All Screen articles in 20 April 2007
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Silverdocs conference to explore 'filmanthropy' docs
AOL vice chairman Ted Leonisis will give the keynote address at the Silverdocs International Documentary Conference that runs in Maryland from Jun 13-16.The conference will explore the 'filmanthropy' wave of documentaries that attempt to effect social change and raise awareness of important issues. Examples include Participant Productions' eco-warning An Inconvenient ...
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Gaumont backs Natali's genetic horror Splice
Vincenzo Natali has begun casting on horror movie Splice, a Canada-France co-production set in the mutable world of genetic engineering. A production of Toronto-based Copperheart Entertainment and France's Gaumont, the film is wrtten by Natali, produced by Copperheart's Steven Hoban and executive produced by Gaumont's Franck Chorot. Guillermo del Toro, ...
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amFar sets Cannes event for May 23 with Stone, Weinstein
Sharon Stone, Harvey Weinstein, and M·A·C AIDS Fund chairman John Demsey are among chairs of amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS event that will run during the Cannes International Film festival on May 23.Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS research and advocacy organisation amfAR's founding international chairman, and founding chairman Dr Mathilde Krim will serve ...
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Sharkwater wins Gen Art Film Festival in New York
Rob Stewart's Sharkwater won the 12th Annual Gen Art Film Festival's Acura Grand Jury Feature Film Award and a $10,000 prize, while Phillip Van's High Maintenance took home $5,000 and the Acura Grand Jury Short Film Award.Both film-makers also claimed the audience Gen Art Film Festival Audience Awards as the ...
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Marco Tullio Giordana starts shooting Crazy Blood
Principal shooting has started for Marco Tullio Giordana's current project entitled Crazy Blood (Sangue Pazzo), a co-production between Angelo Barbagallo's Bibi Films and the French company Paradis Films with the collaboration of Rai Cinema and Rai Fiction. With Crazy Blood, Tullio Giordana revisits the political/social genre for which he is ...
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Sarajevo CineLink includes new projects from Kocsis and Zalica
The 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25) has announced new plans for this year's regional co-production market CineLink, created in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart. For 2007, 15 out of 60 submitted new projects will participate and will be divided in two groups, CineLink and CineLink+. CineLink includes 10 projects that ...
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Music supervisor Liz Gallacher joins Cutting Edge
Music supervisor Liz Gallacher is joining Cutting Edge as director of music supervision. Liz Gallacher has more than 45 feature credits including The Full Monty, Notting Hill, Bend It Like Beckham, and One Day In September. Her current projects are Matthew Vaughn's Stardust and Harmone Korine's Mister Lonely. Cutting Edge ...
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Pirates 3 gets greenlight for Chinese release
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End has been approved by Chinese censors and can be released mid-June at the earliest, according to state-owned distributor Huaxia Film Distribution and cinema owners from Beijing and Shanghai. The exact release date of the third film in the Pirates franchise is yet to ...
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Singapore censors allow jury-only screening of Solos
In an unexpected gesture of goodwill, Singapore 's Board of Film Censors has allowed an uncut, jury-only screening of Solos at the 20th Singapore International Film Festival. Festival organisers had pulled the film from the line-up after the censors demanded three cuts of 'explicit sexual acts', in line with the ...
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My Brother Is An Only Child (Mio Fratello E' Figlio Unico)
Dir: Daniele Luchetti. It-Fr. 2007. 108mins. The signature of screenwriting duo Rulli and Petraglia has become a sort of appelation controllee quality mark for recent Italian cinema products. They've even invented a sub-genre of films, which we might define 'retro-modern': period studies that repackage the tribes and the traumas of ...
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In The Land Of Women
Dir/scr: Jonathan Kasdan. US. 2007. 99mins. A first feature about a romantically failed young writer whose ideas and attitudes about women are dramatically shaken by a beautiful older woman and her daughter, Jonathan Kasdan's In the Land Of Women shows promise and ambition, abetted by strong acting and colourful writing. ...
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William Baldwin joins Jentsch and Jacob for in Bob's Not Gay
William Baldwin has joined German star Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl) and French actress Irene Jacob to headline Jane Spencer's low budget romantic comedy Bob's Not Gay which will begin shooting in the Romanian capital of Bucharest from the second half of May. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com during this week's Bucharest ...
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IMAX version of Order Of The Phoenix will have 3D finale
The IMAX version of Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will feature a 3D finale, according to the giant-screen company. The two most recent installments of the franchise - Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire - were ...
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And the winner is..
Running alongside this column is the industry's most comprehensive and, one likes to think, accurate chart of the top-grossing films during the past weekend in the international marketplace.It should be pointed out that even such an established chart faces problems that are intrinsic in putting together a compilation of the ...
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Set Report - The War Makers
It is a cold, bright morning in a tiny village two hours outside Beijing, and Hong Kong star Andy Lau, dressed in floor-sweeping Qing Dynasty robes, is ordering around a group of extras.A veteran of more than 130 films, Lau knows a thing or two about placing extras on their ...
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United Kingdom - Warrior Spirit
At a recent ceremony at the Kenyan Embassy in London, producer Simon Channing Williams was awarded the Order of the Grand Warrior. The honour came his way primarily for his efforts in Kenya on behalf of The Constant Gardener Trust, the charity he helped set up after shooting that John ...
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Industry moves
Ray joins Kimmel armBingham Ray has joined Los Angeles-based financing and production company Sidney Kimmel Entertainment as president of the newly formed Kimmel Distribution. Industry veteran Ray has headed United Artists and October Films.Rice departs Disney for United ArtistsDennis Rice has left The Walt Disney Studios to join United Artists ...
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Gold in the vaults
With the growth of digital delivery, film archives are a potential goldmine for US studios and other rights-holders. Denis Seguin looks at the promise of digital, while Screen correspondents (see links, right) explore the distribution opportunities for major public rights-holders...In 1955, RKO Pictures licensed the television rights to its 740-film ...
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Market focus - Two heads good'
Plans for the international distribution of Grindhouse are being re-evaluated in English-speaking territories following the film's performance in its first few weeks in the US.Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's double-bill, composed of a feature from each director - Tarantino's Death Proof segment and Rodriguez's horror flick Planet Terror - opened ...
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Tribeca Film Festival: growing gains
Five years ago, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff launched the first Tribeca Film Festival to contribute to the revival of Lower Manhattan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The five-day festival attracted 150,000 visitors to the downtown neighbourhood.By 2006, Tribeca had grown into an almost two-week ...