All Screen articles in 12 December 2008
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NewsUK embraces 3D ahead of Avatar release
With Avatar’s arrival in the UK imminent, ScreenDaily looks at which 3D films have made an impact in the territory.
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Paramount to release JJ Abrams' Star Trek on IMAX
Paramount Pictures will release its Star Trek prequel day and date worldwide in conventional cinemas and IMAX on May 9, 2009. The latest in a long and successful run of television and film series, the new film in the franchise chronicles the early days of Starship Enterprise Captain James T. ...
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Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri to shoot The Food Guide To Love
Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri will shoot The Food Guide To Love with Spain 's Tornasol Films. They will work with UK producer Kevin Loader and a French co-production partner on the romantic comedy.London born Dominic Harari and his Spanish wife Teresa Pelegri will write and direct the romantic comedy ...
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CineMart announces 2009 titles
CineMart, the Rotterdam film festival's co-production market, has announced its 2009 selection.There are 35 titles in all. New projects from established autuers like Zhang Yuan, Rodrigo Moreno and Pablo Stoll nestle alongside films from newcomers.There are animation films (Alois Nebel from the Czech Republic), dark-themed family dramas and thrillers. Confirmed ...
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The Film Workshops International to open training centres in Europe
The Film Workshops International (FWI), a media training company with training centres in the USA, will open new training centres in Europe in 2009.The FWI, established 30 years ago in the USA, has developed one-week workshops for writers, directors, actors, cinematographers, editors and producers to respond to developments in digital ...
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IMAX reorganises management structure
IMAX Corporation is reorganising its management structure with long-time co-chairmen and co-CEOs Brad Wechsler and Richard Gelfond assuming sole title to the respective roles of chairman and CEO.In a release, IMAX said chairman Wechsler will focus on corporate strategy, governance and business development while CEO Gelfond will handle day-to-day responsibilities.The ...
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Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne wins France's Louis Delluc prize
The Louis Delluc prize has gone to Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne, it was announced in Paris on Friday.The prestigious Delluc award is given to the best French film of the year by a jury presided over by Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob.La Vie Moderne , a documentary, was ...
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Moodysson's MammothjoinsBouchareb, Potter, Ade, Miller at Berlinale
Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, with Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle Williams, and Sophie Nyweide, and world premieres of new films by Sally Potter, Maren Ade, Rebecca Miller and Rachid Bouchareb are among ten titles confirmed so far for the Competition programme of the 2009 Berlinale international film.The four world premieres selected for ...
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15 UK production companies receive $1,500,000 in Lottery funding
More than $1,500,000 of Lottery moneyis tobeinvested in 15 British film production companies through the UK Film Council's Development Fund. The new initiative is to help producers to develop projects that broaden the quality, range and ambition of films and talent being developed in the UK.Tanya Seghatchian, Head of the ...
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The Day The Earth Stood Still
Dir: Scott Derrickson. US. 2008. 105 mins.Rarely has an alien invasion (or the possible eradication of humanity) seemed less gripping than in The Day The Earth Stood Still, a sluggish reboot of the 1951 science-fiction classic starring Keanu Reeves as an ambassador for the invading extra terrestrials. Updating the 'message' ...
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Inkheart
Dir. Iain Softley. Ger/UK/US. 2008, 106 mins.A long, long time in the releasing - first it swerved The Golden Compass, then was caught in the New Line merger - fantasy adventure Inkheart chases down the Stardust/Princess Bride audience, with a bit of bibliophile Nim's Island thrown in to the mix. ...
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Summit moves US release of Brothers Bloom from Dec to May 2009
Summit Entertainment has pushed back the North American release of Rian Johnson's adventure romance The Brothers Bloom to 2009. The film was originally scheduled for an Oscar-qualifying run in Dec and an expansion on January 16 but has now been moved to a limited opening on May 15 that will ...
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Fox's Day The Earth Stood Still set for world takeover
Aliens will rule the world this weekend when Fox International unleashes The Day The Earth Stood Still day-and-date with North America in approximately 90 countries.The sci-fi remake stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly and touches down in France, Belgium and Switzerland on December 10 and arrives a day later in ...
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Golden Globe nominees respond around the globe
Honourees greeted news of their Golden Globe nominations from locations both exotic and prosaic onThursday in the hours following the dawn nominations announcement in Los Angeles by theHollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
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Screen opinion: Transparency is key issue for film
The much-touted notion of recession-proof cinema can look like a bad joke for much of the business. The queues that have been exciting attention at theatres in large parts of the world are a million miles from the experience of most of the industry.There is little more than a passing ...
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Are there upsides to the downturn for film'
'The film market needs to change. I have been told it will never change but two years ago the same thing would have been said about the financial markets.'So says Gennaro Buonocore, managing director of media markets at electronic interdealer broker Icap. The company has put its money where its ...
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United Kingdom - New dimensions
The first cinemas in Europe to use the new Imax digital projection system have opened in London: two Odeon multiplexes in Greenwich and Wimbledon feature in a partnership between the Odeon and UCI cinema chains and Imax.The retrofitted auditoria at the two sites can now show Imax digital and digital ...
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United Kingdom - Cult viewing
Screening to acclaim at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, documentary Three Miles North Of Molkom marks the feature debut of UK producer-directors Corinna McFarlane and Robert Cannan. The pair met on the 2005 UK film The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael (Cannan was assistant director and McFarlane assistant producer). ...
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In Focus: Cinetic's new world
When Wayne Wang's feature The Princess Of Nebraska streamed for free on YouTube in mid-October, it was not a leak, it was the official digital release - and world premiere - of the film.The YouTube experiment, which attracted 220,000 views in the US (access from elsewhere was blocked), was one ...
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In Focus: Film Festivals brace for the recession
As the 2009 festival cycle approaches, organisers are huddling down, hoping the economic storms will pass them by. However, at a time when both state funding and sponsorship for arts events is under increasing pressure, most acknowledge film festivals are bound to be buffeted eventually.'In these times, sponsorship is not ...