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How Netflix, Amazon & Indie $ Created Sellers’ Market for ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon,’ ‘Bright’ And Festival Films

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EXCLUSIVE: The emergence of Netflix, Amazon and outside financiers in the auction process has transformed films and even books into an absolute sellers market. After Sundance saw Amazon scoop up numerous titles at premium including the $10M deal for Manchester By The Sea and Netflix post an astounding $20M offer for Nate Parker's The Birth Of A Nation (he took $17.5M from Fox Searchlight for a traditional prestige theatrical release), we're seeing the outsider influence… Read

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Warner Bros Launching Emerging Film Directors Workshop

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Warner Bros Pictures is gearing up to launch the Warner Bros. Emerging Film Directors Workshop sometime during the second quarter this year, the studio said today. The talent incubator is designed to give access and voice to new and underrepresented talent, and will to showcase their work to the film community after a nine-month intensive fellowship at Warner Bros. Participants will be partnered with a Warner Bros. Pictures executive mentor as they work through the entire… Read

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Matt Passmore To Star In Paranormal CW Pilot From Kevin Williamson In Recasting

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Kevin Williamson’s paranormal CW pilot is making a major casting change. Satisfaction star Matt Passmore has been tapped as the male lead in the project. He will replace Bailey Chase who was originally cast in the role. The decision was made after the pilot’s table read earlier this week. Written by Williamson and directed by David Nutter, the CW pilot is about a young woman (Megan West) who seeks help from a parapsychologist (Passmore) when she begins to experience… Read

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‘Shots Fired’: Tristan Wilds & Aisha Hinds Cast In Fox Event Series

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Tristan Wilds (The Wire, 90210) and Aisha Hinds (Under the Dome, True Blood) are set as series regulars opposite Sanaa Lathan and Stephan James in in Fox event series Shots Fired. From Gina Prince-Bythewood and Brian Grazer, Shots Fired examines the dangerous aftermath of racially charged shootings in a small town. Wilds will play Officer Belk, a young African American sheriff’s deputy in a small town in North Carolina, who after a police shooting is thrust into the… Read

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‘Goodnight Brooklyn’ Clip: SXSW Docu Charts Final Days Of Legendary Venue Death By Audio

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EXCLUSIVE: From 2004 to 2014, the legendary Brooklyn music venue Death by Audio provided an all ages, DIY place for some of the best indie rock of its era. Alas, the venue fell victim to New York’s rapid gentrification and was forced to close as the neighborhood was tranformed by sky high-priced developments. The SXSW documentary Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death By Audio charts charts the venue’s final days through concert footage and interviews with club staff and… Read

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‘Divergent Series: Allegiant’ Hits The Overseas Box Office Battlefield, Targets $30M-$40M Opening

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Lionsgate’s The Divergent Series: Allegiant is getting out in front of its March 18 domestic release with a foreign debut this weekend in 45 markets and an industry projected take between $30M-$40M. Yesterday, Allegiant was number one in France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Sweden. In France alone, the Shailene Woodley title drew 135K admissions at 654 locations, close to $1M in its opening day. France has been the top territory for the YA sci-fi revolution series with… Read

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Academy Marketing Chief Christina Kounelias Moves To Participant Media

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Participant Media has named the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ chief marketing officer Christina Kounelias as it new EVP Worldwide Marketing and Communications. It’s a newly created position and the latest move there since the arrival of new CEO David Linde. She will report to him and begins the new gig March 28 after a search that had been going on for a while. She will be tasked with leading Participant's global strategy for all marketing and… Read

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Lorne Michaels Among Guests At Tonight’s State Dinner For New Canadian PM

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EXCLUSIVE: The tenth state dinner of the Obama administration tonight will see Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau breaking bread and sampling some canapés with Saturday Night Live's long term boss. Toronto-born Lorne Michaels will be among the top Great White North expats joining the recently elected PM and President Barack Obama at the White House, sources tell me. Having left Canada back in the late 1960s, SNL creator Michaels actually steered the debut of the show… Read

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Jack Black To Star In And Produce Jan Lewan Biopic ‘The Man Who Would Be Polka King’

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EXCLUSIVE– Jack Black is set to produce and star in The Man Who Would Be Polka King. It is based on Joshua Brown and John Mikulak’s documentary of the same name, which follows the rise and fall of Jan Lewan, a Pennsylvania polka sensation who unwittingly brought a town to its knees in a Ponzi scheme. Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarski (Infinitely Polar Bear) write and direct the amazing true life story. Permut Presenations, Red Hour Films and Shivhans Pictures are beginning… Read

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FilmRise Acquires Home Media Rights To Eight Films Including Sundance Docu ‘Jim: The James Foley Story’ From Gravitas Ventures

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FilmRise has acquired the exclusive home media rights to eight films from Gravitas Ventures including Sundance docu Jim: The James Foley Story, Addicted to Fresno, 4th Man Out, Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong and Froning: The Fittest Man in History. The pics will be released on DVD and Blu-ray throughout the spring and summer. Other titles include: Advantageous, Anarchy Parlor and All Stars. Jim: The James Foley Story explores the life and death of American photojournalist… Read

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Bella Thorne & Halston Sage To Star In Awesomeness Films Thriller ‘You Get Me’

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Awesomeness Films is ramping up its next project, and reteaming with Bella Thorne and Halston Sage to do it. The pair have signed on to star in You Get Me, a thriller being directed by The Jinx‘s Brent Bonacorso. Ben Epstein wrote the script. Production is set to begin next month primarily on location in Los Angeles. The pic centers on Tyler, fresh out of an argument with his perfect girlfriend Ali (Sage), who lands in the arms of sexy out-of-towner Grace (Thorne). The… Read

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Netflix Acquires Micro-Budget Horror Pic ‘Hush’, Latest From Blumhouse & Intrepid

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Nextflix has acquired streaming rights to Hush, the micro-budget horror thriller written and directed by Mike Flanagan and starring his co-writer Kate Siegel. Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Intrepid’s Trevor Macy produced the pic, which had buyers circling when WME arranged a first screening last fall in Toronto. It bows at SXSW on Sunday and will debut on the streaming service beginning April 8. The plot: After losing her hearing as a teenager, author Maddie Young (Siegel)… Read

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