All Screen articles in 20 January 2008
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Phillip Noyce honoured as Australia charmsHollywood
Director Phillip Noyce was honoured on Saturday night in Hollywood for his significant contribution to the Australian film industry and for excellence in promoting Australia in the US.Noyce was presented with his award by Harrison Ford, the star of two of his US films, Patriot Games and Clear and Present ...
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Sundance Institute launches Creative Producing Initiative
Sundance Institute today [Jan 20] announced the Sundance Creative Producing Initiative fellowship programme to nurture the next generation of film-makers.The Initiative, unveiled during the Producers Lunch, will be a year-long fellowship that includes a five-day Creative Producing Lab, attendance and industry meetings at the festival and the Sundance Institute 's ...
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American Teen generates early sales buzz at Sundance
While Sundance buyers circled hyped early picks like Sunshine Cleaning and The Wackness, the Saturday nightfocus was on Nanette Burstein's high school documentary American Teen.Fox Searchlight were believed to be among interested parties following the world premiere earlier in the day.Carlos Moreno's Colombian crime saga Perro Como Perro was also ...
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Staying on the map: Screen previews Rotterdam
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) in the Netherlands has long held a reputation as a cinephile's delight.Still, on the eve of the 37th edition of the festival (January 23-February 3), questions are being asked about what Rotterdam can do to stay relevant to the international industry.Some say its status ...
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Rotterdam's Buzz films
FESTIVAL BUZZEat, For This Is My Body (Mange, Ceci Est Mon Corps) (Fr-Haiti)Dir: Michelange QuayWorking with Sylvie Testud and an amateur cast, Quay explores the dramatic colonial heritage of Haiti.Sales: Memento Films, sales@memento-films.comFlower In The Pocket (Mal)Dir: Liew Seng TatPraised by Rotterdam's programmers for its 'melancholy absurdism', Liew's idiosyncratic debut ...
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Roman Polanski doc gets international deal at Sundance with TWC
When Harvey Weinstein flies in to Sundance things usually happen and so it proved to be as The Weinstein Comapny (TWC) made the first play of the festival, paying low six figures for all international rights to Marina Zenovich's documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired.The deal excludes North American rights ...
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UK production spend drops 15% whileco-productions crash 43%
Feature film production spend dropped 15% in 2007, to $1.4bn (£723m) from 2006's $1.6bn (£855m), according to new research from the UK Film Council.The UKFC tracked 112 features, down from 135 in 2006 (the UKFC only tracks projects with budgets starting at $1m). The UKFC blamed the decline on the ...
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Hot Rendez-Vous projects include Female Agents, Fear(s)
The Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, which wrapped in Paris earlier this week, was roundly lauded by participants for the opportunity it provides to sales companies and distributors to meet in a relaxed atmosphere.While there were some deals concluded, many sales companies were either as-yet-unable to announce details or waiting ...
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Berlinale Special adds films by Gitai, Staho and Grube
New films by Amos Gitai, Simon Staho and Thomas Grube are among the 12 projects seelcted for the Berlinale Special sidebar, which is part of the festival's official programme alongside the Competition.Staho's Heaven's Heart, starring Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Endre, Jakob Eklund and Maria Lundquist, is an intimate psychological drama between ...
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Berlinaleadds world premieres including The Other Boleyn Girl
World premieres of Justin Chadwick's The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Dennis Lee's Fireflies In The Garden, with Julia Roberts and Willem Dafoe, and Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi's The Song Of Sparrows are among the last eight Competition titles to be confirmed.The latest additions also ...
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IMDb buys Withoutabox
Amazon-owned The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has bought global film-maker and film festival resource Withoutabox.Withoutabox was founded in 2000 by David Straus and Joe Neulight and enables film-makers to submit their work online to festivals and provides festival organisers with tools to manage and promote their events online.'For eight years, ...
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Intandem, Radical pitch slate including John Woo's Caliber
Intandem Films and its graphic novel publishing company partner Radical Publishing will be meeting with investors in the UK starting Jan 21 to present their shared business model and preview future projects. UK-based financing and sales company Intandem took an equity stake in 2007 in Los Angeles-based Radical, which is ...
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Shochiku picks up Sori martial arts action title Ichi
Japanese major Shochiku will handle international sales of martial arts action film Ichi, directed by Fumihiko Sori and starring Haruka Ayase (Hero) as a female incarnation of the legendary blind swordsman Zatoichi. Shochiku will begin sales of the film at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival's European Film Market (EFM) ...
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Cloverfield
Dir: Matt Reeves. US. 2008. 84 mins.An exercise in guerrilla-style genre filmmaking that reframes a classic monster movie conceit as a post-September 11 allegory of big city trepidation, new Internet sensation Cloverfield emerges from the cocoon of its pre-release hype as thrilling piece of terror tailor-made for our times. Skilfully ...
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China to release three foreign titles in February
In an attempt to squash rumours of an alleged ban on US movies before March, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC) has announced that Golden Globe winner Atonement, plus two other foreign titles, will be released in China in February.State-owned CFGC is the only film company allowed to import foreign films ...
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Cloverfield hopes for monster opening
Click on film for reviewWarner Bros Pictures International executives will expect their horrorsci-fi release I Am Legend to maintain its excellent form and dominatethe competition for the fourth consecutive weekend and the fifth outof its six-week run.The global hit has amassed more than $221m to date and should cause astir ...
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BBC's Tranter and ITV's Mackie join screenwriters' festival
More top names have joined the line-up of this year's Screenwriters Festival, including some of the UK's most senior television execs.Jane Tranter, controller of BBC Fiction, including BBC Films and ITV director of drama Laura Mackie will both be high-profile speakers at the event in Cheltenham (July 1-3)Their presence is ...
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Greg Mason named vp of marketing for Disney Canada
Greg Mason has been named vice president of marketing for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada.Mason will handle marketing duties for all films released under the Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures labels in Canada and reports directly to Brett Dicker, executive vice president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.Mason ...
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Lionsgate UK acquires Conan, Mad Money and Righteous Kill
Distributor Lionsgate UK has struck a three-picture acquisition deal with Nu Image/Millennium Films. Lionsgate UK has taken UK and Ireland rights to Jon Avnet's crime thriller Righteous Kill; Callie Khouri's comedy Mad Money; and the Conan The Barbarian revived franchise set for a new film release in 2009.Righteous Kill stars ...