All Screen articles in 13 February 2009 – Page 11
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Wild Bunch arrives in Berlin with auteur-packed sales slate
Wild Bunch comes to Berlin this year boasting new projects from both seasoned and fresh talent - and has a few special events up its sleeve.In casting news, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty have joined the previously announced The Killer Inside Me, a $13m adaptation of ...
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IM Global Acclaim seals 26 presales on Miller's Pippa Lee
As US specialty buyers prepare for the world premiere of Rebecca Miller's official selection comedy drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee on February 9, IM Global Acclaim has reported strong international sales.Icon has taken rights for the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Tri Pictures has acquired in Spain, CDI ...
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International - Valkyrie rides on
Twentieth Century Fox's Valkyrie defended its place at the top of the international box-office chart for the second week of its international run, after expanding to a further 10 territories, including number-one debuts in Spain (grossing $3.2m from 397 screens), France ($1.6m from 300), Sweden ($449,000 from 70) and Belgium ...
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Screen opinion: the film industry's zero-sum game
Economist Richard Bronk makes a fascinating case this week for the reasons why economists failed to predict the downturn. 'Economists and bankers,' he suggested, 'assume they can reduce uncertainty to measurable risk based on systematic regularities in the past that can tell you what is going to happen in the ...
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New Talent - European Stars of Tomorrow
THE DIRECTORSKATHRINE WINDFELD - DENMARKWork to date: As well as directing episodes of virtually every major Danish TV series, Windfeld has also directed the award-winning short films You Can’t Eat Fishing and Little Man.Coming up: Windfeld is making her big-screen debut with political drama The Escape, in which a Danish ...
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International - A new dimension
All eyes are on 2009 as the year the box-office potential of "legacy" films - classic or cult films that could be brought out in new 3D editions - may be realised. If, over the coming months, the appetite for 3D is sufficiently baited, then demand will encourage the US ...
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United Kingdom - Sustainable development
London-based Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) is a business on the move. It doesn't have a great deal of choice in one respect - the company's Tottenham Court Road offices are to be demolished to make way for a new rail network.But Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's eight-year-old outfit has ...
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United States - Content provider
When he relocated to Los Angeles last August, ContentFilm International president Jamie Carmichael was "in search of bigger and stronger films".And the move, says Carmichael, who set up the international sales arm of the UK's ContentFilm plc in London six-and-a-half years ago, "has been quite transformational".With its front office effectively ...
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Festival review: Park city's sparkling show of independents
It was a happy coincidence that in the year it was celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Sundance Film Festival showcased a bumper crop of new independent cinema. As Robert Redford, festival director Geoff Gilmore and director of programming John Cooper reiterated, Sundance is about discovering new talent - and this ...
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Sally Potter on the 'poor cinema' of Rage
Sally Potter's new feature Rage, which had its world premiere in competition at Berlin this week, has a cast to make distributors sit up and take notice. Actors involved in the ensemble comedy-thriller include Judi Dench, Jude Law, Steve Buscemi, supermodel Lily Cole and comedian Eddie Izzard.The film, a murder ...
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In focus - Festival buzz - Bright outlook in Berlin
French director Gaspar Noe will be in Berlin this week to explain to distributors the concept behind his film Enter The Void, which is being sold at the European Film Market (EFM) by Wild Bunch. The title of Noe's effects-driven new feature seems strangely apt given what many buyers and ...
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Bill Mechanic returns to animation with Coraline
Coraline may be the first animated film that Bill Mechanic has made under the banner of his Los Angeles-based production company Pandemonium, but the studio-chief-turned-producer is hardly a newcomer to the animation world.When he was at Disney in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the home-video division Mechanic oversaw and ...
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New Talent - The Alumni: Class of 2008 - Where are they now'
This time last year Hafsia Herzi's name was on the lips of just about every French casting director. A year on and she has the rest of the world talking.Proving that her electric performance in Couscous was not just a one-off, Herzi went on to win the best actress award ...
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The Seventh Circle (A Hetedik Kor)
Dir: Arpad Sopsits. Hungary. 2009. 107mins. Coming of age turns into a painful and confusing affair in Arpad Sopsits' disturbing and excessively intellectual portrait of teenagers trying to make sense of their existence. Told through a series of flashbacks based on a 14 year old suicide's diary, Sopsits offers a ...
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Slumdog Millionaire triumphs at London Film Critics' Circle Awards
An inaugural NSPCC award for young British performer of the year was presented to Thomas Turgoose for two very different roles; a teenager escaping a bad home life in Somers Town, and a ferocious yob in Eden Lake. Kate Winslet won actress of the year for her performances in The ...
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Rome appoints industry figures to support artistic director
The International Rome Film Festival has appointed three industry professionals to assist artistic director Piera Detassis in selecting films for the event's fourth edition, set to run October 15-23.Theyare journalist, critic, producer and film distributor Fabrizio Grossoli, journalist Alessandra De Luca and Fabia Bettini.Grossoli has previously served on a number ...
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NewsBenjamin Button strides into major markets two weeks before Oscars
MGM/UA’s wartime thriller Valkyrie has been the leading Hollywood export through Fox International for the past two weekends and has raced past $40m, but without any new releases Fox Internationalwill look to strong holdover business to maintain momentum.
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Ewan McGregor, Carey Mulligan team for The Electric Slide
Myriad Pictures has come aboard to finance and handle international sales on Killer Films and Di Bonaventura Pictures' The Electric Slide with Ewan McGregor and Sundance discovery Carey Mulligan in talks to play the leads.Tristan Patterson will direct from his screenplay based on Timothy Ford's article The Yankee Bandit: The ...