All Screen articles in 14 April 2008 – Page 3
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21, Leatherheads kick off overseas campaigns in Europe as Horton hurtles away
Fox International's Horton Hears A Who! remains the leading Hollywood export and looks like the one to beat this weekend as executives expect it to cross $100m.The family film has amassed $93.9m and opens in 10 territories including Greece on April 10.The romantic comedy 27 Dresses is doing well on ...
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Phang's Half-Life wins Gen Art jury prize
The 13th Annual Gen Art Film Festival Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Feature went to Jennifer Phang's Half-Life and the Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Short went to Christina Voros' The Ladies.The Stargazer Award honouring breakout talent for excellence in acting went to Luis Chavez from the short ...
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Kitano unveils new project Achilles And The Tortoise
Award-winning Japanese writer-director-actor Takeshi Kitano has unveiled details of his latest feature film, entitled Achilles And The Tortoise. Details of the production were announced at the Nikkatsu Studios in Chofu City, with the press invited on the soundstages.Kitano, also known for his paintings, found inspiration in past canvas embarrassments for ...
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Salt Shakers: rebranding Luminafilms
What's in a name' A lot if it is misleading. That is why Lumina Films has this week rebranded as The Salt Company.Lumina was originally founded in Spain to sell the Latin American films produced by Buena Onda Films. But since 2005, Lumina has been London-based with a more diverse ...
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United Kingdom - Wolf man
In an age when short-form content can seem as disposable as a mobile-phone video, Peter & The Wolf is something of a lesson in longevity.The 30-minute stop-motion animated film, adapted from Prokofiev's classic and directed by Suzie Templeton, premiered at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2006 and continues to roll ...
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Italy winning race for Hollywood shoots
Inhabitants of the Tuscan city of Siena are being treated to the sight of Daniel Craig leaping over their Renaissance-era rooftops this spring.The actor is in Tuscany for six weeks with Marc Forster's $230m Quantum Of Solace to shoot the latest international location sequence in the new James Bond production.Top ...
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The Fixers: who are the indispensable figures for international shoots'
ENZO SISTISisti's local know-how has been earned through stints as both co-producer and fiscal representative on some of the biggest international productions to hit Italy, where he has been active in the film business since 1970. Italian co-producer credits include the upcoming Walt Disney film When In Rome and Wes ...
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Critical Mass: Lee Marshall looks at disappearing critics
The trend is undeniable: US newspapers and weekly magazines have shed around 30 film critics over the last two years, either by sacking them outright or by forcing them into early retirement. Some - such as veteran David Ansen at Newsweek - are likely to be replaced; but many more, ...
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Production - The Italian connection
Italy's local production sector is booming, with a clutch of top directors busy on projects with international partners. Dario Argento has Giallo (literally 'thriller'), a $10m English-language film financed by Los Angeles-based Hannibal Pictures. 'It's fast-paced and creepy,' promises producer Rafael Primorac, of the plot which centres on the abduction ...
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France - Canal dreams
In February, French pay-TV giant Canal Plus announced its long-time head of cinema, Evi Fullenbach, would step down, to be replaced by Manuel Alduy.Alduy is no stranger to Canal, having joined the group in 1994 and working with Fullenbach as head of French film acquisitions since 2005.Now, he oversees the ...
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United States - Selling Britain
When she moved to Los Angeles two years ago to become executive director of the UK Film Council's US office, Claire Chapman quickly discovered she was in a new film-making world."I learnt overnight how different the industry is in terms of how it operates and how it's treated in Hollywood," ...
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Island In The Mainstream: bringing Nim's Island to the big screen
Paula Mazur found the book Nim's Island, by Wendy Orr, in her local Santa Monica library and took it out to read to her seven-year-old son.'What was compelling to me was that the characters were so rich and that's the beginning of a great movie for me,' she says. 'There ...
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Profile: Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen
Last month, Scandinavian major Nordisk Film acquired 50% of the shares in Denmark's Zentropa - backing that will enable the company founded by Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbaek Jensen to expand internationally.After years of Dogme manifestos, irreverence and a rebellious nature, has age finally caught up with the maverick ...
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Screen opinion: The buff stops here
There's a woman who sits defiantly at the end of the same row in an arthouse cinema in London until the very last frame of the film's credits. She clearly believes that walking out before you have paid due respect to the mechanic who changed the oil in the DoP's ...
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Industry opinion: Investors remain key to sustainable UK industry
To comment email michael.gubbins@emap.com. To see feedback, click hereEarlier this month, the UK government closed a tax loophole which had promised to finance a number of British films. It was the second year running the Treasury had cracked down on so-called sideways loss relief, through which investors wanted to offset ...
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Canadian producers seek Criminal Code reference in tax amendment
Canada's film production representatives are calling for the federal government to amend controversial tax legislation by making reference to the nation's Criminal Code. In a presentation to the Canadian Senate today, the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and the Association des producteurs de films et de television du ...
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EastWest acquires worldwide rights to A Hero's Welcome
EastWest Film Distribution has acquired worldwide rights to Berlinale Forum title A Hero's Welcome (Nacht Vor Augen). The film tells the story of a young soldier returning from service with NATO troops in Afghanistan. He is welcomed as a hero by his family and given a medal by the army, ...
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Scottish Screen to invest $1.5m in specialist exhibition
Scottish Screen has announced that it will invest $1.5m (£750,000) in the specialist exhibition sector in Scotland. The funds are part of along-term strategy to promote the development and provision ofcultural cinema programming throughout the country. Among the fundingrecipients are the Glasgow Film Theatre, Dundee Contemporary Arts andthe Edinburgh International ...
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Fiction Fest names Steve Della Casa artistic director
Turin Piedmont Film commission president Steve Della Casa will take the reins as Rome Fiction Fest's artistic director while Raimon Astarita has been named general manager of the Fiction Fest in its second year, the Fest announced from Cannes today.The nominations were long awaited as the first year's artistic director ...
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MipTV market concludes on note of media and telecoms
A chilly, rainy MipTV market wound down Thursday following keynote speeches focusing on media and the telecom companies and social networking. France Telecom Group's chairman and CEO, Didier Lombard, on Wednesday told attendees he never expected to be addressing a group of content makers. But, he said, 'I do truly ...