All Screen articles in 12 December 2007 – Page 3
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New York online critics pile awards on There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood dominated the major categories in the New York Film Critics Online's 2007 poll, tying for best film with The Diving Bell And The Butterfly and earning director and actor honours for Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis as well as the cinematography prize for Robert Elswit ...
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European digital cinemaclose to breaking deadlock - report
Digital cinema deals signed by studios and exhibitors with integrator Arts Alliance Media (AAM)is close to breaking the D-cinema deadlock in Europe, according to analyst Screen Digest.While rollout has continued apace in the US, there has been an impasse in Europe with a few exceptions such as the UK's digital ...
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George Clooney opens Dubai International Film Festival
The fourth edition of the Dubai International Film Festival, which showcases 141 films from 52 countries, kicked off with a glamorous gala presentation of legal thriller Michael Clayton. Speaking at the opening press conference, the film's star George Clooney highlighted the role of the lavishly-funded festival in acting as a ...
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The Weinstein Company picks up rights to Telepool 3D animation
The Weinstein Company has acquired rights from Munich-based Telepool for all English-language and Latin-American territories for the European 3D animated film Niko & The Way To The Stars by Michael Hegner and Kari Juusonen.Described as 'a modern-day fairytale for the whole family', the CGI-animated film about the adventures of the ...
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Paramount signs French home entertainment deal with Gaumont
Paramount Home Entertainment France and Gaumont Video have signed an accord which will see the former release the French major's films in the French DVD sector.Paramount's Luigi-Theo Calabrese said the partnership should allow the duo to 'pass the 10% market share bar for France.' No specific duration was indicated for ...
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Berlinale announces five world premieres
World premieres of new films by Damian Harris, Doris Doerrie, Wang Xiaoshuai and Errol Morris are among the first eight titles confirmed so far for the Competition programme of next February's Berlinale (February 7-17). The five world premieres selected by festival director Dieter Kosslick are: Damian Harris's UK-US production Gardens ...
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Kill Them All (Matar a Todos)
Dir: Esteban Schroeder. Uruguay, Argentina, Chile. 2007. 97mins. In Kill Them All, Esteban Schroeder plumbs the unstable political landscape of fledgling democracies in the South America of the early '90s. His confident, dynamic investigation of the complicity of governments that succeeded the juntas in countries like his native Uruguay, Argentina, ...
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Indonesian filmmakers call for new film rating system
A revised proposal of a new film rating system was submitted to Indonesia 's Constitutional Court in Jakarta today, with the intention of replacing the dated censorship laws made during former President Suharto's regime in 1992. The proposal was submitted by Masyaraka Film Indonesia, the Indonesian Film Society set up ...
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Legend still waiting for China release greenlight
Warner Bros' post-apocalyptic thriller I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, will be released in most Asian territories this weekend except for mainland China. The mainland China release date of the film will likely be later than mid-February, due to the prolonged black-out period of foreign films. 'We struggled very, very ...
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Colin McCabe demands end of 'tragic decade' for British Film Institute
Distinguished British academic and producer Colin MacCabe has today (Monday) publicly announced his candidature for the post of Chair of the British Film Institute (BFI).The current chairman Anthony Minghella is due to step down at the end of the year. Whether or not MacCabe’s application is successful, it is bound ...
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There Will Be Blood dominates Los Angeles Film Critics awards
There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic saga set against the backdrop of America's burgeoning oil industry, was the big winner at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) end of year voting yesterday, taking four prizes including best picture, best director and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis.The movie ...
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A Walk To Beautiful wins IDA's top award for 2007 documentaries
Mary Olive Smith's A Walk To Beautiful took top honours in the feature competition at the 2007 International Documentary Association's (IDA) Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards Gala in Los Angeles at the weekend.The film chronicles the challenges of five women in Ethiopia as they try to rebuild their lives after suffering ...
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Golden Compass rules international box office with $55m opening
As expected The Golden Compass ruled the waves at the weekend following an estimated $55m overseas haul through New Line International from approximately 5,000 screens in 25 territories. Click here for review.Chris Weitz's adaptation of Philip Pullman's acclaimed fantasy adventure soared to the top of the charts in every country, ...
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Compass disappoints domestically with $26.1m gross
The Golden Compass secured the number one spot with ease at the weekend however New Line executives will be disappointed with the estimated $26.1m estimated three-day gross.By contrast New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring opened in December 2001 on $47.2m, The Two Towers launched ...
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Ozer Kiziltan's Takva wins top prize at Estonian Black Nights festival
Ozer Kiziltan's Takva - A Man's Fear Of God was named best film at the 11th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.The Turkish film about a man's struggle to balance religious devotion withsuccess in asecular world won the$15,000 EurAsia competition.The most honours went to Estonian homegrown favourite, Veiko Ounpuu's Autumn Ball, ...
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Lust, Caution sweeps Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution dominated the 44th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei with seven wins including best feature, best director, best actor and best adapted screenplay. The film had received eleven nominations. Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories took best actress for Joan Chen's performance and best original screenplay. The ...
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Louis Gossett Jr leads cast of The Least Among You
Principal photography has commenced in Los Angeles on the inspirational drama The Least Among You starring Louis Gossett Jr and newcomer Cedric Sanders.Mark Young wrote and is directing the story of a promising African-American student whose early dreams of escaping ghetto life are dashed only for him to discover a ...
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Pfeiffer/Kutcher romance begins shooting in Vancouver
Insight Film Studios has begun principal photography in Vancouver on the romance Personal Effects starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher.Voltage Pictures introduced the project to foreign buyers at AFM and has completed pre-sales in more than 25 territories.The story centres on a man who arrives in a small town seeking ...
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I Am Legend
Dir: Francis Lawrence US. 2007. 100mins.Will Smith makes up what is essentially the one-man cast of I Am Legend, a darkly intense sci-fi/horror drama based on the classic Richard Matheson novella and directed, with the same kind of flair he brought to 2005's Constantine, by Francis Lawrence. Genre afficionados should ...
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Charlie Mitchell takes development post at MARV Films
Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's UK-based production company MARV Films has added Charlie Mitchell as head of development.Mitchell had been development executive at Robert Jones' Material Entertainment, and prior to that worked in development at Pathe Pictures.At MARV, he will work on a slate including WWI drama The Truce written ...