All Screen articles in 10 November 2006
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Ealing Studios gets permission for redevelopment
Ealing Studios has received planning permission for the second phase of a $95m (£50m) redevelopment that it believes will support ambitious plans to expand production. Work will begin this month on multimedia office and production space blocks to be finished at the end of next year. Around 25,000 square feet ...
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Japan cracks down on film piracy
Japan's Strategic Council on Intellectual Property has announced measures to crack down on movie piracy. The council, led by recently-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will hold a special investigative session on November 17th to discuss issues to be reflected in next summer's Intellectual Property Rights Initiative 2007.With input from the ...
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Majestic Filmverleih adds two new films to release slate
Benjamin Herrmann and David Groenewold's new distribution company Majestic Filmverleih has added Doris Doerrie's Hanami and Alexander Adolph's documentary debut Con Man Confidential (Die Hochstapler) to its release line-up.Hanami, which will star Monica Bleibtreu, Elmar Wepper, Nadja Uhl, Birgit Minichmayr and Felix Eitner, will begin shooting at locations in ...
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Stockholm honours Hallstrom with career award
Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 17th Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 16-26.) The festival will show two of his films he selcted himself - What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Chocolat.Hallstrom, whose international break was My Life as a Dog - ...
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Buenos Aires boasts record production levels
Buenos Aires film industry is enjoying record growth and increasing profits. According to official figures recently released by the city's Production Ministry, Buenos Aires receives more than $65m from shootings in the area every year and the film industry employs 19,000 people in the city. A total of 3,498 films ...
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Rosenberg named head of drama at Norway's Rubicon TV
Norwegian producer Jorgen Storm Rosenberg has been named head of drama at Norway's Rubicon TV, Norwegian major Schibsted's local production unit.Rosenberg, who recently picked up the $100,000 Best Film prize at the Hamptons for Norwegian director Jens Lien's The Bothersome Man, will be in charge of finishing Norwegian director Nils ...
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Croatian film-makers funding set for big boost
Financial support for the film industry in Croatia could almost treble from the current amount with the planned creation of a Croatian Centre for Audiovisual Services next year.Speaking to Screendaily at the European Cinema and Audiovisual Days in Turin, Antonia D. Carnerud, Head of the Drama Department at Croatia's Ministry ...
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Record Asian pre-sales for My Wife Is A Gangster sequel
Korea's Showbox has closed a raft of Asian pre-sales deals for My Wife Is A Gangster 3, claiming a record high for any Korean film sold at AFM to Asian territories excluding Japan.Starring Taiwanese actress Shu Qi as the gangster wife descending upon Korea, the film is directed by Cho ...
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The Return
Dir: Asif Kapadia. US. 2006. 85mins.UK film-maker Asif Kapadia confirms the sharp directorial authority hedisplayed in The Warrior with The Return,a disarming and visually arresting work about a woman imperilled by herunsolved link to a murder 15 years earlier. Unfortunately, his craftsmanship isultimately stranded by a story that lacks the ...
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Disney teams with Kudos on wildlife doc Dreamscape
KudosPictures and Natural Light Films, in association with Walt Disney Pictures,have started production on the wildlife project Dreamscape (working title).Thefilm showcases the epic life and death cycle of flamingos in one of the world'slast and most hostile wilderness areas, Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania."Wewant to target a younger, hipper audience ...
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BVI takes UK rights to comedy I Want Candy
Fragile Film Distribution - the sales arm of Ealing Studios - has licensed the UK theatrical and DVD rights for comedy I Want Candy to BVI. BVI (UK) is planning to release the comedy, which stars Carmen Electra alongside Tom Riley, Tom Burke and Michelle Ryan, next year. ...
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here! boards C Jay Cox's latest film Kiss The Bride
here!Films will executive produce and oversee worldwide distribution on upcomingromantic comedy Kiss The Bride from newproduction company Shadow Factory.ToriSpelling, Joanna Cassidy, Tess Harper and Phillip Karner will star in C JayCox's tale of a man whose impending wedding is complicated by the arrival of anold male flame. The film will ...
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Sony takes DVD rights to self-distributed romantic comedy
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has signed the DVD distribution rights to Ed Blum's British romantic comedy Scenes of a Sexual Nature.The film is the most successful self-distributed film to be released in UK theatres, taking more than $150, 000 (£80,000) at the box office. It was released through The ...
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Fox signs DVD deal with Chinese partner
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) has set up an exclusive licensing partnership with China's Guangzhou-based video distributor Zoke Culture Group (Zoke). Zoke will distribute TCFHE's recent theatrical releases as well as titles from the studio's film library in its 20,000 retail outlets in major cities across China. ...
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Adkins named Head of Content at BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide has appointed Jemma Adkins as Head of Content at its Digital Media division as Head of Content. She will be responsible for sourcing the best programming and digital content for the global digital media business, including BBC Worldwide's VOD and mobile offering and its proposed commercial iPlayer.Her ...
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Cottbus forum to consider 13 film pitches
Thirteen projects will be pitched to potential production partners during this week's two-day Connecting Cottbus industry forum (November 16-17) at the FilmFestival Cottbus.They include the Czech production company Brutto Film's black comedy Choking Hazard: The Giant, the English-language sequel to its box office hit Choking Hazard; SEE Film Pro's omnibus ...
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Curse Of The Golden Flower (Man Cheng Jin Dai Huang Jin Jia)
Dir: Zhang Yimou. China. 2006.114mins.China's mostexpensive production to date has every yuang up onthe screen. One of the most sumptuous and almost absurdly opulent spectacles onscreen in recent memory, Zhang Yimou's $45m epic Curse Of the GoldenFlower is fortunately not just a pretty face. It's also a meaty,blood-soaked melodrama filled ...
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Firth, Shepard, Rossellini join Thurman in Accidental Husband
Colin Firth, Sam Shepard and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have joined Uma Thurmanon Yari Film Group (YFG) and Team 's romantic comedy The Accidental Husband.Isabella Rossellini, Lindsay Sloane and Justine Machado are also onboard the project, set to start production in New York today under thedirection of Griffin Dunne.Bonnie Sikowitz, Mimi ...
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Happy Feet
Dir: George Miller. US.2006. 98mins.HappyFeet is one strange bird of an animated movie. Directedby George Miller, who was behind Babe(1995) and its badly-received sequel, it is by turns giddy, maudlin,swinging, narratively overstuffed and artisticallymagnificent as it makes the case - not always in jest - that penguins would havea better ...
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Blockbusters boost Skillset UK training fund
The UK Skills Investment Fund (SIF) has reached the £4m ($7.6m) mark thanks to the success of blockbusters such as Sony's Casino Royale, Working Title's Bean 2 and Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix.The SIF is a levy on theatrical productions, collected by UK body Skillset, ...