All Screen articles in 14 November 2008 – Page 2
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Ron Howard to receive lifetime achievement award at Palm Springs
Ron Howard will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Director's Lifetime Achievement Award on Jaunary 6.Howard's latest film Frost/Nixon will open through Universal on December 5 and follows a long line of credits that includes A Beautiful Mind, which earned him the Oscar in 2001, The ...
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Screen opinion: animated film rises above the waves
Those whom the gods of film wish to destroy, they first declare the next big thing. Nowhere is that fact clearer than in the declaration of 'waves' - a supposed shift in audience taste.Just think back to a couple of years ago and you will recall that we were on ...
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Thessaloniki opens with The Wrestler
The 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival opens today with Daren Aronofsky's The Wrestler as the opening gala film, which will be introduced by its star Evan Rachel Wood.The festival features two world premieres as well as six international and three European premieres.The festival's international jury is headed by: Canadian ...
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NewsBusiness review: American Film Market
Film buyers are not easily impressed. They like to bemoan the lack of inspiring new product at markets. Their plaintive cries have been particularly loud this year and to be fair the familiar gripes that echoed through the corridors of the Loews and Le Merigot hotels at last week’s AFM ...
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Cottbus gives boost to German-Russian film relations
Relations between the German and Russian film industries have been given a boost at this week's FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of European Cinema.At the opening ceremony, Germany's Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier voiced his support for a German-Russian co-production treaty, saying that negotiations should be brought to a swift conclusion.He ...
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Men's Group takes best feature at Australia's Inside Film Awards
Men's Group , a little-seen drama about a group of troubled men who meet regularly to talk through their problems, has won best feature at Australia's annual IF (Inside Film) Awards. The producer, John L. Simpson and director Michael Joy, also won the prize for best script, and Grant Dodwell ...
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14 projects to be pitched at Cottbus East-West co-production market
New films from Romania, Slovenia, Austria and Bulgaria are among 14 projects from 13 countries selected for presentation at this year's Connecting Cottbus East-West co-production market. The projects include Romanian filmmaker Gabriel Achim's black comedy Adalbert's Dream; first-time writer/director Martin Turk's A Gram Of Love; Alexander Hahn's 1970s drama Stopover; ...
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Korea's UP sells Frozen Flower to Germany and Japan
Korea's United Pictures (UP) has sold director Yu Ha's upcoming period piece A Frozen Flower to Splendid for Germany and the Benelux, and to KNTV for Japan - for a cumulative total of $1.5m at the AFM. The Japan deal was said to have been for more than $1m.Lee Tae ...
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Screen Australia to review what constitutes an experienced producer
Screen Australia has been forced to revisit its plans to strongly favour experienced producers when it hands out development finance. The move is a result of increasing industry dissatisfaction over the agency's definition of experience. As a result, the agency has decided to re-examine that part of its guidelines.Speaking exclusively ...
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Finnish hit Christmas Story picked up for US by Lightning Media
Finnish director Juha Wuolijoki’s Christmas Story has been picked up for the US by Lightning Media.
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Hollywood power names line up for first PGA conference next June
James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Lucy Fisher, Doug Wick, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Gale Anne Hurd will take part in the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) first annual Produced By Conference in Los Angeles next summer.Kathleen Kennedy, Mark Gordon, Marshall Herskovitz, Chuck Lorre and the producing teams from ...
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Hollywood power names line up for first PGA conference next June
James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Lucy Fisher, Doug Wick, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Gale Anne Hurd will take part in the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) first annual Produced By Conference in Los Angeles next summer.Kathleen Kennedy, Mark Gordon, Marshall Herskovitz, Chuck Lorre and the producing teams from ...
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Richie Mehta's Amal wins best film at MIAAC Film Festival
Richie Mehta's Amal won the Indira Mahindra Award for best film and a $5,000 cash prize as the eighth Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival in New York came to a close.The premiere of Sooni Taraporevala's Little Zizou played on the night and also earned Taraporevala the best screenplay ...
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Gary Hill, co-founder of PR firm Falco Ink, dies after illness
Gary Hill, a founding partner in New York PR consultancy Falco Ink, died on November 7 following a brief stay in hospital.Hill's career in the entertainment industry spanned 25 years. He started out as the assistant to Brian DePalma, working on such films as Scarface, Blow Out and Dressed To ...
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Timbaland enters film business with Duly Noted's Vinyl
Rapper and music producer Timbaland is getting into the film business as his Mosley Media Group and production company Duly Noted Inc announced last night [Nov 12] that production will begin in spring on Richard Zelniker's Vinyl.Duly Noted's Effie T Brown and Mosley's Marcus Spence and Monique Idlett-Mosley will produce ...
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SPWAG confirms multi-territory acquisition of The Book Of Eli
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has unveiled further territories in its multi-territory acquisition at AFM of the apocalyptic thriller The Book Of Eli.Screendaily reported last weekend [Nov 9] that the studio had acquired Australia, Latin America, Spain, Scandinavia and select territories in Eastern Europe from Summit International.A press release ...
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Peter Block's A Bigger Boat kicks off with thriller Frozen
Peter Block's A Bigger Boat has greenlit the thriller Frozen that Adam Green will commence shooting early next year based on his screenplay.A Bigger Boat will produce with Green's ArieScope Pictures and has already closed key pre-sales at AFM through sales partner GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI).Rights have gone to Momentum ...
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UPIE acquires majority stake in Dentsu's DVD outfit Geneon
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) is acquiring a majority stake in Japanese media conglomerate Dentsu's DVD company Geneon to create a home entertainment marketing and distribution entity in Japan.The transaction is expected to be completed by early 2009. Under the terms of the agreement, Geneon will merge with UPIE subsidiary ...
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Warner's Richard Fox to receive honour from Italian government
Warner Bros' executive vice president of international Richard Fox will receive the honorary title Commander Of The Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic at a ceremony in Rome on November 17.Fox will receive the honour from Gianni Letta, Undersecretary Of State for the Prime Minister, during an event at ...
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Epic sells Blood River to Germany, Russia, Brazil and Argentina
Epic Pictures has closed key sales at AFM on Leonidas Films' horror tale Blood River from director Adam Mason.Rights have gone to MIG Film for Germany, Vox for Russia, Five Stars for Brazil and Argentina, Spentzos Films for Greece and Carisma Films for Poland.Further deals closed with Ster-Kinekor for South ...