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Two-time Oscar winner Paul Haggis will be receiving the Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement at the 67th annual Writers Guild Awards on Feb. 14. Edward Zwick will be presenting the honor to Haggis during the New York portion of the ceremony at the Edison Ballroom. The Hunter award was established in 1992…

Definitely not a weekend to remember, with newcomers and recent holdovers coming in mostly flat. Roman Polanski was the weekend’s star addition, though that wasn’t hard: Sundance Selects’ Venus In Fur grossed over $26K, averaging $13,100 per screen. The Cannes 2013 pic is kicking off a platform release, rolling out to…

Paul Haggis’ Toronto ’13 debut Third Person will be this weekend’s major counter-weight to the studios’ summer blitz. Starring Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody, Olivia Wilde and James Franco, the film had its NYC debut earlier this week with a fashionable crowd at Manhattan’s Sunshine Theater courtesy of the…

NEW YORK (November 7, 2013) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired US, German and Scandinavian rights to Paul Haggis' THIRD PERSON. Written and directed by Haggis, the film had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and features an all-star cast including Academy…

In May, I reported that offers were going out to Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde to star in Paul Haggis' upcoming drama, Third Person. Today, Belgian production and finance company Corsan announced that it's in negotiations with Neeson and Wilde, along with Mila Kunis, Casey Affleck, James Franco and Moran Atias. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Haggis must have a thing for the number 3. His last film was The Next Three Days and the director’s upcoming drama, Third Person, is now headed to Belgian company Corsan for world sales here in Cannes. Offers are understood to be going out to Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde to star in the film that…