All Screen articles in 11 September 2007 – Page 7
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Fact merges with fiction at UK festival
Three-day festival Crossing The Line examines the development and history of projects which tread the fine line between truth and fiction. Presented by DocHouse and the BBC, the festival is opened by UK director Ken Loach with a keynote speech about the popular crossover form of TV and film that ...
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UK and US films open world and international premieres in Oldenburg
The festival, which has built up an international reputation as a home from home for independent cinema, will be presenting the international premieres of such films as Frank A. Cappello's He Was A Quiet Man, with Christian Slater and William H. Macy, actress Mary Stuart Masterson's directorial debut The Cake ...
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UK and US films open world and international premieres in Oldenburg
UK director Julian Richards' coming of age drama Summer Scars and Stephan Geene's Berlin-set drama After Effect are among the world premieres at this year's Oldenburg International Film Festival which will open with Maggie Peren's comedy Stellungswechsel about a male escort agency on September 12.The festival, which has built up ...
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Gdynia announces 21 competition titles
A bumper crop of 21 titles will compete for the grand prize at the 32nd Polish Film Festival in the seaside town of Gdynia. Palm D'Or laureate Andrzej Wajda's highly anticipated new film Katyn will screen at the opening ceremony Sep 18. Katyn examines the Katyn massacre of 1940, where ...
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Critical Mass - the sci fi and Westerns debate
Sci-fi films are as 'dead as Westerns', according to Ridley Scott. He recently informed us of the future genre's demise while in Venice to present the 'definitive' director's cut of Blade Runner, which he began working on in 2000. One senses a certain desire for closure.Of course, Sir Ridley's obituary ...
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Marketing - Bollywood spreads the net
Bollywood's global reach has expanded rapidly in recent years with the development of solid theatrical markets across disparate territories. This expansion, combined with a range of demographics that now includes non-Indian audiences, means that international Bollywood and Indian film marketers need to be on the cutting edge.'The trend is now ...
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Sequel opportunities - reviving franchises
With three sequels grossing more than $300m apiece at the North American box office and another half dozen passing $100m, summer 2007 proved the point yet again: sequels can be very big and very reliable business. No wonder the sequel rights market appears to be growing.By acquiring sequel rights to ...
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Film Fund fires up German industry
In the battle to lure high-budget footloose productions to international production hubs, two of the most prized of this year's scalps have gone to Germany. Both Bryan Singer's Valkyrie for United Artists and the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer for Warner Bros have shot in the territory, seduced in no small ...
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IM Global takes world rights to 44 Inch Chest with Winstone
Los Angeles-based IM Global has acquired worldwide rights to Anonymous Content's $8m ensemble UK kidnap drama 44 Inch Chest.IM Global managing director Stuart Ford will commence pre-sales here on the project, which reunites Ray Winstone with his Sexy Beast co-star Ian McShane and also stars John Hurt.Steve Golin is producing ...
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Soderbergh plans Girlfriend Experience with HDNet
Steven Soderbergh, who directed Bubble for HDNet, has committed to making another digital film for the company. He will start shooting The Girlfriend Experience, set in the world of high-class escorts, in February 2008.Details remain skimpy on the new project. Soderbergh is currently in Latin-America filming his two Che Guevara ...
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Montreal's Park Ex readies Jacob Tierney's The Trotsky
Montreal-based Park Ex Entertainment, producer of Canadian smash Bon Cop, Bad Cop, is readying Jacob Tierney's follow-up to Twist.Written and to be directed by Tierney, The Trotsky dives into the mind of a 17-year-old high schooler who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky. Twist producer Victoria Hirst ...
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Fiennes and Pearce join cast of Iraq drama The Hurt Locker
Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, Jeremy Renner and David Morse have boarded Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, which is currently filming in Jordan.Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie also star in the ensemble drama, Bigelow's first feature since 2002's Russian submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker.The Hurt Locker follows the ...
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Dinard to open British film festival with It's A Free World
Ken Loach's It's A Free World, which world premiered in Venice and will also screen here in Toronto, has been selected as the opening-night film at the Festival of British Film in Dinard. The closing-night film is L'Heure Zero by Pascal Thomas.The festival, Oct 4-7 in the seaside town in ...
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Revolver takes UK rights to Big River Man, Savage Grace
UK distributor Revolver Entertainment has added four new projects to its release slate.They are John Maringouin's documentary Big River Man, about an eccentric Slovenian man who tries to swim the world's longest rivers. Maria Florio, Molly Hassell and Molly Lynch produced for Self Pictures/Earthworks, and Mickey Cottrell executive produced. 'Martin ...
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Bannenberg steps up acquisitions role for Lumiere
Jan Declercq and Alexander Vandeputte of distributor Lumiere are strengthening ties with Esther Bannenberg, and the three will jointly handle Benelux acquisitions for Lumiere.Bannenberg will continue to do outside work with festivals, markets and training bodies through TOTO, but will now have more focus on being an acquisitions executive at ...
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Pyramide takes on salse for Zanasi's Don't Think About It
Pyramide International has acquired world rights, excluding Italy, for Venice Days title Don't Think About It (Non pensarci) - a generational comedy by Italian directorGianni Zanasi.Pyramide confirmed that sales have been completed in Venice with Hopscotch for Australia, Audiovisual for Greece, and Xenix for Switzerland. A Benelux deal has also ...
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Jia Zhangke plans factory worker film before 2008
Golden Lion winning director Jia Zhangke, whose new documentary Useless about the fashion industry screened in Venice's Horizons last week and in Toronto this week, has revealed further details of his next dramatic feature, which he is planning to have ready in time for the Olympic Games in Beijing in ...
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TF1 takes on Suso's Tower and Mutum
France's TF1 International has acquired Suso's Tower heading into festival season. The film is in selection at San Sebastian and is directed by Tom Fernandez with Javier Camara, Gonzalo De Castro, Cesar Vea and Jose Luis Alcobendas making up the cast. Produced by Mediapro, the film tells the story of ...
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Dir: Sidney Lumet, 2007 , US , 123mins.Sidney Lumet is back on familiar territory with this caper gone awry. This time it's a plot by two desperate adult brothers, Andy and Hank (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke), to rob their parents' suburban jewellery store, which ends up killing their ...
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Disengagement
Dir. Amos Gitai. France / Israel / Germany / Italy , 2007. 115 mins.Amos Gitai's systematic chronicle of modern Israeli history reaches one of its more sensitive and inevitable points in this dramatised version of the recent crisis generated by the unilateral decision, taken by the Sharon government, to dismantle ...