All Screen articles in 27 November 2006
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EFP's Shooting Stars to appear at Tallinn Black Nights
The European Film Promotion'sShooting Stars initiative will travel to Estonia for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Eight actors from Europeancountries will travel to the festival and introduce their latest films, in aneffort to increase awareness across European countries.The eight travelling toTallinn are: Gabriella Hamori from Hungary with Stop Mom ...
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International box office set for second Royale weekend
The spectre of Bond will continue to loom large over the globalmarket place this weekend as Casino Royale charges towards its first $100m.Since taking the worldwide arena by storm a week ago, the latest007 instalment has amassed more than $53m and could more than double its tallyover the next few ...
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Rasmusssen team launch northern Canada distribution initiative
The Canadian production teambehind Atanarjuat: The Fast Runnerand The Journals Of Knud Rasmussenhave launched a feature film distribution initiative to service 200 remoteaboriginal communities across northern Canada.Backed by a broad coalitionof private and public sector enterprises, including Telefilm Canada andAlliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) as well as several northernairlines, ...
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Marceau and Stuhr to host EFA ceremony
The European Film Academy has announced that French actor/director SophieMarceau and Polish artist/actor Maciej Stuhr will host the 19th European FilmAwards. Marceau starred in 1980's La Boum and has directed films includingParlez-Moi D'Amour and the forthcomingTrivial. Stuhr created the cabaretgroup Pozarcie and has appeared in films including Pogoda Na Jutro ...
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Colf named vp, general manager of WB digital services division
Vicky Colf has been named vice president and general manager ofWarner Bros Advanced Digital Services and Technology Systems.Colf will oversee day-to-day operations in support of the studio'sefforts to distribute content through new media outlets, and also takes chargeon implementing the studio's goal of digitising all aspects of the productionand distribution ...
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Jiffest to launch competition for Indonesian films
The 8th JakartaInternational Film Festival (Jiffest), Indonesia's only international film festival, will puttogether a new competitive showcase dedicated to local cinema for the firsttime this year. To promote Indonesiancinema, the inaugural Indonesian feature film competition will have 28 localfilms, released from last December, competing for best film and best directorwith ...
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Lumina sells thriller Straightheads to Sony
Sony PicturesEntertainment has acquired the majority of worldwide rights including NorthAmerica to revenge thriller Straightheads from London-based Lumina Films.The fllm whichstars Gillian Anderson (pictured) and Danny Dyer, is the feature directingdebut of documentary film-maker Dan Reed and tells the story of a coupleattacked on their way home from a party ...
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MGM picks up worldwide rights to Two Weeks
MGM has picked up worldwide rights to the bittersweet comedy TwoWeeks starring SallyField, Ben Chaplin, and Tom Cavanagh.MGM has set a Dec 1 domestic release for Steve Stockman's featuredirectorial debut about four siblings who rush home for what they think is afinal goodbye to their dying mother.When the matriarch refuses ...
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The Nativity Story
Dir: Catherine Hardwicke. US. 2006. 102mins.One of the most bizarre matches of talent andmaterial this year - the story of the nativity from the director of Thirteen and The Lords Of Dogtown and the writer of The Rookie - delivers a satisfying andentirely inoffensive slice of Biblical drama which could ...
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Intandem picks up four new genre films
UK-based producer and salescompany Intandem Films has acquired world rights to four new features thanks toa $7.2m loan note through US-based private investment bank Capitoline GlobalFinance. Intandem now has worldwiderights to True True Lie, Supergatorand Incubus and world rightsexcluding Benelux, Brazil, CIS, France, Greece, India, Mexico, Spain and the UKto ...
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Directors Guild starts new UK training initiative
The UK-based Directors GuildTrust has launched a new training programme, Direct Access, which has thebacking of established names including John Madden, Richard Eyre and DavidYates. The programme, inpartnership with Film4 and Skillset's A Bigger Future with the UK Film Council,will let new film-makers observe an established director on a project ...
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High Point books deals for Dutch Slaughter Night
After AFM, High Point Filmshas closed more deals on its Dutch horror project Slaughter Night. Tartan Films took all rightsfor North America, in a deal led by Tartan's head of acquisitions JaneGiles. Also, Legend Films boughtfor Germany, Daylight Films for Brazil, DAI Films for Thailand and RAMEntertainment for Singapore and ...
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Hitler farce among new projects backed by Germany
Swiss theatre and film director Urs Odermatt'sadaptation of George Tabori's stage farce MeinKampf about the creation of the 'monster Hitler', is among 12film projects and five screenplays backed with a total of $1.86m (Euros 1.45m)by Germany's State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann.Odermatt's film will beproduced by the Berlin-based production outfit ...
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Brazil to discuss creating film commission
The 39th BrasiliaFilm Festival which opened yesterday and runs through Nov 28,will host a seminar about film locations in Brazil. The seminar will be an open forum for discussionsthat revolve the future of the regional film commissions and the possible creationof a Brazilian Film Commission to foster local film production.At ...
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European Commission approves new UK tax regime
The European Commission has approved the UK's new tax credit but has revised the cultural test that decides which films qualify for support.The breaking of the deadlock that had delayed the incentive has been widely welcomed. The new tax credit - available to films spending 25% of their budget in ...
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Lewis Kim joins growing Korean upstart Barunson
LewisKim, formerly head of international at TheHost production company Chungeorahm Film, has moved to upstartproducer/investor Barunson. Kim will report directly to Chief Executive OfficerJae-won Choi.Creditedon Bong Joon-ho's hit The Host as overseasline producer, Kim handled international business for the film - includingoverseas casting and coordinating with California-based CGI house The ...
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Apple comes on with Hob for Lukasiak feature
Leading Polish productionhouse Apple Film has come onboard Polish-born filmmaker Agnieszka Lukasiak'sfeature debut Between TheFires which will be one of the first features to be handled by Swedishproducer Peter Kropenin's new production outfit Hob AB.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at this week's MannheimMeetings where he was pitching Between The Fires to potential ...
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Kearns and Chater join London's Peepshow Post
Peepshow Post Production hasadded editors Tony Kearns and Jerry Chater to its team based in Soho, London. Kearns has worked on commericals for Ikea, videos for Blurand Radiohead, and the Florida Anti Tobacco Project. Chater has varied experiencewith commericals, music videos and documentaries. The team already includesAndrea MacArthur, Mark Edinoff ...
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Serbian exhibition in crisis as Beograd shuts 8 cinemas
The leading Serbianexhibitor, state-owned Beograd Film has decided to close eight cinemas in thedowntown area of the key city which accounts for 50% of Serbia's overall box office. The board of thecompany's union announced a strike because of unpaid salaries, inadequate workconditions and poorly equipped theaters as a consequence of ...
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How the revised UK tax credit system will work
The revisions of the UK tax incentive by the European Commission make a number of significant changes.Under the original UK proposals, there were three main criteria for judging qualification. Each element was awarded points with 16 needed from a possible maximum of 32.* Cultural content - settings, British characters, subject ...