All Screen articles in 06 November 2009
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NewsKarlovy Vary to pay tribute to Powell and Pressburger
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival reveals retrospective for 45th edition, including a rare screening of a restored classic.
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NewsEncounters Short Film Festival to screen 150 films over five days
Andrea Arnold, Richard Williams, John Coates and Tony Grisoni will be among the special guests attending the 15th Encounters Short Film Festival, which opens tomorrow (November 17) in Bristol.
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Features
Oranges And Sunshine
The true story of one woman’s struggle to uncover one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia into hard labor camps.
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NewsEmma Watts assumes sole leadership of Twentieth Century Fox production
Emma Watts has been named president of production for Twentieth Century Fox and signed a multi-year contract.
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NewsAustrian film-makers protest against Cruise film funding
James Mangold’s action comedy Knight & Day, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, has become the target of protests from Austrian film-makers after receiving $448,455 (€300,000) in support from the Salzburg authorities.
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FeaturesIn the loop
At a time when the BBC’s prosperous film arm is one of the UK’s only stable ports of call for independent producers, its new creative director talks to Geoffrey Macnab about her editorial and commissioning strategy and her debut slate.
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NewsRainforest kicks off production on sequel Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming
Principal photography is underway in Atlanta, Georgia, on Rainforest Film’s Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming.
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NewsJames Cameron to receive separate VES and Santa Barbara honours
James Cameron will receive the Visual Effects Society’s VES Lifetime Achievement Award at the 8th Annual VES Awards in Los Angeles on February 28, 2010.
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NewsITV puts Carlton Screen Advertising contracts into liquidation
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has put its remaining interests in cinema advertising company, Carlton Screen Advertising (CSA), into voluntary liquidation. It appointed Grant Thornton to handle the process on October 26.
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NewsNational Schools Film Week attracts record attendees
This year’s National Schools Film Week (NSFW) attracted a record 450,000 attendees.
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NewsOrange signs $120.2m deal with French film bodies
Orange, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator, has signed a deal with number of French film bodies to invest $120.2m (€80m) over the next three years in French and European cinema.
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NewsKay named US editor at Screen International
Jeremy Kay has been promoted to US editor of Screen International and ScreenDaily.com effective immediately.
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NewsRed Box Films and Passion Pictures launch co-production deal
Red Box Films, the UK company behind James Marsh’s Oscar winning feature documentary Man On Wire, has announced a co-production partnership deal with John Battsek’s Passion Pictures.
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NewsMumbai Film Festival reports a 70% boost in attendance for its 11th edition
Organisers say that this year’s event attracted more than 3,500 delegates and 100 industry professionals, including international and local producers, directors, actors and buyers.
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NewsThis Is It stays ahead of the pack overseas as $29m raises tally to $128.6m
This Is It continued to dominate the overseas market as a further $29m from 8,800 screens in 110 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) raised the running total to $128.6m after two weekends.
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NewsSoul Kitchen and Wild Grass to bookend 50th Thessaloniki film festival
Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen and Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) will bookend the 50th International Thessaloniki Film Festival, which opens on November 13.