All Screen articles in 12 December 2007 – Page 5
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Awards countdown - People - Awards people
NICOLE KIDMANThe star of both Margot At The Wedding and The Golden Compass tells Mike Goodridge how she tackled such dark roles.We may see her on red carpets looking every inch the style queen, but Nicole Kidman says her natural instincts are not to embrace the glamour. "I seek out ...
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Production - Coming attractions - Drawing on history
Dhulm - Years Of Torment (Lib)Director: Najdat AnzourStatus: pre-productionBased on a treatment by Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi, who is also financing the $50m project, this historical epic was launched provocatively at a Rome press conference in October. The multi-linear drama, due to start shooting at the beginning of next year, ...
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Screen opinion - Marketing aloud
At Cannes this year, an enterprising producer came up with the wheeze of advertising his film on the underside of toilet seats in leading hotels. It's a ploy that carries with it an in-built joke about the quality of the product but it expresses a truth that's become increasingly evident ...
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A closer Look: Brad Wyman and Adam Rifkin
Look, the latest in a series of collaborations between Los Angeles-based Brad Wyman and Adam Rifkin, has opened up new creative and business vistas for the prolific indie producer and the genre-hopping writer-director.The film mixes raunchy comedy with serious drama to tell five overlapping stories that unfold over a week ...
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Jason Lee to star in dark comedy Thicker for Feverpitch
Jeffrey D Erb and Joe Nicolo's Feverpitch Pictures has lined up the dark comedy Thicker to star Jason Lee and Christopher Lloyd.Erb and Nicolo will produce with Leslie Zemeckis and Terry Nemeroff will direct Thicker, which the producers describe as a tale of 'lethal greed and even deadlier desire.'Production is ...
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Goldwyn, Red Envelope team to buy domestic rights to Trumbo
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Red Envelope Entertainment have jointly acquired Peter Askin's documentary Trumbo about the life of blacklisted Oscar winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.The partners plan a late spring 2008 release on the film, which recounts Trumbo's eventful life through his letters and is based on his son Christopher's stage ...
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Halle Berry to receive Achievement Award at Palm Springs in Jan
Halle Berry will collect the 19th Annual Palm Springs InternationalFilm Festival's (PSIFF) Desert Palm Achievement Award on January 5 2008.Berry stars opposite Benicio Del Toro in Susanne Bier's debutEnglish-language drama Things We lost In The Fire and earned praisefrom festival chairman Earl Greenburg for her 'dramatic acting andpowerful emotion'.Berry won ...
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Gosling to receive Santa Barbara's first Independent Award
Ryan Gosling will receive the first Independent Award at the 23rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), which runs from January 24-February 3 2008.The Independent Award was established to recognise an actor who has made 'a significant and unique contribution to independent film' and will be presented to Gosling on ...
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Golden Compass takes nearly $2m on UK Wednesday opening
Fantasy adventure The Golden Compass was off to a mighty start at the UK box office as it took nearly $2m (£1m) in its first day on release.The film, released through Entertainment Film Distributors, generated a robust $1.86m (£920,479) from 502 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on its opening ...
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KOFIC and KEIC move toward new film insurance plan
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) and the Korea Export Insurance Corporation (KEIC) today signed an memorandum of understanding (MOU) towards the creation of a Cultural Export Insurance specifically for films. The MOU was 'an agreement to work together to support the local film industry' - to explore ways to steadily ...
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Rotterdam increases Tiger Awards prizes; festival honours Kobayashi
Rotterdam has upped the ante for its 2008 festival, asking main sponsor, Dutch broadcaster VPRO, to raise the total prize money for the Tiger Awards to $65,800 (Euros 45,000), or $21,932 (Euros 15,000) to each of the three winners. That's up from $14,620 (Euros 10,000) each last year, or a ...
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Sorrenti's Wednesday takes top prize at Cologne Short Cuts
Rob Sorrenti's short film Wednesday (UK) won the first jury prize at the Short Cuts International Short Film Festival in Cologne, Germany. The jury praised the film's 'sensitive script, clear direction and convincing cinematography used to convey the moving story of an apparently coincidental love affair.' Wednesday has some high ...
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Meadows, Wright and Corbijn vie for South Bank Show Awards
The UK's South Bank Show has announced its nominees for its 2008 awards. The ITV show is presented by Melvyn Bragg and recognises several areas of the arts. In the film category, the three nominees are Shane Meadows' This Is England, Joe Wright's Atonement and Anton Corbijn's Control. Edgar Wright's ...
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Sarajevo Festival launches fund for Talent Campus shorts
The Sarajevo Film Festival is launching a new project, Sarajevo City Of Film, in partnership with the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Government. The initiative will see the festival create a fund that will give participants of the Sarajevo Talent Campus the chance to create low-budget short films inspired by ...
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Romulus, My Fathernamed best film byAustralian Film Insitute
Romulus, My Father last night won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for best film for producers Robert Connolly and John Maynard. 'Some people think awards are a bit frivolous but I think they are of real value,' said Connolly just hours before the award was announced in Melbourne. He ...
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Northern Lights, Moxie launch new $500,000 production prize
This year's Northern Lights Film Festival (NLFF) in Newcastle will serve as a platform for launching a new feature film production prize in the UK worth up to $500,000 (£250,000).The programme, dubbed The Big Pitch, is a new venture from micro studio Moxie Makers and will provide training and development ...
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Berlinale expects 5,000+ submissions for 2008 festival
Organisers are expecting that the 2008 edition of the Berlin International Film Festival will again be a record-breaking one when it opens its doors on Feb 7, 2008. Speaking to ScreenDaily.com during this week's Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia's Tallinn, Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick said that he expects ...
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China expected to extend Christmas black-out period
Chinese authorities are understood to be extending the ban on new Hollywood films being released over the Christmas period until the end of the Chinese New Year holidays, according to local sources. China's year-end box office season, which is traditionally reserved for local movies, officially gets underway tonight with the ...
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AAM adds Sony as digital cinema partner in Europe
Arts Alliance Media has recruited another studio for its digital cinema plans: Sony Pictures Releasing International has signed a non-exclusive long-term agreement with the company for digital cinema deployment. This follows on June 2007 AAM pacts with Fox and Universal and an October 2007 deal with Paramount. Sony will supply ...
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New Line takes film rights to Capella's Chemistry For Beginners
New Line has optioned the rights to Anthony Capella's forthcoming novel Chemistry For Beginners, in what is described as a 'high five-figure deal.'The book is described as a zany romantic comedy in a much different vein than Capella's usual work.Ileen Maisel, senior VP of European production, brought the project to ...