All Screen articles in 26 February 2010
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NewsAvatar set to become highest grossing global IMAX release
Avatar is projected to become the highest grossing worldwide IMAX release this week as the opening day in China combined with global holdovers move the tally towards the $71m mark set by The Polar Express.
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NewsSPC sets April release for Holofcener's Sundance entry Please Give
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) will release Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give on April 23 following its world premiere in Sundance later this month.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires Slovenian mystery A Call Girl
Film Movement has acquired US rights to Damjan Kozole’s (pictured) Slovenian and English-language mystery A Call Girl.
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NewsFlying Lessons to open 25th Santa Barbara Film Festival
The world premiere of Derek Magyar’s (pictured) feature debut Flying Lessons will open the 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which runs from February 4-14.
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NewsNew Video, Zipline team up on release of Sundance entry Bass Ackwards
New York-based New Video and Zipline Entertainment will release the low-budget Sundance drama Bass Ackwards nationwide on February 1, one day after the festival ends.
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Un Altro Mondo
A dying man, calls his son who he abandoned 20 years to come to Kenya, where he lives, to say goodbye.
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La Bellezza Del Somaro
Tuscan-set generational family comedy in which the parents don’t want to grow old and the seventeen-year old daughter is racing to become an adult.
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Il Gioellino
Prod companies: Indigo FilmBackers: Indigo, MibacProducers: Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano Intl sales: tbaDirector: Andrea MolaioliScreenplay: Andrea Molaioli, Ludovica Rampoldi, Gabriele RomagnoliContact: Indigo Film (39) 06 77250255
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This Must Be The Place
Prod companies: Indigo Film, Lucky RedProducers: Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, Andrea OcchipintiDirector: Paolo SorrentinoScreenplay: Paolo Sorrentino / Umberto ContarelloContact: Indigo Film (39) 06 77250255
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We Believed
A costume drama set during Italy’s Risorgimento in the 1800s about the lives of two revolutionaries.
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Memories of Anna Frank – Reflections Of A Childhood Friend
English language film based on Hanneli Goslar’s memories of Anne Frank
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Kiss Me Again
Ten years after the hit film Last Kiss (L’Ultimo Bacio), director Gabriele Muccino picks up on the lives of protagonists Giula and Carlo Production Companies: Fandango
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NewsDaniel Battsek reportedly poised to take over at National Geographic Films
Two months after leaving Miramax, Daniel Battsek is reportedly preparing to take over as president of National Geographic Films as Adam Leipzig segues into a producer role.
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NewsAn Education, Avatar, Hurt Locker among PGA nominees
Avatar’s James Cameron and Jon Landau, Inglourious Basterds’ Lawrence Bender, and Star Trek’s J J Abrams and Damon Lindelof are among the ten sets of nominees for the Producers Guild Of America’s Darryl F Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures.
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NewsIMAX, Discovery, Sony to launch US 3D network in 2011
Discovery Communications, Sony Corporation and IMAX Corporation are preparing to launch a 24/7 dedicated 3D television network in the US in 2011.
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NewsScreen Media acquires James Ivory's The City Of Your Final Destination
Screen Media Films has acquired all North American rights to James Ivory’s The City Of Your Final Destination based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Peter Cameron.
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NewsJonathan Levine, Anna Kendrick board Mandate's cancer comedy
Mandate Pictures has hired Jonathan Levine to direct and Golden Globe nominee Anna Kendrick to star in its untitled James McAvoy and Seth Rogen comedy.
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NewsAvatar grosses spectacular $5.3m opening day in China
Avatar set an opening day record in China after grossing an estimated $5.3m on January 4 according to Fox International, and added approximately $4.4m on the second day for an early $9.7m running total.