All Screen articles in 14 April 2008 – Page 4
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Quentin Tarantino to give Cinema Masterclass at Cannes
Quentin Tarantino, who once declared having 'devoted his life to cinema, his favourite obsession', is to give the Cinema Masterclass at the coming Festival de Cannes, May 14-25.The announcement adds to mounting excitement about this year's event. As previously reported Jim Jarmusch will receive the Carrosse d'Or statue from France's ...
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Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and Christopher Leejoin Tanovic'sTriage
Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and Christopher Lee will star in Danis Tanovic's upcoming project Triage.The film is produced by ASAP Films and Parallel Films in co-production with Aramid Entertainment, Tornasol Films/Freeform and the Irish Film Board and Hanway Films.Hanway Films have world sales rights and will start selling the film ...
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Battle In Seattle to open Seattle International Film Festival
Stuart Townsend's directorial debut Battle In Seattle will kick off the 34th Seattle International Film Festival on May 22.The drama puts Seattle front and centre as an ensemble cast star as ordinary people affected by the World Trade Organisation riots that besieged the city in 1999.Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Andre ...
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NBC Universal appoints Christopher Williams to new VP role
Christopher Williams has been appointed to the newly-create role of vice president, commercial and network development Asia Pacific, Global Networks, an international division of NBC Universal. Williams will be based in Singapore and will play a leadership role in NBC Universal's strategy to develop new channel businesses in new territories ...
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Metrodome picks up extreme-skiing story Steep
Metrodome Distributions has acquired full UK rights to extreme-skiing documentary Steep, which it plans to release towards the end of 2008. Director Mark Obenhaus' feature documentary is the story of the dangerous sport of big-mountain skiing. It features many of the sport's greatest athletes, including the late Doug Coombs, considered ...
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Met Film School announces new advisory board
The Met Film School has announced the formation of its new advisory board, comprising eleven accomplished industry professionals. The board will draw on its varied knowledge and expertise to advise on the future direction of the school and thereby help to enrich the student experience.The advisory board is headed by ...
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Dangerous Parking
Dir Peter Howitt. UK. 2007. 109mins.There's a limit to how far this film can go, even in a best-case scenario: it's an 18 cert in the UK and for at least half that restricted audience Dangerous Parking will be hate at first sight. For those who tenaciously cling on, however, ...
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Universal snares international rights to Ricky Gervais' directorial debut
Universal has picked up all international rights from Media Rights Capital to This Side Of The Truth, the comedy that marks Ricky Gervais' debut as a feature film director.As previously announced, Warner Bros holds North American rights to the story starring Gervais as a man in an alternate universe who ...
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HBO turns to Naegle to recapture creative mojo
Looking outside the company in a bid to reinvigourate its creative juices, HBO has turned to former UTA partner and co-head of the television department, Sue Naegle, to become its new president of entertainment.Naegle, who will oversee all series programming and specials and will commence work later this month, replaces ...
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The Edge Of Love to open Edinburgh festival on June 18
John Maybury's The Edge Of Love will be the opening gala for the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 18.The Dylan Thomas love triangle drama stars Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys and Cillian Murphy.Maybury is expected to attend the gala with Knightley, Miller and Rhys.Knightley's mother Sharman Macdonald ...
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A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures
Dir. Chris Waitt. UK. 2007. 89mins.A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures is funny. The more viewers are charmed by Chris Waitt, the funnier they will find this low-budget documentary. But he's not overwhelmingly charming, even to his long-suffering mother, and doubts linger at the end as to whether he's ...
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Haneke, Gorris backed by German incentive scheme
New features by Michael Haneke, Marleen Gorris and Jaco van Dormael are among seven international co-productions awarded over $8.5m (Euros 5.4m) by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive scheme in the first quarter of 2008.Another $3.6m (Euros 2.3m) in incentives was paid out to nine German films, including Anno ...
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Australian Writers Guild quits Australian Screen Council in protest
The dream of the Australian film and television production industry talking to government with one powerful voice on key issues is in tatters tonight with one of the four member organisations of the Australian Screen Council (ASC) resigning over what it says is financial mismanagement.The executive director of the Australian ...
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French comedies dominate international weekend
French cinema enjoyed yet another impressive weekend in the international arena as two comedies accounted for 12.7% of the international top 40 revenue. New entry Disco was the highest entry in the chart this weekend, coming in at number two with an $8.7m take from Belgium, France and Switzerland. The ...
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Row erupts in Australia over production offset
Two Australian film agencies are trading insults over the financing arrangements behind comedy drama Subdivision, which Japanese Story director Sue Brooks starts filming April 14. Both are investors.Once completed, Subdivision will be applying for 40% of its costs back under the new producer offset. It has always been assumed that ...
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Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Dirs: Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg . US. 2008. 101 mins.2004's Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle was such a pleasant surprise - a witty stoner comedy with some depth and genuine laughs - that it was perhaps too much to hope that the sequel could retain the original's ...
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UK Film Council unveils $36m boost for regional films
The UK Film Council has announced an £18m boost for English regional film funds over the next two years.$15.4m (£7.7m)will be shared between the nineRegional Screen Agencies (RSAs)in each of the next two years.It is aimed to boost the wide variety of work supporting and developinglocal film industries.Each RSA will ...
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Metrodome acquires full UK rights to Warlords
Metrodome Distribution has acquired full UK rights to Peter Chan's action film The Warlords. The film has earned $40m at its domestic box office, making it one of China's most successful domestic theatrical releases ever. Metrodome is looking to release the film nationwide later this year. The Warlords has been ...
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UK Film Council to invest $35.4m in film in regions
The UK Film Council will be investing a total of $35.4m (£18m) over the next two years in the English regions to help them boost their local film industries and open up access for the public to British film heritage.This support comes from two sources of funding: $30.3m (£15.4m) from ...
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L: Change The World to kick off Far East Film
The international premiere of Hideo Nakata's fantasy thriller L: Change The World will kick off the Far East Film Festival April 18 in Udine. The 10th edition of the festival will close April 26 with Johnnie To's musical comedy Sparrow.This year's festival will host an industry event in collaboration with ...