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In Case You Weren’t Sure About Gender Inequality in Hollywood, Here’s an Infographic About It
Because no issue on the internet is really an issue until someone makes an infographic about it, here is an exceptionally thorough data visualization from the New York Film Academy examining gender inequality in American cinema.
There are lots of pretty ch...
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Factory 25 to Distribute ‘All the Light in the Sky’
Brooklyn-based distributors Factory 25 have announced that they have acquired the distribution rights to Drinking Buddies director Joe Swanberg's latest film, All the Light in the Sky.
The film stars Jane Adams as Marie, a middle-aged actress struggling in ...
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After The Credits: How Marvel is Blurring the Line Between Film and Comics
Marvel's approach to franchise-building has irrevocably changed the way blockbuster movies are made.
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Oscilloscope to Distribute FantasticFest Mind-Bender ‘Coherence’
Distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories announced today that they have acquired the North American rights to Director James Byrkit's debut film, Coherence.
The film, which won genre festival FantasticFest's Next Wave Best Screenplay award, is about a group of...
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Sundance Selects to Distribute ‘Run and Jump’
Sundance Selects has announced that they have acquired the North American distribution rights to director Steph Green's Run and Jump.
The film follows Vanetia (Maxine Peaka), a woman trying to cope with her new circumstances after an accident drastically c...
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Lionsgate Considers ‘Hunger Games’ Theme Parks; Misses the Point of ‘Hunger Games’
Let's talk about irony for a minute.
The wildly popular Hunger Games YA book and film franchise takes its name from an event involving an arena constructed by a dystopian totalitarian government for the sole purpose of sending randomly selected children to...
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Sundance Selects Acquires German Oscar Contender ‘Two Lives’
Two Lives, Germany's submission for the Best Foreign Film category of this year's Academy Awards, will be distributed in the United States by Sundance Selects.
Directed by he Georg Mass and starring Juliane Kohler, Liv Ullman and Ken Duken, the film is abo...
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Focus Features International Will Be Shutting Down Dec. 31st
Following a change in leadership early last month, Focus Features will be shutting down it's London-based foreign sales office by year's end.
Today's announcement coincides with the start of Santa Monica's American Film Market, which Focus Features Interna...
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Blockbuster to Close All Stores, And There Was Weeping And Gnashing of Teeth
In an event that will signal countless thinkpieces reflecting on the current state of home cinema and the blogosphere's relation to it, Blockbuster announced that they will be ending all retail operations. The chain's 300 remaining U.S. stores, as well as its ...
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Dreamworks to Adapt Forthcoming Book ‘The Bully Pulpit’
Having recently made an Oscar-winning film based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning author's most recent book with Lincoln, Dreamworks is wont to give it another go. Doris Kearns Goodwin's forthcoming book The Bully Pulpit:Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and...
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