All Screen articles in 16 March 2007

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  • News

    UK tax: feeling the squeeze

    2007-03-16T21:05:00Z

    'I think it's going to get worse before it gets better,' admits John Woodward, chief executive of the UK Film Council of the current state of UK film finance.'For the world's third-biggest producer of films, the idea that the situation will get worse will not surprise many people. But local ...

  • News

    Warp X takes off with Donkey Punch

    2007-03-16T16:39:00Z

    Shooting has begun for the first film on the slate of new production company Warp X. British thriller Donkey Punch will also be the debut feature for co-writers Olly Blackburn and David Bloom, with Blackburn making his feature directorial debut. Warp X is the new digital low-budget feature film scheme ...

  • News

    300 boosts US's box office, Mexico notes 118% year-on-year increase

    2007-03-16T16:25:00Z

    Collective box office revenue of nine territories was up 29% last weekend compared to the same weekend in 2006, according to Screen International's Screen Index. North America led the increase - the territory saw a 41.1% year-on-year increase and took $149.6m at the weekend. Top film 300 - an adaptation ...

  • News

    Grant scheme to strengthen Romania's audiovisual sector

    2007-03-16T16:08:00Z

    Former Eurimages executive secretary Renate Roginas is heading up a $1.2 million (Euros 900,000) PHARE Grant Scheme to strengthen the Romanian audiovisual sector 'with the aim to promote European cultural diversity and to develop a viable national audiovisual industry'.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, Roginas explained that 'the programme runs parallel to ...

  • News

    Guadalajara Film Festival to boast over $600,000 in cash awards

    2007-03-16T14:30:00Z

    Guillermo del Toro, Costa Gavras, Antonio Banderas, Viggo Mortensen and Nelson Perreira dos Santos are some of the celebrities who will attend the Guadalajara Film Festival (March 22-30), which boasts a strong Iberoamerican selection of no less than 140 full length and 106 shorts in its various strands. Del Toro, ...

  • News

    First all-digital cinema for Empire

    2007-03-16T10:56:00Z

    UK's Empire Cinemas today announced the launch of its first totally digital cinema, situated at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. The theatre chain, which has 16 sites across the UK, has partnered with Kodak, Barco and Bell Theatre Services to install the latest in digital cinema projection technology for all six ...

  • News

    Metrodome takes on The Serpent

    2007-03-16T10:22:00Z

    Metrodome have acquired full UK rights to Eric Barbier's stylish French revenge thriller The Serpent. The film is an adaptation of the classic crime novel Plender by Ted Lewis (Get Carter), directed by Eric Barbier and starring Yvan Attal (Munich, The Interpreter) and Clovis Cornillac (Brice De Nice, A Very ...

  • News

    Lola nominees announced

    2007-03-16T10:06:00Z

    Tom Tykwer's lavish adaptation of Patrick Suskind's Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer and Chris Kraus's prison drama Four Minutes are running neck and neck with eight nominations apiece for the German Film Awards - the Golden and Silver Lolas - which will be presented in a gala ceremony ...

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    Korea's T-Entertainment buys stake in Sio Film

    2007-03-16T08:55:00Z

    KOSDAQ-listed T-Entertainment has announced it is buying into production company Sio Film. The entertainment conglomerate has acquired a 29.3% stake in the company that produced Park Chan-wook's Old Boy among other hits. T-Entertainment was formed last year when the publicly listed online games firm Nako Entertainment merged with music specialist ...

  • Reviews

    Reign Over Me

    2007-03-16T08:00:00Z

    Dir/scr: Mike Binder. US. 2007. 125 minutes. Using the events of September 11 as a prism through which to refract one widower's swallowed anguish, writer-director Mike Binder's Reign Over Me is an astute, adult drama that grapples with issues of intervention and familial communication, and asks what is the socially ...

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    Tribeca announces final films for key sections

    2007-03-16T06:26:00Z

    2007 Tribeca Film Festival organisers have announced the third and final group of feature selections for the Discovery, Showcase and Family Film Festival sections. Discovery includes 39 narrative and documentary features from up-and-coming directors from 12 countries. The line-up encompasses Matthew Barbato's sex reassignment documentary Alexis Arquette: She's My ...

  • News

    Magnolia picks up Great World Of Sound

    2007-03-16T06:22:00Z

    Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Craig Zobel'sGreat World Of Sound at the South By Southwest Film Festival.Patrick Healy and Kene Holliday star as two ordinary men who getcaught up in a record industry talent search and learn the finer - andnot so fine - points of being ...

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    Vitale to step down as First Look president

    2007-03-16T06:15:00Z

    Ruth Vitale will step down as president of First Look Pictures on April 30 following the board's decision to scale down its theatrical operations in the wake of Henry Winterstern's departure two weeks ago as CEO and co-chairman. Vitale will continue to oversee First Look Pictures' first wide release on ...

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    Aja to put Piranha back into the water

    2007-03-16T06:10:00Z

    Alexandre Aja will write and direct Dimension Film's upcoming Piranha remake, almost 30 years after the original opened in 1978. Atmosphere Entertainment founder Mark Canton, currently enjoying success with 300, is producing along with Marc Toberoff from IPW, Aja himself, and Gregory Levasseur. Alix Taylor, J Todd Harris ...

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    Fortissimo picks up Yau Nai Hoi's Eye In The Sky

    2007-03-16T05:35:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Asia but including Japan and Korea, to action thriller Eye In The Sky from Hong Kong 's Sundream Motion Pictures. The directorial debut of Johnnie To's regular screenwriter Yau Nai Hoi, the film recently premiered at Berlin and is one of the opening ...

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    Kadokawa Group Holdings launches licensing company

    2007-03-16T04:11:00Z

    Japanese conglomerate Kadokawa Group Holdings (KGH) has established a licensing company, Kadokawa Production, to handle rights management and licensing for the group's various media subsidiaries. The move will consolidate and strengthen Kadokawa's ability to license its vast library of books, animation and films with its main focus on the domestic ...

  • News

    Shadow Of The Dog wins best film at Mumbai fest

    2007-03-16T02:53:00Z

    Girish Kasaravalli's Kanada-language film In The Shadow Of The Dog (Nayi Neralu) won the best film award at the International Film Festival of Mumbai (IFFM) which concluded on Thursday. A trophy and a cash prize of $2,300 (Rs100,000) were presented to the director and a trophy and cash prize of ...

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    SPC takes US rights to Buscemi's Van Gogh remake Interview

    2007-03-16T01:25:00Z

    Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked up US rights to Interview, Steve Buscemi's drama based on the late Theo Van Gogh's 2003 Dutch film of the same name which played at Sundance and Berlin this year.Buscemi directed from his own screenplay and stars opposite Sienna Miller as a jaded political ...

  • Features

    Music and Lyrics hits the right note

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Warner Bros is singing a sweet song as Music And Lyrics climbs up to the top spot internationally, after five weeks in the chart. The romantic comedy took $9.6m at the weekend after opening in an additional eight territories, including Germany, Mexico and Netherlands. Eddie Murphy comedy Norbit also saw ...

  • Features

    United Kingdom - History moves with the times

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    As the industry increasingly looks to take advantage of back catalogues, the world's largest and most valuable film archive is now being made available at the click of a button - for free.The Mediatheque room of the new BFI Southbank beneath London's Waterloo Bridge already has available 300 film and ...