All Screen articles in 14 November 2007
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Summit buys remake rights to Korean thriller Seven Days
Summit Entertainment has picked up remake rights from Prime Entertainment to the South Korean thriller Seven Days directed by Won Shin-Yeon.Summit is believed to have paid a low six-figure sum at AFM for the story of a defence lawyer who is blackmailed into representing a rape suspect after her daughter ...
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IMAX signs four-picture deal with DreamWorks Animation
IMAX Corporation will release DreamWorks Animation's first three 3D films around the world in IMAX 3D in the company's first multiple film deal with a Hollywood studio.Monsters Vs Aliens will open in March 2009, How To Train Your Dragon in November 2009 and Shrek Goes Fourth in May 2010. A ...
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Spielberg named recipient of Cecil B DeMille Award at Golden Globes
Steven Spielberg is to receive the Cecil B DeMille Award at the 65th Annual Golden Globes on January 13, 2008.
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Gerson, Plouffe promoted in Focus Features production department
David Gerson has been promoted to Focus Features' vice president of production and development and Matthew Plouffe has been named creative executive.Gerson reports to Focus president of production John Lyons and Plouffe reports to Gerson. Both are based in New York and previously worked as assistants to Lyons after joining ...
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Eros' Om Shanti Om tops Ratatouille in international chart
Indian films came up blazing in this weekend's international top 40 with two films - Om Shanti Om and Saawariya - collectively taking $31.5m and accounting for more than 20% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.Eros International's Om Shanti Om ...
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Singapore-based Anytime undergoes major restructuring
A major corporate restructuring is underway for Singapore-based VOD content provider Anytime in an effort to find new investors as the company is beset by funding issues and lower than anticipated sales. The exercise, which entails financial and operational changes, is being implemented by an interim management, headed by company ...
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Goteborg Fund selects six projects from developing countries
The Goteborg International Film Festival Fund has named the latest projects it is backing, with cooperation from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA. The fund, set up in 1998, supports film-makers working in countries in transition. The following six projects were selected from around 100 applications to receive development ...
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Sheffield awards include Talk To Me, We Are Together
The Sheffield Doc/Fest (Nov 7-11) handed out its first Grierson: Sheffield Awards as the UK festival closed this weekend. The Green Award went to Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth about the global climate crisis, the Innovation Award went to Mark Craig's Talk To Me about voicemail messages, and the Youth ...
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Starting Out In The Evening
Dir: Andrew Wagner. US, 2007. 105minsA superb performance by Frank Langella anchors the exceedingly literate, engrossing Starting Out In The Evening, a richly drawn and for the most part artfully understated portrait of an aged novelist struggling with the flickering flame of creativity's muse. Mainstream breakout potential is highly unlikely ...
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Norway's Kill Buljo sells to 26 territories for Imagination Worldwide
Norwegian directors Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen's $163,700 (Eu112,600) project Kill Buljo-The Movie has sold to 26 territories following the AFM, including the US, the UK, Australia (The Weinstein Company). The US-based sales agent Imagination Worldwide has also licensed the film to Brazil (Europa Filmes), Japan (New Select), Germany ...
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VIP fund's former CEO sentenced to six years in prison
Andreas Schmid, the former CEO of the German private media fund VIP Medienfonds, was sentenced to six years imprisonment for tax evasion by a Munich court on Tuesday morning (Nov 13). VIP's managing director Andreas Grosch, who had suddenly exited his post from the beleaguered fund in June 2006, was ...
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Final approval set for Brazil-Germany co-production agreement
After more than two years of legislative limbo, the new Brazil-Germany Co-Production Agreement has finally been approved by both houses in Brazil's National Congress and has now come into force. The new accord had been signed by Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and Germany's then State Minister of Culture ...
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Dulluc prize shortlists films by Rohmer, Chabrol, and Honore
Eight films have been short-listed for France's prestigious Louis Delluc prize. Half of the nominees hail from confirmed masters and half from younger talent. The films are: Eric Rohmer's The Romance Of Astrea And Celadon , Belle Toujours from Manoel de Oliveira, A Girl Cut In Two by Claude Chabrol, ...
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Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Dir: Zach Helm. US. 2007. 94mins.Shunning the wised-up attitude and frenetic humour of so many other kids movies, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium may occasionally strain too hard for magical whimsy, but there's no disputing the film's sweetness or poignancy. Anchored by a deft performance from Natalie Portman as a young ...
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Fox greenlights Dragonball movie for Aug 08 release date
Twentieth Century Fox has greenlit an adaptation of Akira Toriyama's revered manga comic book franchise Dragonball and set a worldwide release date of August 15, 2008.Production will begin later this year on the sci-fi adventure which Kung Fu Hustle's Stephen Chow will produce and James Wong will direct from his ...
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Kate Bush writes end title song to The Golden Compass
Kate Bush will contribute the original song Lyra to the end title credits of New Line's upcoming fantasy adventure The Golden Compass.The song is named after Lyra Belacqua, the lead character in the adaptation of Philip Pullman's trilogy about a girl who leads an expedition to rescue some kidnapped children.Bush's ...
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Irish Film Board greenlights three films for Catalyst scheme
The Irish Film Board has announced the three Catalyst feature film projects to receive the green light. Three feature film projects have been green-lit for the low budget scheme Catalystproject. The successful projects, Redux, One Hundred Mornings, and Eamon, were selected from more than 45 submissions, and each film will ...
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Good Luck Chuck leads UK box office for Lionsgate UK
Lionsgate's Good Luck Chuck stole the top slot in the UK box office chart this weekend with a $2.7m ($1.3m) take from 379 sites.For the full UK chart click here.The romantic comedy enjoyed a $7,225 (£3,473) site average in its opening weekend in the territory and stars popular US comedian ...
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Alexis Dos Santos starts UK shoot for Unmade Beds
Alexis Dos Santos has started principal photography in the UKthis week for his second film, Unmade Beds. The project, which will shoot for five weeks in London and Nottingham, stars Deborah Francois, Fernando Tielve, Michiel Huisman, Iddo Goldberg and Richard Lintern. The story follows a man who arrives in London ...