All Screen articles in 12 May 2008
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NewsEuropa Distribution to host VOD session during San Sebastian workshop
European distribution alliance to host a two-day session on VOD as part of its three-day workshop
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NewsBouchareb hopes for ‘spirit of mutual respect’ for Hors La Loi Cannes screening
The Franco-Algerian director breaks his silence over the controversy surronding his Cannes competition title.
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Right Angle Studios launches production arm with Sequence
Right Angle Studios has launched its production arm Right Angle Pictures, which will focus on socially relevant projects and kicks off with the thriller Sequence.Ron Vignone wrote and will direct and the project is being fast-tracked for production in 2009 and follows a genetic researcher who discovers a giant conspiracy.Right ...
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Sanford Panitch to run Fox's new international production arm
Fox Filmed Entertainment is launching Fox International Productions (FIP) to produce and acquire local language films for key territories.Sanford Panitch, a long-time executive at New Regency and Fox, has been brought in to run the company, which will corral all of Fox's existing and future indigenous productions under one banner.FIP ...
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Irusta takes senior VP role at NBC Universal Global Networks
Martin Irusta has been appointed senior Vice President, Programming & Acquisitions, Global Networks, an international division of NBC Universal.Irusta will be based in London and takes the post immediately.The newly created role was announced by Roma Khanna, President, Global Networks & Digital Initiatives, to whom he will report. Irusta will ...
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Filth And Wisdom gets its North American premiere at Provincetown
The tenth annual Provincetown International Film Festival, which will take place June 18-22, has announced that it will present Gael Garcia Bernal with the Excellence In Acting Award and Jane Lynch with the Faith Hubley Memorial Award.Quentin Tarantino has already been announced as the recipient of the Filmmaker On The ...
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UK and India agree details of co-production treaty
The UK and Indian governments have said they have finished the necessary negotiations to enable the long-touted UK-India film co-production agreement to come into force.The treaty will let UK and Indian film-makers co-produce films that will be eligible for national status in both countries.The main aspects of the UK-India co-production ...
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Enid Blyton's schoolgirl heroines get big-screen treatment with UFA Cinema
Enid Blyton is set to be given the big-screen treatment by Germany's new player UFA Cinema with a feature film based on the bestselling children's author's St Clare's books from the 1940s. Known in Germany as Hanni & Nanni, Blyton's original stories about the O'Sullivan twin sisters' adventures at their ...
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Aimee Anderson to join DDA for corporate publicity
Aimee Anderson will join pr firm DDA as account director, corporate publicity.The hire was announced by DDA Public Relations executive vice president Lawrence Atkinson.Anderson will work with corporate clients including Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group, Entertainment One, Hewlett Packard, Halcyon, Atlas Entertainment, Shangri-La, Ealing Studios and the Dubai International Film ...
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Platinum teams with Top Cow, Arclight on feature of Witchblade
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios has partnered with Top Cow Productions and film sales company Arclight Films on the adaptation of Top Cow's fantasy thriller comic book franchise Witchblade.The producers expect begin shooting in September in Australia. Plot details are being kept under wraps although what is known that the property ...
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Madagascar sequel set for IMAX release
DreamWorks Animation SKG will release Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa on IMAX day and date with its worldwide conventional release November 7, 2008. It will be the fifth DreamWorks Animation title to be released in large-format between June 2008, when Kung Fu Panda is released, and May 2010. The film will ...
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Dorman, Barclayjoin cast of Caesar's Prime Mover
Australian writer/director David Caesar (Dirty Deeds) has started production on Prime Mover, starring Michael Dorman and New Zealand's Emily Barclay. Prime mover is a term used in Australia for the huge semi-trailer trucks that thunder along outback roads. The film is billed as a diesel-charged love story about a young ...
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Edko to launch Claustrophobia at Cannes
Hong Kong-based Edko Films will commence international sales at Cannes on Claustrophobia, which is one of the first films to be backed by Irresistible Films, a film fund established by Bill Kong and Japan's Avex Group Holdings. The film is the directorial debut of award-winning screenwriter Ivy Ho (July Rhapsody). ...
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BBC Films to give UK producers 30% of its actual equity recoupment
BBC Films announced today that it will create a corridor for UK producers to access 30% of the actual equity recoupment that BBC Films receives on a project.The move comes as part of some key changes to the deal terms offered to UK film producers, and has been warmly welcomed ...
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Films Distribution picks up Salamandra
Films Distribution has picked up Directors' Fortnight selection Salamandra by director Pablo Aguero heading into the Cannes Film Festival.The company will handle world sales on the feature debut which is also in contention for the Camera d'Or.Films Distribution co-founder Nicolas Brigaud Robert tells ScreenDaily, 'The director and the cinematography are ...
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Maximum takes Quinzaine title Boogie for the world
Maximum Films International (MFI) has picked up world sales rights on Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean's Quinzaine selection Boogie. The story of a man vacationing with his wife and child who has a crisis of lost youth when he encounters old friends at the same resort, the film stars Dragos Bucur, ...
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K5 takes on world sales for Yu's Ping Pong Playa
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on world sales rights to Jessica Yu's Ping Pong Playa.The film premiered at Toronto.Oscar winner Yu wrote and directed the comedy, about an Asian-American suburbanite who unexpectedly has to take over his family's ping-pong dynasty. Jimmy Tsai, Elizabeth Sung and Rodger ...
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THINKFILM Intl takes on sales for Down And Dirty Pictures, Radford's Mula
UK-based sales company THINKFilm International, the sister company to Capitol Films, has taken on two new projects for its Cannes sales slate. The company has taken on international rights to Michael Radford's La Mula and Ken Bowser's Down and Dirty Pictures. La Mula stars Spanish rising talents Oscar Jaenada and ...
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Penny Wolf launches new Film Consultancy Partners
UK-based sales veteran Penny Wolf is launching her new outfit The Film Consultancy Partners at Cannes this week.The London-based company is a boutique film consultancy working in international film distribution, marketing and financing.'I think there are so many sales companies in the UK so I didn't want to be another ...
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Flueger, Perlman, Manning, Pantoliano star in The Job
Principal photography is set to begin this week in Detroit on the darkly comic thriller The Job starring Patrick Flueger, Ron Perlman, Taryn Manning and Joe Pantoliano.Shem Bitterman will direct from his own screenplay adaptation of his stage play of the same name about a young man who undertakes a ...