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AFM Changing Location After 30-Year Stint At The Loews Hotel
The American Film Market will be moving to a new home for this year's edition, setting up shop at Santa Monica's Le Méridien Delfina Hotel on Pico Blvd. The shift slightly to the south east comes as the Loews Hotel, where the AFM has been staged for 30 years, closed for lengthy renovations earlier this…
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AFM 2022 Sets New Programming & Speakers
The Independent Film & Television Alliance today unveiled new details, as to the programming and speakers to be featured at this year’s American Film Market.
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The AFM Sessions put on at the Loews Beach Hotel in Santa…
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Jonathan Wolf To Exit AFM After 24 Years At Helm Of Indie Film Market
Jonathan Wolf, managing director of the American Film Market who has led AFM for 24 years, will step down when his current term ends in June. He'll continue on as an advisor through the 2022 AFM, which is set to make its in-person return to Santa Monica for the 43rd edition, November 1-6, said the Independent Film…
American Film Market Sets Dates For In-Person Return To Santa Monica
The American Film Market will return to Santa Monica as an in-person event from November 1 through November 6, after being forced online for two years due to the Covid pandemic, the Independent Film & Television Alliance announced today.
The 43rd edition of the market, which planned its shift to a six-day run in 2020…
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Edgar Ramírez To Star In Isabel Coixet’s ‘Nobody’s Heart’ – AFM
Loki star Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Girl on the Train’s Edgar Ramírez are to star in passionate love story Nobody’s Heart from The Bookshop director Isabel Coixet.
London sales house WestEnd Films has this week launched international sales on the pic, which enters production in January in Portugal and is being introduced at…
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Viggo Mortensen & Caleb Landry Jones Starring In Alex Gibney’s Vietnam Thriller ‘Two Wolves’ – AFM
Viggo Mortensen and Caleb Landry Jones will lead the cast of Two Wolves, a Vietnam War-set thriller being helmed by Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney.
The pic tells the story of helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who, during the Wwr, turned against his fellow soldiers to halt the massacre of unarmed civilians in the…
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By Tom Grater
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Mischa Barton Starring In Crime Thriller ‘Invitation To A Murder’ For ACE Entertainment
EXCLUSIVE: Mischa Barton has been tapped to lead crime thriller Invitation To A Murder, which is being directed by Stephen Shimek (The Adventure of A.R.I.: My Robot Friend).
The project comes from ACE Entertainment, which will launch worldwide sales at the virtual American Film Market next month. Grindstone…
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By Tom Grater
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Reopening Hollywood: Lionsgate Disembarks Gerard Butler Pic ‘The Plane’ Over COVID Insurance Concerns And Takeoff Delay
EXCLUSIVE: In a development that will chill those roaming the halls of the virtual American Film Market and putting film deals together, Lionsgate has exited The Plane, the Christian Gudegast-directed action film set to star Gerard Butler. The film was the big acquisition title at last year’s AFM, and it sold out to…
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Migos Rapper Offset To Make Feature Acting Debut In ‘American Sole’ Movie At STXfilms
EXCLUSIVE: Rapper and songwriter Offset, best known as part of the chart-topping hip-hop trio Migos, is set to make his film acting debut in the STXfilms drama American Sole. Offset, whose real name is Kiari Cephus, will join previously announced stars Pete Davidson, O'Shea Jackson Jr. and Camila Mendes in the film…
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Hot AFM Package: Kristen Bell & Jonathan Groff Star In ‘Molly And The Moon,’ Original Musical Film By ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Creators Carter Bays & Craig Thomas
EXCLUSIVE: In what becomes one of the hot packages of the American Film Market, Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff will star in Molly and the Moon, an original musical that How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas scripted, and they will direct. Harvey Mason Jr (Sing and the Pitch Perfect films) will…
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Kevin Bacon Joins Action Thriller ‘One Way’ Opposite Colson Baker & Travis Fimmel – AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Bacon has come aboard Andrew Baird’s action thriller One Way, joining already announced cast Colson Baker and Travis Fimmel.
In One Way, Freddy (Baker) goes on the run with a bag full of cash after a robbery of his former crime boss goes wrong. With a potentially fatal wound, he slips onto a bus…
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Maya And Ethan Hawke To Star As Father And Daughter In ‘Revolver’; Andrew Stanton Directing – AFM
Maya Hawke and her father Ethan Hawke have been set to star in Revolver, playing a father-daughter pair in the 1960s-set romantic comedy to be directed by Andrew Stanton. It is being introduced at the upcoming American Film Market.
Kate Trefry penned the script, which takes place on June 27, 1966, when The Beatles…
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