All Screen articles in 13 February 2009 – Page 12

  • News

    BERLIN NEWS DAY 2 ONLINE STORIES

    2009-02-05T14:24:00Z

    DAY 2: THE T0P STORIESKinowelt's Ziannis sets up new sales shop AktisAutlook takes world on Panorama doc War + Love Wide gives Hand to Strand for US Atrix boards Murnberger's Bone Man Pinball Films pitches Fuckart High-Fliers acquires UK rights to New Town Killers Pathe seals deals on Frears' Cheri ...

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    Basterds swings German cash

    2009-02-05T13:53:00Z

    Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has been awarded $8.7m (Euros 6.8m) support by Germany's much praised DFFF incentive scheme. The Second World War drama, which is currently shooting at the Babelsberg studios, is the fifth project to break the fund's 'cap' threshold of $5.1m (Euros 4m) after the Joel Silver production ...

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    Berlin Film Festival: news and reviews

    2009-02-05T13:03:00Z

    Berlin newsBerlin reviewsBerlin Buzz: The key filmsBerlinale competitionEFM previewGerman films on the rise

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    NonStop Entertainment picks up Berlinale Forum selected Burrowing

    2009-02-05T11:38:00Z

    Stockholm based NonStop Entertainment has signed on Nordic and Baltic distribution for Swedishdirectorial debut Burrowing (Man Tänker Sitt) from production outfit Fasad.

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    Berlin reviews roundup

    2009-02-05T11:11:00Z

    In CompetitionAbout Elly (Asghar Farhadi)Cheri (Stephen Frears)Deutschland 09 (various)The Dust Of Time (Theo Angelopoulous)Eden Is West (Costa-Gavras)Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) (Maren Ade)Forever Enthralled (Mei Lanfang)Germany 09 (Deutschland 09) (Various directors)Happy Tears (Mitchell Lichtenstein)In The Electric Mist (Bertrand Tavernier)Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland)Little Soldier (Annette K Olesen)London River (Rachid Bouchareb)Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson)The ...

  • Reviews

    Father's Acre (Apafold)

    2009-02-05T11:10:00Z

    Dir: Viktor Oszkar Nagy. Hungary. 2009. 80mins. Despite its shortcomings, this debut about an ex-convict's attempts to reconcile with his rebellious son from Viktor Ozkar Nagy is a visual treat. Showing remarkable precision and sensitivity in every frame, the minimalist film will find a natural berth in first film festivals ...

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    AV Pictures sells Lesbian Vampire Killers in Germany and Australia

    2009-02-05T11:08:00Z

    UK sales agent AV Pictures has closed deals with Square One in Germany and Transmission in Australia on gore-fest 'Lesbian Vampire Killers'. The film stars UK comedy talents, James Corden and Mathew Horne from the BAFTA award-winning Gavin & Stacey BBC series. Lesbian Vampire Killers will receive its premiere screening ...

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    Kunath promoted to evp, general manager at Screen Gems

    2009-02-05T10:38:00Z

    Screen Gems has promoted Pamela Kunath to executive vice president and general manager and charged her with overseeing all operations and administration across all areas of the studio's business.In her expanded role Kunath, who joined Screen Gems shortly after its inception in 2001, will continue to head the company's business ...

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    Perfect Circle signs Kearsley to animated debut

    2009-02-05T08:49:00Z

    Perfect Circle has signed a two picture deal with Seth Kearsley, that includes Heaven Sent based on the graphic novel series by Ben Dunn. The title is one of five animated features Perfect Circle is lining up. The company's stop-motion feature Edison And Leo, which premiered at Toronto, is being ...

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    Fichman to be key instructor at TAP in Berlin and Halifax

    2009-02-05T08:08:00Z

    Canadian producer Niv Fichman (Blindness, Silk) will be on hand as the senior resource instructor at Trans Atlantic Partners International Coproduction: Focus Europe and Canada (TAP), scheduled for June and September in Berlin and Halifax.The two-part training program for Canadian and European producers is a joint initiative of Halifax's Strategic ...

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    Sweden's SF Bio installs 3D screens

    2009-02-05T07:47:00Z

    Somewhat delayed, Sweden's leading cinema circuit, SF Bio - which programmes 242 screens all over the country - is ready to enter the digital era, having installed Real D equipment in eight auditoria in Stockholm (3), Gothenburg (2) and another three provincial cities. The premiere will be Disney's Oscar-nominated Bolt, ...

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    Pinewood and Shepperton to receive BAFTA award

    2009-02-05T06:48:00Z

    Pinewood and Shepperton Studios will receive the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award atthe Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. Shepperton Studios and Pinewood Studios are two of the world's most prestigious studios with a history going back almost 75 years.Despite growing global competition, they have kept ...

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    Robert Redford and TerryGilliam projects spark up at Voltage Pictures

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Nicolas Chartier's high-flying Los Angeles financing and sales company Voltage Pictures arrives at EFM with its most prestigious slate to date led by new work from Robert Redford and Terry Gilliam.Chartier is in Berlin to introduce buyers to Robert Redford's romantic thriller The Company You Keep that is ready to ...

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    Distribution Workshop picks up Snowfall, Overheard

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Distribution Workshop, the new Hong Kong-based sales outfit founded by Nansun Shi and Jeffrey Chan, has picked up two new titles - Alan Mak and Felix Chong's Overheard and Snowfall In Taipei from Chinese director Huo Jianqi. Produced by Derek Yee, whose credits as director include Protege and One Nite ...

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    Kites flies on Reliance Big Pictures' debut slate

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    India's Reliance Big Pictures is launching its international sales division here at the European Film Market, with a busy slate of product headed by $30m English-language romantic drama Kites. Starring Hrithik Roshan, Kites follows a young man in Las Vegas who becomes involved with a salsa dancer but falls in ...

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    Baker Street to launch international sales division under Lansley

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    UK production and media financing outfit Baker Street Media Finance has launched its own sales arm. Baker Street International - as the new division is called - will be attending the EFM informally before beginning selling in earnest in Cannes in May.The new outfit is head by former Lakeshore executive ...

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    Fortissimo rounds out Berlin slate with Asian auteurs

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has arrived in Berlin with several additions to its slate including new titles from threefilmmakers that the company regularly works with - Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-liang, Thailand’s Pen-ekRatanaruang and Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam.

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    Wild Bunch launches 3D label kicking off with Oceans

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Wild Bunch is going 3-D. The French sales, distribution and financing outfit will create a new label, Wild Bunch 3-D, under which 3-D films will be distributed and sold. The new arm is to kick off with Oceans 3-D Into The Deep from filmmaker brothers Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello and ...

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    Vantage International gets lucky with 13 sales

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Paramount Vantage International has closed major sales on 13, Gela Babluani's star-studded English language remake of his 2005 French crime picture 13 Tzameti that just wrapped principal photography in and around New York.Senior vice president of international sales Alex Walton arrives at the EFM having completed sales to Icon for ...

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    Content acquires The Technician and 20 titles from Nick Broomfield.

    2009-02-05T05:55:00Z

    ContentFilm International has acquired international sales rights to the action thriller The Technician. Jon Cassar, the lead director of 24 will direct from a screenplay by Ken Lamplugh and John Weidner. Harry Ufland (The Last Temptation of Christ, Snow Falling on Cedars), Mary Jane Ufland (Crazy/Beautiful, Not Without My Daughter, ...