The American Film Market said Wednesday that it is adding programming and exhibition space devoted to immersive content for this years 40th annual confab, which is set for November 6-13 in Santa Monica. The expansion into Extended Reality includes a half-day Immersive Summit set for November 9 at the Fairmont Miramar…

The Independent Film & Television Alliance‘s annual elections has resulted in eight new members voted to the alliance’s board of directors, the organization said Monday at the American Film Market. They join the 20-member board at the indie film and TV trade association chaired by Michael Ryan of GFM Films. The newly…

EXCLUSIVE: Tate Taylor’s noir-comedy Breaking News In Yuba County starring Allison Janney and Laura Dern has been one of the American Film Market’s most in-demand packages. Stuart Ford’s AGC has inked widespread pre-sales on the movie including with marquee buyers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with Constantin…

EXCLUSIVE: Argentinian firms FilmSharks and Vista Sur, Peru’s Golem and Zentropa’s Spain-based animation arm Doce are launching the animated film Dalia Y El Libro Rojo 3D (Dalia and the Red Book 3D) at the American Film Market. According to the producers, this is among the first Spanish-language animations to combine…

Multi-Oscar winner Ron Howard was at the American Film Market in Los Angeles this morning to stir up buyer interest in his upcoming Luciano Pavarotti documentary Pavarotti. Howard, HanWay Films and producer Nigel Sinclair (Rush) hosted two busy buyer presentations for the film at the Shutters on the Beach hotel. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Three days into the AFM and buyers are pressing go on George Miller’s Three Thousand Years Of Longing. I understand multi-million dollar deals have closed in France with Metropolitan and in Italy with Eagle following competitive bidding late into the night. These are the first known multi-million dollar…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Speer, the director whose credits include Step Up Revolution, Til I See You and the Bella Thorne-Patrick Schwarzenegger romancer Midnight Sun, has come aboard to helm S21, a dark and edgy romantic comedy from Catapult Entertainment Group. The news is being announced at the American Film Market in…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Bosworth has been set to star in the sci-fi action thriller Genesis, which she is also producing via her Make Pictures Productions with Jason Tamasco, Jerry Careccio and Zak Kristofek’s Bad Idea shingle. Mike Lè Han is directing the pic penned by Brian Michael Scully about a mother searching for her…

Screen Media has acquired North American rights to A Violent Separation, the crime thriller directed by Kevin and Michael Goetz and starring Brenton Thwaites, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Ben Robson. With the deal, struck at the American Film Market with sales agent Double Dutch International, a first-half 2019…

Deadpool‘s Brianna Hildebrand has joined Mary-Louise Parker, Emile Hirsch and Malcolm McDowell in Persephone, a sci-fi space adventure written and directed by Jeffrey Morris in his feature debut. Lance Reddick has also boarded the pic, produced by Pixomondo Studios, FutureDude and Evolutionary Films. Producers are…

Hope Gape is a cove on the south-east of the UK. "It's where I went as a child," Shadowlands, Gladiator and Les Miserables scribe William ‘Bill’ Nicholson tells me. "It was a place to be alone. "When the waves recede it leaves a vast expanse like the surface of the moon. It was like a secret world where you're like a…

Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), Michael Shannon (Man Of Steel), Britt Robertson (Tomorrowland), and Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) are set to star in heist thriller Echo Boomers, which Fortitude International is launching sales on at the American Film Market. Production is slated to begin in January. Seth Savoy's…