All Screen articles in 12 December 2007 – Page 4
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AMC to install 100 IMAX digital projection systems in 33 major US cities
Giant-screen pioneer IMAX Corp. and US exhibitor AMC Entertainment have signed a joint-venture agreement to install 100 IMAX digital projection systems at AMC locations in 33 major US markets. The agreement promises to double IMAX's installed base by 2010. The US Nasdaq exchange responded to the news by boosting IMAX's ...
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Women In Film & TV honour Alison Owen, BBC's Jane Wright
The UK's Women in Film and Television (WFTV) has hosted its 17th annual awards at a ceremony at London's Hilton Park Lane. Honorees include film producer Alison Owen, BBC Films head Jane Wright, and Harry Potter author JK Rowling. The ceremony was opened by Sophie Balhetchet, cair of WFTV, and ...
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Escape joins Sohonet for PODS programme with MPC
Escape Studios has joined the entertainment industry network Sohonet. London-based Escape is a CGI training and consultation facility and the company will use Sohonet for its new Escape PODS graduate programme. Graduate students of the Escape CGI programme will wok on actual TV and film projects from partner Moving Picture ...
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Swedish government gives $3m for Bergman's legacy
The Swedish government has allocated $3.1m (Euros 2.1m) to secure the artistic legacy of Ingmar Bergman, equally sharing the grant between his work in cinema and on stage.The Ingmar Bergman Foundation will receive $900,000 (Euros 600,000) to preserve and digitise the Bergman archives - starting with the 45 packing cases ...
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Maia Morgenstern to chair Hungarian Film Week jury
For the 39th Hungarian Film Week (Jan 29-Feb 5, 2008), Romanian actress Maia Morgenstern will chair the jury. The jury is also comprised of FIPRESCI general secretary Klaus Eder, director Krisztina Goda, cinematographer Janos Kende and theatre director Istvan Marta. The Budapest-based event will for the second year let the ...
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Josh Lucas signs on for Morahan's $15m God's Spy
Josh Lucas with lead the cast in God's Spy, alongside Jordi Molla, Giancarlo Giannini, and Peter O'Toole. Andy Morahan will direct the $15m UK-Canada co-production. Cardinal Pictures' Lovett Bickford will produce in association with Local Films' executive producer Kim Leggatt. Brian Phelan wrote the script, based on true events that ...
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Dream, Nanking share top prize at Taipei projects market
Clara Law and Yim Ho shared the top award at the 3rd Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP) held Dec 4-6, dividing the cash prize of $15,500. Ironically, runner-up Sherwood Hu walked away with $9,300. Law's $2m Like A Dream follows an American-born Chinese who travels from New York ...
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Del Toro and Morgan among guests at Screenwriters Festival
The annual International Screenwriters' Festival has announced early details of its third edition, which will take place in Cheltenham on July 1-3. Speakers will include Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage, Pan's Labyrinth), who was a speaker at the first event in 2006.Other guests include Peter Morgan (Frost/ Nixon, The Queen, ...
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New Line is hoping Compass will be golden in 27 territories
The Golden Compass should direct New Line International (NLI) toward sparkling returns this weekend as the fantasy adventure launches in 27 territories.Early results indicate a mighty gross as the film took $4.3m from nine advance launches on Dec 5 that produced eight number one opening days. The UK led the ...
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United States - Syvan's secret
New York-based producer Lemore Syvan is gearing up for The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee, the next feature from director Rebecca Miller, which starts shooting in Connecticut in April.The movie, which stars Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder, marks Syvan's fourth collaboration with Miller, following the director's critically ...
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Free Roaming: UK producer Kevin Loader
Kevin Loader has an increasingly international outlook. The prolific UK producer (whose forthcoming credits include Good and Brideshead Revisited) is in post-production on The Oxford Murders, a co-production with Spain's Tornasol Films.Loader's Free Range Film is the UK partner on Alex de la Iglesia's $10m Spain-France-UK project. 'We had an ...
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In Focus - The Shorts shift
The short film reflects the way society is changing,' Berlinale chairman Dieter Kosslick said last week, announcing the festival's increased interest in the form. 'It is radical without constrictions.'It is a strong claim for a form that has often been little more than a calling card for wannabe feature makers. ...
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In-flight movies - Eyes In The Skies
Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner: along one aisle of September's World Airline Entertainment Association (Waea) convention in Toronto, the majors were looking to sell their movies to the world's most captive audience.Extreme long-haul flights (Los Angeles to Singapore, for instance, takes 18-and-a-half hours) are increasingly the norm. Strapped in ...
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International - Nessun dorma
Italy's box office may typically be dormant during summer months but it is making up for it now as three titles generated nearly $7m this weekend, accounting for 5.5% of the international top 40's revenue.New entry Winx Club: Il Segreto Del Regno Perduto catapulted to number eight in the chart, ...
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Glory days for Middle East
One of the unexpected consequences of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 has been the resurgence of Middle Eastern and North African cinema. Alongside the established players - Egypt, still living off its Bollywood-on-the-Nile reputation, and arthouse darling Iran - countries with little cinematic infrastructure have begun to emerge. ...
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United Kingdom - Outfoxing the Competition
"Sometimes I feel like a conductor in an orchestra," says Elizabeth Kesses, UK marketing director at Twentieth Century Fox. While she is not holding a baton, Kesses does have the constant challenge of creating standout marketing initiatives for Fox titles in what she calls "the most cynical" market for film ...
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China - Stone's man on a roll
In mid September in China's south-east coastal city Xiamen, Ning Hao was shooting his fourth feature, Silver Medalist. More than 50 Chinese reporters visited the set for interviews - just a year ago the 30-year-old film-maker could not have imagined his new film would attract so much attention.The reason for ...
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Production - Festival focus - Dubai fest bids for star status
Now in its fourth year, the Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) has become a focal point for the Persian Gulf's growing interest in the film industry as an economic, cultural and PR platform.Festival chairman Abdulhamid Juma points out that until recently, the territory was known in the film world chiefly ...
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Belgium - Extra dimension
Earlier this autumn, Summit Entertainment acquired North American distribution rights to 3D animated feature Fly Me To The Moon. Following three stowaway flies inside the helmets of lunar astronauts, the film was directed and produced by Ben Stassen, also co-founder of Belgium-based nWave Pictures. "It makes it easier to control ...
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Awards countdown - Women of substance
Unlike 2006, when Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz all gave showstopping performances, 2007 is not a bumper year for actresses.