All Screen articles in 6 January 2008
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Blood is runaway favourite at National Society Of Film Critics
The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) voted Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood best picture at the weekend and named Anderson best director and the film's Daniel Day-Lewis best actor.The group voted Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days best foreign language film and No End ...
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AMPAS names winners of Scientific & Technical achievement awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced 10 winners of Scientific and Technical Academy Awards that will be presented at a ceremony in Beverly Hills on February 9.Unlike other Academy Awards, achievements receiving scientific and technical awards need not have been developed and introduced during 2007, however ...
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Disney gets more box office Treasure in US, while Juno soars
Buena Vista's National Treasure: Book Of Secrets held on to top spot for the third consecutive weekend thanks to an estimated $20.2m haul that raised the tally to $171m as the first weekend of 2008 got off to an auspicious start.The adventure sequel starring Nicolas Cage should overtake the $173m ...
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UK breaks box-office records in stellar 2007
The UK enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2007 with total box-office takings at $1.7bn (£904m), according to Nielsen EDI -the highest total since records began and up 8% from 2006Last year saw the release of the highest ever number of films generating more than $20m (£10m) and $40m($20m) with 23 ...
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European Commission outlines strategy for online film
The European Commission has outlined a new strategic approach to support Europe 's online content sector, including film.The Commission estimates that potential retail revenues across the EU's online content market could quadruple from Eu1.8bn ($2.65bn)in 2005 to Eu8.3bn ($12.25bn)by 2010.Given its scale and rapid growth, the Commission believes the sector ...
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Lost In Beijing film-makers banned for two years
China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) hasblocked distibution of Lost In Beijing in cinemas or online, and banned producer Fang Li and his Laurel Films from making movies for two years.It has also suspended the film's screening permission and confiscated print and promotion material following an alleged ...
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Seven films shortlisted for Visual Effects Oscar
Seven films have been shortlisted for the Oscar for achievement in visual effects by the effects branch of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. They are 300, The Bourne Ultimatum, Evan Almighty, The Golden Compass, I Am Legend, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End and Transformers.Members of ...
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Panahi, Tan among Rotterdam's Tiger Awards jurors
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has lined up its jurors for its upcoming event.The jury for the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition, for first or second feature films, is comprised of: Russian film-maker/actress Renata Litvinova, Locarno's Tiziana Finzi, Iranian director Jafar Panahi, former Dutch Filmmuseum deputy director Rieks Hadders and Singapore ...
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BAFTA unveils five foreign nominees including Lust, Caution
The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) have announced five nominees for its Film Not In The English Language Award. Those films are The Diving Bell and The Butterfly; The Kite Runner; The Lives OfOthers; Lust,Caution; and La Vie En Rose.
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Halloween rebranded as London Short Film Festival
The fifth incarnation of the former Halloween Short Film festival is relaunching its programme of screenings, talks and events under the new name of the London Short Film Festival. The revitalised festival takes place today through Jan 13, and extends its venues to include London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, the ...
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Malaysia's 2007 box office to hita record $91m
Malaysia is on track to produce yet another record-setting year with the total box office expected to sail past the $91.2m (RM300m) mark for the first time in its history.A growth of at least 20% year-on-year is estimated, which would make it the seventh consecutive year with double-digit growth in ...
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Ian Maycock promoted to MD of Technicolor Thailand
Technicolor (Thailand) has named Ian Maycock as the new managing director of its Bangkok facilities, a key hub for servicing filmmakers and distributors in the pan-Asian region.Maycock who has worked in Australia, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Malaysia, has a background in the production and post-production businesses of Asian films ...
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Reviews
27 Dresses
Dir: Anne Fletcher. US, 2008. 111minsWell cast, slickly produced and performed with enough spirit to counterbalance its frequently stupendous lack of originality and plausibility, 27 Dresses pulls all the right levers for (mostly female) diehard romantic comedy audiences looking for just a pinch of wistfulness to go alongsidestray wish-fulfillment scenarios.Having ...
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Veterans of TF1, UGC launch new sales outfit Elle Driver
A new sales outfit will debut next week at the Unifrance Paris Rendez-Vous. Elle Driver, headed up by Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur has taken up residence at Stephane Celerier's Mars Distribution offices and, with help from an outside investment fund, will work 'with quality films that can travel,' ...
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Slamdancer
Drea Clark has a new job at the Slamdance Film Festival. But she is hardly a newcomer to the truly low-budget indie film showcase that runs each January in Park City, Utah, while the bigger and better-known Sundance festival roils all around it.Clark started with Slamdance as an intern in ...
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Paris Screenings - Springboard to success
French sales companies are often one of the first ports of call for an international buyer looking for veteran film-makers, cutting-edge work from genre masters such as Guillermo del Toro and arthouse experiments such as Todd Haynes' I'm Not There.Outfits including Wild Bunch, Celluloid Dreams and Bac Films have established ...
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United Kingdom/New Zealand - Spanning the oceans
Auckland, New Zealand-based Matthew Metcalfe (General Film Corp) and UK-based Alan Harris (Atlantic Film Productions) have been too busy making films to join the line of producers complaining the new UK tax credit is not friendly to co-productions.The pair produced The Ferryman and have now re-teamed for Dean Spanley, a ...
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United States - Irishman in LA
After a year as US vice-president of the Irish Film Commission, Jonathan Loughran knows what's on the minds of most Hollywood producers.Tax incentives are what they invariably ask about first, he confirms, "and if that's not the first question, I make it the first answer".The Los Angeles office that Loughran ...
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France - Drivers follow positive signs
Along with the crop of new films at this year's Unifrance Paris Rendez-Vous, there will also be a debut sales company in town.Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur have taken up residence at Stephane Celerier's Mars Distribution and, with an outside investment fund, are launching international sales outfit Elle Driver.The ...