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Following years of speculation as to a new location for the American Film Market, organizer IFTA and its Board of Directors have confirmed Las Vegas’ Palms Casino Resort as their venue for the 45th edition. The decision comes almost two weeks after Deadline exclusively reported the Palms as a leading…

EXCLUSIVE: As the FilmNation Entertainment team gathered in Santa Monica this week for the American Film Market, some reflection is in order. It has been 15 years since Glen Basner started the venture. Despite the hardships facing everyone at AFM with strikes and uncertainty, what a different a decade and…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has taken North American distribution rights for James Rowe's crime thriller Breakwater starring Dermot Mulroney, Darren Mann and Mena Suvari as Film Mode Entertainment kicks off sales at the AFM. Mann plays a young ex-convict, recently released from a Virginia prison, who embarks…

EXCLUSIVE: Picture Tree International (PTI) has boarded sales on German Iranian director Alireza Golafshan's comedy Everything's Fifty Fifty about a divorced couple who embark on a family vacation, ahead of the AFM. Laura Tonke (Jupiter) and Moritz Bleitreu (The Experiment, Manta Manta Legacy) play a…

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired worldwide rights to romantic comedy Plan B, starring Emmy-award winner Jamie Lee (HBO's Crashing) and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory). Premiere Entertainment will launch worldwide sales of the film at the upcoming…

Indie studio XYZ Films has promoted Maxime Cottray to the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO).  Cottray previously served as XYZ's Executive Vice President. In the role, he worked closely with the studio founders to raise significant production and P&A financing for the company, including a…

EXCLUSIVE: In what becomes the first go picture for the FilmNation Entertainment production startup Infrared, The Boys star Jack Quaid will star in Novocaine, a Lars Jacobson-scripted action thriller that will be directed by Dan Berk & Robert Olsen (Villains). The project will be introduced at the…

The American Film Market will be moving to a new home for this year's edition, setting up shop at Santa Monica's Le Méridien Delfina Hotel on Pico Blvd. The shift slightly to the south east comes as the Loews Hotel, where the AFM has been staged for 30 years, closed for lengthy renovations earlier this…

The Independent Film & Television Alliance today unveiled new details, as to the programming and speakers to be featured at this year’s American Film Market. AFM The AFM Sessions put on at the Loews Beach Hotel in Santa…

Jonathan Wolf, managing director of the American Film Market who has led AFM for 24 years, will step down when his current term ends in June. He'll continue on as an advisor through the 2022 AFM, which is set to make its in-person return to Santa Monica for the 43rd edition, November 1-6, said the Independent Film…

The American Film Market will return to Santa Monica as an in-person event from November 1 through November 6, after being forced online for two years due to the Covid pandemic, the Independent Film & Television Alliance announced today. The 43rd edition of the market, which planned its shift to a six-day run in 2020…

Loki star Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Girl on the Train’s Edgar Ramírez are to star in passionate love story Nobody’s Heart from The Bookshop director Isabel Coixet. London sales house WestEnd Films has this week launched international sales on the pic, which enters production in January in Portugal and is being introduced at…