All Screen articles in 27 February 2009
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Busan celebrates opening of AZ Works post-production complex
After five years of work, the city of Busan and the Busan Film Commission (BFC) are celebrating the opening of the 'AZ Works on the beach' post-production complex in Busan's newly developing Centum City. AZ Works, which also has labs in Seoul and Beijing, is headed by CEOLee Yong Gi, ...
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Swipe Films sells UK rights to Beyond The Fire
Swipe Films has sold UK distribution rights to Beyond The Fire to Met Film Distribution. The deal was negotiated by Frank Mannion of Swipe Films and Patrick Fischer on behalf of Met Film Distribution. Written and directed by Maeve Murphy, Beyond the Fire is a love story and stars Scot ...
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Dutch government reveals future funding plans for Hubert Bals Fund
Details have finally emerged of how the Dutch government will continue to support the Hubert Bals Fund, with private investment playing a more key role than previously. As previously reported in ScreenDaily, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs had agreed to continue its backing of HBF after fierce debate as ...
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NewsCannes Film Festival honours Clint Eastwood
The Cannes Film Festival has honoured Clint Eastwood with a special Palme d’Or.In Paris for the release of his latest directorial effort, Gran Torino, Eastwood was awarded the special Palme by festival president Gilles Jacob and delegate general Thierry Fremaux in recognition of the auteur who ...
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UK's Left Bank Pictures appoints Mackie as head of film
Suzanne Mackie has joined Left Bank Pictures as head of film, effective immediately. She joins from Harbour Pictures where she was director of development. Mackie will focus on Left Bank's film development slate including the film adaptation of Ayub Khan-Din's play Rafta Rafta, which is already in advanced stages of ...
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Bavarian fund backs projects by Hirschbiegel, Wieland and Kraus
New films by Sundance winner Oliver Hirschbiegel, Ute Wieland and Chris Kraus are among the projects receiving funding totalling $5m (Euros 3.9m) from the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern. The largest single award, $1.2m (Euros 950,000), went to Hirschbiegel's adaptation of Andreas Ulrich's bestselling book Angel Face. The film tells ...
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Russian Box Office Stats 2008
CIS Box Office Top 20 2008* TITLE (ORIGIN) DISTRIBUTOR Total gross 1 The Irony Of Fate: The Sequel (Rus) 20th Century Fox CIS $49.9m 2 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (US) UPI $40.8m 3 Admiral (Rus) 20th Century Fox CIS $33.7m 4 The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (US) UPI ...
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HKIFF to celebrate 25th anniversary of Film Workshop
This year's Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) will feature a special sidebar programme celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong production house Film Workshop, founded by filmmaker Tsui Hark and veteran producer Nansun Shi. Entitled 'A Tribute to Romantic Visions: 25th Anniversary of Film Workshop', the sidebar will screen ...
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Regent sets May as US release for Oscar winning Departures
Regent Releasing and Here Media will release their Japanese foreign language Oscar winner Departures in May, the distributor said following the picture's Academy Awards win at the weekend.Yojiro Takita's victory marked the first time Regent and Here received an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the ...
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Coppola's Tetro set for US release through Zoetrope on June 11
American Zoetrope will self-release Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro in limited release in the US on June 11 based on the first original screenplay by Coppola since The Conversation in 1974.The story tells of two brothers, of family lost and found, and the conflicts and tragedies within a highly creative Argentine-Italian ...
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Singapore film festival to open with Sincerely Yours
The 22nd Singapore International Film Festival (April 14-25) will open with Sincerely Yours from debuting Taiwanese feature director Rich Lee. The film explores the plight of illegal foreign workers in Taiwan with a multi-national cast. The festival will close with Milk from Turkey, a 'quietly stunning and poetic film about ...
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Cooper named comedy star of the year at ShoWest
Bradley Cooper will receive the ShoWest 2009 Comedy Star of the Year Award on April 2 in Las Vegas.Cooper will next be seen in Warner Bros'' Las Vegas-set comedy The Hangover on June 12 opposite Justin Bartha and Zach Galifianakis and his previous credits include Wedding Crashers, Yes Man and ...
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CJ Entertainment to invest $60m in local and overseas projects
Leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment CEO Katherine Kim has announced that the company will be investing $46.5m - $53.1m this year in 13-15 local releases and another $6.64m in 5-10 overseas projects in the US, China and Japan. Speaking to local press, Kim also talked about Korea's dying ancillary markets ...
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Low-budget doc stampedes South Korean box office
Old Partner, a documentary about an old man and his cow, has topped the South Korean box office with 419,295 admissions from 276 screens this past weekend. The sleeper hit, which is distributed by Indiestory both in Korea and overseas, has accumulated a record 1,393,079 admissions for a documentary, and ...
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NewsAscot picks up five more titles in EFM
Leading Swiss independent distributor Ascot Elite, acquired the rights for German speaking Europe to another five titles to add to the previously announced black thriller comedyChawby Shin Jeong-Won.The Zurich-based group picked up Gerald McMorrow’s thriller Franklyn, starring Ryan Philippe, Sam Riley and Eva Green, which will ...
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Magnet Releasing imports Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson to US
Magnet Releasing has acquired US rights to Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson following the drama's Sundance and Rotterdam screenings. The film had its world premiere at the London Film Festival last year.This is the second time Refn has partnered with Magnet after the distributor and its sister company Magnolia released his ...
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Salomon signs on to direct Rocky Marciano boxing biopic
Mikael Salomon has signed on to direct M.E.G.A. Film's boxing biopic Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story.According to M.E.G.A. Film's founder Morris S Levy, who will produce, this is the first authorised picture about the sporting legend's life and will reveal new details from the fighter's younger brother Lou Marciano.The story ...
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Anaheim University names digital school after Akira Kurosawa
Anaheim University in southern California is to launch a state-of-the-art digital school named after Akira Kurosawa on March 23, the day the late Japanese film-maker would have turned 99.The Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School Of Film will unveil details of its online digital film programmes and other initiatives on the ...
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Israeli Film Council avoids drastic reduction in government funding
The Israeli Treasury has agreed to increase this year's annual film budget by almost 16% to $16m (67m shekels). The Israeli Film Council will continue to be in charge of distributing this sum between the various funds, foundations and institutions involved in film activities across the country. Only a few ...