All Screen articles in 13 January 2009 – Page 2
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Features
Among Us (Anglavakt)
A chance encounter with a mysterious stranger turns a family’s life upside down
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Bad Family (Paha Perhe)
After their divorce the father brings up the son, while the mother has had custody of the daughter. 16 years later, after the mother’s death, brother and sister meet again
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FeaturesAwards Countdown: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Anne Hathaway, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominations.
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FeaturesKate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Kate Winslet, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominations.
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NewsAlmodovar, Von Trier, Tarantino lead heavyweight Cannes line-up
Pedro Almodovar, Lars Von Trier and Quentin Tarantino are among the established names in aCannes competition line-up that contained few surprises.
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Donkis, Fehily team for new LA-based communications firm
Endeavor publicist Michael Donkis is leaving the agency to partner with former PMK/HBH senior vice president Joy Fehily on the new communications firm Prime.Prime will be based in the arts district of Culver City in Los Angeles and will support clients with strategic publicity and communications services. Each year the ...
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Lightning Media signs output deal with E1 for Canada, UK
Lighting Media and Canadian media company Entertainment One have signed a multi-year output deal that will see E1 distributing Lightning product in Canada through its E1 Films Canada division and in the UK through E1 Films/Contender. The deal, which runs through 2010, was negotiated by Lightning Media co-presidents Rich Goldberg ...
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Waltz, The Class, Baader Meinhof make nine-film Oscar shortlist
Matteo Garrone's Sicilian crime epic Gomorrah failed to make the cut as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced its shortlist of foreign language Oscar contenders today [January 13].The nine films chosen from the original list of 65 qualifying submissions that will advance to the next round of ...
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Spain 2008 box office rises by 12.5% but admissionsfall
The Spanish box office rose by exactly $100m from $698m in 2007 to $798m (Euros 595.6m) in 2008, according to figures released by Nielsen EDI. But this was mostly due to a favourable exchange rate and a late surge from Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, released on November 28. This is ...
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Naomi Kawase, Lav Diaz join Hong on Jeonju Digital Project
The 10th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF)'s three-part digital omnibus this year will feature short films from Japan's Naomi Kawase and the Philippines' Lav Diaz in addition to the previously announced short from Korea's Hong Sang-soo. The Jeonju Digital Project 2009 omnibus will premiere at JIFF which runs this year ...
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Everlasting Moments tops Guldbagge awards
Swedish veteran director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments picked up four awards, including best film, at the Guldbagge awards.The film, nominated in eight categories, won the prizes for best film, best actress (Maria Heiskanen), best actor (Mikael Persbrandt) andbest supporting actor (Jesper Christensen). It also wona best achievement kudo for composer ...
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Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino line-ups complete
Lars Büchel's Lippel's Dream, and Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds make the Berlinale's Generation selection while Lars Jessen's Dorfpunks and Stefan Schaller's To Each His Own are invited to Perspektive Deutsches Kino as selectors finalise their line-ups for 2009. 27 features from 25 countries have been selected in total for ...
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Red Cliff II sweeps Chinese box office
John Woo's war epic Red Cliff II earned $14.8m (RMB101.5m) infour days in mainland China to become the first film in 2009 to break the $14.6m (RMB100m) mark, according to the film's mainland China distributor China Film Group. Released on January 7 with 1,400 prints, Red Cliff II took in ...
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Ascot Elite adds four new titles to 2009 release slate
Leading Swiss indepedent distributor Ascot Elite has acquired rights for Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking with up-and-coming star Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley and Rose McGowan, from Handmade Films International. Fifty Dead Men Walking is one of four films acquired by Ascot Elite for German speaking Europe. Also from Kari ...
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Visitor passfor the EFM, Wild Bunch returns (almost) to the market
The European Film Market plans a number of logistical changes to make life easier for its delegates and in doing so has brought sales agent Wild Bunch back into the market - almost. The first innovation is the introduction of a transferrable visitor pass that will cost $106 (Euros 80). ...
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Brazil box office rises by 2.1% in 2008 to $313.9m
Brazil's box office totaled $313.9m (R$727.8m) in 2008, which represents a slight increase of 2.1% over the previous year, according to figures released by Filme B, a local film company that reviews theatrical market data. Thanks to the revenues registered in December, particularly from Madagascar 2 which sold 3.5m tickets ...