All Screen articles in 23 January 2009
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Features
Awards People: Rosemarie DeWitt
DeWitt tells Wendy Mitchell why she and Anne Hathaway decided not to spend a lot of time together during the Rachel Getting Married shoot
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News
Fox Searchlight takes worldwide rights to Sundance premiere Adam
Fox Searchlight confirmed late on Monday night (January 19) that it had picked up worldwide rights to Max Mayer's romance Adam following its world premiere screening.Fox Searchlight plans a 2009 release. Executive vice president of worldwide acquisitions Tony Safford, vice president of acquisitions Ray Strache and vice president of business ...
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Chris Nuttall joins NDreams board
Chris Nuttall has joined nDreams Ltd, the production company and game development studio in the role of business development director. Chris has been with NDreams since early 2008 where he has been responsible for both business development in their games division and audio across the company. He played a key ...
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Denmark 's Zentropa moves into Norway
Danish production company Zentropa is to set up Norwegian based Zentropa Norge to focus on the production of Norwegian films. The company will also co-produce films in collaboration other Norwegian and foreign film companies. Zentropa Norge has cited animation as a priority, but it is understood that live-action feature films ...
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Film and music worlds unite for digital release of Iron Maiden: Flight 666
Arts Alliance Media, Universal (USA), Iron Maiden and EMI Records will team up to distribute Iron Maiden: Flight 666 in digital cinemas worldwide on April 21, 2009. Arts Alliance Media (AAM) will join with EMI Records, Universal (USA) and rock group Iron Maiden to distribute Iron Maiden: Flight 666 in ...
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Axiom Films and Journeyman Pictures to co-produce The Girl.
The London-based independent production/distribution company Axiom Films will team up with New York-based Journeyman Pictures to produce The Girl. The Girl was written and will be directed by David Riker, whose award-winning film La Ciudad was also produced by Paul Mezey's Journeyman Pictures. The project, which is a finalist for ...
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Reviews
The Winning Season
Dir/scr: James C. Strouse. US. 2009. 98 mins.Transporting The Bad News Bears into the world of high school girls basketball, The Winning Season is no slam dunk, but stars Sam Rockwell and Margo Martindale score enough points to make the game somewhat interesting. In a dramatic ...
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Berlinale announces members of International Jury
The Berlinale has announced the members of the International Jury, joining jury president Tilda Swinton. The jury will decide on the winners of the Golden Bear, Silver Bears and the Alfred Bauer Award in the festival's official competition. The jury members are: Spanish writer-director Isabel Coixet, who has had films ...
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Red Cliff II dominates Asian territories
John Woo's Red Cliff II dominated cinemas in Chinese-language territories for the weekend January 15-18. By Sunday, January 18, the film had taken over $30.54m in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and mainland China. The film opened in both Hong Kong and Taiwan on January 15. Its Hong Kong release saw ...
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Pandemic topples Wall-E's run at top of Japanese box office
Japanese disease thriller Pandemic (Kansen Retto) ended Wall-E's three week run in the number one spot at the local box office this past weekend. Produced by TBS and distributed by Toho on 324 screens, Pandemic earned $3.64m (Y330m) on 225,000 admissions. Toho predicts a final gross of over $22m (Y2b) ...
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Hot Docs to spotlight South Korea, National Film Board
To that end, the festival's 'Spotlight On' program will commission guest programmers to select their favourite NFB documentaries. 'The National Film Board of Canada is the reason I am a documentary programmer,' said Hot Docs director of programming Sean Farnel in a statement. 'I eagerly await the selections from our ...
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UK 's Revolver on board for Freestyle project
Revolver Entertainment has got on board for Freestyle , an urban feature film set to shoot early this year. Set in the competitive world of 'freestyle basketball' the film looks at those who combine street dance with shooting hoops. In addition, Revolver is setting up a competition - 'Search for ...
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Beyond takes Australia and New Zealand on Little Dizzle
Beyond has taken all Australian and New Zealand rights from Visit Films to David Russo's The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle following its world premiere in Spectrum on Monday (January 19).Ryan Kampe of New York-based Visit Films brokered the deal with Beyond's Simone Ubaldi.The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle focuses ...