All Screen articles in 10 June 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    PPI's Panda kicks out in nine markets, Sex expands global seduction

    2008-06-06T01:36:00Z

    Paramount Pictures International is in the enviable position of having two bona fide blockbusters in play as it prepares to launch a third this weekend.As Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull nears $300m and Iron Man consolidates its new status as an inductee of the $200m club, ...

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    Irish Film Festival launched in Los Angeles this October

    2008-06-06T00:10:00Z

    The inaugural Los Angeles Irish Film Festival will run from October 2-5 at the Clarity Theatre in Beverly Hills.Festival directors Lisa McLaughlin-Strassman and Niall McKay aim to develop the profile of Irish cinema and to this end will programme features, documentaries and shorts and stage on-stage interviews.The event is sponsored ...

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    Kaczorowksi joins Grosvenor Park as partner, Alper as principal and COO

    2008-06-05T23:52:00Z

    Los Angeles, London and Toronto-based film financing company Grosvenor Park has named Joseph C Kaczorowski partner and David Alper principal and COO.Kaczorowski most recently served as president of House Of Blues Entertainment, while Alper most recently managed Relativity Media's single-picture equity financing and production business.Backed by a New York-based alternative ...

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    Jorge Camara re-elected as president of HFPA

    2008-06-05T23:35:00Z

    Jorge Camara will serve his sixth term as president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) after he was re-elected to the post on Wednesday night [June 5].

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    Talking Wolf starts shoot for Serbia's first zombie film

    2008-06-05T17:25:00Z

    The new Serbian independent production company Talking Wolf Productions (TWP), which focuses on action and horror genre films, is planning its first feature, Zone Of The Dead.The project, which is co-produced with Pink Film International Studios (the first private large-scale studio in Serbia), Viktorija Film, Italy's Trees Pictures and Spain's ...

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    NBC Universal sells German free channel Das Vierte

    2008-06-05T17:21:00Z

    NBC Universal Global Networks has stuck an agreement to sell its free-to-air German channel Das Vierte to Mini Movie International Channel. NBC Universal said the sale of Das Vierte is part of its strategic plan to focus on the expansion of its pay-TV channels internationally. Das Vierte, which airs US ...

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    New copyright agreement provides greater online access to film

    2008-06-05T17:04:00Z

    A new EU-wide copyright agreement has been signed to increase the number of films made available to the public online by cultural institutions.The films targeted are so-called 'orphan works,' where the true rights holders of films, music or books, are impossible to identify or locate. The problem means that rights ...

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    China's Chengtian buys controlling stake in Golden Harvest

    2008-06-05T14:26:00Z

    Mainland China's Chengtian Entertainment Group has picked up a 55.9% majority stake in Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Group.Beijing-based Chengtian previously secured its place as the largest single shareholder in the Hong Kong entertainment group last November. The latest series of deals took Chengtian's 19.7% stake in Golden Harvest to 55.9%.Chengtian ...

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    iTunes opens 700-film UK film download store

    2008-06-05T13:36:00Z

    Confirming a move oft speculated in recent months, Apple has now launched its iTunes Movie Store in the UK.The UK store launches with about 700 feature films for rental or purchase. Content partners include 20th Century Fox, Disney, MGM, Sony Paramount, Warner Bros, and Lionsgate UK. Universal is not offering ...

  • Reviews

    You Don't Mess With The Zohan

    2008-06-05T12:22:16Z

    Dir: Dennis Dugan. US. 2008. 113 mins.A comedy built around the belief that people speaking in foreign accents is endlessly funny, You Don't Mess With The Zohan is - how you say' - not good. Aiming for an irreverent politically-incorrect tone with its story of an Israeli commando who leaves ...

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    Constantin dances with Step Up 3-D; Ascot takes Revolver

    2008-06-05T10:53:00Z

    Constantin Film has secured the German-speaking rights toStep Up 3-D from Summit Entertainment after successfully releasing StepUp (over 620,000 admissions in Germany) and Step Up 2 The Streets (over900,000).The dance sequel is again being produced by Summit with TouchstonePictures, anf Offspring Entertainment and will be directed by Step Up2's Jon ...

  • Reviews

    Adulthood

    2008-06-05T07:00:00Z

    Dir/scr Noel Clarke.UK. 2008. 103 mins

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    European Commission consults on global entertainment industry plans

    2008-06-05T06:00:00Z

    The European Commission is to hold a public hearing to explore ideas for a global programme to promote the European audiovisual industry.The programme would involve cooperation, for mutual benefit, with so called 'third countries' outside of the EU and represent a firm commitment in European audiovisual policy to engaging with ...

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    KOFICDevelopment Lab announces mentors and fellows

    2008-06-05T05:04:00Z

    The Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s Filmmakers' Development Lab (FDL) has confirmed its mentors, including Warner Brothers executive Lauren Craniotes, and five fellows who will be developing their English-language projects for presentation at the IFP's Independent Film Week in New York and the Asian Film Market in Pusan. Craniotes helped develop ...

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    Russian thriller Magic Man to shoot entirely in US

    2008-06-05T04:22:00Z

    Billy Zane and Russian action star Alexander Nevsky will star in the US-Russian co-production thriller Magic Man that will shoot entirely in the US.Stuart Cooper will begin directing this month in Los Angeles on the story of a famous magician who might also be moonlighting as a serial killer. George ...

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    IFP selects 11 narrative projects for Filmmaker Lab

    2008-06-04T23:40:00Z

    IFP has selected the 11 narrative feature projects for the Independent Filmmaker Lab support programme set to run from June 10-13.Narrative Lab participants will also be eligible for the Independent Filmmaker Finishing Grant, a new $50,000 annual award courtesy of an anonymous donation.The juried award will be presented at the ...

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    Yacovlef, Melocchi attach Leder, Fall to music-themed projects

    2008-06-04T23:36:00Z

    Beverly Hills-based Little Studio Films partners Alexandra Yacovlef and Alexia Melocchi are fast-tracking the music-themed dramas Woody, Cisco And Me and Stalking Simon Le Bon.Mimi Leder will direct Woody, Cisco And Me from the novel of the same name by Jim Longhi is set during the second world war and ...

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    The Caregiver, Il Divo among international box-office hits

    2008-06-04T17:16:00Z

    Filipino film The Caregiver proved a sensational local hit this weekend with a whopping $20,616 screen average in its first weekend, the highest by a long run over the three-day period. The top 40 international films generated $181.9m across 42,426 screens for the period of May 30-June 1. For the ...

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    Sony Pictures Entertainment buys Dutch games company

    2008-06-04T16:40:00Z

    Sony Pictures Entertainment has closed its acquisition of Dutch entertainment company 2waytraffic.The company works on games, variety and reality shows.'The acquisition of 2waytraffic is part of our strategy to expand global production and distribution of light entertainment content,' said Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of SPE. 'This opens the door ...

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    New Bondarchuk, Bychkova films to be presented at Sochi market

    2008-06-04T16:03:00Z

    New films by such directors as Fedor Bondarchuk and Oksana Bychkova will rub shoulders with presentations of upcoming releases by Russian distributors and the US majors at this year's Russian International Cinema Market which is being held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi from June 5-10 to coincide with ...