All Screen articles in 14 November 2007 – Page 4
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Grant and Meaden's Shipwreck starts post on Just Ines
UK-based Shipwreck Film, which has just finished its debut feature Coffee Sex You, is now in post on its next project, Just Ines. Writer/director Marcel Grant's Just Ines stars Daniel Weyman and Caroline Ducey and was shot in the South of France in the UK during four weeks. Post will ...
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Sandrew Metronome gets out of Swedish production
The Swedish branch of pan-Scandinavian distributor Sandrew Metronome will dismantle its local production department, ending more than 80 years of Swedish film history.Ironically the decision coincides with the Swedish premiere of the company's latest - and last - feature, Leif Lindblom's Sun Storm (Solstorm), which went straight to number two ...
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Arts Alliance Media's Vizumi adds Metrodome content
UK distributor Metrodome has become the latest content partner for Arts Alliance Media's Vizumi Network. AAM will offer Metrodome titles for download to own for $20 (£9.99) and download to rent for $6 (£2.99) at Vizumi's own site and partner sites Tiscali, LoveFilm, and Empire magazine. Films available at the ...
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Park Kwang-su to step down as head of Asian Film Market
Asian Film Market head Park Kwang-su is to step down from his position before the next edition. Press officer Janice Chung confirmed, 'Mr. Park has always said he would only stay a couple years to start the market up. We haven't fixed an exit date yet. He still has to ...
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Reviews
P2
Dir: Franck Khalfoun. US. 2007. 98mins.Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur, the French horror auteurs behind Haute Tension (aka Switchblade Romance), cut back on the gore and turn up the suspense for P2, a streamlined US thriller they wrote for Haute Tension-actor-turned-director Franck Khalfoun. The paucity of gory details and the ...
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The Photograph
Dir: Nan Triveni Achnas. Indonesia/France. 2007. 98min.Sentiment can be a good thing but laying it on as thick as Nan Triveni Achnas does in The Photograph risks exhausting the patience of even the staunchest soap opera fan. A weepie about the country girl in the big city who has to ...
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Melbourne Premiere Fund awards docs, Bran Nue Dae
The big-screen adaptation of successful musical Bran Nue Dae and four feature-length documentaries have received the first $324,800 (A$350,000) from the Melbourne International Film Festival's $1.3m (A$1.4m) Premiere Fund. One of the documentaries is about US celebrity commentator Dominic Dunne and will include footage of him covering music producer Phil ...
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Korea's CJ CGV, Lotte join forces for d-cinema
Leading Korean exhibitors CJ CGV and Lotte Cinema are setting up a 50:50 joint venture called D-cinema Korea to increase the use of digital projection in theatres. Although digital cinema has been available in Korean theatres since 2005, only 107 (or about 5%) of the 1,980 screens in South Korea ...
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Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion unveils line-up
The Golden Horse Organising Committee has announced the 17 feature films and television series selected for the third edition of the Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP). The event takes place December 4-6 as part of the 5th Taiwan International Film & TV Expo (TIFTE). Modeled on other project ...
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Fox takes out MGM/UA's Lions For Lambs in 46 territories
Ratatouille's five-week reign would appear to be at an end as the film begins to wind down and Fox International launches the anti-war film Lions For Lambs in approximately 46 territories.Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's Ratatouille has amassed $377.5m and executives will expect solid holdover business to propel the ...
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Opinion: The writing's on the wall
Given the hype about the battle for the digital future, it's apt that the current Hollywood writers' strike appears to hinge on the old chestnut of DVD payments.No-one should be too surprised. The argument about DVD, and indeed television rights is simply for a fair share of existing revenue. In ...
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Features
International - The rising of Japan
A slew of Japanese films made a powerful dent in the international top 40 this weekend, collectively taking more than $13m and accounting for 8.9% of the chart's total revenue.Ensemble drama Always - Sunset On Third Street 2 was the highest new entry over the weekend, taking $4.7m from 330 ...
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National treasures - spotlight on foreign-language Oscars
Nationality and language are such blurred elements in international film-making today that the Academy's foreign-language film category is always likely to attract controversy. For this year's foreign language submissions - click hereThe most nominated countries - click hereTake The Band's Visit - Israeli director Eran Kolirin's charming story of an ...
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United states - Fairy-tale project
It has been more than a decade since Barry Josephson first brought Enchanted, Walt Disney Pictures' big release for the forthcoming US Thanksgiving holiday weekend, to the studio.At the time, Josephson was starting out as a producer after his stint as Columbia Pictures' president of worldwide production. So he understood ...
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United states - Dance partners
With its uplifting story and cinematic style, War/Dance has won a shelf-ful of festival honours, including the Sundance documentary directing award, and looks likely to be in the running for this year's documentary feature Oscar.Directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine say the most important beneficiaries will be the children ...
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Awards countdown people
TAMARA JENKINS - The SavagesThe Savages balances comedy and tragedy. Film-maker Tamara Jenkins speaks to Patrick Z McGavin about the challengeIn The Savages, the story of a brother and sister coping with their dementia-scarred father, writer-director Tamara Jenkins deftly handles both comedy and tragedy.'It's braided together,' Jenkins says of the ...
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Israel - Rude awakenings
Actor-turned-director Tzahi Grad is a household name in Israel as a star of local film and television. With a reputation as a serious and self-assured actor, he decided to move behind the camera in 2001 to make his debut feature, Giraffes, in order to "control the language of cinema" as ...
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Australia - ASIA pacific awards - Pacific celebration
Held on the sandy shores of the Queensland Gold Coast in Australia, the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsas) aims to celebrate and promote some of the region's leading films and film-makers to the international industry.'There is a marketing push behind all of this,' says Apsa chairman Des Power. 'I ...
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Analysis - Shaping the future
Who controls the future of creative content is the big question posed at the 2008 Media Summit in London.The high-level conference, organised by Screen International, Broadcast and Q magazine, brings some of the biggest thinkers in the film, television and new media businesses to talk about the changing entertainment language.They ...
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South Africa - Durban legend
A nant Singh is a busy man. In the US, he has just wrapped production on AmericanEast, his 62nd film and director Hesham Issawi's first, described as "Do the Right Thing for the American Muslim community".In South Africa, Singh is in post-production with the docu-drama More Than Just A Game, ...