All Screen articles in 10 July 2009 – Page 6
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News
Lionsgate fights off Icahn with board appointment
Independent studio Lionsgate has moved it defend itself from investor activist Carl Ichan by nominating major shareholder, Mark Rachesky, to the board.
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Paramount first studio in 2009 to surge past $1bn domestic mark
Paramount Pictures has crossed the $1bn domestic box office line ahead of the Hollywood pack on the back of the storming run by Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.
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Spanish box office dominated by Hollywood blockbusters
Hollywood again dominated the Spanish box office, which rose 6.2% to $392.6m for the first six months of 2009, compared with $368.6m for the same period in 2008.
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Features
Vorstadtkrokodile 2: Das Abenteuer Geht Weiter (The Crocodiles 2)
Sequel to last year’s successful remake of Suburban Crocodiles.
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Features
Du Mein Glück (_You My Joy)
A few days in the life of truck driver Georgi seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violenceand abuses of power. A dark parable about the situation in Russia today.
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Features
The demand is there for legal online film downloads
Piracy costs the UK film industry $660m a year and universal broadband is expected to increase that further. Sarah Cooper reports.
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Counterfeiting as national pastime
Sheri Jenning’s looks at piracy in Italy, where counterfeit goods flourish.
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Features
Corruption is a huge problem
Theodore Schwinke takes a look at the problems of camcording and counterfeit DVDs in Russia.
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All peer-to-peer activity may soon be outlawed
Chris Evans takes a look at piracy in Spain, one of the world’s worst offenders.
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‘Anonymous’ file-sharing presents the next big challenge
Jorn Rossing Jensen looks at how copyright infringers are looking to get round piracy laws in Sweden
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News
Tomas Alfredson to direct Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson has signed on to direct an adaptation of John Le Carré’s Cold War spy novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, for Working Title Films.
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Welsh film agency supports Ray Winstone, Olga Kurylenko project
The Film Agency for Wales has invested $486,000 (£300,000) in John McNally’s debut feature Four Working Days, starring Ray Winstone and Bond girl Olga Kurylenko.
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Features
Global Piracy Report
ScreenDaily’s special issue on piracy brings you reports from all over the world.
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Awareness campaigns are working
Sandy George brings you a report on Australian piracy campaigns.
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Law enforcer on the front line
The UK-born, Singapore-based Mike Ellis is integral to the clampdown on piracy, in his role as head of the MPA’s Asia-Pacific region. He tells Wendy Mitchell why he has the perfect job for an ex-cop who loves movies
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US: Barack Obama throws his weight behind anti-piracy efforts
Wendy Mitchell brings you the US piracy lowdown.
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Prosecution of young offenders reaches record levels
Jean Noh brings you the South Korean piracy report.
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Comment
Restoring lustre to prestige titles
Increasing the number of films in the best picture category could be the shot in the arm Oscar needs as audiences turn their back on the cynical ‘awards movie’.
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Battle to convince courts of the threat of piracy
Martin Blaney looks at how the German film industry is effected by piracy.
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Three strikes and you're out...sort of
Nancy Tartaglione examines the implications of France’s controversial Internet and Creation Law.