All Screen articles in 9 March 2007
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Reviews
I Think I Love My Wife
Dir: Chris Rock. US. 2007. 94mins. It sounds like a joke: comedian Chris Rock and Louis CK, with who he collaborated on his edgy 1990s HBO TV series, working together again on an adaptation of Eric Rohmer's Chloe In The Afternoon. The laughs sound even more pronounced given that they ...
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HanWay strikes deals on Strummer; Vertigo sets UK release for May
HanWay Films has closed a number of new international deals for Julien Temple 's Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten after its screenings in competition in Sundance and at the European Film Market in Berlin. The documentary about the late Clash frontman has now sold to more than 35 territories. ...
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Oscar nominee Cobeaga ready for first feature
Spain's recently Oscar-nominated short film director Borja Cobeaga will shoot his first feature for producers Telespan 2000 and Estudios Picasso in October.The film, titled Flash, El Amigo De Las Chicas (literally, Flash, Friend Of The Girls), is based on the novel Flash by Massimo Bruni.The boy-meets-girl comedy is set against ...
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Fortissimo teams with Entertainment Farm for Sonata
International sales and production company Fortissimo Films is partnering with Japan's Entertainment Farm to co-produce the tentatively titled Tokyo Sonata, to be directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Fortissimo will also handle international sales on the film. The project is one of 25 that have been selected for this year's edition of ...
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Spain - The rain in Spain
It is easy to assume Summer Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses) carries some autobiographical resonance for Antonio Banderas. The actor's second film as a director after Crazy In Alabama (1999) is set in his hometown of Malaga in the 1970s and relates the experiences of a group of friends ...
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United States - Outside in
International film-makers are optimistic about the prospects for foreign-language films in the US - but they see pitfalls in working in Hollywood themselves. Those were two of the messages coming from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' symposium (February 24) with directors of the nominees for the foreign-language ...
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Marketing - Moving pictures
Movie posters have always generated anticipation in audiences, and have retained their effectiveness by adapting to the marketplace.In the 1970s, a gradual shift from matte to clay-coated glossy paper encouraged new designs. Star Wars and Star Trek posters increased in popularity and were responsible for making movie poster collectors out ...
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United Kingdom - A Royal welcome
Producer Christine Langan may have left the Oscars without the best-picture statuette for The Queen, but she can bank on something just as important: she is producing the next film from the team behind that hit.Langan, who was one of the producers of The Queen in her role at Granada, ...
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Industry moves
Dunn joins Fox AustraliaTwentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (Tcfhe) has appointed Chris Dunn as managing director in Australia. He takes over from Steven Leighton, who moved to a similar role at Tcfhe UK.Focus features promotion for BowlesAdriene Bowles has been promoted to president of worldwide publicity and executive vice-president of ...
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The US: the new hot location'
In recent years, Europe, Canada and New Zealand have been the hot locations for international film production. Now, though, those regions are seeing competition from the US - and the competitive inducements are not just keeping US producers at home but also beginning to lure non-US producers across the Atlantic.With ...
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Ghost Rider revs up for third week
Ghost Rider holds top spot on the international chart for the third consecutive week, motoring past the $60m mark after it expanded into the UK, Brazil, Japan and Denmark. The Pursuit Of Happyness took $6.7m, with predictions from Sony Pictures Releasing International chiefs that it could end up in the ...
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France - Rose-tinted history
Tackling the story of one of France's most beloved personalities is a daunting task, especially in a country which does not revere the biopic. But a few years ago, as Olivier Dahan rummaged through some photos in a book store, he was bitten by the Edith Piaf bug."I came across ...
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United Kingdom - Pirate Duty
Film piracy cost the UK industry $1.6bn (£800m) in 2005 and, with new platforms for distributing films illegally arising every year, the need to tackle organised crime has never been more urgent.This is where the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) steps in, led by its new director general Kieron Sharp, ...
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Editorial - Down but not out
This week's tax clampdown in the UK has come as a shock to the local industry. From the highs of the awards season in which the Brits were again out in force, the territory's industry is now back down in the dumps (see In Focus, p6).What happened was familiar to ...
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Market focus - Don't write off the DVD
Saturation ownership levels of DVD machines in the US and Western Europe have led to a steady slowing in the rise of DVD sales in recent years. But to talk of DVD as yesterday's technology is to take a narrow perspective.DVD slowdown is not a global phenomenon. In a number ...
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Data protection
This week, the Motion Picture Association of America (Mpaa) sent out a press release under the triumphal headline: '2006 box office rebounds'.The cause of this elation, according to the Mpaa, was the fact theatrical revenues in the US for the year - spearheaded by Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's ...
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United states - Mapping culture in cyberspace
In between producing films such as David Fincher's new drama M, serving on the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations, and spending time with the family, Mike Medavoy is occupying himself by writing a book. The veteran agent, studio executive and producer is co-authoring a tome with writer and editor Nathan ...
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In Focus - UK tax - Chronicle of a death foretold
There is a sense of deja vu about the sudden tax changes in the UK last week. The government ostensibly clamped down on so-called sideways loss relief, whereby a wealthy individual could offset tax against accounting losses recorded by a partnership. It was a loophole that spawned what became known ...
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Summer Box Office - Summer Movies Release Schedule
Summer Movies Release ScheduleTITLEUSUKFRGERSPITJAPKORAUSMEXBRAAtonementAug 31Sept 14TBCSept 27Sept 21Oct 26Oct 6TBCOct 31Sept 28Nov 2The Bourne UltimatumAug 3Aug 3Sept 12Sept 6Aug 14Oct 19TBCSept 20Aug 9Aug 3Aug 17I Now Pronounce You Chuck & LarryJuly 20Sept 21Aug 29Sept 20Sept 7Sept 19TBCSept 6July 26Aug 17Sept 14Evan AlmightyJune 22July 20Aug 15Aug 9Aug 17June 15Sept 8TBCJune 28June ...
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Blockbuster season: the long hit summer'
The stars on screen will probably do their bit as well, but it is the stars in the sky that seem to be aligned this year for a huge box-office summer in the US and around the globe.For one thing, summer 2007 offers new instalments of four of the most ...