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The 33rd Deauville Festival of American Cinema, running in the French town Aug 31-Sept 9, will open with King of California, which stars Michael Douglas stars a newly-released mental patient juggling his ob
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stanley usa Sigourney Weaver, Sidney Lumet and Ida Lupino, the pioneering female film-maker and actress who died in 1995. Lumet s new production, Before The Devil Knows You re Dead, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke, is one of two world premieres at the Festival, the other being actor Ben Affleck s debut feature Gone, Baby, Gone, a thriller starring Morgan Freeman and Affleck s brother Casey. Among a total of 64 films selected for the festival, Affleck s film is one of 12 feature debuts, five of which are in competition. These include Broken English from Zoe Cassavetes; and James C Strouse s Sundance hit Grace Is Gone, starring John Cusack as a husband whose wife has been killed in Iraq. A total of 11 films are in competition, also includ
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stanley us and will partner with Stage 6 Films on the acquisition of the dark comedy that has been an early hit in Park City. Meanwhile A24 closed on The Witch and Alchemy was nearing a US deal for Strangerland.Relativity will release in the US and Sony, which owns Stage 6 Films, will distribute in the US. Bryan Buckley directed the US Dramatic Competition entry The Bronze starring Melissa Rauch as an embittered former Olympian who weighs up whether to mentor an adoring prot茅g茅 or ruin her.Rauch and Winston Rauch co-wrote The Bronze, which premiered on January 22, screened again twice on January 23 and will next play on January 27.Stephanie Langhoff produced and the executive producers are Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Buckley, Melissa Rauch, Winston Rauch and Michael Cuddy. The Sundance Institute on Sunday named Langhoff its recipient of the Sundance Institute | Red Crown Producers Award.WME Global represented US rights to the film, as it did on The End Of The Tour
stanley uk , which has been confirmed as a preemptive US sale to A24 in a deal also priced in the $3m range.A24 and DIRECTV have acquired genre title The Witch in a US deal. Robert Eggers directed the New England-set tale that takes place in the 17th century. WME Global and Gray Krauss Stratford Sandler Des Rochers represented the film-makers. The film has screened to press and industry and premieres on January 27.Mea
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