All Screen articles in 2 March 2007
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Baron Cohen gets Israel Film Festival achievement award
Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen has been chosen to be the inaugural recipient of the outstanding achievement award at the 22nd Annual Israel Film Festival.The British comedian will join fellow nominees Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal and Israeli actress Gila Almagor at the opening night gala award dinner on ...
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Screen Index up 8% with continued boom in Italy
Local films helped push collective global box office takings of nine territories up 8% last weekend compared to the same weekend last year, according to Screen International's Screen Index. Italy continues to surge and was up 51.8% year-on-year thanks to the success of Fausto Brizzi's sequel Notte Prima Degli Esami ...
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Tanya Seghatchian to head UK Film Council Development Fund
UK producer Tanya Seghatchian, who has worked on the Harry Potter films with Heyday Films and set up Apocalypso Pictures with Pawel Pawlikowski, is set to take up the post as the new head of the UK Film Council's Development Fund as of April 1. She replaces Jenny Borgars, who ...
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Goodbye, Southern City (Proschai, Yuzhnyi Gorod)
Dir: Oleg Safaraliyev. Azer-Russ. 2007. 90mins. Enjoying plenty of local colour but little else, Goodbye, Southern City, a modest Azeri film noir shot entirely in Baku, will be limited to those interested in the region or expatriates. For others it will look like a sincere, heartfelt but misguided elegy of ...
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Government closes UK tax schemes
The UK Treasury has pulled the plug on tax schemes expected to raise hundreds of millions of pounds of film finance this year.One expert believes as much as $3.8bn (£2bn) could have been lost before the end of this tax year, which ends early next month.The UK revenue department announced ...
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Ad Lib Night (Aju Teukbyeolhan Sonnim)
Dir: Lee Yoon-ki. S Kor. 2006. 99mins. Korean film-maker Lee Yoon-ki seems obsessed with female solitude and dysfunctional families. After This Charming Girl and Love Talk, he revisists the theme with Ad Lib Night, a film shot so much in close-ups that it could have been made anywhere, so little ...
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Opium: Diary Of A Madwoman (Opium: Egy Elmebeteg No Naploja)
Dir. Janos Szasz. Hung-Ger. 2007. 108mins. A decade after the adaptation of The Wittman Boys (1997) which delved with a vengeance into the evil lurking behind childhood innocence, Janos Szasz goes back to the diaries of same writer, Geza Csath, and comes up with the cinematic equivalent of an Edgar ...
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Confession Of Pain (Seung sing)
Dirs: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak. HK. 2006. 116mins. The Infernal Affairs trilogy - and Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning remake, The Departed - turned Andrew Lau and Alan Mak into the golden boys of Hong Kong cinema. The directing duo followed up with the enjoyably lightweight teen racer yarn Initial D, which ...
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London's Rendez-vous to open with Dahan's La Vie En Rose
London's Rendez-vous With French Cinema, which runs March 29-April 1 at the Curzon Mayfair, will open with Olivier Dahan's Berlinale competitor La Vie En Rose (La Mome). The Edith Piaf biopic stars Marion Cotillard and has already been a box-office hit in France.The festival closes with a gala screening of ...
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BAFTA winners in full
BAFTA winners in fullBest FilmWINNER: The Queen Babel The Last King of Scotland The Departed Little Miss SunshineBest British FilmWINNER: The Last King of Scotland The Queen Casino RoyaleNotes on a Scandal United 93Best Actor In A Leading RoleWINNER: Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland Daniel Craig Casino Royale ...
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Golden Globe winners in full
64th GOLDEN GLOBES Best Motion Picture - DramaWINNER: BabelBobbyThe DepartedLittle ChildrenThe QueenBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - DramaPenelope Cruz VolverJudi Dench Notes On A ScandalMaggie Gyllenhaal SherrybabyWINNER: Helen Mirren The QueenKate Winslet Little ChildrenBest Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - DramaLeonardo DiCaprio Blood ...
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Finnish producer MR Matila Rohr on board for Georg
Finnish production outfit, MR Matila Rohr Productions, will co-produce Georg, a $2.76m (Euros 2.1m) biopic of Estonian singer Georg Ots, who in the 1960s was as popular as The Beatles behind the Iron Curtain - 'and in Finland, too,' added Finnish producer Ilkka Matila. Starring Marko Matvere and Anastasia Makejeva, ...
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Ascot Elite picks up four horror titles for Germany
The Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has announced the acquisition of all rights to four horror titles for German speaking territories. The four titles acquired are: the horror comedy Black Sheep written and directed by Jonathan King which was bought from New Zealand Film. Paddy Breathnach's gory horror film Shrooms, starring ...
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Korea 's b.o.m. Film Production promotes Cho to CEO
Leading Korean producer b.o.m. Film Production has promoted entertainment lawyer Cho Kwang-hee, who is currently chief financial officer in charge of productions, to the position of chief executive officer. Founding head and former CEO Oh Jung-wan is now taking a less visible position as executive head of production to concentrate ...
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Hong Kong Filmart adds TV, locations showcases
This year's Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart) will host two new thematic pavilions - TV World and Locations World - as part of its drive to become the leading cross-media trading platform in the region. Almost 40 companies, from the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and other regions, ...
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SPRI's Ghost Rider blazes into UK, Japan, Brazil
Ghost Rider is expected to dominate the international arena for a third consecutive weekend as it prepares to launch in three major markets.Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) comic book adaptation has amassed $41.3m so far and this weekend rides into the UK and Brazil on Mar 2 on 350 and ...
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United States - New road for Mandalay
This time last year, Cathy Schulman was basking in glory as one of the two Oscar-winning producers of surprise best picture choice Crash. Currently, her time is taken up with something perhaps less glamorous but still, she says, exciting: the "entrepreneurial re-building" of Mandalay Pictures.After more than a decade working ...
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United States - Southern man
Jeff Nichols was two years behind writer-director David Gordon Green at the North Carolina School of the Arts. After Green made his auspicious feature debut in 2000 with the poetic George Washington, Nichols took particular notice of his professional advice."He told me, 'Go make a movie. The only way (the ...
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United Kingdom - Shared vision
Three of the UK's top independent production companies - Ecosse Films, Recorded Picture Company (RPC) and Samuelson Productions - are working together to establish Visible Films, which will work as an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) taking advantage of the UK government's new film tax credit.Peter Watson, CEO of RPC, says ...
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Industry moves
Wilkinson to leave UK exhibitors groupJohn Wilkinson, who has served as chief executive of the UK-based Cinema Exhibitors' Association since 1990, plans to step down. He will remain in place until a replacement is appointed.Locarno loses communications staffTwo communications department staffers have left the Locarno International Film Festival: Riccardo Franciolli, ...