All Screen articles in 12 January 2007 – Page 2
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Rainmaker signs Clark Johnson for $25m Chinese Wall
Producers Georgina Townsley and Paul Goldin of the UK 's Rainmaker Films have signed director Clark Johnson to their legal/political thriller Chinese Wall. The budget is about $25m and the project will shoot in the second half of 2007. The film is set in the US and Africa. Casting will ...
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Pathfinder, Smokin' Aces hit international markets ahead of US
Fox International launches action adventure Pathfinder in four international territories this weekend in advance of its domestic opening on April 27; meanwhile Universal/UPI opens crime caper Smokin' Aces in the UK ahead of its US opening on Jan 26.The overseas-first opening policy is becoming more prevalent and was used last ...
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Ten nominees announced for WGA Awards
The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced their nominees for top honours for 2006.The Original Screenplay nominees are:Babel (Guillermo Arriaga)Little Miss Sunshine (Michael Arndt)The Queen (Peter Morgan)Stranger Than Fiction (Zach Helm)United 93 (Paul Greengrass).Adapted screenplay nominees are:Borat (screenplay by Sacha ...
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Canadian films to tour India with TIFFG's Film Circuit
Four Canadian films will be screened in Mumbai, India and Kathmandu, Nepal as part of the international touring programme of the Toronto International Film Festival Group's Film Circuit. The films are: Sarah Polley's Away From Her, Aubrey Nealon's A Simple Curve, Bernard Emond's La Neuvaine and Michael McGowan's Saint Ralph. ...
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ASC nominates Lubezki, Pope, Zsigmond, Semler, Richardson
Emmanuel Lubezki (Children Of Men), Dick Pope (The Illusionist), Robert Richardson (The Good Shepherd), Dean Semler (Apocalypto), and Vilmos Zsigmond (The Black Dahlia) will contest the feature film category in the 21st Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards.The winner will be announced at the awards gala ...
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US stars of tomorrow
Over the past two decades, the Sundance Film Festival has developed into two distinct events. The festival, as started by Robert Redford, has actually changed very little over the last 20 years. Despite the new programmes and categories, and the increasing number of submissions - 1,852 US features this year ...
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Rock solid
In The Bedroom producer Graham Leader has just locked production on Childless, his first feature since the 2001 Todd Field hit. It launches a slate of feature projects Leader is developing for his new company, New York-based Granite Films.'There has never been a better time for independent films,' says the ...
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MPRM in overhaul
Los Angeles-based MPRM Public Relations has reorganised its operational structure and named several key appointments. MPRM has hired Anthony Sprauve as senior vice-president for its digital media and technology (DMT) business. Shari Mesulam has been promoted to vice-president in film and events after two years as a director in the ...
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United Kingdom - The TV Set
Publishers and film scouts were given a late Christmas present from Richard & Judy this week, as the TV chat show hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan - the UK's answer to Oprah - unveiled their 2007 book club selections.Last year's picks dominated the bestseller lists, with Kate Mosse's Labyrinth ...
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Keene shifts at Premier
Sara Keene has stepped down as one of the chief executives of Premier Public Relations to take on a role as non-executive director. Keene, who founded Corbett and Keene in 1987, will act as a consultant to the board and will continue to run Premier's personal publicity for individual celebrities ...
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Universal pictures sets up post-UIP Irish team
Universal Pictures International (UPI) UK and Eire has appointed an Irish team responsible for the sales, marketing and publicity of the company's products in Ireland, following the closure of UIP in the territory. Eclipse Pictures veteran David Burke is leading the team as general manager. Maryse Fitzpatrick will serve as ...
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Stuck at home
There is a kind of gold-rush mentality attached to the holiday season in just about every part of the globe. The Hollywood majors unleash dozens of fun rides and the rest of the world follows suit.Italy literally has its annual holiday movie in the form of the Nataleseries and France ...
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Poland - Home for the holidays
Seven years after his directorial debut, New Line's horror Lost Souls, Janusz Kaminski has begun filming on Hania - a contemporary Polish-language drama the director is co-producing with Zebra Film Studio, Gremi Film Production and OTO Film Studio.Kaminski is best known for his cinematography on Steven Spielberg's films, having ...
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Hong Kong - Turtles can fly at Imagi
Once regarded as a surefire bet at the box office, 3D CG animation has become a riskier business, as more studios enter the fray and the novelty of the genre declines with a flood of releases.But long-time media and entertainment executive Douglas Glen had enough confidence in the business model ...
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Norma Heyman: fighting spirit
Producer Norma Heyman recounts with a laugh how she first walked into Shepperton Studios as a producer in 1982, and was mistakenly asked to make tea.'I was greeted as if I carried bird flu or it was ET descending onto the set,' she remembers. The statistics about women in the ...
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Chambers heads to New South Wales
Tania Chambers has been named chief executive of the New South Wales Film and Television Office, the government film agency in the Australian state that hosts the most production in the territory. She will relocate to the east coast from the opposite side of the country, once she has stepped ...
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Editorial - Tear up the calendar
What is it about the switch of a year that brings out the pundit in us all' Endless column inches are expended on retrospective analysis of what is in fact an arbitrary period of time. It is a pain but the international market has not been evolving in the last ...
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Market focus: Digital cinema - Boost for digital drive
Digital cinema has been the talk of the industry for the last few years but 2007 will see it making big leaps forward in many territories.The global spread will be uneven. Screen Digest figures below suggest the number of screens will rise from 2,918 to 5,564.Much of that growth will ...
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Domestic box office - Story behind the numbers
Figures only tell so much. The domestic market generated slightly more than $9.23bn ticket sales during 2006. It represented an increase of 3.8% in box office but as is said of some horse races, admissions were too close to call.Representatives of both Regal and AMC Theaters - with a combined ...
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North America - Natural selection
National Geographic Films (NGF) burst into the spotlight in 2005 when it partnered Warner Independent Pictures on March Of The Penguins, which grossed more than $77m in North America and won last year's best documentary feature Oscar. But NGF, under the guidance of former Disney senior vice-president of production Adam ...