All Screen articles in 12 May 2007 – Page 2
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Northern stars
The first feature from a Newcastle-based film-maker draws inspiration from his time in UK indie bands. Wendy Mitchell reports.About a year ago UK film-maker Ashley Horner was facing a tough time in preparation for his first feature, The Other Possibility. 'Trying to prep the week's shoot in Berlin during the ...
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Seeing the light
The UK film finance sector gets a hopeful boost from a new $80m investment fund with producers David Parfitt and Christopher Figg on board. Geoffrey Macnab reports. The UK film finance sector has not been in the strongest health lately.With the closure of the Gaap schemes, the end of Section ...
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Industry moves
Lakeshore adds DeckterJonathan Deckter, former Arclight Films president of international sales and Morgan Creek International vice-president, has been appointed senior vice-president of international sales at Lakeshore Entertainment. He will work alongside Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard Rose, who is promoted to the same position. Meanwhile Rob Burke is promoted to executive ...
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India on parade
The Indian film industry is rapidly expanding its worldwide reach. On the eve of Cannes, Liz Shackleton looks at how the territory's leading producers and distributors are making their films more attractive to an international audience. The Indian film industry's gradual emergence as a force at an international level has ...
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India: who's who at the market
Liz Shackleton profiles some of the leading Indian film companies and what they are selling at Cannes. UTV MOTION PICTURESInitially a broadcaster, UTV has evolved into an integrated studio that also encompasses film and TV production and distribution, post-production, animation, new media and games. The company is co-producing with US ...
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The new US independent model
New York-based IFC Entertainment is in the second year of its day-and-date programme whereby 24 films a year hit theatres and VoD in 40 million homes on the same day. On the eve of Cannes, Mike Goodridge spoke to president Jonathan Sehring about the future of independent distribution. When the ...
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How to make a spider fly
The webslinger's runaway international success represents a first and a last for the movie business, says Leonard Klady. The $380m plus box office that Spider-Man 3 generated in its worldwide launch is both a theatrical anomaly and a harbinger of the future. The luck aspect of this record-breaking performance is ...
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Festival fallout
The buzz about the films turned down by festivals is becoming as loud as the buzz about the films which are accepted. Ahead of Cannes, the biggest festival of them all, Patrick Z McGavin looks at why rejections are the talk of the town.At the 2004 Venice film festival, director ...
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Eros' homecoming
The Bollywood giant is positioning itself at the centre of the growing Indian industry. Liza Foreman reports. In its 30-year history, Bollywood heavyweight Eros International has come a long way as a distributor of Bollywood fare to India's growing number of expats, and is now set to return to its ...
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Sponge cleans up
One of Korea's leading independent distributors tells Jean Noh how he is transforming the local market and why he considers himself a partner, not simply a buyer. A familiar figure on the international festival and market circuit with his horn-rimmed glasses, shaggy looks and easy-going, earnest attitude, David Cho is ...
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Editorial opinion: festivals' right to choose
The one that got away is a favourite subject at every film festival. Selectors put their necks on the line at each event, picking their favourites for competition and it's only human to reward their efforts with invective about the ones they missed.One of the joys of the season for ...
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Cashing in on the great Indian boom
How Kishore Lulla, Eros' CEO, sees,India's future growth. With 3.1 billion tickets being served by a mere 13,000 screens, accelerated growth in multiplex cinemas and rising ticket prices, the $2bn Indian film industry will become a $10bn industry within the next five years.Although growing at 18% compound annual growth rate, ...
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India: beyond the blockbuster
Indian distributors are discovering the attractions of independent foreign films. Udita Jhunjhunwala reports. Although non-Indian films only had a 4% share of India's $1.5bn box office in 2006, most of which was taken up by US studio releases, there are signs the multiplex boom is opening up the market for ...
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Sales - Once more unto the Beach
FRANCEFrench sales companies are offering some big names at Cannes this year.Rezo Films will be on hand with official selection title Ulzhan from director Volker Schlondorff, making his return 28 years after winning the Palme d'Or with The Tin Drum, and returning master Alexander Sokurov's Competition title Alexandra. It will ...
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Whose data is it anyway'
Despite Italy's 2007 box-office boom, the territory's national statistics institute identifies a decline in cinema-going. Sheri Jennings reports. In 2007, Italian exhibitors have many reasons to be proud. First-quarter box-office returns are explosive: Italy is up 24% compared with 2006, and 40% of that figure is credited to national product.So ...
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NY-based Visit establishes boutique sales arm
Visit Films, the New York-based production company run by former Focus Features International distribution executive Ryan Kampe and commercials producer and creative executive Sylvain Tron, has launched the boutique sales agency Visit Sales.The company will specialise in finding foreign distribution channels for independent American projects and the partners will attend ...
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You Kill Me to close CineVegas
John Dahl's You Kill Me Starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni will close the ninth annual CineVegas Film Festival, which runs at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas from June 6-16.As previously announced, Ocean's Thirteen will open the event, which includes the new Mexican sidebar La Proxima Ola.'Opening with such ...
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Canadian legal expert disputes Warner piracy claims
A Canadian legal expert disputes recent claims by Warner Bros. that singles out Canada as the primary source of camcorder piracy. On Monday in Los Angeles, the studio issued a press release alleging that 70 per cent of its films distributed in Canada had been pirated through in-cinema camcording. Referring ...
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Geike promoted to president for Warner Bros Germany & Austria
Willi Geike has been promoted to president and managing director of Warner Bros Entertainment Germany and Austria.In his expanded role the 24-year company veteran will assume general oversight of all the studio's businesses in the two German-speaking territories.The remit covers theatrical and home video production, marketing and distribution, television distribution, ...
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Mexico's The Violin continues awards roll at San Francisco
Francisco Vargas Quemada's The Violin won the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival's SKYY Prize at the closing night awards ceremony on May 10.The FIPRESCI Prize went to Jeanne Waltz's Parting Shot/Pas Douce, while the Chris Holter Humour in Film Award was presented to Pavel Giroud for The Silly Age.In ...