All Screen articles in 17 June 2007
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Silver Surfer conquers domestic box office wth $57.4m weekend
Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer opened top as expected on an estimated $57.4m that marginally beat its predecessor's $56.1m debut two years ago.Weekend box office dropped against the same period last year for the third consecutive weekend as the top 12 films combined for $138.8m, down 4% from ...
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Shrek leads monster weekend at international box office
Shrek the Third won the four-way battle for overseas supremacy at the weekend as Paramount/PPI's animated feature grossed an estimated $46m from 3,693 screens in 36 territories.The film crossed $100m and currently stands at $107m thanks to 13 launches led by a series of record-breaking results.Shrek The Third registered a ...
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Eastern European Acquisition Pool signs deals with Barefoot, Boje Buck
Berlin-based Eastern European Acquisition Pool (EEAP) has acquired rights to new productions by Germany's Boje Buck Produktion and Barefoot Films for Central and Eastern Europe as well as for the CIS territories.All rights were secured for these territories to Detlev Buck's first children's film Hands Off Mississippi after EEAP had ...
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Film business training: adifferent class
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass looks at the upturn in formalised training across the continent, and speaks to graduates from some of the key courses. In most companies, the thought of letting anyone without training loose on the financial, accounting, marketing, legal and sales operations ...
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Munich honours Kline and Friedkin
US actor Kevin Kline and veteran Hollywood film-maker William Friedkin are to receive the Munich Film Festival's CineMerit Award for services to cinema this year. Previous recipients of the CineMerit Award included such leading international film industry figures as Barry Levinson, Sir Alan Parker, Milos Forman, and Susan Sarandon. Together ...
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Billy The Kid
Dir. Jennifer Venditti. US. 2007. 85mins.Billy The Kid ventures into a small, contained community to focus on a single life and thereby turns the camera on the world. The Grand Prize winner at SXSW in Austin, where it premiered in March, and an audience favourite at Hot Docs in Toronto, ...
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Antonia gets US deal with Anywhere Road, Red Envelope
Anywhere Road and Red Envelope Entertainment have acquired Tata Amaral's Brazilian musical drama Antonia for North America.The partners plan a US theatrical release on Aug 17 for the story of four gifted friends from violent and poor backgrounds to release their dreams of becoming a hip hop band. The film ...
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Adam Rifkin's Look takes grand jury prize at CineVegas
Adam Rifkin's drama Look, which was shot on hundreds of surveillance cameras, won the Grand Jury Prize as the 9th Annual CineVegas Film Festival came to a close at the weekend [June 16].A Special Jury Award for best directing was presented to Joy Dietrich for her drama Tie A Yellow ...
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Daryn Okada elected to second term as ASC president
Daryn Okada has been elected to serve a second one-year term as president of the American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC).The other new officers are vice presidents Michael Goi, Richard Crudo, and Owen Roizman, Treasurer Victor J Kemper, Secretary Michael Negrin, and Sergeant At Arms John Hora.The new board of governors ...
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Vaughn & Thykier's Marv strikes three-year deal with Sony
Sony Pictures has entered into a three-year first-look deal with Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's UK-based Marv Films as part of the studio's International Motion Picture Production initiative.Vaughn launched Marv Films in 2003 as the follow-up to Ska Films, the collaboration with Guy Ritchie that spawned Lock, Stock and Two ...
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Shanghai fest announces projects for China Film Pitch
The organisers of the inaugural China Film Pitch & Catch (CFPC) have unveiled the 30 projects that will be seeking finance during the two-day event, which is being held as part of this year's Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF). Jointly hosted by the SIFF organising committee and China Film Co-production ...
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Beijing Time Antaeus unveils debut three-picture slate
Chinese cinema operator Time Antaeus Group, which is entering film production, unveiled its production arm, Beijing Time Entertainment International, and its debut three-picture slate at the on-going Shanghai International Film Festival. Action comedy Playboy Cops, which was previously announced at Cannes as a co-production with Hong Kong BIG Media Group, ...
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Forbidden Kingdom set for release during Beijing Olympics
Jackie Chan and Jet Li's first on-screen collaboration, Forbidden Kingdom, is scheduled to wrap at the end of August and is aiming for a summer 2008 release, according to the film's producer Casey Silver. As the date coincides with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Silver says he hopes the film ...
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Shanghai International Film Festival opens with Eye In The Sky
International stars including Sharon Stone, Michelle Rodriguez and Maggie Cheung graced the red carpet at the opening of the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival on Saturday night (June 16), which kicked off with a screening of Hong Kong action thriller Eye In The Sky. The director and star of the ...
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Atonement to open Venice Film Festival
UK director Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's award-winning novel Atonement will open the Venice Film Festival's 64th edition.As Wright's second directorial effort (after Pride & Prejudice) the selection underscores Venice Film Festival director Marco Mueller's focus on risk and innovation for the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival.The ...
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Major studio complex planned for Poland
The Polish Film Institute hasannounced plans to build a modern, 10-stage studio complex by 2009. Film City, as the project is being called, will be built on a 476-hectare military airbase in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicou, about 80 kilometers south of Warsaw. Hangars will be converted into 10 stages, the ...
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European film business training: Ateliers Du Cinema Europeen (ACE), France
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass speaks to graduates from some of the key courses.Well established in the industry and working at the time on a comedy with Italian stars Enrico Lo Verso and Monica Bellucci, the Serbia-born, French-based producer Cedomir Kolar signed up with the ...
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European film business training: Media Business School, Spain
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass speaks to graduates from some of the key courses.A solid business training should be an essential part of any film-maker's education, says Alex Marshall, who completed the six-month Mega course at the Media Business School in Spain in 1999. He ...
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European film business training: Screen Academy Wales, UK
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass speaks to graduates from some of the key courses.When he started an MA in film producing and business management at Screen Academy Wales in September 2005, Ed Casey was sceptical about how beneficial the business-focused parts of the course would ...
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European film business training: Film Business Academy, UK
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass speaks to graduates from some of the key courses.Nina Roman is one of the students in the inaugural year of the Film Business Academy's MSc in management (film business stream), which ends in July. The experience of being one of ...