All Screen articles in 13 February 2009 – Page 4
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South By Southwestmakes deal with genre specialists Fantastic Fest.
The South By Southwest Film Festival will introduce its inaugural midnight programme when the event kicks off in March following a deal with genre specialists Fantastic Fest. The full SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest At Midnight will be unveiled towards the end of February. Festival organisers also unveiled that former Picturehouse ...
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Production Finance Market dates announced
This year's edition of the Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) will take place on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October 2009. The only event of its kind in the UK, the PFM brings together producers and major financiers not only from the UK but Europe and the rest of ...
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Berlin sales deals update
Protganist Unmade BedsLondon based sales company Protagonist Pictures has closed a deal for France on Alexis Dos Santos' Unmade Beds with Rezo and for Benelux with Cineart. RTVE Mediterranean Food TVE has sold Joaquin Oristrell's Spanish comedy Mediterranean Food to Zootrope Films in France, Epelpol in Poland, Swallow Wings in ...
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Gubbins steps down as editor of Screen International & ScreenDaily.com
Michael Gubbins is stepping down as editor of Screen International and ScreenDaily.com after five years in the role and will be leaving on Feb 11.He is leaving to pursue new ventures in film and the wider media. Gubbins oversaw a redesign of the weekly magazine and the website and made ...
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Jan Chapman honoured by Adelaide Festival
Ten days before the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) opens, the board has announced that celebrated producer Jan Chapman is to receive the 2009 Don Dunstan Award, which recognizes outstanding contribution to the Australian film industry. Chapman's filmmaking spans 16 years and includes the period love story The Piano, which was ...
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Russia steps up as fourth biggest European market
The Russian Federation became Europe's fourth largest cinema market in terms of cinema attendance in 2008, according to estimates from the Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO). Russian cinemas posted the biggest year-on-year increase in absolute terms among 31 European countries with a 16% increase. Russian admissions rose by 17.3m to ...
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Babelgum gets 24 from Content Republic
Babelgum, the free-to-view independent web TV service, has sealed a deal with digital distributor Content Republic to present 24 world cinema films on Babelgum as online exclusives. The titles include Lars Von Trier's The Boss Of It All, Milcho Manchevski's Before The Rain and Steve Barron's Choking Man. Two films ...
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Wellcam welcomes Taras Bulba to Korea
Early in the EFM, Russian outfit Central Partnership has closed a Korean deal for its historical epic Taras Bulba with Wellcam. The deal was closed on Friday in Berlin. The historical drama, directed by Vladimir Bortko, is currently in post-production and will be unveiled to buyers in the Cannes market. ...
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Noble picks up two from Vantage
Scandinavian buyer Noble Entertainment has picked up Scandinavian rights to Gela Babluani's 13 and Joel Hopkins' Last Chance Harvey from Paramount Vantage International. Noble founder and CEO Per Samuelsson confirmed the deals yesterday. 13, Babluani's English language remake of his own 13 Tzameti stars Sam Riley, Mickey Rourke and Jason ...
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Mangold to direct thriller for Bold Films
Los Angeles-based Bold Films is developing an untitled legal thriller with James Mangold and Cathy Konrad's Treeline Films in the vein of The Verdict and All The President's Men. Mangold is attached to direct the true story of a pair of New Orleans lawyer brothers who take on Big Oil ...
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Bleiberg picks up AIDS drama Pedro
Bleiberg Entertainment has picked up international rights to BMP Films' biopic Pedro written by the Oscar nominated Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Bleiberg is talking to buyers in Berlin about Nick Oceano's story on the life of Pedro Zamora, the young AIDS campaigner who dedicated his life to raise awareness ...
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Depp to narrate Strange for DiCillo
Johnny Depp is to record a new narration for When You're Strange, Tom DiCillo's documentary about The Doors which had its world premiere at Sundance and plays here in berlin in Panorama Dokumente. DiCillo himself had provided the original voiceover, but he announced at Saturday night's screening that Depp would ...
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Centurion strides out for Pathe
Pathe International has pre-sold Neil Marshall's Romans in Britain yarn Centurion to Constantin in Germany, Aurum in Spain, Hopscotch in Australia, Scanbox in Scandinavia and Odeon in Greece. The film will start principal photography on 22nd February in Scotland. LOL (Laughing Out Loud), directed by Liza Azuelos, has sold to ...
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Coach 14 to remake Proyecto Dos with Rosa Entertainment.
French sales company Coach 14 has announced a remake deal for Guillermo Fernandez Groizard's thriller Proyecto Dos with LA-based Rosa Entertainment. The original, directed by Guillermo Fernandez Groizard, is set in contemporary Madrid where a biochemist discovers that his ordinary life is not what he thinks. Buena Vista released the ...
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Media Luna picks up Memory, Jennifer
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up Memory, the second feature by Matthias Luthardt, who is the president of the 'Dialogue en perspective' jury of young German and French film buffs for this year's Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar. The drama starring Franziska Petri and Pasquale Aleardi premiered at the Hof Film ...