All Screen articles in 14 November 2008 – Page 3
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UK digital piracy consultation out of tune with the needs of industry
The UK government's focus on enforcement is missing the bigger picture in peer-to-peer file sharing problems, a new study argues.Andy Frost, Director of Media at Detica, the UK- based business and technology consultancy, said in a statement that the UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) needs to ...
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SPAA's Ginnane points to opportunities for Australian industry
Antony Ginnane, president of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) delivered an up-beat welcome address at SPAA's annual conference in Queensland, Australia.Despite describing the feature film industry as 'spectacularly unsuccessful' of late and 'the cultural equivalent of ethnic cleansing', Ginnane went on to describe the new producer offset as ...
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Tilda Swinton to be jury president at Berlinale 2009
Actress Tilda Swinton has been named as president of the international jury for the next edition of the Berlinale (February 5 - 15 2009) by festival director Dieter Kosslick.'I'm pleased that the wonderful Tilda Swinton will be our Jury President in 2009,' Kosslick said. 'Her commanding screen presence has made ...
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Sverak's Bottles picks up top prize at Damascus fest
Czech director Jan Sverak's Returnable Bottles was awarded with Gold in the feature competition of the 16th Damascus International Film Festival (November 1-11) on Tuesday night. French actress Catherine Deneuve attended the Syrian festival to present the award, although she handed it to the local Czech ambassador, as Sverak had ...
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Warlords, My Magic to open India's IFFI Goa fest
Peter Ho-sun Chan's The Warlords and Singaporean director Eric Khoo's My Magic will open this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which is taking place in Goa from Nov 22-Dec 2. The closing film will be Majid Majidi's Berlin Silver Bear winner The Song Of Sparrows.About 5,000 delegates from ...
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Japan's Sabu returns to director's chair with The Crab Cannery Ship
Japanese filmmaker Sabu is returning to the director’s chair after a three-year hiatus with an adaptation of Takiji Kobayashi’s famed literarywork The Crab Cannery Ship (Kanikosen).
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Disney's Anthony Peet is new chairman of British Video Association
Anthony Peet, vice president and general manager of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has been elected chairman of the British Video Association.He replaces outgoing chairman John Stanley, Managing Director of Warner Home Video.Peet said he steps into the role at a time of 'almost unprecedented economic turmoil''But our industry has ...
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Arthouse picks up worldwide rights to Cajori's Chuck Close
Arthouse Films has picked up worldwide rights to the late Marion Cajori's documentary Chuck Close and will release in early 2009.Arthouse will distribute through its output deals with Mongrel Media in Canada, Revolver Entertainment in the UK and Ireland, Madman Entertainment in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and on ...
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here! takes on domestic rights to Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5
here! Films has acquired North American rights from Svensk Filmindustri to Swedish director Ella Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5.here! sister company Regent Releasing plans a limited release next summer on the adaptation of Michael Druker's stage play about a gay married couple who accidentally adopts a homophobic teenager.Patrik, Age 1.5 premiered ...
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Paris Hilton, Charlotte Rampling join cast of new Solondz picture
Charlotte Rampling, Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds and Paris Hilton have joined the cast of Werc Werk Works' upcoming Todd Solondz companion piece to his dark comedy Happiness.The 'part-sequel, par variation' to the 1998 release will also star Shirley Henderson, Renee Taylor, Michael Lerner, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chane't Johnson, Paul Reubens, ...
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German Federal Film Fund pays out $72.5mon 91 projects
Germany's incentive programme German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) has been so popular with local and international producers that only $ 3.8m (Euros 3m) are now left to pay out for the final two months of 2008.According to the Berlin-based fund, $72.5m (Euros 57m) of its 2008 $76.4m (Euros 60m) budget ...
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New Year's Day release for Russia's most expensive film
Russia's most expensive film, the $36.5m Inhabited Island, will be released on January 1.The New Year's Day opening comes against a background of financial difficulties which have led to other local films being delayed.'None of our projects were put on hold. We only have a couple of films in the ...
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Tulpan wins highest accolade at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Kazakhstan director Sergei Dvortsevoy's debut drama Tulpan continued its run of worldwide accolades by winning the best feature film award at the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) onQueensland'sGold Coast in Australia.Producer Karl Baumgartner, representing the big team of producers on the film, accepted the award.The film tells the charming ...
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Reviews
Defiance
Dir: Edward Zwick. US. 2008. 129 mins.In trying to add a new chapter to the long history of films made about the Holocaust, Defiance can barely move a narrative muscle without bumping into another, better movie that covers some of the same ground. Based on the true story of three ...
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Film Agency for Wales apppoints two new execs
Two executives have joined the Film Agency for WalesBBC Wales Producer Kate Crowther has been appointed production executive while Eve White, joins as Exhibition and Education Executive. Crowther produced two series of the BAFTA Cymru nominated drama Belonging and has since produced award-winning short films for network television and developed ...
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Wall-E, Panda, Bashir among 14 films on animated feature Oscar shortlist
Fourteen features will vie for the animated feature Oscar when the 81st Academy Awards are announced on February 22.The contenders are Bolt, Delgo, Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who!, Dragon Hunters, Fly Me To The Moon, Igor, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $9.99, The Sky Crawlers, Sword Of ...
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O'Shaugnessy, Bond launch production & sales outfit Mission Pictures
American Cinema International president Chevonne O'Shaughnessy and Promenade Pictures president and COO Cindy Bond have launched the faith-based production, marketing and sales company Mission Pictures.The partners plan to release six to eight films a year and have been talking to AFM buyers about the initial slate, headed by the CGI ...
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Maya to produce American Tragic to star America Ferrara
Maya Entertainment has boarded the drama American Tragic starring America Ferrera, Melissa Leo and newcomer Ryan O'Nan.Ryan Piers Williams will direct from his own screenplay about a disillusioned veteran who goes on a road trip in search of happiness. June Diane Raphael also stars. Production is set to begin in ...
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First Independent takes US rights to Aselton's Gigantic
Gary Rubin's First Independent Pictures has acquired US rights to Killer Films and Epoch Films' offbeat comedy Gigantic.Matt Aselton directed the film starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel as a mattress shop worker and his foul-mouthed girlfriend who try to adopt a baby. John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander ...
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Richard Jenkins joins Tatum, Seyfried in Relativity's Dear John
Richard Jenkins, attracting Oscar buzz for his performance in The Visitor, has joined Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried on the cast of Relativity Media's romance Dear John.Lasse Hallstrom has started principal photography in South Carolina on the project based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, whose work has spawned the ...