All Screen articles in 4 February 2008
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IFC loads up with Sundance double winner Ballast
IFC has picked up North American rights to Lance Hammer's Mississippi Delta-set drama Ballast, which screens in competition in Berlin and won the best director and cinematographer awards at Sundance last month following an enthusiastic reception by critics.Vice president of acquisitions and production Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with William ...
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Construction starts on $60m studio complex near Cape Town
Construction on the long-gestating Dreamworld Film City studio complex near Cape Town is set to begin this week.Speaking to Screendaily.com in Cape Town, the Western Cape's premier Ebrahim Rasool said the foundation stone would now be laid for the $61m (Rand 460m) studio.The project had initially received $7.8m (Rand 60m) ...
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Golden Network signs seven-picture deal with Sidus FNH
Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network Asia has signed a deal with major South Korean production house and start-up local distributor Sidus FNH for worldwide rights excluding Korea to seven pictures. The films include hit Olympic drama Forever The Moment (aka Women's Handball Team), which was produced by MK Pictures ...
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Bragman sets up New York arm of LA PR firm 15 Minutes
Howard Bragman's Fifteen Minutes Public Relations has expanded its reach into New York and will be headed up by former vice president of Ogilvy Public Relations' consumer marketing practice Corey R Martin.Broadway, fashion and event publicity specialist Pete Sanders joins Martin and the pair will develop a broad account base ...
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Santa Barbara top honours go to Amal, Beautiful Bitch
The 23rd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) signed off on Sunday night [Feb 3] with the traditional awards ceremony in which the Panavision Spirit Award For Independent Cinema was awarded to Richie Mehta's drama Amal.The Heineken Red Star Award in honour of 'the most progressive and gifted independent ...
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Spain's MediaPro signs to finance three films from Woody Allen
MediaPro will finance the ever-industrious Woody Allen's next three films beginning in 2009.The Spanish company financed and co-produced Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the Spanish-language comedy currently in post-production that Wild Bunch is selling at EFM and The Weinstein Company acquired recently for North America.Allen plans to return to his beloved New ...
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Wonderful Town
Dir: Aditya Assarat. Thailand, 2007. 92 minsAditya Assarat's first feature, a tragic, melancholy, minimalist love story taking place in what was once a Thai beach resort before the 2004 tsunami hit, offers a poignant portrait of a place grappling with the loss of its main source of income amid the ...
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Willson tapped to head Universal's new Berlin-based arm
Andrea Willson has been recruited by Universal Pictures to head its new Berlin-based local production arm to invest in the development and production of German language feature films.Willson had previously been the head of Sony Pictures Entertainment's German production arm Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion, where she was involved in such ...
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Malta increases possible cash rebate from 20% to 22%
The Malta Film Commission on Saturday announced its revised financial incentives for film and TV productions shooting on the island. The cash rebates are given to qualifying companies on Malta-based production spend. Up to 22% can be claimed as a rebate - that's up to 20% on the rebate as ...
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Elle Driver adds four including new Skolimowski title
Nascent sales company Elle Driver has added four titles to its line up for the upcoming EFM. First up is drama Stomach (Estomago) from Brazil 's Marcos Jorge. The Zencrane Filmes/Indiana Production effort is an adult fable on power, sex and cooking. It came in second place for the audience ...
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Polybona, EMP set up talent company with Jackie Chan
Beijing-based Polybona Film Distribution, Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) and international star Jackie Chan have launched a joint venture artist management company, Bona Yinglong Artist Management. Chan will be the chairman of the new Beijing-based company with EMP's Albert Yeung as vice-chairman. Chan and Yeung are already partnered through ...
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Assembly becomes China's second biggest local film
Feng Xiaogang's The Assembly has become the second highest-grossing local film in mainland Chinese box office history, according to figures released by producer-distributor Huayi Brothers, with revenues reaching $36.16m (RMB260m) as of Jan 31. The record surpassed that of Zhang Yimou's 2002 film Hero, which made $34.77m (RMB250m).Zhang's 2006 imperial ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights for Weber films including Let's Get Lost
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to Bruce Weber's film collection, including the Oscar-nominated Chet Baker documentary Let's Get Lost.Metrodome negotiated the deal with Eva Lindemann at Little Bear.The collection also includes A Letter To True, Chop Suey, Broken Noses and various short films.Weber will travel to the UK ...
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Northern Ireland Screen launches new low-budget scheme
Northern Ireland Screen has launched its new Low-Budget Fiction Production (LBFP) scheme.The fund intends to finance one TV drama or low-budget feature film between June 2008 and March 2009.Feature film projects must have distribution interest from a sales company, distributor or broadcaster and budgets must be no more than $395,435 ...
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Hoshino appointed president of Japan's Studio Ghibli
Japan 's Studio Ghibli has announced that Koji Hoshino has taken over as company president from Toshio Suzuki as of February 1. Suzuki, who had served as producer of all Ghibli productions since 1989, became president in 2005 after the studio became independent from parent company Tokuma Publishing.Suzuki stepped down ...
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Protege, Warlords lead race for Hong Kong Film Awards
Derek Yee's Protege, produced by Peter Ho-sun Chan, and The Warlords, directed and produced by Chan, dominated the nominations for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards. Drug-trafficking thriller Protege picked up 15 nods, including best film and director, while The Warlords scored 13, including best film, director and two nods ...
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K5 International takes on Wonderful World starring Broderick
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on sales (outside North America) to Joshua Goldin's debut feature Wonderful World.Matthew Broderick and Sanaa Lathan star in this comic fable about 'the most negative man in the world.' Ben is forever fighting 'The Man' until he is inspired by the ...
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LoveFilm to acquire Amazon's German, UK DVD rental business
LoveFilm International has struck a deal to acquire Amazon.com's DVD rental business in the UK and Germany.As part of the transaction, Amazon Europe will make a cast investment (of an undisclosed amount) to become the largest shareholder in LoveFilm International.The two companies have signed a multi-year marketing deal for Amazon ...
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Spanish director Jaime Rosales takes top honours at Goyas
Jaime Rosales pulled off the surprise of Spain's 23rd Goya awards in Madrid by winning best director and best film for Solitary Fragments (La Solidad).Until those awards were announced, the evening had been dominated by Juan Antonio Bayona's hugely-popular horror The Orphanage and Emilio Martinez-Lazaro's Las 13 Rosas.Bayona's debut feature ...