All Screen articles in 13 March 2009 – Page 4
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Film Sales Company takes on two SXSW titles
Andrew Herwitz's New York-based Film Sales Company has picked up domestic sales rights aheadto two films - The Overbrook Brothers and Wake Up - set to world premiere at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.John Bryant's dramatic competition entry The Overbrook Brothers is acomedy about two brothers in their 30s who ...
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AFI Dallas to open March 26 with Johnson's The Brothers Bloom
Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom will open the AFI Dallas International Film Festival on March 26.The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow and The Brothers Bloom starAdrien Brody will join the previously announced Chinatown screenwriterRobert Towne as recipients of the AFI Dallas Star Award careerrecognition award. Rita Hayworth will receive the ...
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Lionsgate furthers Tyler Perry relationship by acquiring next two films
Lionsgate has wasted little time extending its lucrative relationship with Tyler Perry, whose number one US release Madea Goes To Jail scored a record launch recently for both studio and film-maker and stands at $65.5m after less than two weeks.The company has acquired rights to the prolific film-maker's next twoprojects ...
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Durand takes new VP marketing role at Warner Bros France
Emmanuel Durand has been hired as vice president marketing, Warner Bros France and will join the company in May. He will report to Iris Knobloch, president/director general of Warner Bros France. Durand will be responsible for marketing across theatrical, video, digital and games. Warner Bros France said that with this ...
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Alive Mind takes US rights to Walter's Theater Of War
Richard Lorber's documentary label Alive Mind has acquired the US theatrical, public performance and video rights to John Walter's documentary Theater Of War.Theater Of War stars Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline and is based on TonyKushner's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Bertolt Brecht'sMother Courage And Her Children, inspired by ...
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Constantin posts profit as parent company plans delisting
German producer-distributor Constantin Film posted positive turnover and operating results for 2008 as its parent company Highlight announced plans to delist Constantin and merge with it as Constantin Medien. While Constantin Film's operating result rose 21.6% year-on-year to $18.9m (Euros 15.1m), the group turnover climbed by 10.4% to $311.6m (Euros ...
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Sofia to open with world premiere of The Goat
The Sofia International Film Festival opens March 5 with the world premier of The Goat, a dark comedy from Bulgarian director Georgi Djulgerov and close March 15 with Wim Wenders presenting his film The Palermo Shooting. The festival's international competition of first and second films includes Bulgaria's Oscar submission, Zift, ...
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The Rest Is Silence dominates Romanian academy awards
The Rest Is Silence has picked up the lion’s share of trophies, including best feature, at the 2009 Gopos,Romania’s national film awards.
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Feng to direct disaster movie about Tangshan earthquake
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers Pictures is teaming up with state-owned China Film Group and Tangshan City Government to co-produce disaster drama Tangshan Dadizheng, about the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976. Feng Xiaogang will direct the $25m drama, which will tell the story of the devastating earthquake that took the lives of over ...
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Black Dynamite sells to Pretty Pictures and Svensk
Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights from T&C International to Scott Sanders' Sundance hit blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite starring Michael Jai White.Pretty Pictures president James Velaise negotiated the deal with LosAngeles-based T&C International chief David Jourdan following meetingsat the EFM last month.Jourdan also reported he had closed a deal with ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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Carolyn Harris, Beatrice Springborn join Basner's FilmNation
Glen Basner's international sales and production company FilmNation Entertainment has hired two executives to head the production arm overseen by Aaron Ryder.Effective immediately Carolyn Harris will join the company asvice-president of production and Beatrice Springborn will serve asproduction executive. Ryder and his team are based in Los Angeleswhile Basner heads ...
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CBS Films takes feature rights to The Christmas Cookie Club
CBS Films and its corporate sibling under the CBS Corporation banner Simon & Schuster have acquired feature rights to the publisher's upcoming release The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman.Said to be in the vein of The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants andSteel Magnolias, The Christmas Cookie Club centres on ...
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Helen Mirren and Dominic Cooper on stage to screen live in cinemas
A new initiative between City Screen and the UK's National Theatre will see plays broadcast live via satellite from the National Theatre stage to local Picturehouse Cinemas in the UK and to cinemas internationally. The first play to be featured will be the National Theatre's new production Phèdre by Jean ...
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Nigel Wooll to produce The Brigadier with UK's Turn of the Century
Nigel Wooll, executive producer on Miss Potter and co-producer on GI Jane, is to produce The Brigadier alongside Turn of the Century Productions.The UK production company optioned the international thriller The Brigadier by Josh Rosenberg. Keith Sweitzer brought the script to Turn of the Century and will produce for the ...
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Minority report: training in the UK
Minority training in the UKThe three 'b's in B3 Media stand for 'beats, bytes and the big screen'. The London-based organisation works to bring together multicultural film-makers and the mainstream UK film industry. B3's FeatureLab is one of a handful of UK initiatives to target film-makers from black and ethnic ...
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Sam Raimi to debut work-in-progress Drag Me To Hell at SXSW
Director Sam Raimi will debut a work-in-progress version of Universal Pictures' Drag Me to Hell, his long awaited return to the horror genre, at the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW). The film, which stars Alison Lohman and Justin Long, is a tale of a young woman's quest to break an ...
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Berlinale announces dates for 60th anniversary edition
The Berlin film festival has announced that its 60th anniversary edition will run from February 11 to 21, 2010, thus avoiding a potential overlap with the Rotterdam film festival. The Berlinale's choice of dates was restricted following Sundance's announcement of January 21-31 for its 2010 dates. That move prompted Rotterdam ...
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Watchmen's Snyder to get ShoWest Director of Year Award
Watchmen director Zack Snyder will receive the ShoWest 2009 Director Of The Year Award in Las Vegas on April 2.Snyder shot to fame with the 2004 release of his of zombie remake Dawn Of The Dead and followed that up with the global juggernaut 300.Now all eyes will be on ...