All Screen articles in 2 October 2008
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Disney announce record advance bookings in UK for High School 3
Three weeks before its release of The Disney Channel adaptation High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UK has announced the film has recorded the biggest advance bookings for a film in the UK.As of October 1 cinemas across the UK have taken bookings valued at ...
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Mackiewicz joins Wright as co-president of Regent Worldwide Sales
Liz Mackiewicz has been named co-president alongside Adam Wright of Regent Entertainment's sale division Regent Worldwide Sales.Mackiewicz recently served as senior vice president of international sales at Morgan Creek International and will share with Wright oversight of all management and distribution initiatives as the ten-year-old company looks to expand.'We are ...
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Mamma Mia! continues to sing with Italian opening this weekend
Universal's international champion Mamma Mia! has reached a staggering $361.9m through UPI and studio top brass will expect another command performance when the musical adaptation opens in Italy on October 3.However Mamma Mia! faces a strong challenge for its international crown from DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Eagle Eye, which begins a major ...
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Paramount signs two-picture deal with Padilha and Prado's Zazen
Paramount Pictures announced today a two-picture co-production deal with Jose Padilha and Marcos Prado`s film company Zazen Produções. Signed during Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, the deal includes Nunca Antes Na Historia Deste Pais, the new feature film by Padilha, who won the Golden Bear in Berlin this year ...
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Cheadle, Swinton, Frears join Penn in Britannia Awards lineup
Don Cheadle will receive the BAFTA/LA Humanitarian Award, Tilda Swinton the Britannia Award For British Artist Of The Year and Stephen Frears the John Schlesinger Britannia Award For Artistic Excellence In Directing at the 17th Annual BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards on November 6 in Los Angeles.Cheadle's humanitarian efforts include co-founding Not ...
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National Federation of the Blind condemns Meireilles' Blindness
The US-based National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has condemned Fernando Meirelle's Cannes opener Blindness as 'harmful' to the blind because it portrays blind people as 'monsters'. The interest group plans to stage protests at 79 cinemas across the US where the film is screening. The Canada-Brazil-Japan coproduction opens October ...
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IFC Films picks up Man From London for direct to VOD service
IFC Entertainment has acquired US rights from Fortissimo Films to Bela Tarr's Hungarian drama Man From London starring Tilda Swinton.The film, which premiered in competition in Cannes 2007, will go out through IFC's Festival Direct VOD service.Tarr adapted the screenplay with Laszlo Krasznahorkai from Belgian writer Georges Simenon's novel about ...
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James Earl Jones to receive SAG lifetime achievement award
James Earl Jones will receive SAG's most prestigious accolade the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award For Career achievement And Humanitarian Accomplishment at the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 25 2009 in Los Angeles.SAG presents the annual award to a recipient it feels embodies the 'finest ideals ...
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Rome pushes 2009 date closer to Venice
The fourth edition of the Rome International Film Festival in 2009 will open a week earlier than this year - bringing it even closer to its Venice rival.The news comes before the third edition of the International Rome Film Festival officially kicks off (October 22-31). While the dates for the ...
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Cape No. 7 becomes Taiwan's top-grossing film of the year
Taiwan's Cape No. 7 has become the number one film at the Taipei box office in 2008, grossing over $4m. Wei Te-sheng's debut film surged ahead of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and The Dark Knight at the weekend, but figures were not immediately available as Taiwan endured ...
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Pusan opens with fanfare but mourns death of local star
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) opened tonight (Oct 2) at the Outdoor Theatre of the Haeundae Yachting Center with fireworks and fanfare, a star-studded red carpet, opening film Gift To Stalin and an announcement of a death and an absence. The death was of much-beloved local actress Choi ...
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14th Encounters Short Film Festival is launched
Encounters hosted a preview party as a prelude to the Encounters Short Film Festival (Nov 18-23) at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden on Tuesday.BAFTA-award-winning actor and director, Paddy Considine, triple Oscar winner, Richard Williams, and Clare Kitson, the former Channel 4 commissioner, are among the guests confirmed for the ...
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Asian Film Finance: Asia opens up
How can international projects access the region's slowly increasingnumbers of subsidies and incentives' JEAN NOH explores the key entrypointsFilm industries in Asia are comparatively young and less developed than their Western counterparts, where government subsidies and tax incentives are available more readily.Therefore the major reasons for shooting in Asia have ...
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Asian Film Finance: Ventures Into China
As China’s production levels and boxoffice are booming, the nascent local industry is starting to attractoutside capital and bank financing.
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Asia Film Finance 2008
ASIAN FILM FINANCESpecial features Introduction: The world turns EastThe rise of Asian film fundsKorea opportunitiesAsia opens up to international projectsVentures into ChinaFunding sourcesAsian Film FundsDebt FinancingGovernment organisations
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Asia Film Finance: Korea opportunities
Now the local bubble has burst, Korean funds are starting to invest in foreign films. JEAN NOH reportsInthe late 1990s, South Korea's government came to the realisation thatit takes a comparatively vast number of Hyundai car exports to equalthe profits of a single Hollywood hit. Economic motivation to ...
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Asian Film Finance: Korea opportunities
Now the local bubble has burst, Korean funds are starting to invest in foreign films. JEAN NOH reportsIn the late 1990s, South Korea's government came to the realisation that it takes a comparatively vast number of Hyundai car exports to equal the profits of a single Hollywood hit. Economic motivation ...
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Asian Film Finance: Government Organisations
Asian national and regional governmentorganisations that offer locations support and/or monetary incentivesto international co-productions or foreign films shooting in eachterritory CHINA China Film Co-production CorpNo incentives but offers a range of services to facilitate Sino-foreignco-productions including sourcing local partners and dealing withpermits. Contact: cfcc@cfcc-film.com.cn www.chinacoproduction.com/en HONG KONG ...
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Asian Film Finance: Debt financing
In a region awash with equity, where film-makers and banks eye each other with caution, it is not surprising the Asian film industry does not use debt financing to a great degree. In general, banks are not familiar with production companies and distributors so do not know how to measure ...