All Screen articles in 12 December 2008 – Page 2
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Profile: Spain's OscarEntryThe Blind Sunflowers
Harrowing dramas and horror films, including the like of Pan's Labyrinth, (Rec) and The Orphanage, are enjoying their success at the Spanish and international box office. Now Jose Luis Cuerda's The Blind Sunflowers (Los Girasoles Ciegos) has emerged to join that illustrious group.The drama, about a persecuted Republican family in ...
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BAFTA preview: the Battle of Britain
The British economy may be in crisis but the quality of British film-making has rarely looked healthier.
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BAFTA preview:The Britbusters
Bafta members have never shied away from embracing popular commercial film-making.The awards often salute mainstream favourites and this year sees a slew of high profile UK-US co-productions including Mamma Mia! The Movie and Quantum Of Solace, as well as Hollywood blockbusters with significant UK elements such as Prince Caspian and ...
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BAFTA Preview: Best Film frontrunners
ADULTHOODCipher Films, DJ Films, TMC, UK Film Council, Pathe, LimelightUK DISTRIBUTOR: Pathe.NOEL CLARKE SAYS: 'Technically I'm a statistic - council estate, single parent family. I should be in jail or dead or whatever, but I'm not, I'm making films. Why is it the guy that grew up with me is ...
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FeaturesAwards Countdown: Meryl Streep, Doubt
Meryl Streep, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
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International - Animal magnetism
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa was king of the jungle in Screen's international chart this week, ending Quantum Of Solace's five-week reign at the top.Escape 2 Africa enjoyed a 281% increase week on week to gross $51m from the December 5-7 weekend. It played on more than 5,000 screens ...
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Awards Countdown - Best actress/Best supporting actress - Best supporting actress: the top 10 contenders
The top 10 contenders for Best Supporting Actress.
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Tarantino to receive Legend Award at Capri, Hollywood festival
Quentin Tarantino, currently racing to get his wartime action story Inglourious Basterds ready for a Cannes world premiere, will receive the 13th Capri, Hollywood - Honda International Film Festival's Capri Legend Award.'Quentin Tarantino is one of Hollywood's most prolific film-makers, revered and respected by the entertainment industry and movie audiences ...
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Roissy Films concludes sales on Martin Provost's Seraphine
Roissy Films has concluded sales on Martin Provost's Seraphine; Arsenal Filmverleih take all rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerlandwith Austria goes to Filmladen releasing Seraphine in Austria and Xenix in Switzerland.Other recent sales on the film, which is based on the life of painter Seraphine de Senlis, include Cineplex in ...
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Roadside Attractions takes US theatrical on Alien Trespass
Roadside Attractions has acquired US theatrical rights to RW Goodwin's homage to 1950s sci-fi alien invasion films, Alien Trespass.The film stars Will & Grace's Eric McCormack in his first leading film role since leaving the series and will receive its world premiere at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival ...
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Entertainment One backtracks on DHX acquisition
Canadian entertainment company Entertainment One (E1) has reversed its planned reverse takeover of Halifax production company DHX Media.Announced in September, the move would have given E1 a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange; E1, financed by the UK-based hedge fund Marwyn, currently has a listing on the LSE's AIM.In a ...
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Frost/Nixon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Doubt lead Golden Globe Nominations
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, a co-production between Paramount and Warner Bros, and Frost/Nixon, an Imagine/Working Title production for Universal led the pack in the 66th annual Golden Globe nominations which were announced this morning in Los Angeles. Both films took five nominations each. Benjamin Button, one of the ...
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Dubai International Film Festival and Market opens
The fifth Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) opens today with Oliver Stone's W ., kicking off a week long programme that includes 181 films, 11 world premieres and runs parallel to the inaugural Dubai Film Market. Dubai Film Market For Ziad Yaghi, director of the Dubai Film Market, the market ...
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High-street recession bites backat UK DVD sales
A high street retail crisis in the UK has crashed into what was shaping up to be a bumper holiday season for distributors.UK film distributors were preparing to release DVD titles such as Mamma Mia!-The Movie, Hancock, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Wanted and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.Mamma Mia! ...
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Firaaq scoops top honours at Singapore's AFFF
Firaaq, directed by award-winning Indian actress Nandita Das, scooped best film and best screenplay at the Asian Festival of 1stFilms (AFFF) in Singapore on Wednesday night (Dec 10).The film, which looks at the impact of the 2002 riots in Gujarat on ordinary people, also took the Foreign Correspondents Association Purple ...
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Jerry Lewis to receive Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Jerry Lewis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is given to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.'Jerry is a legendary comedian who has not only brought laughter ...
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Kate Winslet to receive award at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Kate Winslet will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Award on January 23.The five-time Oscar nominee is a contender this awards season for The Reader and Revolutionary Road and receives the award in recognition of her 'series of classic and standout performances.'Her credits include Sense And Sensibility, Quills, ...
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Fox, Khanna to receive IFFLA Industry Leadership Awards
Warner Bros International executive vice president Richard Fox and Reliance BIG Entertainment chairman Amit Khanna will receive the 7th Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles' Industry Leadership Awards.Fox heads up all of the studio's non-US initiatives across all sectors of the entertainment industry.Khanna's Reliance BIG Entertainment is the media ...
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SXSW winning shorts to qualify for Academy Award consideration
Winning short films at the South By Southwest Film Festival will qualify for consideration in the Oscar short films category.The winners will qualify without the standard theatrical run provided the film otherwise complies with Academy rules.The final deadline to submit a film for the 2009 South By Southwest Film Festival ...