All Screen articles in July 18 2014
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NewsWay Out West to host world premiere of All We Have Is Now
Other films in programme include Boyhood, Force Majeure, plus world premiere of Jens Lien’s new TV series.
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NewsScreen Yorkshire backs $25m action film
EXCLUSIVE: Co-pro Hunter’s Prayer marks largest investment and first US production for fund.
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NewsOne Direction film sets date
Arts Alliance strikes deal with Syco, Modest! and Sony Music Entertainment.
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CommentIs boycotting the answer in Israel?
Palestinian directors refused to show their films at the Jerusalem Film Festival last week in protest at Israeli treatment of Palestinians. Is it the right approach?
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NewsSarajevo unveils doc competition
Out of competition screening for My Craft about artist Arsen Dedic.
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NewsUnveil The Truth wins in Taipei
Kevin Lee’s documentary Unveil The Truth II: State Apparatus won the Grand Prize and best documentary at this year’s Taipei Film Awards, which took place at the close of the Taipei Film Festival on July 19.
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NewsPickbox launches Android app
Pickbox, a VOD service in the former Yugoslavia that launched in May, has now launched their application for Android devices.
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Lippo Group to invest $516m in cinemas
Indonesia’s Lippo Group has announced plans to invest $516m (6 trillion rupiahs) in 300 multiplexes across the country over the next ten years.
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NewsBritish sci-fi Native wraps shoot
Production on Native, a UK sci-fi feature starring Rupert Graves and Ellie Kendrick, wrapped on July 16.
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NewsAlibaba pacts with high-profile trio
ChinaVision Media Group, which will soon be renamed Alibaba Pictures Group, has signed production deals with Wong Kar Wai’s Block 2 Pictures, Angie Chai and Giddens Ko’s Star Ritz International Entertainment and Peter Ho-sun Chan’s We Pictures.
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NewsDisney unveils mystery Marvel dates
Heading into Comic-Con the hit factory Marvel Studios has dated five wide releases through Disney spanning summers 2017 to 2019 — although the identity of each remains a mystery.
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NewsSandra Bullock to play Tupperware queen
The Oscar winner will star for Sony in Brownie Wise, which Tate Taylor of The Help fame will direct.
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NewsUni acquires Jolie-Pitt starrer
Universal Pictures has prevailed in a studio bidding war, picking up world rights to the drama By The Sea that will mark the first time Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have starred together since Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2007.
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NewsAMPAS board elects governors
Five first-time governors have been elected to the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences board.
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NewsBen Whishaw to voice Paddington
The 33-year-old British actor has stepped in “slightly grudgingly” to replace Colin Firth as the voice of Paddington Bear in StudioCanal’s CGI/live-action feature.
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NewsBFI, ICO launch exhibition training
The initiative aims to provide bespoke technical advice for independent exhibitors across all nine of the BFI’s Audience Network Hub areas.
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NewsScottish producers call for film production fund
Independent Producers Scotland calls for tax on cinema tickets to go towards fund.
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NewsVenice to honour Schoonmaker, Wiseman
It is the first time a film editor has received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival.
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CommentMamoru Oshii honoured at Fantasia
Japanese film-maker receives Lifetime Achievement award on opening night of genre festival in Montreal.
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NewsDovzhenko biopic secures co-producers
Konstantin Konovalov’s Odessa-set biopic about the Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko.Odessa-Debut, has already found co-producers in Finland and Argentina.