All Screen articles in 16 March 2007
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Serbian triumph at Sofia festival
Serbian filmmaker Srdan Golubovic's family drama-thriller The Trap (Klopka) won the Grand Prix at this year's Sofia International Film Festival.The Serbian-German-Hungarian co-production received its world premiere at last month's Berlinale Forum before opening the Belgrade International Film Festival FEST. It subsequently topped Serbia's box office ahead of the current US ...
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300 exceeds expectations for Warner with $70m opening
300 delivered the first memorable result of the year as it destroyed the competition to open top on an estimated $70m, setting a new record for March. The tale of a band of Spartan warriors that repels the initial attacks by a massive invading Persian army generated the third biggest ...
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WBPI enjoys powerhouse weekend at international box office
Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore ruled the overseas arena as Music And Lyrics grossed an estimated $10.1m in what turned out to be a sensational weekend for Warner Bros.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) also reported record-breaking initial results for the Spartan battle epic 300 - which dominated the North American ...
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De Bokay takes reins of Miami Film Festival from Guillemet
Patrick De Bokay is to succeed Nicole Guillemet as director of the Miami International Film Festival. Guillemet had announced last year that she would be leaving the festival after this year's event which finished yesterday (Sunday).French-born De Bokay's career has principally been in film marketing and advertising and has held ...
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Violin, Banished, Red Road take top honours at Miami
Francisco Vargas Quevedo's El Violin from Mexico and Marco Williams' Banished from the USA won the respective Ibero-American drama and documentary competition sections at the 24th annual Miami International Film Festival during the awards evening on Saturday night (March 10).Meanwhile, Andrea Arnold's much acclaimed Red Road won the World Cinema ...
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Palm gets domestic on Mitsuru's Glamorous Life
Palm Pictures has picked up North American rights to Meike Mitsuru's political satire The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai.The distributor plans an April 2007 release on the story of a call girl who develops psychic powers after she is shot in the head.The woman soon finds herself being pursued after ...
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Chris Auty leaves CEO post at The Works
Chris Auty is stepping down as CEO and from the board of The Works Media Group. He will remain as a consultant for the London-based company, which runs the Works UK Distribution and sales company The Works International. Norman Humphrey, group finance director, has been appointed CEO effectively immediately. Humphrey ...
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The Lookout
Dir/Scr: Scott Frank. US. 2007. 99 mins. Opening Night Film at the SXSW Film Festival, The Lookout is the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Scott Frank (Out Of Sight, Get Shorty, Minority Report, The Interpreter and Little Man Tate). A somewhat uneven, but always engaging film, The Lookout is set ...
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Tribeca and RES founders team for Tomorrow Unlimited
Tribeca Enterprises, parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Cinemas, is partnering with some of the former heads of RES MEDIA group for a new venture, Tomorrow Unlimited LLC. Tomorrow will be led by CEO Karol Martesko-Fenster and COO John Turk, who co-founded and ran digital film and ...
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Princess Of The Sun to become first film screening at Pyramids
French animated feature Princess Of The Sun is to receive its world premiere tomorrow at a special outdoor screening in Egypt, at the bottom of the pyramids of Giza. This is the first time the Egyptian Government has sanctioned such a screening. The Egyptian premiere is the brainchild of French ...
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Diagonale continues strong documentary tradition
Documentaries are once again out in force at this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film which will open in Graz on March 19 with Sabine Derflinger's 42 plus.The documentaries selected to screen over the six days of the festival - one day longer than last year - include Susanne ...
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Teen cult film beats Pinocchio
Italian teen cult film I Want You (Ho Voglia Di Te) has beaten Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio for best opening day for a local film, a record the Oscar winner's film has held since 2002. The Cattleya-produced I Want You, which is a sequel, scored $2 million (Euros 1.5 m) off ...
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Future expands US office with appointment of Charlotte Koh
Future Films USA has hired former Fox Searchlight executive Charlotte Koh as its business development executive. Koh will report to Future USA's CEO Simon Horsman. Future said it would expand further in the coming months with the appointment of a production and development executive.At Fox Searchlight, Koh was a Creative ...
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New multiplex causes box office boom in Sweden
Three months after Sweden's Queen Silvia inaugurated Filmstaden Bergakungen - SF Bio's new $35.3 million (Euros 26.9m) multiplex with 2,260 seats in Goteborg, the country's second-largest city - Sweden's number-one exhibitor has registered a 42% increase in local cinema attendance. Already operating Filmstaden DownTown (eight auditoria) and Palladium (one), adding ...
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Closing release windows could boost film profits, says research
A new piece of academic researchaims to bring some facts to the sensitive issue of DVD release windows.Over recent months, there have been strong protests by exhibitors in Italy, Germany and the UK against erosion of the gap between theatrical and home entertainment launches - and it remains an issue ...
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Asian Film Awards to honour Josephine Siao, David Bordwell
The inaugural Asian Film Awards will give its first Asian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema to Josephine Siao. Siao has starred in more films than any other Hong Kong actor, including Stephen Chow's Fists of Fury 1991 II, Corey Yuen's Fong Sai Yuk and Ann Hui's Summer ...
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Flakes
Dir: Michael Lehmann. US. 2007. 83 mins. Flakes starts well and full of pep, but is one of those 'high concept' indie films that fatally loses steam after the first 20 minutes, once the basic premise - dueling cereal restaurants, one a laid-back, funky hippie operation and the other an ...
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Picturehouse marches with Jacquet on Fox & The Child
Picturehouse has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Luc Jacquet's March Of The Penguins follow-up The Fox & The Child.The Bonne Pioche production was first announced at Sundance 2006 and is being produced by Jacquet's team of Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud and Emmanuel Priou.The Fox & Child is based ...
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Kaneshiro to replace Leung in Woo's Red Cliff
Taiwanese-Japanese star Takeshi Kaneshiro has replaced Tony Leung Chiu-wai in the cast of John Woo's upcoming military epic Red Cliff, after the Hong Kong actor had to quit the project due to scheduling conflicts. In addition, Japanese star Shidou Nakamura, who recently appeared in Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, ...
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Argentina to sign co-production deals with China, France others
Argentina's film institute INCAA announced at the Mar del Plata Film Festival yesterday that new co-production agreements were due to be signed with China, Israel, France, Germany and Switzerland in the coming weeks.'We are very hopeful about the future. We signed a similar agreement with Spain four years ago, and ...