All Screen articles in 12 May 2008 – Page 4
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Profile: IM Global
Stuart Ford has a specific mandate at Los Angeles-based sales company IM Global. 'The primary goal of the business at the moment is to establish ourselves as one of the top-tier US sales agencies,' he says.'For now we're not focused on producing our own movies or financing movies and we're ...
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Profile: The Film Department
For a while, people were starting to wonder if Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's finance and production company The Film Department would ever greenlight a film.There was a long gap between the announcement of the company last June and follow-up details about any productions. But as anyone familiar with the ...
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In Focus - the Cannes search for a new supply line
No-one would argue with New Line's worldwide distribution chief Rolf Mittweg when he says the demise of New Line's international sales operation 'leaves a major void in the international marketplace'.Not only was the operation, in the words of Mittweg, the executive who built it up during the late 1980s and ...
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Cannes profile: Enter The Protagonist
There will be many eyes on Protagonist Pictures as the company launches its first sales office at Cannes. Its three backers are well known - Ingenious, Film4 and Vertigo Films - and the industry is curious to see if their joint foray into sales will be a hit.Protagonist CEO Ben ...
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Cannes Buzz: The Competition
CompetitionBlindness (Can-Jap-US)Dir: Fernando MeirellesThe story: Blindness is based on the novel by Nobel prize-winner Jose Saramago in which a cataclysm of unknown origin sweeps through a city, rendering everyone blind. As society disintegrates, a small group struggles to hold on to the bond they have formed.The cast: A powerful ensemble ...
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Cannes Buzz: Directors' Fortnight
Each year, when the lights go down after every film at the Noga Hilton (now known as the Palais Stephanie), a history of Directors' Fortnight unfolds before your eyes.An inspirational montage of still photos and brief scenes skim through 40 years of talent discovery and championing of world-class film-makers.Key images ...
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Cannes Buzz: Hot Picks
FROM NORTH AMERICAMandate International will begin pre-sales on Drew Barrymore's comedy Whip It! starring Ellen Page as a beauty pageant regular who finds her true calling when she joins a female roller-derby team. The slate also includes the animated tale Alpha And Omega starring Justin Long and Hayden Panettiere as ...
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The critical view - Is niche cinema losing its hold on audiences'
Every so often we are told that audiences are ripe for a 'return to genre'. This is not just academic; genre-oriented production companies, such as Filmax in Spain, NoShame in Italy or Sahamongkol in Thailand, have money riding on our appetite for contemporary Euro-horror, hard-boiled Milanese crime classics or Muay ...
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South Korea - Weeping all the way to the bank
An impressive 411 non-Korean films received certification from South Korea's Media Ratings Board for local release in 2007, compared with only 293 in 2006. But while some might see this as the flood gates opening to imports, local distributors believe it is just a temporary measure to fill space at ...
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South Korea - Korea starts to act global
Even in the absence of a film the size of Oldboy or The Host, Korean sellers are discovering they are hardly back to square one."Korean cinema has established itself enough now that we have regulars who come to the markets with knowledge of Korean films," says Luna Choo, manager of ...
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Screen Opinion: 1968 and all that..
If you were putting together a fantasy protest group, you couldn't do much better than Godard, Truffaut, Malle and Polanski as your back four. All were involved in the demonstration that brought Cannes to a halt 40 years ago.The episode has become part of the hugely mythologised moment of French ...
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Horn slashes both Picturehouse and Warner Independent
Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) will both cease operations, it was announced today by Alan Horn, president & chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Instead of merging the two operations, which came under the same Warner Bros umbrella following New Line Cinema's absorption into the company recently, it has ...
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Bavaria picks up international for Daniel Burman's Argentine hit
Bavaria Film International has taken on international distribution for Argentinean director Daniel Burman's current box-office hit Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio).All About My Mother's Cecilia Roth and Oscar Martinez star as a married couple in their prime suddenly confronted with the 'empty nest syndrome' the moment their youngest child leaves ...
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Eurimages backs 10 films with $6m
At its 110th meeting, May 4-6 in Amsterdam, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund made its latest funding awards.The European co-production support includes 10 feature films for a total of almost $6m (Euros 3.875m)The films are: Besa - Srdjan Karanovic (Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary, France) Bon ...
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Fred Kogel to step down as Constantin CEO, Burgener will succeed
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film has announced that its current CEO Fred Kogel has extended his contract until the end of the year, but will then be succeeded in this position by the group's present supervisory board chairman Bernhard Burgener.Kogel had replaced Bernd Eichinger as CEO in April 2003 and ...
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Caruso, Conte plan $60m epic feature on life of William Tell
Veteran US producers Fred Caruso (Blue Velvet) and D. Constantine Conte (48 Hours) have unveiled plans to produce the $60m medieval epic feature The Adventures Of William Tell, based on the life of the legendary national hero of Switzerland.A single-purpose company Tell Productions Ltd. has acquired the film rights to ...
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Pre-Cannes, Waltz With Bashir sold to France, UK and Germany
A week ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir has been sold by The Match Factory to France (Le Pacte), the UK (Curzon Artificial Eye) and Germany (Pandora Filmverleih).'We are very excited about the fact that this unique animated documentary ...
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Andy Weltman takes UK production exec post in LA
Andy Weltman has been appointed production executive by British Film Commissioner Colin Brown.Weltman will be based in the UK Film Council US office in Los Angeles, and he will be responsible for building relationships with US film-makers hoping to shoot in the UK.Colin Brown said: 'I'm delighted that Andy has ...
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Simon Rexworthy promoted to acqusitions at Sky Movies
British Sky Broadcasting has promoted Simon Rexworthy to controller of acquisitions for Sky Movies and Sky Box Office.He takes over for Lisa MacDonald.Rexworthy will now oversee all of Sky's film acquisition and rights negotiations, including overseeing the development of VOD and PPV movie services.He continues as Financial Controller for Movies ...
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Simon West to direct Let It Ride for Intandem
Producer Mace Neufeld and director Simon West will reunite for the new heist thriller Let It Ride. The pair previously worked together on The General's Daughter for Paramount in 1999.The $22m thriller is out to cast now, with a waiver in place for any potential SAG strike.Let It Ride will ...