James Marsh, the director of the doc "Man on Wire," is jumping into the genre feature world and will direct "The Vatican Tapes," a supernatural thriller from Lionsgate and Lakeshore.
The story centers on a series of events that unfold after a tape gets leaked from the Vatican displaying an exorcism that goes wrong.
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SANTA MONICA -- As the annual American Film Market winds down, a trio of English-language pics have caught the eye of U.S. buyers.
AMPTP chief Nick Counter dies
Nick Counter and I started our jobs dealing with Hollywood unions in the same week in the spring of 1982 -- he as president of the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers and me as a labor reporter.
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SANTA MONICA -- Philippe Rousselet and Mark Gordon are unlocking the code.
Oscar hopeful "Precious: Based On The Novel 'Push' By Sapphire" was a hit with audiences this weekend.
The gritty inner-city drama, executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, made $1.8 million at 18 theaters in its first weekend of limited release, according to Variety.
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Fox 2000 and New Regency have partnered to option Liane Moriarty’s novel “What Alice Forgot.” Katherine Fugate, creator of the Lifetime series “Army Wives,” has been hired to write the adaptation.
Moriarty’s novel is about a woman who suffers a head injury and wakes to find that she actually might be 10 years older and forgotten a decade of her life.
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The dumb money has been flushed from the system, and going forward, the surviving players in the independent film sector will take a much more sober, financially sound approach.
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Ray Winstone is attached to star in Stuart St. Paul's "Red Snow" as an ex-SAS officer tracking down his missing daughter in the snow forests of a remote town in north Canada.
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The American Film Market just wouldn't be the AFM without the so-called lobbyists.
- MADRID (Reuters) -The French film "Un Prophete" (A Prophet) has been nominated for six European Film awards, including best film and best director, the European Film Academy announced on Saturday at the Seville Europe Film Festival.
Tahar Rahim was nominated as best actor for his role in the film, which also saw director Jacques Audiard nominated for European Screenwriter 2009 with Thomas Bidegain.
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