All Screen articles in 29 February 2008
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Magnolia's Magnet buys domestic on Sweden's Let The Right One In
Magnolia Pictures' genre arm Magnet has acquired North American rights from Bavaria Film International to Thomas Alfredson's romantic horror film Let The Right One In.Negotiations commenced immediately after the film's first market screenings in Berlin earlier in the month on the story of a 12-year-old boy's friendship with a vampire ...
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SPWAG picks up international rights to Terminator 4
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up international rights excluding South Korea and select territories in the Middle East to The Halcyon Company's Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.The first episode in the revived franchise will be directed by McG and produced by Moritz Borman and Halycon co-CEOs Derek ...
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Chen, McLachlan to star in Beresford's Last Dancer
Kyle McLachlan, Bruce Greenwood and Joan Chen have been cast in Bruce Beresford's adaptation of the best-selling book, Mao's Last Dancer, which starts shooting in China next month. Jack Thompson, Aden Young, Amanda Schull and Wang Shungbao (Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress) have also joined the multinational cast.Paris-based Celluloid ...
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Bavarian regional fund announces $10.6m in funding
New productions by actor-director Til Schweiger, Christian Ditter and Mike Barker are among 35 film and TV projects allocated over $10.6m (Euros 7.2m) by the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern at its latest sitting.The largest amount - $1.25m (Euros 850,000) - went to Schweiger's next feature project, the medieval slapstick ...
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Chocolate becomes biggest film of the year in Thailand
Thai action flick Chocolate has become the highest-grossing film of the year in Thailand (excluding holdovers from last year), grossing $2m in less than three weeks. Produced and distributed by Sahamongkolfilm International, Chocolate is also the only film across Asia that has managed to beat Stephen Chow's alien comedy CJ7, ...
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Rambo's UK box office down due to Odeon snub
Feathers were ruffled at the UK box office this past weekend, in the aftermath of Odeon's decision to drop Rambo which significantly dented the film's takings. Sony's latest instalment of the gory Sylvester Stallone film generated just $2.5m (£1.2m) from 300 sites for a $8,166 (£4,157) site average, well below ...
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London Australian Film Festival announces full programme
The London Australian Film Festival returns to the Barbican March 6-16, opening with Unfinished Sky. Peter Duncan's film, about a reclusive farmer who takes in and gradually befriends a female Afghan refugee, saw its world premiere at Toronto last year.The festival will conclude with a gala screening of Richard Roxburgh's ...
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The Accidental Husband
Dir: Griffin Dunne. US. 2008. 90minsUma Thurman's recent track record with romantic comedy is not auspicious - neither Prime (2005) nor My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) turned out to be major box-office contenders. The Accidental Husband, however, should improve her standing in this genre. There is nothing unpredictable about this glossy, ...
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New Bond filmto shoot in Tuscany
Marc Forster's new James Bond film will be heading to Tuscany as part of its locations shoot, the latest of a series of international productions to choose the region as set.Quantum of Solace will head to Italy for 15 days from the end of Aprilthrough May 12, picking up where ...
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Sunshine Cleaning finally lands at Overture in US
Overture Films acquired US rights to Big Beach and Back Lot Pictures' Sundance entry Sunshine Cleaning at the weekend, one month after the festival ended.The approximately $2m deal is Overture's second pick-up from Sundance following Henry Poole Is Here and ended more than a month of negotiations between sales agent ...
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Arthouse Films signs US deal with iTunes
Arthouse Films has a signed a deal to make its films available for purchase and download on iTunes.The deal was negotiated by David Koh and Lilly Bright on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment and Mark Kashden on behalf of New Video Group.Films will be available for $9.99 ...
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Film Movement buys domestic rights to Puenzo's XXY
Film Movement has picked up Lucia Puenzo's Argentinean coming-of-age drama XXY from Pyramide International.The Spanish-language film centres on a 15-year-old hermaphrodite living with her family in Uruguay whose life becomes endangered when her secret is exposed. Ines Efron and Martin Piroyansky star.The film won the Critics Week Grand Prize and ...
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Jaap Brujnen takes over as head of Warner Home Video Benelux
Jaap Bruijnen has been promoted to managing director of Warner Home Video Benelux following yesterday's announcement that Ruud Lamers will leave the company at the end of April.Bruijnen, who currently serves as deputy managing director of Benelux, will assume his new role effective May 1.'I take great pride in my ...
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Laguna buys domestic DVD rights to Chapa's thriller Fuego
Los Angeles-based Laguna Productions has picked up exclusive North American DVD rights from Amadeus Pictures to Damian Chapa's English-language spy thriller Fuego.Chapa stars as an incarcerated special forces veteran who signs up for a suicide mission to save the Mexican President's daughter. David Carradine also stars.'We are thrilled to add ...
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Meistrich's NEHST Studios to stage Aspiring Filmmakers Boot Camp
Larry Meistrich's NEHST Studios will stage the Aspiring Filmmakers Boot Camp pitch session in New York from Mar 7-9.The three-day event will cover pitching, producing, financing, distribution and career opportunities and give participants an opportunity to pitch their projects and possibly sign a deal on the spot.'We are working hard ...
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Then She Found Me, American Teen bookend Cleveland
Helen Hunt's feature directorial debut Then She Found Me and Nanette Burstein's hit Sundance documentary American Teen bookend the 32nd Cleveland International Film Festival, which runs from Mar 6-16.John Sayles, whose first film Return Of The Secaucus Seven screened at the fifth Cleveland International Film Festival in 1981, will receive ...
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First Cinema Eye Nonfiction Filmmaking Awards set for March 18
The inaugural Cinema Eye Nonfiction Filmmaking Awards will take place in New York at the IFC Center on Mar 18.The event has been put together by online distributor IndiePixFilms.com, producer A J Schnack and Toronto International Film Festival documentary programmer Thom Powers to celebrate what they call the new wave ...
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Shooting begins on Salvage in Liverpool
Shooting begins today in Liverpool on British horror film Salvage, one of the three features commissioned under the Digital Departures scheme set up to celebrate Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture. All three films will premiere in Liverpool later in the year.Salvage marks the feature directorial debut of Lawrence Gough. ...
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Recep Ivedik leaps into top 10 with $5.1m take
Turkish film Recep Ivedik was the surprise big-hitter in the international arena this weekend, generating $5.1m from just 230 screens in its home territory and catapulting it into the top 10. The top 40 films generated $166m from 48,087 screens from the period of February 22-24. For the full international ...
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Fortissimo adds Konchalovsky's Gloss to line-up
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights outside Russia and France to Andrei Konchalovsky's Gloss, which will receive a gala screening at next month's Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). Produced by Konchalovsky's Production Center,Glosstakes a satirical look at the current wave of capitalism sweeping through Russia.Since making the film, the ...