All Screen articles in 12 May 2008 – Page 2
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Xenon Pictures buys domestic rights to Amexicano
Xenon Pictures has paid mid-six figures for North American rights to Matthew Bonifacio's Amexicano starring 2008 Grammy nominee Jennifer Pena.Xenon plans a late spring or summer release on the story of an illegal immigrant who bonds with a blue-collar worker from Queens, New York.The drama premiere at Tribeca 2007 and ...
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The Film Sales Company takes on Pierce's horror thriller Victim
Andrew Herwitz' Film Sales Company has boarded several new titles heading in to Cannes including the horror thriller Victim.Michael Pierce's film concerns a shadowy man who is abducted and transformed into something he never believed he could become. Pierce produced through his company Pierce Williams along with Mark Williams.The line-up ...
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PorchLight takes on Tribeca audience winner Emmanuel Jai: War Child
PorchLight Entertainment has taken on international rights to Wilson Coneybeare's children's tale Gooby and Christian Karim Chrobog's recent Tribeca Film Festival audience award winner Emmanuel Jal: War Child.The Los Angeles-based production and distribution company will also arrive on the Croisette with James Moll's documentary Running The Sahara, on which Matt ...
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Iron Man continues to rule in international with $32.5m in PPI grosses
Paramount Pictures International's (PPI) Iron Man went head-to-head with two new potential blockbusters in the overseas arena at the weekend and emerged relatively unscathed as the clear winner despite scorching heat across many parts of Europe.The comic book adaptation added an estimated $32.5m from 5,557 sites in 57 PPI territories, ...
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Iron Man soars above competition at North American box office
Iron Man battered the competition for the second consecutive weekend as an estimated $50.5m haul through Paramount Pictures raised the running total to $177.1m.The result consolidated the Marvel Studios adaptation as the season's first bona fide blockbuster and relegated new openers Speed Racer from Warner Bros and What Happens In ...
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Cannes Buzz: Out Of Competition
OUT OF COMPETITIONIndiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skill (US)Dir: Steven SpielbergThe story: The fourth instalment in the series - which arrives 19 years after the third - is set in 1957 and pits Indy against agents of the Soviet Union.The cast: Harrison Ford, of course, alongside the ...
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Herbig, Wortmann and Davaa receive support from Bavarian fund
New films by leading German comedian Michael Bully Herbig, Soenke Wortmann, and Oscar-nominated documentary film-maker Byambasuren Davaa (The Story Of The Weeping Camel and The Cave of The Yellow Dog) are among 25 film and TV projects supported with $9.4m (Euros 6.1m) by Bavaria's FFF Bayern regional fund at its ...
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Clubland producers form Goalpost Pictures Australia
The Australian producers behind Clubland and the upcoming Elise, starring songstress Natalie Imbruglia, have formed a production company Goalpost Pictures Australia.The outfit has UK sales agency and executive producers Goalpost Film as a minority shareholder.Long-term partners Rosemary Blight, Ben Grant, Kylie du Fresne and Cass O'Connor are the principals in ...
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Theatre networkclaims 2007 record for non-national European film
Europa Cinemas' figures reveal that 2007 was a record year for European films screened by its members beyond their national borders.They accounted for 39% of the films shown at the network's cinemas, up 3% on 2006.European film as a whole took 63% of admissions.Florian Henckel Von Donnsersmarck's phenomenal The Lives ...
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Spielberg will shoot long-awaited Abraham Lincoln project after Tintin
Steven Spielberg's long-gestating project about US president Abraham Lincoln will be the director's next project after the first live-action Tintin film which goes into production this September.Spielbergsays he will begin shooting of the Lincoln biopic at the beginning of 2009 'so that it can also open in the same year ...
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Venice to honour Italian master Ermanno Olmi
Venice is to honour one of Italy's most adventurous auteurs with a Golden Lion for his lifetime's work.Olmi has had a long and successful relationship with Venice dating back to the 1950s. Hewon the Golden Lion in 1988 for The Legend Of The Holy Drinker.His best-known film probably remains The ...
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European Commission starts consultation on film policy
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on a possible future global programme for the audiovisual industries, including film.The aim is to develop a new programme, 'MEDIA MUNDIS', that will represent a commitment to effective multilateralism and engage with global partnersThe aim of the consultation is to gather information ...
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MMC joins H20 as co-producer of Stephen Frears' feature
Cologne-based MMC Independent has become a co-producer with Andras Hamori's H20 Motion Pictures on Stephen Frears' latest feature project Cheri which is currently shooting in France and will be moving to Germany at the end of May.A co-production contract will be officially signed by Hamori and Magic Media Company's (MMC) ...
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Argentinian film steals top prize at Jeonju
Matias Pineiro's Argentine film The Stolen Man picked up the $10,000 top Woosuk Award at Korea's 9th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF).Shot in black and white on HD, the film revolves around 19th century author and Argentinian president Domingo F. Sarmiento's writings on freedom and the right to education.The international ...
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Bulgarian studio expands facilities
UFO International Productions has announced the opening of a new stage facility in Sofia, Bulgaria.The Bulgarian Film and Television Centre (BFTC) claims to be the largest studio in the Balkans, with nearly double the stage capacity of any other studio in Bulgaria.Sofia is already home to Nu Boyana Studios. Nu ...
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Giuseppe Tornatore back to Sicilian roots for Baaria
Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa Film CEOGiampaolo Letta unveiled the first details of Tornatore's $30.7m (Euro 20m) film Baaria that has been tightly under wraps since the project's inceptiona year ago.Producing partners for Baaria are Italy's Medusa Film and Franco-Tunisian entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar's French based Quinta Communications and ...
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Seville International takes international rights on Pool's Mommy
Montreal-based sales outfit Seville International has acquired international rights to Lea Pool's Mommy Is At The Hairdresser's (Maman Est Chez Le Coiffeur). The film, which has garnered strong critical reaction following its May 2 opening in Quebec, stars Laurent Lucas (With A Friend Like Harry), Celine Bonnier (Monica La Mitraille), ...
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Sarin's Shine Of Rainbows rolls with Quinn and Nielsen
Principal photography has begun on location in Ireland for Vic Sarin's Canada-Ireland coproduction A Shine Of Rainbows, starring Connie Nielsen and Aidan Quinn. Based on the novel by Lillian Beckwith, the magical family drama tells the story of a lonely orphan (newcomer John Bell) whose life is transformed by an ...
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After Becker deal, Icon takes over sales on Hunger
Icon Entertainment International has taken over worldwide rights to Hunger, the CannesUn Certain Regard opening film.Steve McQueen directed the film about the 1981 IRA hunger strike in the Maze Prison. Michael Fassbender is said to give a star-making performance as Bobby Sands.Icon recently acquired Australian media group Becker Entertainment, including ...
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Kinowelt CEO Bertil le Claire to leave at end of month
The Kinowelt Group's CEO Bertil le Claire has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of May. His duties will be overseen by Romain Bessi, Directeur General of the group's new owner StudioCanal, until a successor has been appointed.Le Claire joined Kinowelt in 1998 as the managing ...