All Screen articles in 26 December 2007
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Noah Cowanmoves sidewaystoTIFF's Bell Lightbox
Toronto International Film Festival co-director Noah Cowan is giving up his position to assume responsibility for year-round programming at the Toronto International Film Festival Group's (TIFFG) new headquarters, Bell Lightbox, with the title of artistic director. Cowan, who joined TIFFG CEO Piers Handling as co-director four years ago, will be ...
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Hollywood Film Festival launches six Mobile Awards
Top brass at the Hollywood Film Festival and the Hollywood Awards have launched the Hollywood Mobile Awards to recognise innovative content and sites dedicated to mobile devices. Six awards - best mobile short, best mobile video game, best mobile music video, best mobile commercial, best mobile advertising ...
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Khoo wraps Tamil-language drama You And Me
Singapore director Eric Khoo today wrapped his latest film You And Me after a 12-day shoot. The picture features a Tamil cast and the dialogues are in the Tamil language, making it the first Indian Tamil film made in Singapore. Amateur actor Francis Bosco plays a drunkard father who redeems ...
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Baratta confirmed as Venice Biennale president
Paolo Baratta has been confirmed as the president of the Venice Biennale arts festival.His responsibilities include the film festivaland events covering art, music, architecture, theatre and dance.Baratta'snomination wasapproved bythe Italian parliament and he will now take over the reins from outgoing president Davide Croff who tendered his resignation along with ...
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Screenwriters' festival launches pitching event
Next year's International Screenwriters' Festival has launched its 2008 pitching event in association with 4Talent at Channel 4.Pitch In Time will give hopeful writers a chance to appeal to an industry panel in front of a live audience at the event in Cheltenham (July 1-3).Previous panels have included Oscar winner ...
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Luhrmann's Australia helps double Oz production to $232m
On first glance, figures released today indicate that more money is being poured into Australian features, which are traditionally made for very low budgets, but the improvement is illusionary. The numbers in the Australian Film Commission's (AFC) annual production survey only look healthier than the previous year because they have ...
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Kim to replace Shin as CJ international chief
Leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment has announced that head of International Business, David Shin, has stepped down. Former head of Domestic Marketing and Distribution, Kathy Kim, will take his place with an expanded role as head of International Business and Worldwide Distribution. Kim will continue to oversee distribution of foreign ...
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Peace Arch signs letter of intent for $35m ContentFilm deal
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has entered into a letter of intent to acquire ContentFilm.The letter of intent is non-binding and subject to various conditions and due diligence. The deal is worth 19,500,000 Peace Arch shares plus cash of $35m. The total deal value based on a pure cash offer, is ...
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NonStop to sell sequel to Gnomes And Trolls
NonStop sales will handle international sales for Gnomes and Trolls II, after selling the original film this year.The 3D animated fairy tale is from White Shark AB with executive producers Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (Toy Story, Garfield).The first Gnomes and Trolls is in production and will be finished in ...
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Into The Wild leads Screen Actors Guild nominations
Sean Penn's Into The Wild leads the The Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, with nominations in four categories: Emile Hirsch for leading actor, Hal Holbrook for supporting actor, Catherine Keener for supporting actress, and best cast.Other films with multiple nominations are Michael Clayton and No Country For Old Men with ...
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Hungarian Film Week to feature world premiere of Delta
Eighteen films, including nine world premieres, will compete at the 39th Hungarian Film Week in Budapest Jan 29-Feb. Among the most anticipated titles in the competition is the world premiere of Kornel Mundruczo's new film, Delta . The director's 2002 film, Pleasant Days, won a Silver Leopard at Locarno for ...
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France Televisions deal boosts feature films on French TV
France's public television holding company, France Televisions, has signed an agreement with local film producers which increases the number of feature films airing on its channels as well as guaranteeing higher investment in film production. France Televisions is comprised of channels France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5 and ...
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Seven films announcedforBerlin Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar
The Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar has announced half of the section's programme for the seventh edition.The opening film on Feb 8will be1st of May - All Belongs To You (1. Mai - Das Ende Vom Lied), an episodic feature directed by Jakob Ziemnicki, Sven Taddicken and the directorial duo ...
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German box office fails to match 2006boom
After Germany's exhibitors' fortunes revived in 2006 following a catastrophic 2005, box-office takings and admissions have fallen back again this year by 8-9%, according to figures collated by Nielsen EDI. Box-office revenues amounted to $ 983.5m (Euros 684.13m), compared to $ 1.06 bn (Euros 740.09 m) in 2006 although still ...
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Romania, Israel and Lebanon: the emerging territories of 2007
The emergence of a body of critically acclaimed work from Romania, Israel and Lebanon, has been among the more surprising developments of 2007.Cannes was a watershed for the three nations. The Palme d'Or awarded to 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu's harrowing drama about an illegal abortion ...
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2007 review: Hollywood looks for local heroes
These are dynamic times for Hollywood's overseas business. The studios' international infrastructure is evolving to accommodate a trend that has been around for years and is poised to explode. By the end of 2007, local-language releases such as The Orphanage (El Orfanato) in Spain, Saawariya in India and Dororo in ...
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Profile: Liz Mackiewicz of Arclight Films
When she officially joined Arclight Films just before last November's American Film Market, Liz Mackiewicz brought a wealth of experience to the Los Angeles-based international sales and finance company.While Arclight may have established itself as a significant international sales player in its first five years of operation, its new executive ...
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High stakes at box office in awards corridor
Handling a prestige film in North America has always called for a combination of art and science and, faced with today's increasingly crowded market place, it is more important than ever distributors get the balance right. This season alone finds a multitude of films in the mix: from critical darlings ...
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Awards Countdown - Best director - The visionaries
1. TIM BURTONSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet StreetBurton has a Bafta nomination under his belt for Big Fish in 2003 and was nominated for the feature animation Oscar for Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. But bearing in mind his films have grossed several billion dollars between them, he is ...
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Awards Countdown - Best Documentary - Rewriting the doc rule book
Michael Apted knew he was in for some flak when he went to meet the documentary film-making communities of Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco late last year.But the chairman of the documentary branch executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) thought the meetings ...