All Screen articles in 12 December 2006 – Page 2
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Universal Studios to open theme park in Singapore
Universal Studios is set toopen its largest theme park in Asia after Infinity@The Bay, a joint venture betweenGenting International and Star Cruises, clinched the bid for the project todevelop an integrated resort on Sentosa island in Singapore. To be located on the eastside of the site, the Universal Studios Singapore ...
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Notes On A Scandal
Dir: Richard Eyre. UK-US.2006. 91mins.Judi Dench's superbperformance galvanises Notes On A Scandal, Richard Eyre's impressive and acutelyobserved adaptation of the Booker-nominated novel. Probing away relentlessly atsuch uncomfortable issues as paedophilia, class envy, sexual jealousy andblackmail, it is a film that has the same queasy, claustrophobic feel as such 1960sBritish films ...
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Letters From Iwo Jima
Dir: Clint Eastwood. US.2006. 141mins.Clint Eastwood's twilight career renaissancecontinues and only further deepens with LettersFrom Iwo Jima,his second film in two months about the best known Pacific battle duringWorld War Two. Shot back-to-back with its companion piece Flags Of Our Fathers, it focuses more explicitly on the conflictand its human ...
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Owner of film piracy site given four year jail term
The head of a web forum known as PIR8 has been sentenced to four years in jail, the longest term for a film piracy case in the UK to date. A further five men who worked for the site were also sentenced to imprisonment on Friday (8th December) at Birmingham ...
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China halts foreign investment in production companies
A senior Chinese governmentofficial has confirmed that China has halted new foreign investment in film and TVproduction companies. The move overturns aregulation introduced in 2003 which allowed foreign companies to take stakes ofup to 49% in local production houses or Sino-foreign joint ventures.'Our policy is totemporarily not approve the creation ...
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Charlotte's Web
Dir: Gary Winick. 2006.97mins.While no live-action/CGI-hybrid about talking animalsis ever likely to match or surpass Chris Noonan's Babe (1995), the film adaptation of Charlotte's Web proves itself a pleasant and engaging addition tothe genre.Since its publication in1952, EB White's classic tale of friendship has been translated into 23languages and has ...
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Berger promoted to president at Warner Bros UK
Joshua A. Berger has been promoted to President & Managing Director, Warner Bros. Entertainment United Kingdom and Ireland.Berger has been with Warner for 17 years, most recently serving as Executive Vice President & Managing Director, WBEUK.He will continue to oversee all of the company's business in the UK, including theatrical ...
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Berger promoted to Warner Bros UK director
Joshua A. Berger has been promoted to president and managing director of Warner Bros Entertainment UK and Ireland (WBEUK) after 17 years at the studio.Berger previously served as executive vice president and managing director and will continue to report to Barry Meyer, chairman and chief executive officer, Alan Horn, president ...
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Beefed-up Cairo gives top prize to The Road
The CairoInternational Film Festival (CIFF) closed on Friday with a beefed-up awardsceremony that featured new competitions for Arab feature films and digitalfilmmaking, aimed at promoting emerging talent. The $10,000 first prize in thedigital competition went to Italian director Carlo Luglio'sSotto la StessaLuna (Beneath The Same Moon). As expected, theinternational jury, ...
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Apocalypto beats out Holiday in North America
Hollywood's love for a second act and filmgoers' capacity for forgivenessrendered Mel Gibson's arrest for drunk driving and subsequent anti-semitictirade four months ago a distant memory as Apocalypto opened top at the North American box office this weekend.Gibson's R-rated Mayan epic, released in North America throughBuena Vista, launched on a ...
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Dubai opens with increased industry ambitions
The thirdDubai International Film Festival has opened with a premiere of Bobby and evident grand plans to becomean industry centrepoint of the Middle East. As Cairo's festival wrappedwith honours going to Zhang Jiarui'sThe Road and Marrakech saw its top prize going to DominikGraf's The Red Cockatoo - heavyweight Dubainow steps ...
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New York critics opt for United 93 as year's best
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) has named United 93 the best film of 2006, while Martin Scorsese’s best director award for The Departed kept his long-running Oscar quest on track.Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren won respective acting honours for The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, the ...
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AFI names its ten best of 2006 including Borat, Prada
The top 10 films of 2006 as voted by the American Film Institute(AFI) are: Babel, Borat, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Half Nelson,Happy Feet, Inside Man, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, and United 93.AFI will honour the creative ensembles behind each film at a lunchin Los Angeles on ...
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Iwo Jima voted best picture of 2006 by LA Critics
Clint Eastwood's LettersFrom Iwo Jima, already named bestpicture of the year by the National Board Of Review on Wednesday, was namesbest picture of 2006 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA)yesterday (Sunday). The runner-up was The Queen.The 32nd annualLAFCA achievement awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on ...
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Casino wins the weekend again for SPRI with $36.2m
Nothing could prise James Bond's kung-fu grip off the number oneberth for a fourth consecutive weekend as Casino Royale swept towards $250m.Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) 007 adventure addedan estimated $36.2m from 7,730 prints in 63 territories to stand at $247.2m. Itshould overtake Die Another Day's $271.1mnext weekend to become ...
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CMG seals French, Scandinavia deals on Darryl Hunt
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group has closed deals onthe Oscar shortlisted wrongful imprisonment documentary The Trials Of DarrylHunt.Rights have gone to France (Free Dolphin), Scandinavia (NobleFilms), Portugal (Filmes Unimundos) and Iceland (Sena Films).Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's film is attracting stronginterest from buyers in Spain, Australia and Japan; it will ...
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Cinemavault takes international rights to Puffy Chair
Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired all internationalrights to Jay Duplass' 2005 Sundance Audience Award winning romantic comedy ThePuffy Chair.The film tells of a man who embarks on a road trip todeliver an outsized birthday gift to his father. Roadside Attractions and RedEnvelope Entertainment handled the US release.Mark Duplass wrote and ...
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Home Of The Brave
Dir: Irwin Winkler. US.2006. 107mins.The first Hollywood film to directly address theemotional and political repercussions of the USoccupation of Iraq,Irwin Winkler's Home Of The Brave isa particularly blunt instrument that never satisfies as entertainment,effective storytelling or moral inquiry.Didactic and politicallyincoherent, its complex and emotionally risky scenariois the return of several ...
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TWC, Genius Products enter alliance with RHI Entertainment
The Weinstein Company (TWC) and home entertainment distributorGenius Products have entered into a strategic alliance with RHI Entertainment(formerly Hallmark Entertainment).Under the terms of the deal the parties will co-produce andco-finance a slate of television productions, including series, miniseries andmovies-of-the-week.Worldwide home video distribution of co-productions will gothrough Genius Products and worldwide ...
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$30m epic to become most expensive Scandianavian film
Svensk Filmindustri's The Knight Templar is to set to become Scandinavia's most expensive feature with a budget of $30.3 million (Euro 22.8 million).The film is an adaptation of Swedish writer Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson to be shot in two parts by the Swedish major.Danish director Peter Flinth ...
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