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  • Around 400 exhibiting companies taking part in American Film Market this year

    Around 400 exhibiting companies taking part in American Film Market this year

    NEW DELHI: A total of 396 exhibiting companies are being represented in the 35th American Film Market (AFM) which opened this week, marking the highest level of participation since 2008.

    Being held from 5 to 12 November, the AFM will have more than 8,000 attendees from over 80 countries in Santa Monica over the course of the week.

    Growing from 2013, a total of 430 films are set to screen with 349 market premieres and 84 world premieres. Attendees can look forward to first-glimpse performances by the likes of: Samuel L.

    Jackson, John Travolta, Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Morgan Freeman, Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Adam Driver, Kate Beckinsale, Maggie Smith, Hailee Steinfeld, Kristin Scott Thomas, Al Pacino, James Franco, Elijah Wood and many others.

    More than 100 speakers from around the globe will participate in the AFM Conference Series, Producers Forum, Roundtables and Industry Conversations – with industry thought leaders and experts sharing their knowledge and insights with participants.

    The business of independent motion picture production and distribution reaches its peak every year at the American Film Market. The global film industry converges in Santa Monica for eight days of deal-making on films in every stage of development and production, as well as screenings, conferences, networking and parties.

    With 8,000 industry leaders from more than 80 countries, 700 screenings and the industry’s largest Conference Series, AFM is the pivotal destination for filmmakers, producers, writers,  directors, distributors, financiers, industry executives, talent, the international media and all those who provide services to the worldwide motion picture industry.

    The AFM is produced by the Independent Film & Television Alliance, the global trade association of the independent motion picture and television industry.

    Director/producer Brett Ratner takes part in the Finance Conference and comedian/podcast king Adam Carolla will participate in an Industry Conversation. Millennium Films’ President Mark Gill, WME Partner Mark Ankner, and UTA’s Independent Film Group Co-Head Rena Ronson will impart wisdom and advice in the Production Conferences.

    Additional speakers include: Preferred Content’s Kevin Iwashina, Tugg, Inc CEO and independent producer Nicolas Gonda, Cinetic Media Founder John Sloss, Relativity Europa’s Russell Schwartz, Mister Smith’s Jill Jones, CineTel President & CEO Paul Hertzberg, UTA partner Rich Klubeck, Foresight Unlimited CEO & Chairman Mark Damon and independent producer Cassian Elwes.

    The independent film industry growth is evident as 126 buying companies from 41 countries and 112 exhibiting companies from 21 countries will participate in the market for the first time. Asian companies will once again be particularly well-represented, with the largest number of new buyers coming from South Korea.

     

  • Horrible Bosses on the lookout for new a new Boss

    Horrible Bosses on the lookout for new a new Boss

    MUMBAI: The first movie opened to some spectacular reviews with Colin Farrell getting named as the worst boss in the movie. However, in the sequel, New Line is trying to find a replacement who can be an even worse boss than Farrell.

     

    Apparently, they have checked out Chris Pine and Christoph Waltz to play a father and son duo of Horrible Bosses in the upcoming flick. However, rumours are that Waltz hasn’t agreed but Pine has.

     

    The movie also has a new director- Sean Anders. The cast is Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Dey. It’s produced by Brett Ratner and Jay Stern while John Cheng and John Rickard are exec producers.

     

    The first movie collected an astonishing $200 million worldwide and was directed by Seth Gordon. The sequel is to be written by John Daley and Jonathan Goldstein who worked on the first one as well.

  • Horrible Bosses 2 sets Thanksgiving release date

    Horrible Bosses 2 sets Thanksgiving release date

    Mumbai: With a recurring cast the New Line movie is slated to release on 26 November 2014. With a new director- Sean Anders – the cast is Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Dey.

     

    It’s produced by Brett Ratner and Jay Stern while John Cheng and John Rickard are exec producers. Only one other movie is releasing on the same day, Fox animated ‘Home’. Another movie releasing near the date is Lionsgate’s ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’ on 21 November.

     

    A lot is expected from the second installment since the first one got more than $200 million worldwide. It was directed by Seth Gordon. Filming will begin in November this year. John Daley and Jonathan Goldstein will be scripting the sequel as well.

  • Documentary on Frank Sinatra in offing

    Documentary on Frank Sinatra in offing

    MUMBAI: Brett Ratner, Brian Grazer and Graydon Carter are reportedly in talks to film a documentary on Frank Sinatra.
     
    The project, which is based on the book Mr S: My Life with Frank Sinatra by Sinatra‘s longtime valet George Jacobs, was once slated to be a feature directed by Ratner with Chris Tucker starring in the same. Only now it has been re-imagined as a TV documentary, it is understood.
     
    The book by Jacobs and Hollywood biographer William Stadiem was published in 2003 as a behind-the-scenes look at the singer and the original Rat Pack of Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Lawford.

  • Grazer replaces Ratner as Oscar producer

    Grazer replaces Ratner as Oscar producer

    MUMBAI: Within hours of Brett Ratner‘s announcement that he was stepping down as producer of this year‘s Oscar, Academy President Tom Sherak announced that Raner would be succeeded by super-producer Brian Grazer.

    Grazer has incidentally produced The Nutty Professor, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps but unlike Ratner, Grazer is of Oscar-caliber having won the Best Picture award in 2002 for A Beautiful Mind.

    Grazer showed his appreciation for his appointment when he said, "It‘s very gratifying to be part of a show that honors excellence in the medium to which I have devoted so much of my career."

    The inside job aspects of Grazer replacing Ratner is clear, as both recently co-produced Tower Heist.

    It may be known that Eddie Murphy, who recently stepped down as the Oscar host, was in good terms with Grazer.

  • Brett Ratner steps down as producer of Oscars

    Brett Ratner steps down as producer of Oscars

    MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has accepted Brett Ratner‘s decision to step down as producer of the Oscar ceremony.

    Said an emotional Ratner in a letter to his colleagues, “I called Tom Sherak this morning and resigned as a producer of the 84th Academy Awards telecast. Being asked to help put on the Oscar show was the proudest moment of my career. But as painful as this may be for me, it would be worse if my association with the show were to be a distraction from the Academy and the high ideals it represents.”

    It is likely that Ratner would be replaced by Eddie Murphy who has been mooted to host the ceremony.

    However, there is no word on who will take over to producing the awards ceremony that is just three and a half months away.