All Screen articles in 13 February 2009 – Page 9
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Greg MacGillivray shoots documentary about surfing culture
Greg MacGillivray is shooting a documentary examining 50 years of surfing culture in cinema with particular emphasis on the troubled production of John Milius' 1978 Big Wednesday.The untitled project will draw from archival material ranging from Thomas Edison's first Hawaiian surfing footage in 1906 to excerpts from iconic imagery from ...
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Celluloid to handle sales on Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut
Celluloid Dreams has signed on to handle international sales of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut,Jack Goes Boating,billed as an unconventional romantic comedy.
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Arterton to star in CinemaNX's The Disappearance Of Alice Creed
CinemaNX announces cast for its sixth feature film, TheDisappearance Of Alice Creed, to begin shooting February 9 on The Isle of Man.Gemma Arterton (Quantum Of Solace, St Trinian’s), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky, Hancock) and Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen, Red Road) will star in The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, a contemporary kidnap ...
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NonStop Entertainment in joint venture with Warp X
NonStop Entertainment has announced that it will have the first look for upcoming films on the slate of UK-based digital feature film studio Warp and the companies will look to other joint ventures. Warp X is allied to Warp Films, the company behind This Is England and Dead Man's Shoes ...
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Scottish, Danish and Irish production houses form film partnership
Scotland's Sigma Films, Denmark's Zentropa and Ireland's Subotica Entertainment are forming a partnership to develop eight new films from emerging UK and Irish film-makers. The partnership referred to as Advance Party II (APII) will build on the success of Andrea Arnold's Red Road, and Morag McKinnon's forthcoming Donkeys, which were ...
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Independent sells Moon and New Town Killers
UK sales and production outfit Independent has sold Duncan Jones' Moon and Richard Jobson's New Town Killers to Telepool for German speaking territories. Sci-fi thriller Moon premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The film was directed by Duncan Jones, stars Sam Rockwell and features the voice of Kevin ...
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Aniston and Bateman to star in The Baster
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are the stars of romantic comedy The Baster which is set to shoot in spring. Mandate International is introducing the project to buyers here. Blades Of Glory directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon are reuniting on the Mandate Pictures tale of a woman who undergoes ...
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Irish arts minister urged to end delay in appointing Irish film board
An opposition senator has today called on the Irish arts minister to end the delay in appointing members of the Irish Film Board. An Irish Labour party senator, Dominic Hannigan, has called on the minister for arts, Martin Cullen, to explain the delay in appointing a new board for the ...
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UK 's Pinewood and Shepperton Studios win Bafta award
Pinewood and Shepperton Studios will receive a Bafta contribution award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on Sunday 8 February 2009. The studios, which are behind such classics as The African Queen and Dr Strangelove as well as recent blockbusters Casino Royal and ...
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Pathe seals deals on Frears' Cheri with Lumiere, Nordisk
On the eve of EFM, Pathe International announced deals on two major territories for Stephen Frears' Cheri which screens in competition here on Feb 10. Lumiere has taken the film for Benelux and Nordisk for Scandinavia.The film, written by Christopher Hampton from Colette's novel stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Felicity ...
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Barnz signs on to direct edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films
Daniel Barnz has signed on to direct the edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films.
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NonStop Entertainment in joint venture with Warp X
NonStop Entertainment has announced that it will have the first look for upcoming films on the slate of UK-based digital feature film studio Warp and will look to other joint ventures. Warp X is allied to Warp Films, the company behind This Is England and Dead Man's Shoes by Shane ...
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Kinowelt's Ziannis sets up new sales shop Aktis
Former Kinowelt world sales chief Stelios Ziannis is in Berlin with his new sales company Aktis Film International. The Leipzig-based outfit's first acquisition is Rudolf Thome's black tragicomedy Pink which will have its world premiere in the festival's Berlinale Special sidebar. Starring Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Panzner (Valkyrie), Guntram Brattia (The ...
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Wide gives Hand to Strand for US
French sales outfit Wide Management has announced a raft of new sales on its new slate including Give Me Your Hand and Ah! The Libido. Pascal Alex-Vincent's Give Me Your Hand has been taken by Strand Releasing for the US and by Peccadillo Pictures for the UK. Meanwhile, Michel Rosier'comedy ...