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1. Weinstein Co. inks 'Death Defying' deal

   4:00 am 11/8/2006

   • by Gregg Goldstein

   In a flurry of last-minute deals at the American Film Market, the Weinstein Co. has acquired all U.S. distribution rights and multiple territories to Gillian Armstrong's fictionalized Harry Houdini biopic "Death Defying Acts," starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce.Read more

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2. Panel: Int'l market tough

   4:00 am 11/8/2006

   • by Gregg Goldstein

   It has never been more complicated to do business in the currently depressed and fragmented international film marketplace, attendees heard during an AFM seminar Tuesday.Read more

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3. GreeneStreet, Katz book 'Adverbs'

   4:00 am 11/7/2006

   • by Gregg Goldstein

   GreeneStreet Films and producer Ross Katz have teamed to produce a feature film version of Daniel Handler's romantic novel "Adverbs."Read more

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4. Davenport answers 'Jesus' call

   4:00 am 11/7/2006

   • by Stuart Kemp

   Aesop Entertainment has inked a deal with visual effects wizard-turned-director Richard Davenport to helm "Jesus on Line Four," one of the American Film Market's buzz scripts.Read more

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5. Panel: Develop films without studio control

   4:00 am 11/7/2006

   • by Carl DiOrio

   The conglomeration of Hollywood has bred increased caution and copycatism among movie executives, so feature writers should develop their own projects before approaching studios with scripts, panelists at an AFM screenwriting seminar said Monday.Read more

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6. 'Quiet, steady' AFM winds down

   4:00 am 11/7/2006

   • by Stuart Kemp

   Organizers of the 27th American Film Market said Monday that market attendance at this year's Santa Monica-set shindig hit an all-time high as buyers and sellers readied themselves to head home.Read more

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7. 'Vampire' remake has life

   4:00 am 11/7/2006

   • by Jonathan Landreth

   South Korean starlet Jun Ji-hyun will star in "Blood Vampire," the live-action English-language remake of the hit Japanese animated film, a representative for Seoul-based talent representative iHQ said Monday at the American Film Market.Read more

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8. Big presence for S. Korean sales outfits

   4:00 am 11/7/2006

   • by Jonathan Landreth

   South Korean sales companies are at AFM with a bigger slate of pictures than ever before, for the nation's movie industry is slated to produce more than 100 movies this year, the most since 1991.Read more

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9. Net outage 'painful' for sellers in 'quiet' AFM

   4:00 am 11/6/2006

   • by Stuart Kemp

   Another day, another apology for an Internet meltdown Saturday that left many sellers hamstrung for a second day at the American Film Market.<br />Read more

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10. SPC, Participant on Morris docu

    4:00 am 11/6/2006

    • by Gregg Goldstein

    Participant Productions and Sony Pictures Classics are teaming up on an Errol Morris documentary examining the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.Read more

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