All Screen articles in 15 July 2008
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The Vintners Luck
A peasant wine maker in 19th Century France and an angel grapple with the sensual, the sacred and the profane in their search for the perfect vintage.
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After The Waterfall
A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year- old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in charge of his missing daughter’s case.
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The Volcano
Summer, girls, beer, drugs, gangs … It’s not easy being eleven. Boy and his brother Rocky try to find their potential in the shadow of their larger-than-life father Alamein
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Rosenberg hired to adapt BBC series Second Sight for Universal
Universal Pictures has hired Craig Rosenberg to adapt the BBC series Second Sight as a thriller for producers Don Murphy and Susan Montford.The project is based on the UK crime drama that gave Clive Owen his breakout role as a hard-living homicide detective suffering from a rare degenerative eye condition ...
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Tracy Falco joins Universal as evp of production
Producer Tracy Falco has been named executive vice president of production at Universal Pictures.For the past year Falco has had a first-look deal at United Artists, where she produced Robert Redford's Lions For Lambs. She will report to Universal's president of production Donna Langley.In her new position, Falco will support ...
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Cantet's The Class to open New York Film Festival
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or The Class (Entre Les Murs) will open the New York Film Festival, set to run from September 26-October 12.Two showcases at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater will round out the festival's main line-up with historical and alternative perspectives.The first, In The Realm Of Oshima, runs ...
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Films from McGowan and Skogland lead Canadian charge at TIFF
Michael McGowan's One Week starring Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban and Campbell Scott and Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking with Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan and Kevin Zegers have joined the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival's line-up of Canadian gala presentations.Special Presentations include Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth, Fernando ...
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DeVito to direct Charlotte Doyle for HandMade, Plaza Productions
Danny DeVito will direct The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle from his own screenplay for HandMade Films and El-Ad US Holding's Plaza Productions International.The family action adventure will star Morgan Freeman, Pierce Brosnan and Saoirse Ronan, who earned an Oscar nomination this year for her role in Atonement.DeVito, who will ...
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Hindi films have tough half year at domestic box office
Hindi films have seen an unarguably poor run at the Indian box office in the first half of 2008, according to local analysts. Although there are no official half-yearly figures for combined box office receipts, most of the big-budget, big-hype films, whether from small or large production houses, have failed ...
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Arts Alliance joins anti-copyright theft group Industry Trust
Digital film services company Arts Alliance Media has become a member of the Industry Trust for IP Awareness.The industry group battles copyright theft.AAM joins the Trust as it starts on the second phase of a new communications campaign, launched in July 2007. Its 2008 anti-copyright theft message will move from ...
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Local writers take prizes at Cheltenham's recent Screenwriters Fest
The third Screenwriters' Festival (July 1-3) announced awards for its workshop schemes for local writers Script_1 and Future Street, with competitions sponsored by LSC, South West Screen and Gloucestershire County Council.The Script_1 winners were: Marc Griffiths for The Storm Watch, Carol Sheppard for Grey and Steve Edwards for Shopping Addict. ...
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Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann to leave Constantin for Telepool
Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann will join Munich-based Telepool as head of acquisitions and sales for German-speaking territories. She takes the post as of January 2009, and will resign as head of licensing of Constantin Film, where she had been since 2005. She is also a veteran of Prokino Filmverleih.Higuchi-Zitzmann will report directly ...
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Jerry Cotton, Flucht Aus Tibet gets top funding from FFF Bayern
New feature films by Joseph Vilsmaier, Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Matsutani and Maria Blumencon are among the projects awarded a total $10m (Euros 6.26m) by the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern at its latest sitting.The largest amount - $ 1.1m (Eu 700,000) - went to Phillip Stennert and Cyrill Boss’ ...
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Netherlands festival to open with Westdijk's In Real Life
Robert Jan Westdijk's In Real Life, a story of a film within a film, will open the 28th Netherlands Film Festival (Sept 24-Oct 3).Westdijk's Little Sister won the festival's best feature prize and City of Utrecht Prize in 1995. Also, his 2003 Phileine Says Sorry also opened the festival and ...
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Hastings, Lemos named VPs at British ratings board
After an open competition, Alison Hastings and Gerard Lemos have been appointed as vice presidents of the British Board of Film Classfication (BBFC), which rates UK film and video releases.They will take their posts in November when Janet Lewis-Jones and John Taylor step down after ten years in the same ...
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Switzerland's Ascot Elite picks up 8 titles including Milk and Red Cliff
Leading Swiss independent distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment has announced eight new acquisitions for its release lineup. As part of a strategy to consolidate its market position, theZurich-based company has secured all rights for Focus Features' HarveyMilk biopic Milk, directed by Gus van Sant and starring Sean Penn andJosh Brolin, the ...
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Yerevan plans second Regional Co-Production Forum
Eight features and four documentary projects from Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Moldova, Turkey, Ukraine are being pitched to potential co-producers and financiers at the Directors Across Borders' (DAB) second Regional Co-Production Forum (July 15-17) during this week's Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan.The low-budget projects include the family drama Before ...
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Little Robbers start shooting in Riga with Karl Markovics
Principal photography has begun in Riga on family adventure Little Robbers, featuring The Counterfeiters star Karl Markovics. Robis (5) and his sister Louisa (7) hatch a plan to rob the bank that has evicted their family after their father loses his job. Acme will release the Latvian-language version of the ...
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Weinsteins get their own pay-TV deal, finally, with Showtime
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed a seven-year pay-TV deal with Showtime Networks in a key move for both companies.Select TWC titles had been going to Showtime through its distribution relationship with MGM, but once it became clear that MGM was reconfiguring its modus operandi and said it would partner ...
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Jaman.com signs deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment
Online film destination Jaman.com has signed a distribution deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment to rent or sell titles online.The move marks the latest gambit in Jaman.com's expansion plans as founder and CEO Gaurav Dhillon seeks to expand the library and turn the company into the biggest online destination for film ...