All Screen articles in 11 Oct 2012
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NewsAbu Dhabi Media Summit: Local start-ups unveil projects including Sira interactive storybook
Tech entrepreneurs including Ayham Gorani of AlphaApps and May Habib of Qordoba [pictured] unveiled their latest offerings.
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NewsMIPCOM reports biggest market ever
Cinema-television crossover trend strengthens; digital players take on greater content financing role; sales buoyant despite gloomy economic backdrop.
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CommentGoing for gold
The Emirates Palace, venue for the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, includes an ATM that dispenses gold. Sadly, only to those who can afford it.
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FeaturesEffendee Mazlan
Malaysian husband-and-wife filmmaking team, Effendee Mazlan and Fariza Azlina Isahak, have gone against the grain of the unabashedly commercial Malay-language film industry with Songlap, a drama about the illegal trafficking of babies.
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FeaturesUPDATED: Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2012 slideshow
Photos from this year’s festival which kicked off with Richard Gere-starring Arbitrage.
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FeaturesManjeet Singh
The director talks about his debut feature Mumbai’s King, about slum kids in India.
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FeaturesHala Alabdalla
Paris-based filmmaker Hala Alabdalla was in the middle of making her documentary, As If We Were Catching A Cobra, about cartoonists and caricature artists in Syria and Egypt, when revolution swept the region.
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CommentMoët musings....
The annual Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s Moët & Chandon party is a natural fit into the golden opulence of the Emirates Palace Hotel.
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FeaturesRed Square Screenings
Screen previews Russia’s inaugural Red Square Screenings (Oct 15-19).
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NewsHundred-Year-Old Man gets SFI backing and Disney distribution deal
Felix Herngren directs the adaptation of Jonas Jonasson’s bestseller, starring Robert Gustafsson [pictured].
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NewsTaken 2 staves off US newcomers on $23m hold
The EuropaCorp-Fox-Liam Neeson combination is a potent one and ensured a second weekend at the top for the thriller as the top 12 box office gained approximately 38% on the same session last year despite dropping 7.6% against last weekend.
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NewsRegent Street Cinema restoration moves forward after Heritage Lottery Fund grant
Currently the space is used as a lecture theatre but it will be reborn as a state-of-the-art modern cinema.
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NewsTaken 2 delivers $45.1m int'l; Looper posts $109m; Impossible wows in Spain
UPDATE: EuropaCorp’s Liam Neeson thriller had too much in the tank for its competitors as distributor Fox International reported an estimated $134.8m running total after two weekends and $220.9m worldwide. Sci-fi Looper added $9m excluding China to cross the century mark after 17 days. And JA Bayona’s The Impossible [pictured] ...
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35th Starz Denver Film Festival to honour Argentina, Daniel Burman
The event will include 14 films in an Argentinian sidebar and a three-film tribute to Burman is planned for his feat of having the most films from Argentina play on US screens. The Colorado event is set to run from Nov 1-11.
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NewsBelgian KIKK Festival explores the digital frontier
International digital festival, which runs Nov 8-9, aims to explore the economic and artistic implications of new technologies.
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NewsCinesite opens Inspire Internship Programme for 2013
Initiative aims to give graduates the opportunity to work in the field of high-end visual effects.
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NewsXPAND introduces new passive 3D glasses
Infinity 3D glasses aim to be more ergonomic, lighter and more stylish than competing passive 3D glasses.
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NewsLife Of Pi wins 35th Mill Valley Film Festival audience award
Ang Lee’s closing night film scooped honours as the 11-day festival came to an end on Monday night (Oct 15). Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist won the audience award for world cinema and David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook took the audience award for US cinema.
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NewsChristoph Waltz will play Gorbachev in Mike Newell's Reykjavik
HanWay films handling international sales and will launch at AFM.