All Screen articles in 30 October 2008
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Peace Arch picks up three for international sales
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has picked up international rights to the dark comedy Nobel Son, the drama Explicit iLLS and the thriller Two: Thirteen.The company will showcase all three films at the AFM along with Goal 3: Taking On The World, the final episode in the Goal football trilogy.Nobel Son ...
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Reiko Bradley moves to head Seven Arts International
Heading into the AFM, Reiko Bradley has been named president of Seven Arts International.Bradley will oversee all aspects of Seven Arts Pictures' burgeoning international sales and distribution operations as well as domestic distribution and the marketing of all Seven Arts titles. She will also play a key role in evaluating ...
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Profile: Donald De Line
When former studio chief Donald De Line left the executive suite to become a producer, he decided to get his hands dirty rather than produce from afar. 'There are producers who sit in an office and producers who like to be on set, in the midst of the action,' De ...
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Screen opinion: audiences offer hope of better things
It's not that my film deserves an audience, but its audience deserves to see it.' The frustration of Samm Haillay, a producer on Duane Hopkins' Better Things, encapsulates the critical issue for film.It is unrealistic to expect films like Hopkins' bleakly beautiful tale of growing up in the UK, to ...
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High School Musical 3 takes brand-building to new level
High School Musical's (HSM) third instalment lived up to its billing as the right film for the right time: pure escapism in a global recession.High School Musical 3: Senior Year set a new opening record for a musical in the US with a three-day debut of $42m. Internationally, it opened ...
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The Hurt Locker kicks off 23rd Mar del Plata Film Festival
The 23rd Mar del Plata Film Festival, which takes place in Mar del Plata, Argentina from Nov. 6-16, has announced that the festival will open with Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq bomb squad movie The Hurt Locker with Bigelow and writer Mark Boal in attendance.Latin America's only FIAPF classified A-level festival will ...
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Metrodome acquires UK and Ireland on 50 Dead Men Walking
Metrodome Distribution has acquired an all rights deal for the UK and Ireland from HandMade Films International to Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.Metrodome's Peter Urie struck the deal with HandMade's Guy Collins following robust interest from buyers after the ...
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Ackerman named COO at LA media and research firm Interpret
Aric Ackerman has been appointed COO at Los Angeles-based media and technology research firm Interpret LLC.Ackerman will oversee business development, finance, legal and operations for the company, which helps major entertainment and video game clients devise and assesse their media strategies.Ackerman reports to CEO Michael Dowling and will also be ...
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Telefilm Canada launches production funding for French outside Quebec
Public film financier Telefilm Canada is setting up an investment program for French-language filmmakers who work outside of the province of Quebec. The agency's new Official Languages Activities Program (OLA) will have a total of $1.88m (C$2.3m) to devote to the initiative. While more than 80 per cent of French-speaking ...
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Tulpan takes first feature award at Times BFI London Film Festival
The 52nd Times BFI London Film Festival has announced three awards at its closing gala, Tulpan, takes best first feature, Three Blind Mice is critics favourite and Mid-August Lunch is recognised for its humanity and artistry. Director Sergey Dvortsevoy received the Sutherland Trophy for Tulpan; director Matthew Newton was awarded ...
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London Film School to support working filmmakers in developing skills
The UK's London Film School has launched Fast Forward, a programme to enable film professionals to develop their craft or to move to a new one. The London Film School (LFF) has launched Fast Forward, upgrade programmes for working professionals.The programmes will allow working professionals to train during intensive weeks ...
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Once star Market Irglova turns down Darkness
Marketa Irglova has backed out Darkness, a new film from veteran Czech director Juraj Herz, which began shooting this week.Lenka Krobotova (Karamazovi) replaces Irglova, who will spend the time on a concert tour with Once co-star and recording-artist partner Glen Hansard. Krobotova will star opposite Ivan Franek.Shooting is taking place ...
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Le Pacte acquires world rights to Bonnell's La Dame De Trefle
French sales and distribution company Le Pacte has acquired world rights to the latest film from director Jerome Bonnell, La Dame De Trefle. Le Pacte will handle the French release and will commence sales at the AFM next week.A drama with a thriller bent, the film stars Malik Zidi, Florence ...
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Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler to open 49th edition of Thessaloniki
The Wrestler , winner of this year's Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, will open the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Friday, November 14th. It will be presented by Evan Rachel Wood who plays the role of Rourke's daughter in the film. Director Aronofsky has been a Thessaloniki ...
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De Heer to head jury in Sydney, which sticks to mid-year spot
Australian auteur director Rolf de Heer has agreed to be president of the competition jury for the 2009 Sydney Film Festival (SFF).The competition rewards new directions in film and organisers use words such as audacious, courageous, cutting-edge and emotional to describe the kind of films sought. It was launched this ...
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Role Models
Dir: David Wain. US. 2008. 99 mins.A superbly-cast comedy, Role Models manages to locate and till fresh ground in the ascendant guys-behaving-badly sub-genre of American studio comedies. Both Paul Rudd (Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and Seann William Scott (the American Pie films) are best known as ensemble comedic ...
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Bengt Toll appointed head of Swedish Film Institute's Audience Dept
Bengt Toll, of Swedish regional film centre, Film i Väst in Trollhättan, has been appointed head of the Swedish Film Institute's Audience department, as of February 2009. Previously Toll was head of development of Swedish regional film centre, Film i Väst in Trollhättan and is also currently chairman of CineRegio, ...
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Celluloid Dreams acquires Wagenhofer doc, Let's Make Money
Celluloid Dreams has acquired Erwin Wagenhofer's documentary, Let's Make Money. Produced by Allegro Film's Helmut Grasser, the film is a behind-the-scenes look at the ways in which ordinary people are implicated in the political and economic machinations of the international finance market through a simple bank deposit.Celluloid will premiere the ...
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Consumer spending on video rose to $17.3bn in 8 key markets in 2007
Consumer spending overall on movie and TV videos rose by 26% to $17.3bn in eight key markets; UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Japan and the US in 2007. Despite the rise, spending on buying movies declined everywhere except the US, UK and Australia.That was one of the key findings ...
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Beta Cinema presents four market premieres at AFM
The Munich-based sales agent will be having market screenings for the first time of:Robert Dornhelm's $ 6.4m (Euros 5m) production of the Puccini opera La Boheme with star singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, which has been released so far in Austria (Constantin Film) and Germany (NFP/Warner);Nicolai Rohde's drama 10 ...