#AFM to Return to Los Angeles for 2025 Edition

#AFM to Return to Los Angeles for 2025 Edition

After a poorly received experiment in Las Vegas, the American Film Market is heading back to Los Angeles for its 2025 edition. AFM 2025 will run November 11-16 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Century City, just beside Beverly Hills. “Our return to LA holds special significance in the aftermath of the recent devastating fires,” said…

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#AFM Hidden Gem: Charles Band’s ‘Barbenheimer’ Mixes Bombs and Dolls for the Ultimate Low-Budget Comedy Cash-In

#AFM Hidden Gem: Charles Band’s ‘Barbenheimer’ Mixes Bombs and Dolls for the Ultimate Low-Budget Comedy Cash-In

Film industry cynics may take one look at a newly-announced low-budget comedy called Barbenheimer and a poster that uses Barbie’s iconic pink font over a picture of a nuclear explosion and features the tag-line “D-Cup, A-Bomb,” and immediately assume it’s simply a shameless attempt to cash in on a very recent cultural phenomenon. And those…

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#Italy Returns to Its “Hollywood on the Tiber” Era

#Italy Returns to Its “Hollywood on the Tiber” Era

Fellini, Visconti, Loren, Heston, Hepburn, Peck, Taylor, Burton … a dream dinner party of talent graced the grounds of Rome’s renowned Cinecittà film studios during the so-called “Hollywood on the Tiber” period — named after the river that runs through the Italian capital. From the epic Quo Vadis in 1951 right through to Peter Sellers’ Pink Panther in 1963,…

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#AFM: Concourse Sets Action Thriller ‘Cabo’ From ‘American History X’ Writer David McKenna, ‘Eraser: Reborn’ Director John Pogue (Exclusive)

#AFM: Concourse Sets Action Thriller ‘Cabo’ From ‘American History X’ Writer David McKenna, ‘Eraser: Reborn’ Director John Pogue (Exclusive)

Concourse Media has boarded action thriller Cabo from writer David McKenna (American History X, Blow, SWAT), with John Pogue (Eraser: Reborn) now attached to direct. Casting is currently underway and production is set to start mid mid-2024. The story follows a seemingly ordinary deckhand on a sportfishing boat in Cabo San Lucas who embarks on…

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