All Screen articles in 3 December 2006

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    Bergeron starts Un Monstre A Paris

    2006-12-05T17:03:00Z

    Shark Tale directorEric "Bibo" Bergeron has begun work on animated feature Un Monstre A Paris,in his new 3-D animation studio in Nice. Monstre is beingdeveloped by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp. with Remi Burahin to produce. The roughly $26m (Euros 20m) comedy/horror film is set to bedelivered in late 2008 or early ...

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    Delluc prize shortlist includes Flanders and Coeurs

    2006-12-05T16:58:00Z

    Rather than being whittled down, the short list forthe Louis Delluc prize has been augmented to six candidates, it was announcedtoday. Along with the previously nominated Bled Number One by RabahAmeur-Zaïmeche, Cannes Palme d'Or winner Flanders by Bruno Dumont, OtarIosseliani's Jardins En Automne, Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterleyand Xavier Giannoli's Cannes ...

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    Dogwoof buys Fissures and Stolen Holidays

    2006-12-05T15:06:00Z

    UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures has acquired two new French titles: Fissures (Ecoute Le Temps) by Alante Kavaiteand Stolen Holidays (Les Petites Vacances)by Olivier Peyon. Both deals were struck with Wide Management in Paris. Thriller Fissures stars Emilie Dequenne, LudmilaMikael, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Spiesser and Etienne Chicot in the story of ...

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    Fleur Knopperts joins Sheffield team

    2006-12-05T14:50:00Z

    The Sheffield InternationalDocumentary Film Festival has appointed Fleur Knopperts as industry andmarketplace director.Knopperts, who will move to Sheffield in February 2007, was formerly managing director of The Forum at theInternational Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). She will follow inthe footsteps of former IDFA employee David Teigeler, who joined the Docfestteam ...

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    Cinesite's Brown named British Film Commissioner

    2006-12-05T14:44:00Z

    Colin Brown has been appointed British Film Commissioner, afterrecently stepping down as chairman of Cinesite (Europe) Ltd. Brown replaces Steve Norris,who recently departed the commissioner post to become managing director of filmat Framestore. Both Cinesite and Framestore are leading UK production and effects houses.Brown had been a member ofthe UK ...

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    Emma Scott joins Irish Film Board production team

    2006-12-05T14:27:00Z

    Emma Scott has been named asthe new production executive the Irish Film Board (IFB). Scott has worked for morethan 15 years in the film industry, in her own company, Liquid Films, as afreelancer, as head of production with Irish Screen, and more recently with MRFilms where she commissioned feature film ...

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    Denmark's Father sells well abroad

    2006-12-05T12:24:00Z

    Usually family filmsfrom Denmark don't sell very well abroad, but the case of Father Never Gives Up is proving more successful. The film sold511,000 tickets last winter in Danish cinemas, beating competition from SusanneBier and Anders Thomas Jensen to become the best performing Danish film thatopened in 2005.The film has ...

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    Almodovar hopes to get Cruz on board for next film

    2006-12-05T12:09:00Z

    Spanish director PedroAlmodovar may reteam with Volver starPenelope Cruz in a new project titled LaPiel Que Habito.In an interview over theweekend with local newspaper El Paisat the European Film Awards in Warsaw, Almodovar said: "My next film will be totallydifferent from my 16 earlier films. It is called La Piel ...

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    Filmaka launches twice-monthly online competition

    2006-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Los Angeles-based film-maker collective Filmaka.com has launchedan online twice-monthly competition and is offering a production deal with thecompany and its principals to the year-end finalist.Twice a month Filmaka.com will announce contest topics and invitecontestants to shoot a one-to-three-minute film and upload it to the site.At the entry level contestant films ...

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    TWC signs music and soundtrack deal with Cherry Lane

    2006-12-05T00:00:00Z

    The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Cherry Lane Music PublishingCompany have signed a multi-year administration agreement covering all musicand soundtracks from films released by TWC.Under the terms of the agreement, Cherry Lane will represent andexploit all music and soundtracks owned by TWC while securing performancerights fees from various music publishers worldwide.'We ...

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    Demme to direct Jimmy Carter doc for Participant

    2006-12-05T00:00:00Z

    JonathanDemme will direct a documentary about former President Jimmy Carter forParticipant Productions entitled He Comes In Peace.Productionbegan in Plains, Georgia, on Nov 11 at the Carters' home on the eve of hispublicity tour for his book 'Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid'.Demmeand his crew will follow Carter on the tour across America.Demmecollaborator ...

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    Telefilm Canada to help export of Quebecois productions

    2006-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Telefilm Canada hasannounced plans to support international sales efforts of the French-languageproductions in which it invests. Those films, overwhelmingproduced within Quebec, typically do not sell well abroad; despite the sharedlanguage, France and other French-speaking regions are generally hard marketsto crack, unless the films are international co-productions. The InternationalSales Promotion Pilot ...

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    Cars, Over The Hedge lead Annie Award nominations

    2006-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Cars,Over The Hedge, Happy Feet, Monster Houseand Open Season will contest bestanimated feature in the upcoming 34th Annual Annie Awards.Pixar'sCars leads the pack with ninenominations, while DreamWorks's Over The Hedge has seven. DreamWorks is the most recognised studio with17 nods.TheAnnie Awards are regarded as a key indicator in the Oscar ...

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    Cinemavault picks up sales rights to HD 3-D horror movie Scar

    2006-12-05T00:00:00Z

    CinemavaultReleasing International has picked up international rights to the highdefinition 3-D psychological horror film Scar, which completed principal photography in Calgary on Nov12.Scarwas shot by Japanese manufacturer NHK Enterprises and is the first live-actionfilm to be shot using this process following the animated releases MonsterHouse and Chicken Little.AngelaBettis stars as ...

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    eBay film pirate receives $108,700 fine

    2006-12-05T00:00:00Z

    A renowned seller of pirate DVDs on eBay has been ordered to pay $108,700 (£55,000) under Proceeds of Crime legislation, having already served six months in jail earlier this year for the same offence.The amount was adjudged to be the criminal profit made by Peter Spencer from his DVD sales ...

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    Casino Royale sets UK record for Bond

    2006-12-04T18:04:00Z

    After just three weekends onrelease in the UK and Ireland, the 21st official James Bond film CasinoRoyale has already become the highest-grossing film of the franchise in theterritory. Grossing $73.45m (£37.1m) asof Sunday Dec 3, Casino Royalesurpassed 2002's Die AnotherDay, which grossed $69.6m (£36m), over the weekend. The new film ...

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    BT Vision launches with VOD service

    2006-12-04T16:38:00Z

    From Broadcast BT has launched its new TVservice, BT Vision, which is providing more than 40channels and anextensive IPTV video-on-demand library at no subscription charge. As well as the free content,customers can pay for premium content such as music videos and movies viasubscription or pay-per-view. BT claims that its prices, ...

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    Infinity buys Hula Girls from Fortissimo

    2006-12-04T16:01:00Z

    Fortissimo Films hasclosed a three-picture deal with Taiwanese distributor Infinity Media. The deal covers LeeSang-Il's Hula Girls, Alex vanWarmerdam's Waiter and Pierre-PaulRenders' Mr Average. Infinity's RitaCheung negotiated the deal with Fortissimo's Michael J Werner. Werner said: 'Weare thrilled that Hula Girls and ourother two titles were so well received by ...

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    Humphreys joins Dublin International Film Festival

    2006-12-04T15:52:00Z

    The Dublin InternationalFilm Festival has appointed Grainne Humphreys as its new programme director.Humphreys will join the festival as director designate in January, a monthbefore the 2007 edition kicks off on February 16. This will be the final eventto be programmed by the festival's founder and film journalist, Michael Dwyer,who was ...

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    Bollywood companies sign on for NME's VMD format

    2006-12-04T15:30:00Z

    UK-based New MediaEnterprises has signed deals with six Indian film companies to make majorBollywood titles available on through NME's HD Versatile Multilayer Discformat. A bundle of 10 Bollywood titleswill be sold with a HD VMD player for the price of $299 through variousretailers. "Bollywood productions have an epic globalaudience but ...