All Screen articles in 13 July 2007
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The Band's Visit sweeps the board at Jerusalem Film Festival
Eran Kolirin's Cannes favourite takes best film, actor and actress; Moshon Salmona's Wassermil wins the inaugural Most Promising Debut Returning home after its triumphant debut at Cannes, Eran Kolirin The Band's Visit took all the major prizes at the 24th Jerusalem Film Festival on Saturday. The comedy-drama, about an Egyptian ...
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UK admissions fell 5% in 2006 to 156.6m
UK admissions fell for the second consecutive year in 2006 to 156.6m despite an increase in the number of films released, new research reveals. According to the UK Film Council's Statistical Yearbook for 2006/07, cinema attendance in the UK fell 5% last year, compared to 2005. Monthly admissions throughout ...
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UK admissions fell 5% in 2006 to 156.6m
UK admissions fell for the second consecutive year in 2006 to 156.6m despite an increase in the number of films released, new research reveals. According to the UK Film Council's Statistical Yearbook for 2006/07, cinema attendance in the UK fell 5% last year, compared to 2005. Monthly admissions throughout the ...
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UK admissions fell 5% in 2006 to 156.6m
UK admissions fell for the second consecutive year in 2006 to 156.6m despite an increase in the number of films released, new research reveals. According to the UK Film Council's Statistical Yearbook for 2006/07, cinema attendance in the UK fell 5% last year, compared to 2005. Monthly admissions throughout ...
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Venice jury to include Campion, Verhoeven and Innaritu
The Venice Film Festival has named a distinguished list of directors to make up the international competition jury for its 64th edition.The jurists are all 'important figures' in Venice's recent history, the Biennale said.The jurors will are:French director Catherine Breillat, who presented Brief Crossing at Venice in 2001 and whose ...
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Transformers has record-breaking opening in China
Transformers has set a new opening day record for an imported film in China, taking in $2.95m (RMB22.4m) on July 11. Previously, the record was set by Spiderman 3 which took $2.34m on its opening day. Beijing 's multiplexes were packed from early morning on Wednesday for the 12am premiere ...
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Virgin Media to offer downloads of First Light project
First Light Movies, the UK's young people's film-making scheme, has become a content partner for Virgin Media and FilmFlex Movies, to offer the First Light shorts on demand to Virgin Media customers.The films are made by 5 to 18-year-olds and will now be offered for 50p on the service. Films ...
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Jeremy Irons to lead 13th Sarajevo festival jury
Jeremy Irons will be the president of the jury of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25). The festival has also revealed its Documentary Panorama programme selected by Howard Feinstein, who said: 'The popular Panorama Documentaries, programme launched in 2001, strand covers the whole world except for regional works, with ...
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Robert Young starts Norwegian shoot for Wide Blue Yonder
This week the Norwegian city of Haugesund - home of the Norwegian International Film Festival - was invaded by stars outside the festival season, as UK director Robert Young started principal photography for his new feature, Wide Blue Yonder, with British actors Brian Cox and and James Fox in the ...
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New York Film Academy plans European hub in Florence
New York Film Academy has announced the opening of a new Europeanheadquarters in Florence, Italy.The school will be operative as of January 2008.NYFA has been operative with summer seminars in Florence for threeyears, is opening its official site in conjunction with and at theheadquarters of the Mediateca Regional Toscana (The ...
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Babelgum offers content from Giffoni Film Festival
New Internet TV service Babelgum has started festival broadcasts with Italy's Giffoni Film Festival.An entire Babelgum channel will be devoted to the Giffoni event, which is now in its 37th year. The festival concentrates on films for children.The channel is currently offering a selection of shorts from the 2006 festival ...
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Order Of The Phoenix set for magical international weekend
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix is set to out-muscle Paramount/PPI's current overseas champion Transformers this weekend as the fifth instalment in the hugely popular children's series rolls out in 44 territories.The film, released through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI), has already amassed $29.2m from its first day ...
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Transformers take over the world
Robots ruled the international box office this weekend as Transformers took the number one spot with $47.1m, for a total of $97.2m to date. Michael Bay's blockbuster was up 30% after expanding in an additional 19 territories. A second weekend also proved helpful for Die Hard 4.0, which was up ...
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Industry moves
Yari veteran Katz joins Gill and Sacker ventureRobert Katz has joined Mark Gill and Neil Sacker in their new independent venture The Film Department as president of production. He had been vice-president of production for The Yari Film Group.Purnell takes UK Culture Secretary roleAs new UK prime minister Gordon Brown ...
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Screenwriting: cracking the code
Complaints from writers about their status in the film industry are perennial. So what can drive change, given the priority is to make films that find an audience - not keep writers happy' Danny Plunkett reports on a possible breakthrough at the International Screenwriters' Festival. This month's International Screenwriters' Festival ...
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France: sales drop is still cause for cheer
After a record first half in 2006, the first six months of 2007 have seen a 12% drop in film attendance in France. However, the 90.5 million admissions racked up are an increase on the same period in 2005.That figure comes from France's Film Federation (Fncf), which represents the nation's ...
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Editorial opinion: talent to burn
In an unquantifiable business, backing talent is the best bet - provided you know where to look, says Colin BrownThere is a belief that all this new equity and debt financing that has gushed into the film industry over the past couple of years is somehow 'smart money'.Because the newly ...
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Box-office opinion: rise of the machines
Multiplexes were originally envisaged as a way of expanding choice, but are now being dominated by a handful of titles, argues Len Klady.When Garth Drabinsky opened the first Cineplex in Toronto back in 1979, the idea of having 14 viewing options under one roof was looked on with a combination ...
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International box office - Local Figures on the slide
Leading South Korean exhibitor CJ CGV has released statistics for the first half of the year, which place the market share of local films at 47.3%, the lowest since 2001 and down from 59.5% for the same period last year.Local film market share in Seoul - traditionally lower than nationwide ...
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William Schopf and Ed Arentz: boxing clever
Starting life as an arthouse theatre, a specialty film distribution enterprise is thinking outside the Box. Patrick Z McGavin reports. The first time William Schopf (pictured) met film distribution consultant Ed Arentz to discuss opening a new specialty film distribution venture, Arentz did everything he could to dissuade Schopf from ...