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| Julian Myers, George McQuade at AFM |
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The Super bowl of movie premieres and screenings happens this Halloween tonight, Wed., Oct. 31-
According to Jonathan Wolf, AFM managing director and executive V.P. of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, the 2012 American Film Market (AFM) will screen, “more than 420 motion pictures, including 77 world premieres and 306 market premieres, for thousands of film buyers and industry professionals from more than 70 countries.” Wolf also noted that for the, "Independents - The 2,000 + projects at AFM include films in every genre and budget."
Films making their World Premieres include: A
Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III , from writer/director Roman Coppola
and starring Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and Charlie Sheen (Independent);Cottage Country, starring Malin
Akerman and Lucy Punch (VMI Worldwide)
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| Vanessa Hudgens stars in The Frozen Ground |
The Frozen Ground, starring NicolasCage, John Cusack and Vanessa Hudgens (Voltage Pictures); Nous York, starring Leila Bekhti and
Géraldine Nakache (Pathé International);The
Numbers Station, starring John Cusack and Malin Akerman
(Content); and Pawn, starring Nikki Reed and Ray
Liotta (Red Sea Media) and Summer In February, starring Dominic Cooper and Emily
Browning (Speranza13 Media).
Among the 306 films set to make their Market
Premieres are The ABCs
of Death, starring Ingrid Bolsø Berdal and Iván González
(Magnolia Pictures); Come Out and Play, starring Daniel
Gimenez Cacho and Vinessa Shaw (Celsius Entertainment); Ginger
and Rosa, starring Christina Hendricks and Elle Fanning (The
Match Factory); Here Comes the Devil, starring
Francisco Barreiro and Laura Caro (MPI Media Group); Kon-Tiki,
starring Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen (HanWay Films); Quartet, starring Maggie Smith and
Michael Gambon, and directed by Dustin Hoffman (HanWay Films);Simon Killer, starring Brady Corbet
and Mati Diop (Fortissimo Film); and Zaytoun starring Stephen Dorff and Alice
Taglioni (Pathé International).
Other
Market Premieres include: After, starring Steven Strait and
Karolina Wydra (Jinga Films); The Assassins, starring Chow Yun-Fat,
Yifei Liu and written by Bin Wang (Easternlight); Between
Us, starring Melissa George, Julia Stiles, and Taye Diggs
(Premiere Entertainment Group); The Body, starring Belén Rueda and
Hugo Silva (DeAPlaneta Internacional); Boxing Day, starring Danny Huston and
Matthew Jacobs (Independent); The Brass Teapot, starring JunoTemple, Alexis Bledel, and Annette Bening (TF1 International); Fin
(The End), starring Maribel Verdu (Film Factory Entertainment); Great
Expectations, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes
(HanWay Films).
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More Market Premieres: Greetings from Tim
Buckley, starring Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots (Celluloid
Dreams); A Late Quartet, starring Philip
Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken (WestEnd Films); The Reluctant Fundamentalist, starring Kate Hudson and Liev
Schreiber (K5 International); Revenge for Jolly!, starring Elijah
Wood, Ryan Phillippe, and Kristen Wiig (Highland Film Group); SpringBreakers, starring James Franco, Selena Gomez and VanessaHudgens (Kinology); Thanks for Sharing, starring Mark
Ruffalo and Gwyneth Paltrow and written by Stuart Blumberg (Voltage Pictures); What
Maisie Knew, starring Alexander Skarsgårdand and Julianne Moore
(Fortissimo Film); and Writers, starring Greg Kinnear, Logan
Lerman, Kristen Bell, Jennifer Connelly, and Lily Collins, (The Solution
Entertainment Group).
For a complete list of the films and
the screening schedule, visit: The Film Catalogue.
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