All Screen articles in 25 September 2008
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Roger Corman among new officers elected to IFTA board
The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) has announced the results of its board of directors election in which four industry leaders will join the global trade organisation's executive committee.Elected to two-year terms on the IFTA executive committee are: Roger Corman, vice chairperson (New Horizons Picture Corporation); Elisabeth Costa De ...
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Wrestler, Good get gala screenings at Chicago Film Festival
Darren Aronofsky's Venice Golden Lion winner The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen as a gala presentation and Vicente Amorim's Good will close the 44th Chicago International Film Festival, which runs from October 16-29.Slumdog Millionaire gets a gala screening slot alongside the world premiere of Jada Pinkett Smith's The Human ...
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Hypernia, Brave New Films team for online distribution of Moore film
Hypernia Hosting Corp has signed up as global online partner to distributor Brave New Films headed by activist and film-maker Robert Greenwald in the distribution of Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising.Earlier this week Brave New Films launched a free download of the Oscar-winning film-maker's latest feature, which it claims is the ...
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Plum options feature rights to Harlan Coben's The Innocent
Plum Pictures has acquired feature rights to Harlan Coben's bestselling thriller The Innocent.Coben wrote Tell No One which Guillaume Canet adapted into the acclaimed thriller and went on to gross more than $27m in France and $5m in the US and earned four Cesar Awards including best director.The Innocent follows ...
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Australians In Film launches Heath Ledger Scholarship
Los Angeles-based Australians In Film (AiF) has launched the Australians In Film Heath Ledger Scholarship.The scholarship will be awarded to an emerging Australian actor for up to US $10,000 plus a return airfare from Australia to pursue their career in the US. Applications will be accepted from October 1-November 28 ...
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UK government won't bail out digital cinema stragglers
The UK government will not bail out cinemas left behind in the switch to digital cinema, Stewart Till, chairman of the UK Film Council has warned.Speaking at Screen International's annual digital cinema summit, Till said public money could not and would not pay for the installation of digital equipment at ...
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In focus: Taking stock of the Wall Street shock
The US financial crisis may have come as a shock to much of the world, but in Hollywood it almost seemed like the inevitable culmination of a continuing trend. That is because the relationship between Wall Street and the Hollywood film-finance business - one that was hot and heavy just ...
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Screen opinion: Balancing finance, talent and distribution
In film, we have buckets of creative talent but scarcely any business capacity,' Patrick McKenna, chairman of Ingenious Media Group, told a meeting at Bafta in London this week. This relatively brief aside, specifically about the UK, came during a generally upbeat talk about the prospects for the British creative ...
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Robert Fisher promoted to evp at Warner Bros Pictures
Robert A Fisher has been promoted from senior vice president of financial investments at Warner Bros Pictures to executive vice president.Fisher held the post of senior vice president since 1994 and will continue to spearhead the studio's film financing activities and work with government agencies on policies that promote film ...
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Regent continues Fortissimo ties with domestic deal for $9.99
Regent Releasing has picked up North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Tatia Rosenthal's comedy $9.99 following its world premiere at Toronto.Regent plans a limited spring 2009 release on the film, which uses stop-motion animation to portray the existence of apartment residents in Sydney searching for the meaning of life.The ...
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UKagencies seize 8,000 counterfeit DVDs and arrest 17
Four UK law enforcement agencies joined forces earlier this week to target illegal immigrants also suspected of producing and selling counterfeit DVDs. The agencies seized 8,000 counterfeit DVDs, including current cinema release Tropic Thunder and the yet to be released Death Race.17 Chinese nationals were arrested on suspicion of immigration ...
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Arthouse acquires worldwide rights to Beautiful Losers
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to the documentary Beautiful Losers directed by Aaron Rose and co-directed by Joshua Leonard.Arthouse will partner on the distribution strategy with Sidetrack Films, which has already opened the film in conjunction with Nike Sportswear in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.Arthouse plans to ...
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Norteadocompletes hat trick at San Sebastian's Films In Progress
Mexican director Rigoberto Perezcano has won all three awards in the Films In Progress section of the San Sebastian film festival for his debut feature Norteado.The Industry award will allow Perezcano to complete post production on the film, in particular to establish a English subtitled 35mm copy. It is supported ...
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Denmark's Nimbus Film on the defensive as jobs are cut
Leading Danish film company Nimbus Film is taking steps to respond to today's tougher financial climate in the film industry. Around a third of Nimbus staff will be cut from the company's Filmbyen offices, according to film magazine EKKO.As former CEO, Jørgen Ramskov, who will in future head up the ...
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NewsOlivier Pere named as Locarno artistic director from 2009
Olivier Père has been named as the next artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, succeeding Frederic Maire, and will take up his post from September 1, 2009.Père has been artistic director of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight since 2004. His replacement will be chosen by France’s Societe des Realisateurs des ...
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The Mermaid is Russian submission for Oscar
Russia has submitted The Mermaid (Rusalka) by Anna Melikyan for nomination for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. It was selected from eight films by the Russian Federation's Oscars National Selection Committee.The Mermaid has already received international recognition, winning the FIPRESCI Prize at the 58th Berlin International ...
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San Sebastian deals for Still Walking and Pandora's Box
Golem Distribucion has acquired the Spanish theatrical rights to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Still Walking (Aruitemo, Aruitemo). The deal was done with Celluloid Dreams at the San Sebastian film festival. The film had its international premiere at Toronto.Still Walking is a family drama about grown-up siblings returning to their family ...
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Paramount signs digital production deal with Milchan/Van Eyssen
Paramount Digital Entertainment has signed a three-year digital production deal with the producing team of Milchan/Van Eyssen to create exclusive original genre content for the internet and other digital media platforms.Milchan/van Eyssen is led by Alexandra Milchan and David Van Eyssen. Milchan's producing credits include the current release Righteous Kill, ...
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Focus names five winners in Africa First programme
Focus Features CEO James Schamus announced late today [September 24] the five winners in Focus' Africa First Programme designed to support emerging film-makers of African nationality and residence.Earlier this year Focus offered participating film-makers the chance to win financing for production and/or post-production on their narrative short films made in ...