All Screen articles in 14 April 2008 – Page 2
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Prom Night screams to top of domestic box office for Screen Gems
Screen Gems' horror film Prom Night had too much in the tank as it launched at number one on approximately $22.7m, some $11m ahead of Fox Searchlight's new police thriller Street Kings in second place.However the box office slide continued as the top 12 releases combined for $82.6m, down 16% ...
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International film-makers relive Italian jobs
WIM WENDERSName: Wim Wenders, producer director.Production: The Palermo Shooting. The Germany production shot on location in the German cities of Dusseldorf and Essen before moving to Palermo and Rome for a month in October-November last year.Why did you shoot in Italy'My story was written for the city of Palermo. I ...
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Once, The Secret of Grain and [Rec] to open Linz's Crossing Europe
John Carney's Oscar-winning Once and Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar winner The Secret Of Grain will be the opening films at this year's fifth anniversary edition of the Crossing Europe Film Festival being held in Linz from April 22 - 27.The first evening will also see Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza's Spanish ...
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Cinema City wants to invest millions in Czech Republic
Cinema City International has announced plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the Czech Republic in the coming years. The Israel-based company recently opened its fifth multiplex in the Czech Republic and its first outside the capital city of Prague: a 10-screen, 1,721-seat facility at the new ...
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TrustNordisk to handle Schmid's Hague dramaStorm
TrustNordisk will handle international sales for German filmmaker Hans-Christian Schmid's first major international project Storm (Sturm) which sees him reunited with Requiem screenwriter Bernd Lange, this time as co-writers.'The film is about a prosecutor at the war tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia in The Hague who is trying to persuade a witness ...
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mdc takes on world sales for Kozole'sSlovenian Girl
Berlin-based sales agent mdc international will handle world sales for Damjan Kozole's latest feature film Slovenian Girl (Slovenka) which is currently shooting in Slovenia.The film is a co-production between Slovenia's Vertigo/Emotion Film, Croatia's 4 Film, Bosnia's Pro.ba, Serbia's Bas Celic and Germany's Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion.mdc had also distributed two of ...
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Heymann starts shoot for third Digital Departures film, Starstruck
Director Lindy Heymann and producer Andy Stebbing have started principal photography on Starstruck, shooting on location in Liverpool.Leigh Campbell wrote the script about two teenage girls obsessed by a celebrity footballer.The cast features newcomers Kerry Hayes, Nichola Burley and Jamie Doyle.The project is the third and final film to be ...
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WorldTV strikes partnership with streaming company Qik
WorldTV has partnered with mobile video streaming company Qik Inc. to let both companies' users share real-time content streams via their customised WorldTV channels.Feeds, both live and archive, can be sent from Qik users mobile phones to broadcast on WorldTV URLs. Likewise WorldTV users can broadcast live video from their ...
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China's Jinyi acquires Guangdong Zhujiang cinema circuit
Guangzhou-based Jinyi Film and TV Investment Co has acquired a majority stake in Guangdong Zhujiang Cinema Circuit, creating a combined chain of 40 cinemas and 170 screens, mostly situated in southern Chinese provinces. The new circuit has been named Guangzhou Jinyi Zhujiang Cinema Circuit.As part of the Guangzhou-based real estate ...
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Poland's Tricks secures deals with UK, Germany, France
The UK, Germany, France, Israel and Taiwan are among 12 territories who have picked up the rights to Polish filmmaker Andrzej Jakimowski's second feature Tricks which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia last year and a Special Award at the Sao Paulo Film Festival, ...
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Gavin Reardon heads IM Global's new TV division
Sales company IM Global has expanded again by creating IM Global Television.Gavin Reardon has been named president of the new division. He was most recently president of action programming distributor And Action! Distribution.IM Global Television will acquire and license a wide range of television and digital broadcast material including ...
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BFI London IMAX sets record with U2 3D
U2 3D's run at the British Film Institute's London IMAX has proven a triumph, as the venue has become the highest grossing cinema in the world for the concert movie.The film has generated $442,127 (£223,235) to date on the UK's biggest screen since its February 22 release and has reported ...
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Adrien Brody replaces Liotta in Dario Argento's Giallo
Oscar winner Adrien Brody will replace Ray Liotta as the detective character in cult horror-master Dario Argento's up-coming English language film Giallo, which starts shooting in Turin as of mid-May.The casting update was confirmed by Giallo producer Rafael Primorac of LA-based Arramis Films, who told ScreenDaily.com the film had to ...
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Natalie Portman lines up for Ecosse's Wuthering Heights
Natalie Portman has signed up to play Cathy Earnshaw in John Maybury's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights.Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae's UK-based Ecosse Films is producing. HanWay Films is handling sales.Bernstein said: 'I'm delighted that we have attracted an actress of Natalie Portman's calibre to Wuthering Heights, she will bring ...
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Celestial launches two movie channels on Now TV
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures is launching two new movie channels - Celestial Movies Asia (CMA) and Celestial Classic Movies (CCM) - which will be carried by PCCW's now TV IPTV service in Hong Kong. CMA will screen blockbusters from across Asia such as Erika Sawajiri's Closed Note, Francis Ng's One ...
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Luis Chavez picks up Stargazer award
The 13th Annual Gen Art Film Festival Acura Grand Jury Award for BestFeature went to Jennifer Phang's Half-Life and the Acura Grand JuryAward for Best Short went to Christina Voros' The Ladies.The Stargazer Award honouring breakout talent for excellence in actingwent to Luis Chavez from the short film A Day's ...
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Hanhwa launches second fund as Korean IPTV market hots up
Hanhwa's second Daisy Cultural Content Investment Fund, specialising in content such as films, animation and performances, will invest $10.2m (KW10bn) over five years. Hanaro Telecom is investing $2m in the fund, alongside Hanhwa Venture Capital Corp and film importer Daisy Entertainment, to buy up content for its IPTV service HanaTV.HanaTV ...
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THINKFilm handcuffs The Escapist for North America
THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to Rupert Wyatt's feature directorial debut The Escapist, which was well received at its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The company will schedule an autumn release.Brian Cox plays as an ageing lifer who hatches a plot to break out to ...
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Writers Guild of America West fetes Tom Schulman
Writers Guild Of America West (WGAW) board of directors member Tom Schulman will receive the WGAW's Valentine Davies Award in recognition of his career and service to the industry.Schulman has been a WGAW member since 1986 and served as president of the Writers Guild Foundation from 1998 to 2002. He ...
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IFP Market recasts itself as Independent Film Week
With its 30th anniversary coming up in September the IFP has renamed its annual IFP Market to Independent Film Week.The event is also on the move from from Soho's Angelika Film Center and Puck Building to new digs at Chelsea's Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.) and nearby venues.Organisers have also ...