All Screen articles in 11 February 2006 – Page 5
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Linda Abrams promoted at Warner Bros Domestic Cable Distribution
Linda Abrams has been promoted to senior vicepresident of Marketing and Maury Leitner to vicepresident of marketing at Warner Bros Domestic Cable Distribution (WBDCD).Abrams will continue to report directly to divisionpresident Eric Frankel and work closely with Warner Bros Television Group'sexecutive vice president of worldwide marketing Lisa Gregorian. Leitner will ...
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Magnolia Pictures acquires rights to The Pusher Trilogy
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North Americanrights to Nicolas Winding Refn's Danish underworld The Pusher Trilogy.The trio comprises Pusher, With Blood On My Hands, and The Angel Of Death. The first filmwrapped in 1999 and the trilogy first played together as a complete work at Toronto lastyear.The story interweaves gangster tales ...
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Rogers & Cowan launches London film office
Entertainment PR and marketing companyRogers & Cowan has opened a UK filmdivision in London. The office will concentrate on UK filmrelease campaigns, European film festivals, and international publicitycampaigns. Janine Azern will lead the new office as VPof film, reporting to LA-based executive vice presidents Nikki Parker andMichael Dalling. Emma McCorkell ...
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Bomb threat interrupts 37th Hungarian Film Week
A bomb threat interrupted Monday evening's programme at the 37th HungarianFilm Week in Budapest. Officials atthe Mammut Shopping and Entertainment Centre near Moscow Square [Moskva ter] in Budapestasked festival attendees and all others in the two buildings of the103,000-square-metre facility to evacuate the premises shortly after 7 p.m. local ...
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Capitol takes on sales for Paddy Breathnach's Shrooms
London-basedCapitol Films is handling worldwide sales for Paddy Breathnach'sShrooms, set to start shooting this spring.MichaelDouglas's son Cameron stars alongside Lindsey Haunand Jack Huston, nephew of Anjelica and grandson ofJohn.Thehorror film is about five American college students camping in Ireland. Alone in the woods,they partake of magic mushrooms and see ghostly ...
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Films Distribution heads to Berlin with strong sales slate
French sales house Films Distribution will debut promo reelsof some of its latest projects at the upcoming EFM in Berlin.On the slate is Rachid Bouchareb's Days Of Glory.Set during World War II, the film is the story of four Muslim soldiers enlistedin the French army to fight against the Nazis. ...
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Zorich, Paolillo join Kimmel International
Former Miramax andPicturehouse executive Stefan Zorich has joined Kimmel International as vicepresident of marketing and servicing and Italian market specialist MarcelloPaolillo has come aboard as director of acquisitions and distribution.Both will report to KimmelInternational chief Mark Lindsay. Zorich arrives from Picturehouse andpreviously served as manager of domestic marketing and post-production ...
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Glastonbury
Dir. Julien Temple. UK. 2005. 135 min.A tribute to the legendary UK pop musicfestival, Glastonbury achieves a state ofgrace rare in performance documentaries; you begin to feel you're in attendanceat this three-day marathon of music, mood-altering substances and mayhem. At135 minutes, it's a concert film that will test the endurance ...
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Paul Smith gets top international theatrical job at Sony Pictures
Paul Smith has been namedpresident of worldwide theatrical operations for the Columbia Tristar MotionPicture Group.Effective immediately,Smith (pictured) will oversee Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) andwill continue overseeing worldwide administrative operations for the studio'smarketing and distribution divisions. "Paul has been mychief lieutenant in managing the day-to-day administration of the internationaldivision for ...
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Miramax, ESPN team for domestic rights to Lifetime
Miramax Films and ESPN havejointly acquired North American rights to GreeneStreet Films, Passion Picturesand Cactus Three's football documentary Once In A Lifetime, which will receive its world premiere in theBerlinale Special programme.Paul Crowder and JohnDower's film chronicles the heady rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, ascratch team that ...
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Crime Novel (Romanzo Criminale)
Dir: Michele Placido.It-UK-Fr. 2005. 146mins.The middle floor betweenItaly's auteur attic and its commercial bargain basement is curiously empty.Screenwriting duo Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia are among the few to havemade their home here, scripting films like The Best Of Youth, which for all its symphonic, multi-linearstructure and often prickly political ...
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THINKFilm steps in for worldwide rights to Candy
THINKFilm has moved in forall worldwide rights to Paul Dinello's Strangers With Candy and plans a limited summer release for the filmwhich is based on a cult TV series from US cable channel Comedy Central.Warner Independent Pictureshad originally acquired domestic rights to the film at Sundance 2005, butreturned it to ...
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NZ distributor Arkles steps up Australian presence
NewZealand distributor Arkles Entertainment is increasing its activity in theAustralian market where it is planning sizeable releases for both Junebug and Danish film Brothers in the next few months.TheAuckland-based company acquired theatrical rights for Junebugjust days before Amy Adams got her best supportingactress Oscar nomination. Both this film and Brotherscame ...
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Media 8's Lovewrecked swims into Weinstein Co fold
The Weinstein Company hasacquired North American rights to Media 8's romantic comedy Lovewrecked starring Amanda Bynes and Chris Carmack.Randal Kleiser directed thestory of a teenager who finds herself stranded on a desert island with a rockstar and in order to win his heart neglects to tell him that she works ...
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Anders Thomas Jensen wins Robert award for Best Film
The Danish Film Academy handed out its annualRobert awards in Copenhagen last night. Anders Thomas Jensen's Adam's Apples scored four awards withPer Fly's Manslaughter taking homethree. The winning films were also two of the big commercial successes at theDanish box office in 2005 with 355.689 and 393.239 tickets sold.Although Anders ...
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Dagur Kári wins the Nordic Prize at Gothenburg Film Festival
Icelandic director Dagur Kári (Noi the Albino) won the Nordic Prize atthe Gothenburg Film Festival for his new film Dark Horse, a black and white slacker comedy shot in Denmark whichKári describes as a 1960s pastiche. The cast features a number of new Danishfaces such as Jakob Cedergren and Tilly ...
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Hungary's Mafilm Studios seeking private investors
The MotionPicture Public Foundation of Hungary (MMK) is preparing to invite investors toenter into a partnership to renovate and develop the MafilmStudios in Budapest, MMK general secretary Erzsebet Toth told ScreenDaily.com."Overthe past few years, every studio has come to Budapest looking for stages. They've lovedthe crews and the city," Toth ...
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Minghella, Craig to judge UK's youth shorts
The UK Film Council has recruited some high profile judges for its FirstLight Film Awards: actors Daniel Craig, Martin Freeman and Martin Clunes,director Anthony Minghella, TV presenter David Attenborough, comedienne Jenny Eclair.The awards ceremony willbe held on February 28 at London's Odeon West End. Prizes will be given in10 categories. ...
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AV Pictures to handle sales for thriller Played
AV Pictures has taken on sales for featurefilm Played and will be showing apromo reel of the project at Berlin's European Film Market. Sean Stanekdirects and co-wrote with Mick Rossi. Producers are Stanek,Rossi, John Daly, Nick Simunek, and Casper von Winterfeldt. The crime thriller stars Val Kilmer, GabrielByrne, Anthony LaPaglia, ...
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Italian film body Filmitalia loses chief executive
AdrianaChiesa has stepped down from her position as CEO of Italian promotional body,Aip-Filmitalia.Chiesa'sresignation comes just ahead of the Academy Awards next month, which seesItaly's candidate Don't Tell shortlisted in the best foreign film category. Itis the first time an Italian film has made it to the last five since Life ...