and Variance Films team up on Tai Chi 0.
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NewsTrans Atlantic Partners selects participants from Canada, Europe, US
Participants include UK’s Neil Thompson [pictured], Canada’s David Cormican, Germany’s Marco Gilles and US-based Susan Lewis.
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NewsWalt Disney Studios and Real-D launch Frankenweenie touring exhibition
The Art of Frankenweenie Exhibition will premiere in Barcelona at CineEurope and will visit seven countries on its tour
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NewsRoger Corman to head up Tokyo jury
The veteran producer and director was jury head of the festival’s Young Cinema Competition in 1994.
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NewsEric Christenson to head sales at Hyde Park International
The industry veteran becomes the third president of chairman and CEO Ashok Amritraj’s sales company within nine months.
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NewsParamount makes preemptive play for The Diviners
Libba Bray’s upcoming novel will follow a band of young New Yorkers with mysterious powers who become embroiled in an epic battle after a series of occult slayings.
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Sony Pictures Animation, Hasbro, Happy Madison climb aboard Tonka
The project will be the latest collaboration between Sony and Hasbro following the previously announced Risk and Candy Land, the latter also with Happy Madison.
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NewsRADiUS-TWC hires Liza Burnett Fefferman, Heath Shapiro
Fefferman joins the fledgling multi-platform distribution venture as evp of publicity and Shapiro arrives as vp of marketing and distribution.