All Screen articles in 13 March 2009 – Page 3
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The secrets to Japanese box-office success
Japanese cinema-goers paying $18 for a ticket tend to make conservative choices when they reach the front of the queue. This goes some way to explain the 59.5% market share garnered by local films at last year's box office. Audiences know what they will get from the new animation from ...
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Going behind the scenes of Perrier's Bounty
Irish director Ian Fitzgibbon is stamping his feet. He’s not having a tantrum, he’s trying to keep warm. Cillian Murphy, however, is having a hissy fit. Having run to his car in a bid to make a quick getaway, he discovers the clampers have gotten there first. As the cameras ...
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Back to the mainland: China opens up to co-productions
Shooting permits are being issued again in China after a difficult 2008. Between October 2008 and January 2009, the Film Bureau approved 17 projects to shoot in China. Only eight received permits between June and September last year.Among the Asian projects are Cinema Popular's Dark October, which will start shooting ...
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Chinese film boom - market manipulation or audience shift'
In Olympic year in 2008, the Chinese government placed subtle restrictions on the number and nature of foreign films that could be released in the territory. This year, the 60th anniversary of the creation of the People's Republic of China, a similar mood of patriotic fervour is gripping the authorities. ...
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PPIto unleashWatchmen asyear's first major launch
The first major day-and-date global launch of the year takes place this weekend when Zack Snyder's ambitious Watchmen adaptation touches down in more than 45 territories.Paramount Pictures International (PPI) president Andrew Cripps canlook forward to a dominant opening weekend in most markets when PPIunleashes the postmodern superhero saga simultaneously with ...
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Adam Cohen joins Metan Development Group
Development and marketing executive Adam Cohen has been hired as production executive of original programming at Metan Development Group, the content producer and distributor launched in February to target the Chinese market.Cohen will seek to strengthen ties with feature and televisionproducers in Hollywood with a view to developing the slate. ...
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Germany's MDM fund awards $4.6m in first funding round of 2009
Films from Israel's Eran Riklis and Hungary's Kornel Mundruczo are among the projects sharing more than $4.6m (Euros 3.7m) from Germany's Leipzig-based regional film fund Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM). In its first funding session of 2009 MDM gave production support to Riklis' tragicomedy The Mission Of The Human Resource Manager, to ...
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Screen International announces new editor
Conor Dignam is to be the new editor of Screen International and Screendaily.com. Formerly the editor and publishing director of Broadcast, Dignam has been most recently working at Screen's parent company Emap as director of digital content. There, he has overhauled the company's 10 biggest publishing websites.He has been writing ...
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Extra Virgin: getting creative in Thailand
In a year of economic crisis, not to mention political upheaval at home, Thailand's Extra Virgin is a rare independent company that is expanding its business.Mai Meksawan and Pimpaka Towira founded Bangkok-based Extra Virgin in 2007 with a slate of projects; they have since released Thai films theatrically (Pimpaka's own ...
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Helen Loveridge returns with sales company Meridiana
The Meridiana is the hotel in Venice in which sales agent Helen Loveridge stayed when she was working on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1989 Golden Lion winner, City Of Sadness. In recognition of that triumph, it is the name she has given to her new, London-based sales outfit Meridiana Films, which aims ...
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Stillking and Pioneer launch joint venture in Budapest
Stillking Films and Pioneer Pictures have announced the launch of a new joint venture, P.S. Films, to co-produce and service feature films in Budapest. The move indicates renewed confidence in Hungary as a location for runaway production after inward feature film production services spend dropped nearly three-quarters in 2008. Stillking ...
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Alta Films picks up Moreno's A Good Man
Spanish outfit Alta Films has picked up theatrical rights for Spain to Juan Martinez Moreno's thriller A Good Man from Latido Films. Moreno 's film has been gaining interest since its screening at Berlin in the EFM where it was sold to KEntertainment for Korea. The film is a dark ...
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Zhang to make film celebrating communist China's birthday
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou is joining the trend to make a tribute film celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC). During his attendanceat the annual National People's Congress, Zhang told China's CCTV that he is working on several scripts and hopes to start shooting this year. ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment said to be cutting 300 jobs
Sony Pictures Entertainment is believed to be cutting in the region of 300 jobs in the latest move by a US major to trim costs as the world heads further into recession.Sources at the studio would neither confirm nor deny reportscirculating within Hollywood that the cuts were being implemented.It is ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment said to be cutting 300 jobs
Sony Pictures Entertainment is believed to be cutting in the region of 300 jobs in the latest move by a US major to trim costs as the world heads further into recession.Sources at the studio would neither confirm nor deny reportscirculating within Hollywood that the cuts were being implemented.It is ...
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Michael Caine to get Lifetime Achievement Award at ShoWest
Michael Caine will receive the ShoWest 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award at the final night banquet and awards ceremony on April 2.Caine will next be seen in Big Beach, Heyday Films, and BBC Films'drama Is Anybody There' that will open in Los Angeles and New York onApril 17.The Veteran English actor ...
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UK theatre producers team with China's Dadi Media on musical
London-based Broadway producer Toby Simkin and Hampshire-based Captive Theater and Music are teaming up with China's Dadi Media and ESA Cultural Investment to co-produce musical feature The Sacrifice Of Yang Guifei. The film will be shot in mainland China with English as its primary language. It will be written and ...
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Guy Maddin to shoot short for NFB's 70th anniversary
The National Film Board of Canada has commissioned idiosyncratic auteur Guy Maddin to create a short film to commemorate the NFB's 70th anniversary.The project, Night Mayor, goes before camera on March 9 on location in the filmmaker's hometown of Winnipeg, the city memorialized in Maddin's critical hit My Winnipeg. Maddin ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest moves from August to June
The 15th Palm Springs International ShortFest, Short Film Festival & Film Market has moved forward its dates from August and will run this summer from June 23-29.'We've been considering a date change for some time, and ultimatelydecided that the June dates would provide better placement on theannual festival calendar and ...
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Turner, Warner Bros team for English-language channel for India
Turner and Warner Bros Entertainment have partnered to launch WB, a new 24-hour English-language Warner-branded channel aimed at the Indian market carrying features and television series.Available in Indian homes from March 15, WB will showcase programming licensed from Warner Bros International Television Distribution. The channel will be distributed by Zee-Turner ...