All Screen articles in 2 October 2007
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Blanchett to receive top honour at Santa Barbara
Cate Blanchett, expected to be a leading Oscar contender this seasonfor key roles in two upcoming prestige releases, will receive the 2008Santa Barbara International Film Festival's (SBIFF) highest honour,the Modern Master Award, on Jan 26 2008.Blanchett won the Coppa Volpi at Venice last month for her performanceas Bob Dylan in ...
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Blanchett to receive top honour at Santa Barbara
Cate Blanchett, expected to be a leading Oscar contender this seasonfor key roles in two upcoming prestige releases, will receive the 2008Santa Barbara International Film Festival's (SBIFF) highest honour,the Modern Master Award, on Jan 26 2008.Blanchett won the Coppa Volpi at Venice last month for her performanceas Bob Dylan in ...
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AFM to feature 106 industry world premieres
Organisers at the upcoming 28th AFM in Santa Monica have announcedthat 522 features will screen at the event, among them 106 industryworld premieres and 364 market premieres.Industry world premieres include: Mad Money starring Katie Holmes,Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah, which Nu Image is selling; SmartPeople with Thomas Hayden Church, Sarah ...
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Fat Boy outruns new releases to lead fourth week at UK box office
British comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run dominated the UK box office for the fourth weekend in a row, keeping a firm hold of the number one slot with a $2.01m (£988,788) take from 398 sites.The film, released by Entertainment Film Distributors, is one of four films that refused to budge ...
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NonStop acquires It's A Free World and La Zona
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavia and Iceland rights for Ken Loach's It's A Free World and Scandinavia and Baltics rights for Rodrigo Pla's La Zona. Loach's It's A Free World, about a British woman who tries to make money from illegal immigrants working in the UK, won the ...
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Seachd producer withdraws from BAFTA over Oscar snub
Award-winning Scottish producer Chris Young has resigned from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in protest at the academy's refusal to submit any British film in the foreign language category. Young's Gaelic-language feature Seachd-The Inaccessible Pinnacle was thought to be a front runner for the British submission. BAFTA ...
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Park Entertainment takes on sales for Cheung's Bodyguard
Park Entertainment is handling world sales for Bodyguard - A New Beginning. UK-based director Chee Keung Cheung has finished principal photography on the action movie, which shot in Hong Kong and northwest England. The cast features Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Richard Ng, Vincent Sze, Mark Strange and Nathan Lewis. Park Entertainment also ...
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Films from 19 countries nominated for Asia Pacific awards
Lebanon's Caramel , South Korea's Secret Sunshine, Turkey's Takva: A Man's Fear Of God and Iran's Night Bus are the most nominated films competing for the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Each of the four films have been nominated three times, including for the best feature category, it was announced ...
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Bac founder Labadie plans to legally contest ousting from company
Bac Films has announced the departure of its founder and managing director, Jean Labadie. The board of holding company Bac Majestic, of which Bac Films is a 100% subsidiary, revoked Labadie's mandate on September 12 and also put an end to his employee contract as of September 24. Labadie, who ...
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BBC Films restructures with new board working under Jane Tranter
In London this morning, Jane Tranter, Controller BBC Fiction, spelled out her vision for a newly revamped BBC Films. 'The BBC's commitment to BBC Films is as absolute as it ever has been,' Tranter said.The major change is now that BBC Films will be managed by a new four-member BBC ...
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Athens gives Golden Athena for best film to Puenzo's XXY
The Argentinian production XXY directed by Lucia Puenzo was named best film of the international competition at the 13th Athens International Film Festival (Opening Nights Conn-X) receiving the Golden Athena and a prize of $14,170(Euros 10,000) in cash handed out by the European Youth Jury formed by 11 young European ...
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Summer wraps UK shoot for The Works, Vertigo
Kenny Glenaan has wrapped principal photography on Summer for The Works International and Vertigo Films. Summer shot for five weeks in and around Bolsover, Derbyshire. Post-production will start in Glasgow next week. Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets and Rachael Blake star with newcomers Sean Kelly, Matthew Workman, Jo Doherty, Christopher Russell, ...
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ContentFilm takes on thriller Balibo with LaPaglia
ContentFilm International has taken on world rights (outside Australia and New Zealand) to Robert Connolly's thriller Balibo starring Anthony LaPaglia. The film is based on the true events of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. LaPaglia plays Australian TV journalist Roger East, who runs a local news agency ...
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BBC Films restructuring creates board including Langan and Wright
As expected, the BBC has announced a restructuring of BBC Films. Jane Tranter, Controller BBC Fiction, has said that the film arm's day-to-day management and decision-making will be the responsibility of a new board, comprised of Christine Langan (comissioning editor, BBC Films), Jamie Laurenson (executive producer, BBC Films), Joe Oppenheimer ...
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The Last Station gets $1.9m boost from DFFF
Michael Hoffman's Tolstoy drama The Last Station, starring Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep and Laura Linney, has received the fourth largest amount awarded by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) to an international production this year. The allocation of $1.9m (Euros 1.34m) was only surpassed by Speed Racer (Euros 9m), The ...
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Williams promoted to chief technology officer at MPAA
Jim C Williams has been appointed senior vice president and chief technology officer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Williams has served as a senior technology executive at the MPAA since he joined in 2002 as vice president of television and video systems standards. In his new role ...
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Kevin Sullivan moves to First Look in marketing post
Former Blockbuster Online director of product Kevin Sullivan has been appointed First Look Studios' vice president of home entertainment marketing. Sullivan will report directly to First Look's executive vice president worldwide marketing Brooke Ford and is expected to start work on the first quarter 2008 releases of King Of California ...
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Czechs crown Menzel's King Of England for Oscar
The Czech Film and Television Academy has selected Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England as the Czech submission for the foreign-language film category at the Academy Awards. The Czech academy also considered Jan Sverak's Empties and Alice Nellis' Little Girl Blue. Since its premiere, I Served The King ...
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Ben Ammar preparing bid for Italian distributor
French-Tunisian financier Tarak Ben Ammar is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in Italian independent distributor Eagle Pictures.The Milan and Rome based company - operated by Ciro and Steffano Dammicco - is one of Italy's top five independent distributors and was responsible for the massive 2004 rollout ...
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Overture takes on Springer and Monroe
Rob Springer has joined Overture Films as senior vice president of sales operations and Kevin Monroe has come aboard as vice president of business and legal affairs. Springer assumes responsibility for the operational aspect of the studio's distribution unit, which includes box office research, reporting and analysis, as well ...