All Screen articles in 22 July 2008

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    Oscilloscope buys domestic rights to Wendy And Lucy

    2008-07-22T23:36:00Z

    New York-based Oscilloscope Pictures has picked up North American rights to Kelly Reichardt's road movie Wendy And Lucy, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Oscilloscope plans a December 10 release at Film Forum in New York City followed by a national expansion in early 2009.The film is based on ...

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    Shoreline starts 3-D animated feature The Living Corpse

    2008-07-22T23:33:00Z

    Sales and production company Shoreline Entertainment has commenced production in Los Angeles on its first 3-D animated feature The Living Corpse.The film is financed by Shoreline and independent investors and based on Buz Hasson and Ken Haeser's cult comic book of the same name about a zombie who embarks on ...

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    Sarajevo documentary competition includes five world premieres

    2008-07-22T22:12:00Z

    The Sarajevo Film Festival's documentary competition is to include five world and three internationalpremieres.The programme opens with Slovenian film Sky Too High, Soil Too Hard by Rudi Uran, which looks at the lives of young people in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, scene of the brutal massacre of 8,000 men ...

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    Garcia, Margulies, Mortimer, Arkin journey to City Island

    2008-07-22T22:11:00Z

    Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer and Alan Arkin will star in Raymond De Felitta's dysfunctional family comedy, City Island.Dominik Garcia-Lorido and Ezra Miller round out the key cast on the production, which began shooting this week in City Island, a fishing village in the Bronx where the ...

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    Jenna Dewan, Luke Goss to star in Magdalena

    2008-07-22T22:08:00Z

    Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, Platinum Studios and Top Cow Productions have hired Jenna Dewan and Luke Goss to star in Magdalena.The project is based on Top Cow's comic book about a young woman who learns she belongs to a line of female warriors descended from Mary Magdalene and ...

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    Maizel leaves Sarasota to take over at Newport festival

    2008-07-22T22:05:00Z

    Jennifer Maizel has left her post as managing director of the Sarasota Film Festival and joined the Newport International Film Festival (NIFF) as executive director.Maizel had a prior stint with NIFF in 2006 as director of guest services and becomes the fifth director in the festival's 11-year history.Co-founder Christine Schomer ...

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    Polson's Tropfest NY separates from Tribeca Film Festival

    2008-07-22T22:01:00Z

    Short film festival Tropfest NY has cut free from the Tribeca Film Festival family and will run as a stand-alone outdoor event in Manhattan on September 26.The event previously operated as Tropfest@Tribeca in association with Tribeca and will now be presented independently by Tropfest and its founder John Polson.Approximately 15,000 ...

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    Summit acquires rights to Virgin Comics' graphic novel The Leaves

    2008-07-22T21:56:00Z

    Summit Entertainment has acquired the film rights to Virgin Comics' graphic novel The Leaves and hired the property's author Kevin J Walsh to adapt the screenplay.Virgin Comics founder, chief creative officer and editor-in-chief Gotham Chopra will produce with company CEO Sharad Devarajan.The Leaves is an action thriller about a New ...

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    Canada's Cineplex plans massive 3D expansion

    2008-07-22T16:33:00Z

    Canadian exhibitor Cineplex Entertainment has signed a long-term agreement to install a minimum of 175 3D systems from LA-based technology company RealD.Cineplex currently has 41 such systems in operation; however, the expansion is contingent on Cineplex's entering a digital deployment agreement with Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP), the technology acquisition ...

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    Bals Fund Plus gives $317,000 to bring on Dutch co-producers

    2008-07-22T16:07:00Z

    The Hubert Bals Fund Plus initiative, from the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Netherlands Film Fund, is granting a total of $317,470 (Euros 200,000) for Dutch co-producers on new films.Dutch companies Isabella Films, IDTV Motel Films, Waterland Film and Volya Films will each receive $79,360 (Euros 50,000) to each ...

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    UK, Israel pledge to develop film co-production treaty

    2008-07-22T14:52:00Z

    UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, this week visiting Israel, has announced plans for a UK-Israel film co-production treaty. Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said they would work together to develop the treaty to encourage closer ties between the UK and Israeli film industries.Negotiations will start in the coming ...

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    Torsten Koch and Oliver Koppert to head Constantin's distribution arm

    2008-07-22T12:00:00Z

    Torsten Koch and Oliver Koppert have been appointed as managing directors of Constantin Film's theatrical distribution arm Constantin Film Verleih with effect from Oct 1.Koch, who has been Marketing & Publicity Director for Constantin Film since 1999, will serve as Marketing/Distribution Managing Director for Constantin Film Verleih, while Koppert will ...

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    Carlton Screen Advertising promotes Atkinson to sales director

    2008-07-22T11:41:00Z

    Carlton Screen Advertising has promoted Gemma Atkinson to sales director.Atkinson joined the company in 1996 and served recently as sales controller.Atkinson will be responsible for continuing to attract advertisers to cinema advertising, working with both agencies and clients.She said: 'I fully believe in the ever-increasing power of the cinema space ...

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    Kismat scores second highest opening of the year in India

    2008-07-22T11:33:00Z

    UTV Motion Pictures release Kismat Konnection grossed $6.3m (Rs270m) worldwide on its opening weekend (July 18-20), including $4.9m (Rs208m) in India, which makes it the second biggest opener of the year in its home territory. Directed by Aziz Mirza and produced by Tips Production, the Hindi-language film was shot in ...

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    Irish production heats up with Happy Ever Afters, Ondine

    2008-07-22T11:28:00Z

    Principal photography has commenced in Ireland on writer/director Stephen Burke's debut feature film Happy Ever Afters. Leading cast includes Sally Hawkins, Tom Riley, Deirdre Molloy and Simon Delaney.Happy Ever Afters is a screwball wedding comedy in which two couples, marrying for the wrong reasons, share the same hotel for their ...

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    Paramount sets up Acquisitions Group for International, Vantage

    2008-07-22T11:01:00Z

    Paramount Pictures has created the new Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions Group (PWAG), a centralised acquisitions and local productions arm that will service Paramount Pictures International and its worldwide territories as well as US-based Paramount Vantage.PPI president Andrew Cripps and Paramount Vantage president Nick Meyer jointly announced the plans today.Matt Brodlie, Paramount ...

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    Deauville competition includes Snow Angels, Towelhead

    2008-07-22T10:30:00Z

    The line up for the 34th Deauville Festival of American Film includes the first directorial effort from American Beauty writer Alan Ball, Towelhead. Also on deck for the competition are David Gordon Green's Snow Angels and Tom McCarthy's critically acclaimed The Visitor. In total, the competition includes 11 films, five ...

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    Film Export UK works with Skillset for new sales training scheme

    2008-07-22T10:22:00Z

    As film sales company trade assocation Film Export UK celebrates its first birthday, there are a number of initiatives to celebrate.Chairman Ralph Kamp notes: 'We have just had the go-ahead from Skillset for a placement scheme for new entrants which will deliver £100,000 worth of training directly to the sales ...

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    Locarno Critics Week world premieres include Mr December

    2008-07-22T10:13:00Z

    Locarno's Critics Week sidebar will present four world premieres and three international premieres in this year's programme of creative documentaries.The complete lineup of seven titles is:Apology Of An Economic Hitman, dir: Stelios Koul (Greece), international premiereBill - Das Absolute Augenmass, dir: Eric Schmid (Switzerland), world premiereFour Wives - One Man, ...

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    Stillking hopes to lure Tarantino's Bastards to Czech Republic

    2008-07-22T10:10:00Z

    Prague-based Stillking Films is in talks with Lawrence Bender and Quentin Tarantino to bring Tarantino's upcoming project Inglorious Bastards to the Czech Republic.Stillking marketing director Romana Paskova told local press that the company had offered the producers various locations but that the project was under a strict embargo.Earlier reports mentioned ...