All Screen articles in 24 June 2008
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Patricia Clarkson takes lead in Ruba Nadda's Cairo Time
Patricia Clarkson is starring in Ruba Nadda's romantic drama Cairo Time which started shooting this week in Cairo, Egypt.The Canada-Ireland co-production co-stars Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya and Tom McCamus and will shoot through to July 13.Producers on the film are Daniel Iron of Foundry Films (Away From Her, Manufactured Landscapes) ...
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Chinese developer close to deal to acquire Shaw Brothers
Chinese property developer Yeung Kwok-keung is close to finalising a deal to buy a 75% stake in Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers from Sir Run Run Shaw. The deal would give Yeung, who is chairman of Guangdong-based development company Country Garden Holdings, control of Hong Kong's largest broadcaster TVB. Shaw Brothers ...
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Five Korean webhards prosecuted for copyright infringement
Five heads of Korean webhard (online storage) sites were arrested yesterday (June 17) by the Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office for alleged copyright infringement. The high-tech crimes investigation unit of the Prosecutors' Office took into custody five CEOs, including Moon Yong-shik of the company Nowcom which operates webhard portal sites Pdbox.co.kr ...
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Karel De Vries takes MD post at Universal's Dutch arm
Universal Pictures International has appointed Karel De Vries as managing director of its operations in the Netherlands. He replaces Max Van Praag, who is leaving the post after 23 years with Universal.De Vries will join UPI at the end of September to work with Van Praag on the transition, and ...
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Reliance in talks to invest in DreamWorks
India's Reliance ADA Group is close to a deal with DreamWorks' chiefs Steven Spielberg and David Geffen to launch a new venture that would enable them to split with Paramount Pictures, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Click here to see article.The Mumbai-based conglomerate would provide Spielberg ...
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IFC Films buys the world on Medicine For Melancholy
IFC Films has picked up worldwide rights to Strike Anywhere's romance Medicine For Melancholy, which will play in competition in the Los Angeles Film Festival later this week.IFC will release the film in 2009 through its theatrical and VOD day-and-date platform IFC in Theaters.Medicine for Melancholy is a love story ...
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IMAX signs giant screen deal in Dubai
IMAX Corp. and Dubai-based property developer Meydan LLC have signed an agreement for a giant-screen system to be installed at Nad Al Sheba horse race track, the home of the Dubai World Cup. The installation is expected to be completed by year-end 2009. IMAX says it will be its twelfth ...
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Eyes on Edinburgh as festival kicks off June event with Edge Of Love
It's an especially pivotal opening night tonight for the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Not only does the festival have A-list stars Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller on the red carpet for the world premiere of John Maybury's The Edge Of Love, but also there will be more industry scrutiny on ...
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Canadian government to amend tax credit legislation
Amendments proposed by the Canadian Senate will restore the financial security of production tax credits, two senators announced today. Under the proposed changes, the Canadian government will not have the power to deny tax credits based on vague guidelines.The non-elected upper chamber has heard from over 50 witnesses in examining ...
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Robert Davi, Bai Ling join US/Russia co-production Magic Man
Robert Davi and Bai Ling have joined Russian star Alexander Nevsky and Billy Zane on the US-Russian Magic Man set to start filming in Las Vegas on June 25.The story revolves around a famous magician (Zane) who is suspected of being a serial killer. Nevsky plays an investigative policeman and ...
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National Geographic to distribute Grand Canyon in 3D worldwide
National Geographic will distribute Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets to mark the film's 25th anniversary in 3D worldwide.The company will sell the film to exhibitors through Cinema Ventures' film distribution arm. Giant screen pioneer Destination Cinema will oversee updates to the script and musical score and the conversion of the ...
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Toulon named general counsel at CBS Films
Rik Toulon has been named executive vice president and general counsel at CBS Films.Toulon reports to CBS Films COO Bruce Tobey and will oversee all legal matters on behalf of the division.He arrives from the law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman where he served as partner in the firm's entertainment ...
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Chen, Zhu Wen win top prizes at Shanghai projects market
Taiwanese filmmaker Leste Chen and China's Zhu Wen have won the top two awards at the Shanghai International Film Festival's projects market, China Film Pitch and Catch (CFPC). Chen's The Last Rainstorm, a prophetic story about humanredemption set in a city suffering from drought due to global warming,was awarded Most ...
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Bertha Bay-Sa Pan lauches New York-based Slew Pictures
New York-based Bertha Bay-Sa Pan has launched Slew Pictures to focus on making 'universal stories that will both entertain and inspire' and has lined the company's first feature, Almost Perfect.Pan wrote and will direct the story in New York this autumn of a young career woman who tries to pick ...
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Japanese star Koji Yakusho makes directing debut
Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, who starred in 1996 hit Shall We Dance', is making his directorial debut with drama Gama No Abura (Toad Oil), in which he also stars. Based on an original idea by Yakusho, the film tells the story of a father (Yakusho) whose son is seriously injured ...
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The Love Guru
Dir: Marco Schnabel. US. 2008. 86 mins.The Love Guru 's rascally self-help guru who needs to learn to love himself may be Mike Myers' first original big-screen character in a long while, but he still feels familiar. Trading in Myers' favoured trademark steady diet of scatological humour, outlandish asides and ...
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Davies, Skenderlis-Kallis join post house Evolutions
London-based post-production facility Evolutions has appointed two new key staff members.Jeremy Davies joins as business development manager and Fiona Skenderlis-Kallis joins as post production producer.Jeremy joins from a business development role at Elmwood Design, and Fiona from The Sanctuary where she was post-production manager and head of bookings.Simon Kanjee, managing ...
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EM Media backs new Considine, Glenaan, Meadows films
EM Media, the UK's regional screen agency based in the East Midlands, announced a new slate of projects today at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.They are: Brian Percival's A Boy Called Dad, Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur, Shane Meadows' King Of the Gypsies, Kenny Glenaan's Red Sail and Paul King's Bunny And ...
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Edinburgh kicks off first Directors' Lab with Woolley as patron
Six rising film-makers have been selected for the new Directors' Lab at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.The six directors, moving from shorts to features, are: Hope Dickson Leach, Charles-Henri Belleville, Scott Graham, Jane Linfoot, Rene Mohandas and Amy Neil.Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films has come on board as a ...