All Screen articles in 28 November 2008
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The Media Festival: Digital key to reaching new audiences
Digital technologies have the potential to bridge the gap between customer demand and what producers make, delegates to The Media Festival in Manchester heard.The event, backed by Screen International and ScreenDaily,focused on the challenges of ensuring a sufficiently broad and diverse range of content to satisfy audiences across today's multi ...
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21st IDFAaward nominees announced
The nominees for this year's International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Joris Ivens Award and $16,000 (Euros 12,500) have been announced. Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country by Anders Ostergaard; Necrobusiness by Fredrik von Krusenstjerna, Richard Solarz and Monika Sieradzka; and Yodok Stories by Andrzej Fidyk. In the ...
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Highlight, Rosem team for Indo-French co-production
India's Highlight Films is joining forces with France's Rosem Films to co-produce The Conqueror, written and to be directed by female Indian filmmaker Alka Raghuram. Highlight's Mahesh Mathai and Rosem's Sylvain Bursztejn are jointly producing the Hindi-language film which has secured backing from Fonds Sud Cinema and is currently looking ...
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Valley Song wins Hubert Bals award at Film Bazaar
Pushpendra Misra's Valley Song was presented with the Hubert Bals award for most promising feature film project at the Film Bazaar in Goa on Friday night. The award came with a cash prize of $6,400 (Euros5,000) towards the project's development. Produced by Misra and Alakananda Nag, the project is a ...
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Tykwer's The International to open 59th Berlin Film Festival
The world premiere of Tom Tykwer's The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts has been named as the opening film of the 2009 Berlinale on February 5.The action thriller also stars Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne, Ulrich Thomsen and Jack McGee.The International will be presented 'out of competition' in ...
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Co-production focus at Festival of German Films in London
International co-production will bea focus of this year's Festival of German Film at London's Curzon Soho Cinema, which begins November 28 (Friday).The programme includes an industry event hosted by German Films and the UK Film Council on strategies and business models for structuring co-productions with Germany.More than 100 producers are ...
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Mumbai cinemas remain closed asattackscontinue
The Mumbai terrorist attacks, which had still not been completely contained as of Friday afternoon, are also having an impact on the Hindi film industry which is based in the city. Cinema halls in South Mumbai - including the Inox multiplex next to the Oberoi Trident hotel and single screens ...
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Board members at Japan's Picnic Pictures branch out
Board members at Japan's Picnic Pictures Inc have formed partnerships with two established film companies to set up separate production entities. Picnic president Tadaatsu Shundo has partnered with Tokyo Theatres Inc to establish Parade Inc. Shundo will serve as CEO and Toshikazu Nishigaya will serve as board member and head ...
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Film Bazaar 2008: Feature Projects
Animal's PeopleDir/prod: Michael AndersonProd co: Quadrapedal FilmsLanguage: EnglishSynopsis: Based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Indra Sinha about a boy living with the consequences of an explosion in a chemical factory.Bandra FairDir: Judith VarmaProd: Sudhir MishraProd co: Cineraas EntertainmentLanguage: EnglishSynopsis: A former Catholic priest returns home from to Mumbai to ...
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Fox launches Australia in Australia day-and-date with North America
Sony/MGM's Quantum Of Solace remains the one to beat heading into the weekend although the James Bond saga can expect to get shaken and stirred by several new arrivals.The 007 tale has raced to $312m through Sony Pictures Releasing International and should finish the weekend close to $340m through strong ...
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United States - Launching Plymouth Rock
New England needs a vitamin injection," says David Kirkpatrick, founder of Plymouth Rock Studios, a new digital film and television studio complex to be built in Massachusetts, the most populous state in the north-eastern region of the US.And while the 25% Massachusetts tax credit for film-makers that was introduced in ...
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Profile - Pim Hermeling
At the AFM in Santa Monica, several Dutch distributors were heard to grumble about the prices being charged by international sales companies for Benelux rights.Nonetheless, there was little evidence the Dutch buyers were keeping their wallets in their pockets. A-Film and Dutch FilmWorks both made major acquisitions of high-profile titles ...
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In Focus: Erik Van Looy's Flemish hit Loft
With 500,000 admissions already posted and the Christmas holidays still to come, Erik Van Looy's Loft is the runaway local hit of the autumn in Belgium. Four weeks after its release on October 22, it had not only outperformed Quantum Of Solace and left Mamma Mia! The Movie gasping in ...
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Czech republic - Lighting up the radar
Czech documentary film-makers Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda gained international attention and praise from Morgan Spurlock and Michael Moore for their 2004 debut feature Czech Dream.The documentary, in which the two student film-makers created an entire PR campaign for a non-existent supermarket, won several awards including best documentary at the ...
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International - Summit draws blood
Quantum Of Solace held on to the top spot on Screen's international chart for a fourth week as it passed the $300m milestone, adding $40.4m to its tally over the November 21-23 weekend. Now in 67 territories, Sony Pictures Releasing International's film played on 10,373 screens, and yielded a $3,900 ...
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Interview: Splinter and Grudge 3 director Toby Wilkins
'My sensibilities tend to be on the darker side,' says director Toby Wilkins. That sounds like an understatement considering that his feature directorial debut, Splinter, has a very memorable scene in which a severed hand comes to life. Yet Wilkins is not about gore for gore's sake. 'For me, the ...
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Studio Hamburg scales down feature film activities
Germany 's Studio Hamburg has decided to scale down its feature film activities after the disappointing international performance of its English language projects.The step was taken after the stand alone companies specifically set up to provide the co-financing for by Studio Hamburg International Production's (SHIP) two English language family entertainment ...
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Screen opinion: Time for a truce
The threat of an actors' strike in Hollywood takes on a somewhat surreal aspect when the global economy is collapsing around our ears. Last year's writers' strike took place against the backdrop of a hedge-fund boom. The studios had fallen spectacularly on their feet after a difficult period. Back then, ...
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In focus: Marketing theatrical documentaries
We don't do documentary,' was the response from Wouter Barendrecht, co-founder of Fortissimo Films, when John Sloss of Cinetic Media approached him to see if Fortissimo might be interested in handling a small-scale film about child abuse called Capturing The Friedmans in 2003.At that time, Fortissimo did not handle docs ...
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Awards countdown Golden Globes - Back to business
In a tumultuous year for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Hfpa), president Jorge Camara anticipates business as usual as the group prepares to announce its Golden Globe nominees on December 11.As the second oldest awards body in Hollywood, after the Academy Awards, the Hfpa has seen and done a lot ...