All Screen articles in 28 April 2008
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Rob Williams gets key acquisitions job at Liberation Entertainment
Rob Williams, formerly an acquisitions executive at Netflix/Red Envelope Entertainment, has been named vice president of acquisitions and theatrical distribution at aggressive new US independent Liberation Entertainment.Williams will develop and oversee the company's US acquisitions strategy for film and TV across multiple platforms.The announcement was made by Jay Boberg, the ...
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Magnolia picks up North American rights to Red
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Red, the revenge thriller directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee which had its world premiere at Sundance this year.The film stars Brian Cox, Robert Englund, Amanda Plummer and Tom Sizemore in the story of an elderly recluse (Cox) who tracks ...
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Filmaka names first annual contest winner as 21 year-old Londoner
Filmaka, the digital entertainment studio and online creative community, has announced the winner of its first annual feature film competition as the UK's Nuru Rimington-Mkali for his short film And I Refuse To Forget.The 21 year-old will be awarded the opportunity to direct his first feature, which Filmaka will produce.Founded ...
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RiverRun top prizes go to Edge Of Heaven, Up The Yangtze
The tenth annual RiverRun International Film Festival ended on Sunday (April 27) with the announcement that Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven had won the narrative juried competition and Yung Chang's Up The Yangtze had won the documentary competition.RiverRun takes place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.The audience award for best narrative ...
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Richie Mehta's Amal wins Grand Jury Prize at IFFLA
The sixth annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles finished on Sunday with the announcement that Richie Mehta's Amal, which opened the festival last Tuesday, won the Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature and Yunus Vally's The Glow Of White Women won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary.Shivajee ...
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Warner Bros boards Indian title Saas Bahu Aur Sensex
Warner Bros India has announced its second local Indian film production, Shona Urvashi's sophomore effort Saas Bahu Aur Sensex (SBS).Principal photography on the film, produced by PLA Entertainment and Warner Bros, has been completed and post work has begun. The film is slated for release on September 12.Saas Bahu Aur ...
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SPTI signs day-and-date VoD deal with KT Corp
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a day-and-date video-on-demand (VoD) licensing deal with South Korea's KT Corporation (KT). Films covered by the deal willbe shownon KT's internet protocol TV (IPTV) service MegaTV on the same day as local home video/DVD release. Titles include Vantage Point, The Water Horse, Across ...
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Shochiku to launch video-on-demand service
Japanese major studio Shochiku has announced the launch of a video-on-demand (VoD) service which will stream movies from its library of over 2,000 titles. Dubbed 'Shochiku Online', the service will launch on May 21. Approximately 200 titles are scheduled to become available in the first year, with 10 to 20 ...
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Coen brothers' Burn After Reading to open Venice Film Festival
Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading will open the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival as a world premiere.The film's classification as a gala or competition screening will be announced at a later date, the Biennale has said.In either case, the follow-up to the Coen Brother's celebrated No ...
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Babelsberg looking to expand to Tempelhof
Studio Babelsberg has reaffirmed its interest in locating film production facilities at Berlin's historical Tempelhof Airport after a public referendum at the weekend failed to attract enough support to prevent the airport's planned closure this autumn.Speaking to the local newspaper Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten on Monday, Studio Babelsberg president and CEO ...
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Edinburgh unveils new cult section calledUnder the Radar
The 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will host a new section celebrating cult film, Under the Radar.'The term 'cult cinema' has become mere marketing-speak in recent years,' EIFF artistic director Hannah McGill said in statement issued to the press. 'With this new section, we want to re-animate the spirit ...
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Fortissimo picks up Mendoza's Cannes-bound Serbis
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights outside of France and the Philippines to Brillante Mendoza's Serbis, the first Filipino film to screen in competition at Cannes in 24 years. The last Filipino film to screen in Cannes competition was the late director Lino Brocka's Bayan Ko: My Own Country. The ...
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Chak De India, Om Shanti Om lead IIFA technical awards
Yash Raj Films' Chak De India and Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om are the big winners at this year's International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards in the technical categories. Both films star Shah Rukh Khan. Chak De India bagged five awards including best cinematography (Sudeep Chatterjee), best editing (Amitabh Shukla), ...
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Forbidden Kingdom sets opening day record in China
Echoing its strong first weekend gross in the US, The Forbidden Kingdom achieved a record-breaking opening-day gross in mainland China. The film raked in $2.29m (RMB16m) on Thursday, April 24, surpassing the $2.14m (RMB15m) record set by The Warlords last December, as well as that of Curse Of The Golden ...
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Fuji TV's Shaolin Girl sells throughout Asia
Katsuyuki Motohiro's martial arts action comedy Shaolin Girl has sold to eight Asian territories, co-producer Fuji TV announced today. Gaga Communications, which is handling international sales on the film, has closed deals with Bill Kong's Edko Films for Hong Kong and Macau, San-Byte Hong Kong Co for Taiwan, Sahamongkol Film ...
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Icelandic comedy among new titles on Bac Films Cannes slate
Bac Films will bring three new projects to the Cannes market this year and also unveil the market premiere screening of Back Soon by Solveig Anspach.The comedy is about a woman in Iceland who's had enough of her pot-selling business and decides to move away with her two sons. Unfortunately, ...
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Icelandic comedy among new titles on Bac Films Cannes slate
Bac Films will bring three new projects to the Cannes market this year and also unveil the market premiere screening of Back Soon by Solveig Anspach. The comedy is about a woman in Iceland who's had enough of her pot-selling business and decides to move away with her two sons. ...
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Charly wins top award at Crossing Europe
French director Isild de Besco won the main European Competition award for Charly at the fifth Crossing Europe Film Festival. The win is her second in Linz, following Half Price in 2005. The prize, worth $15,660 (Euros 10,000), was presented by a jury comprised of Swiss film critic Catherine Ann ...
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Little Girl Blue takes top honours at Plzen
An international jury at the 21st Finale Plzen film festival awarded the Golden Kingfisher for Best Film to Alice Nellis' Little Girl Blue. Produced by Jan Sverak, the film tells the story of one fateful day in the life of a middle-aged woman, played by actress and musician Iva Bittova. ...
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Summit options sci-fi script Arena by Wagstaff, Howell
Summit Entertainment has optioned the rights to the speculative sci-fi script Arena from first-time writers Toby Wagstaff and Darren Howell.Benderspink will produce along with the writers' manager Jim Thompson, who recently produced War and the hip-hop documentary Diamonds In The Rough.Arena follows a unit of soldiers as they are mysteriously ...