All Screen articles in 14 November 2007 – Page 2
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Pathe closes string of AFM deals for Salles' Linha De Passe
Pathe International has announced a slew of sales for Walter Salles' Linha De Passe following its first footage screening at the AFM.Deals have been done for France (Diaphana), Italy (RAI), Benelux (Cineart), Greece (Spentzos), Portugal (CLMC), and Israel (Shani). Pathe Distribution will handle the UK release.Daniela Thomas co-directed the film, ...
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UK co-productions fall from 42 to nine after tax changes
As expected, changes in UK tax breaks have caused a sharp fall in UK co-productions. Changes in tax breaks caused UK co-productions to fall from 42 to nine in the first half of 2007 but a further 20 co-productions have been made in the third quarter, according to new statistics ...
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Jan Dunn and Pauline McLynn team for comedy drama script
Actress Pauline McLynn is starting work on her first screenplay, with her recent collaborator Jan Dunn. Dunn, who directed McLynn in Gypo and in the recent shoot for The Calling, is working with McLynn on the untitled comedy drama. McLynn, best known for her TV role on Father Ted, is ...
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Kolerova joins Sony International as Russian sales director
Katerina Kolerova has joined Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) as sales director for Russia and the CIS.Kolerova is based in Moscow, and previously worked at VID Entertainment Group. Sony had served the territory out of its London office but said it was responding to the burgeoning Russian content market with ...
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Momentum strikes UK deal for Nic Balthazar's Ben X
Momentum Pictures has taken UK rights to Nic Balthazar's directorial debut Ben X, sold by Films Distribution. Films Distribution executive director of worldwide sales Didar Domehri and Momentum's acquisitions manager Louis Tisne negotiated the deal. Balthazar's directorial debut is based on the book When Nothing Was All He Said and ...
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Bavaria to handle omnibus projectMoving The Arts
Bavaria Film International is to handle international sales for the omnibus film project Moving The Arts which will bring together shorts from Atom Egoyan, Hal Hartley, Christian Petzold, Julio Medem, Laetitia Masson, and Jia Zhang-ke. Each will make a short film inspired by a work of post-modern art exhibited in ...
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Secret Sunshine wins best film at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Korean director Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine (Miryang) tonight won the award for best feature at the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and also best actress for Jeon Do-Yeon, but otherwise the awards were evenly spread. If any country shone through it was Iran: the international jury lead by Indian actor ...
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The Mist
Dir: Frank Darabont. US. 2007. 127mins. Frank Darabont and Dimension Films go back to the Stephen King well for The Mist, an enjoyably old school horror outing - with sci-fi undertones and some CG beasties - based on a vintage yarn by the mega-selling author. Though it probably won't match ...
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Verhoeven signs to direct The Thomas Crown Affair 2
Paul Verhoeven has signed on to direct The Thomas Crown Affair 2 for MGM.The development broke when the film-maker mentioned the project on the Dutch radio show Met Het Oog Op Morgen.Also known as The Topkapi Affair, the story is based on Eric Ambler's novel The Light Of Day about ...
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Complex teams with Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures for Blackline films
Christian Johnston's Complex Films has teamed up with LA and Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures to create action franchise The Blackline International Trilogy.The films are based on actual events involving private military corporations and will kick off with Blackline: The Beirut Contract, in which a private operatives are sent to rescue ...
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Complex teams with Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures for Blackline films
Christian Johnston's Complex Films has teamed up with LA and Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures to create action franchise The Blackline International Trilogy.The films are based on actual events involving private military corporations and will kick off with Blackline: The Beirut Contract, in which a private operatives are sent to rescue ...
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Study suggests studios took a $1.9bn hit on blockbusters in 2006
Last year's Hollywood blockbusters made a $1.9bn loss, claims a report from new analyst Global Media Intelligence (GMI).The study - Do Movies Make Money' - suggests that payments for star talent shot up to unrealistic levels despite a recovery at the box office.This year, a 12.5% decline in DVD sales ...
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Dokument buys domestic rights to Bornhak's 8 Miles High
New US independent Dokument Films has acquired all North American rights to Achim Bornhak's biopic 8 Miles High (Das Wilde Leben). Dokument is a subsidiary of Illinois-based MPI Media Group.MPI's vice president of acquisitions and development Greg Newman negotiated the deal with Andreas Rothbauer of Beta Cinema and the company ...
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Tanovic, Lichtenberg among mentors for Goa script workshop
Danis Tanovic, Bernd Lichtenberg and Olivia Hetreed are among the high-profile writers who will mentor eight students at a script development workshop, Screenwriters Bloc, to be held next week in Goa, India (Nov 18-23). Organised by India's National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), and held in the run-up to the International ...
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Frankel fills top communications role at The Weinstein Company
Former Rainbow Media communications chief Matthew Frankel has joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) in the newly created role of chief communications officer and senior vice president of corporate affairs.Frankel will start in TWC's New York offices on Nov 26 and initially work alongside Sarah Rothman, the Weinsteins' head of corporate ...
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Gosling, Waits on board for Dagur Kari's The Good Heart
Icelandic director Dagur Kari, who previously made festival this Noi Albinoi and Dark Horse, is gearing up for a December start of shoot for his next project The Good Heart.The film, which shoots in San Francisco and Iceland, stars Ryan Gosling and Tom Waits. Kagur wrote the story, about a ...
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Frontrow's AFM pickups include The Babysitters and Eddie The Eagle
Middle Eastern distributor Frontrow Entertainment picked up eight films at the recent AFM. Theprojects includeThe Babysitters and Goal 3, both from Peace Arch. From HanWay Films, Frontrow acquired David Cronenberg's The Talking Cure, Eddie The Eagle to star Steve Coogan, Wim Wenders' The Palermo Shooting, Gorillaz documentary Bananaz and horror ...
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Dodona sees 50% digital conversion by 2013, pushed by 3D
Half of the world's cinema screens could be digital by 2013, according to predictions from Dodona Research. A total of 4,627 screens have been converted as of September 2007, representing about 5% of the global total. Dodona analysts estimate that the potential market for digital cinema equipment could be $8bn.Report ...
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Verhoeven to receive award at 12th Capri film festival
Paul Verhoeven will receive the Capri Cult Award at the 12 Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival (Dec 27-Jan 2).Verhoeven will also talk about his forthcoming film Azazel, starring Milla Jovovich and Dan Stevens, adapted from the novel by Boris Akunin, set in 19th century Russia. Marc Canton serves as festival ...
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Sony signs digital download deal with Videoland and Movie MAX
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed an electronic sell-through deal with two DVD rental companies in Benelux: Videoland and Movie MAX. The deal covers new and library titles from Sony Pictures available for digital download from the companies' online sites in Belgium, Luxemburg and The Netherlands. The service went ...