All Screen articles in 9 October 2007
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Dir. Royston Tan. Singapore / Japan, 2007. 105 min.Oozing sweet smiles and made-up grimaces, a myriad of glittering colours, low-brow humour and an endless string of easily hummed tunes, 881 is already a major hit in Singapore. Despite the lack of any plot to speak of, Royston Tan's film is ...
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Wagner offers upbeat vision of mutimedia, multicultural future
Film has a great multimedia, multicultural future, United Artists CEO Paula Wagner told Mipcom in Cannes.But success must be built on embracing international markets and other forms of media, she suggestedTom Cruise's UA partner contended: 'The international marketplace is vital. Hollywood has become just a territory - maybe still the ...
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PUSAN: CJ strikes four-film deal with Splendid
In the midst of a subdued Asian Film Market, Seoul-based distributor CJ Entertainment has clinched a four-film deal with Splendid Film for German-speaking territories and the Benelux. The package showcases CJ's first US-Korea co-production West 32nd, which is playing in the Pusan film festival and made its market debut here. ...
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UK government pledges more funding for culture and media
The UK's Department of Culture Media & Sport fared well in today's Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review from Chancellor Alistair Darling today. The Chancellor did pledge an increase in the resource budget for DCMS from $3.25bn (£1.6bn) in 2007-2008 to $3.66bn (£1.8bn) by 2010-11. John Woodward, Chief Executive Officer ...
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Huard takes top post at Universal Pictures in France
Stephane Huard has been appointed Managing Director of Universal Pictures International's new operating company in France. David Kosse, president of Universal Pictures International, made the announcement today. Huard joins UPI from Stage Entertainment France, where he was MD since January 2006. From 2001 to 2006, he was also MD of ...
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UK's Cineworld plans to install 30 Real D 3D systems
UK exhibitor Cineworld Group has signed a deal with Real D for 3D projection. Real D systems will initially be installed in 30 of Cineworld's 72 digital screns. The roll-out will coincide with the release of 3D project Beowulf in Nov 16. After that, Cineworld will work with the studios ...
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Heartbreak Kid leads UK box office; Control opens strongly
Ben Stiller comedy The Heartbreak Kid took the top slot in the UK chart this weekend as it opened to $2.5m (£1.2m) from 409 sites for a healthy $6,171 (£3,043) site average. Click her to see chart.The Farrelly Bros' ninth collaboration for the big screen managed to kick David Schwimmer's ...
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Abu Dhabi festival to include talks with Weinstein and Haggis
Harvey Weinstein and director Paul Haggis have joined the line-up of industry executives attending Abu Dhabi's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (Oct 14-19).After several weeks of negotiation, Weinstein has agreed to open the festival's Film Financing Circle (FFC) with a speech on international co-productions, while Haggis will teach a ...
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PUSAN: Everingham to star in first Laos film in three decades
Thai rising star Ananda Everingham is set to star in Sabaidee, Luang Prabang, a Thailand-Laos co-production which marks the first feature film from Laos in over three decades. The $319,000 (10m baht) production is co-produced by Lao Art Media and Thailand 's Sparta Creative. Established in 2000, the Laotian company ...
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Australia tries to ramp up Asian co-productions with new event
A search has begun in China, India, Korea and Singapore for films and television programmes that would be suitable co-productions with Australia. The projects will form the heart of an event, announced today, which will run alongside the annual conference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA). The conference ...
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Golden Lola winner and Perfume actress join Daldry's The Reader
Golden Lola winner Hannah Herzsprung and Perfume's Karoline Herfurth have joined the cast of Stephen Daldry's The Reader, which has been shooting in Berlin and Goerlitz since the end of September. Herzsprung, who is one of the Rising Stars at this month's Hamptons International Film Festival, was named Best Newcomer ...
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EFA documentary nominees include Forever and The Monastery
The European Film Academy has announced the 10 nominees for the Prix Arte award for best documentary. The documentary jury, comprised of Switzerland's Francine Brucher, Israel 's David Fisher and Germany's Philip Groning, will convene in Berlin to screen the nominees and select the winner. The award will be presented ...
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PUSAN: b.o.m. to handle sales on Hong's Night And Day
Renowned Korean arthouse director Hong Sang-soo (Woman Is the Future Of Man) wrapped production on his eighth film Night And Day last week (Oct 2), with major Korean production company b.o.m. Film Productions repping the film internationally. 'Depending on what kind of sales deals we do - if for instance ...
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Fog's The Art Of Crying takes Nordic Council Film Prize
Danish director Peter Schonau Fog's feature debut, The Art of Crying (Kunsten at græde i kor), will be awarded the Nordic Council's Film Prize at a ceremony during the council's session in Oslo on Oct 31. Scandinavia 's largest film award - it comes with $65,000 (Euros 47,000) - will ...
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PUSAN: Japanese producers pitch trio of projects
Three Japanese companies presented projects to potential investors via UniJapan's J-Pitch initiative, as part of the Pusan AFM's Co-production PRO programme. Presenters had ten minutes to explain their company track record, the talent involved, project outline and current status, and what they are looking for at Pusan. Gaga Films producer ...
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Kadin promoted to senior vice president at Columbia Pictures
Jonathan Kadin has been promoted to senior vice president of production at Columbia Pictures.Kadin, who joined Columbia as a creative executive in 2000 and most recently worked on development and production on Superbad, will continue to report to production presidents Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach.Kadin was promoted to director of ...
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Nunnari options Father Christmas script by Posehn & Duggan
Gianni Nunnari's Hollywood Gang Productions has optioned the rights to Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan's graphic novel The Last Christmas.The story finds a misanthropic Father Christmas who has shunned the annual seasonal holiday forced out of seclusion in a bid to save the holiday and the world.Nunnari will produced and ...
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Lambs, Cholera get North American premieres at AFI FEST
1000 Journals, Cyrano Fernandez, It's Better If Gabriela Doesn't Die, Manuela Y Manuel; Pop Skull, Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome; and Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story will receive their world premieres at the AFI FEST 2007, which runs in Los Angeles from Nov 1-11.Seventeen films will get ...
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Sony launches new production division Stage 6 Films
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has officially moved into production with the formation of Stage 6 Films, a new division that will acquire and produce genre films with an eye for sequels and prequels of existing properties.Screen Gems vice presidents of production Peter Nelson and Nick Phillips will oversee ...
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Halcyon gets first-looks rights to Dick works
Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek's The Halcyon Company has secured first-look rights to the works of science fiction and cyber-punk writer Philip K Dick.Halcyon will develop film, television and other media adaptations of Dick's works alongside Electric Shepherd Productions, the production arm of the late science fiction writer's estate run ...