All Screen articles in 30 January 2009
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Elle Driver to take London River and Samson & Delilah to EFM
After a successful Sundance, French sales house Elle Driver is revving up for the European Film Market with new titles from Rachid Bouchareb and Warwick Thornton. Bouchareb's latest, London River, has its world premiere in competition at Berlin. It is his first film since the Oscar-nominated Days Of Glory which ...
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Death Ray Films, Maya team for comic book adaptation El Zombo Fantasma
Death Ray Films and Maya Entertainment are to adapt the Dark Horse comic book El Zombo Fantasma for the big screen.El Zombo Fantasma was created by David Wilkins and Kevin Munroe and will be produced under the Death Ray Films label recently formed by Chris Patton, Munroe and Robert Sanchez, ...
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Film Movement picks up US rights to Sorin's The Window
Film Movement has picked up all US rights to Carlos Sorin's Argentine drama The Window (LA Ventana) and will release the drama theatrically in May.The Spanish-language film won the FIPRESCI Award at the Valladolid International Film Festival and was an official selection in Toronto last year.Antonio Larreta stars as a ...
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UK 's Cineworld self-finances digital deal
Cineworld, the UK cinema chain which is set to increase its number of digital screens by 100%, from 74 to 148, will self-finance the $5.57m (£4m) investment in order to capitalise on the growing 3D market. The chain would not be drawn on the details of the self-financing but the ...
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UK 's Cineworld self-finances digital deal
Cineworld, the UK cinema chain which is set to increase its number of digital screens by 100%, from 74 to 148, will self-finance the $5.57m (£4m) investment in order to capitalise on the growing 3D market. The chain would not be drawn on the details of the self-financing but the ...
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Red Cliff II scales Korea's Lunar New Year box office
The second part of John Woo's action epic Red Cliff topped South Korea's Lunar New Year holiday charts, with the film grossing $2.7m since its release on Jan 22. Distributed locally by co-financier Showbox Mediaplex, the film took in 588,683 admissions, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s integrated box ...
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Berlinale Official Selection 2009
The 59th edition of the Berlin International film festival has confirmed the complete lineup for its 2009 official selection.Please click highlighted titles to see Screen review.BERLINALE OFFICIAL SELECTIONIN COMPETITION All The Others (Ger) - Dir: Maren Ade Cheri (UK-Ger) - Dir: Stephen Frears Darbareye Elly (About Elly) (Iran) - Asghar ...
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The Match Factory to present five world premieres at EFM
Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory will handle international sales on four new films invited to screen in Berlinale's Competition. The films are: Uruguayan filmmaker Adrian Biniez's comedy Gigante, starring Horacio Camandulle, Leonor Svarcas; The Milk Of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada), from Barcelona-based Peruvian director Claudia Llosa; Veteran Greek director ...
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Films by Loncraine, Scherfig and Guggenheim complete Berlinale programme
Richard Loncraine's 1950s-set My One And Only, starring Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, and Logan Lerman, will screen as a world premiere in Competition, while Scherfig's An Education, with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Dominic Cooper, will be coming direct from Sundance for a gala presentation at the Friedrichstadtpalast in the ...
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Revanche (2008)
Dir: Goetz Spielmann. Austria, 2008. 122 mins. Goetz Spielman's thrilling film noir moves from the sleazy slums of Vienna to the rolling green pastures of the Austrian countryside, but neither turns out as expected in this jaundiced view of human relations (which the director has already explored in his early ...
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Icon scores foreign film nods for Australia's FCCA Awards
Icon distributed three of the eight films nominated in the two best foreign film categories of the 25th annual Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) Awards, it was announced today. The films are In Bruges and Slumdog Millionaire in the English language category and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly ...
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CJ picks up two KAFA films debuting in the Berlinale
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to two Berlinale Forum films - Members Of The Funeral and The Day After - both from the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA)'s inaugural cycle of feature-length graduation films. Set for its international premiere in Berlin, Baek Seung-bin's debut ...
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Tesela Producciones reveals new slate of projects
Spanish outfit Tesela Producciones will produce local director Achero Manas new family drama Franny & Joe (working title) and Argentinian director Adolfo Aristarain's political project Timote.Both projects are currently at the script stage. Manas is currently on the third version of his script for Franny & Joe about a father ...
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Box office review 2008
Box office reviews from around the world for 2008 with information on revenues and admissions by territory.Please click on territory to see box office results for 2008.International round-upNorth America domestic round-upAsia-Pacific round-upAustraliaBrazilChinaFranceGermanyItalyHong KongJapanRussiaSouth KoreaSpainUKFilms 2008: A-Z of Screen reviews
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E1 Entertainment to distribute Christal Films titles worldwide
E1 Entertainment (formerly Entertainment One) has signed an exclusive long-term Canadian distribution and international sales agreement with Christal Films Productions for all the Montreal company's feature films worldwide. The deal covers all films produced by Christal founder Christian Larouche. Larouche's distribution company, Christal Films Distribution, declared bankruptcy in May of ...
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Jim Amos promoted to president of Sony Pictures Releasing
Jim Amos has been promoted to president of Sony Pictures Releasing to fill the slot vacated by Rory Bruer, who was recently promoted to president of worldwide distribution for Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution.Amos previously served as Sony Pictures' division manager and senior vice president of distribution for the ...
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Ortenberg leaves Lionsgate to run theatrical arm of TWC
The Weinstein Company has issued a bold statement of intent about the strength of its upcoming slate and commitment to theatrical releasing by hiring Lionsgate veteran Tom Ortenberg as president of theatrical films.Ortenberg served more than 12 years at Lionsgate, most recently as president of theatrical films, and will commence ...