The American Film Market kicks off Wednesday with a kind of cautious bullishness, following the relatively robust business at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival in September. With 402 films scheduled to screen — including 321 market premieres and 75 world premieres — more than 8,000 buyers and industry professionals are expected to attend, including some 100 distributors, producers and executives repping more than 50 companies from the hot Chinese market. With “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” opening in two weeks and successes from indie-financed titles like “2 Guns,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” “Now You See Me,” “Insidious Chapter 2” and “Olympus Has Fallen,” AFM, which runs until Nov. 13, sees more ambitious slates from the indies at the beach mart.
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