All Screen articles in 15 December 2006 – Page 4
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Sherry Lansing to receive Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at 2007 Oscars
Former Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing will receive the Jean HersholtHumanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' boardof governors.Lansing will collect the honour during the 79th Academy Awards onFeb 25, 2007. The Hersholt Award is given to an individual whose humanitarianefforts have brought credit to the industry.'Sherry ...
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Toho box office grosses reach all-time high in 2006
Toho, one of Japan's oldest studios and its biggest distributor, hasannounced that box office earnings for 2006 have broken an all-time record forthe company.Grosses from January untilthe end of November totaled $476.24m (Y55.95bn), with end of year estimates at$502.69m (Y59bn). This beats the previous record of $467.09m (Y54.85bn) set in2001 ...
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Full List Of Golden Globe nominations 2006
Best Motion Picture - Drama:BabelBobbyThe DepartedLittle ChildrenThe QueenBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - Drama: Penelope Cruz VolverJudi Dench Notes On A ScandalMaggie Gyllenhaal SherrybabyHelen Mirren The QueenKate Winslet Little ChildrenBest Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Drama:Leonardo DiCaprio Blood DiamondLeonardo DiCaprio The DepartedPeter ...
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Vivendi won't sell its 20% stake in NBC Universal
Vivendi has announced thatit will not exercise a right to unload its 20% share of NBC Universal inJanuary.Under a 2004 deal whichsaw Vivendi sell Universal to GE, the former retained a 20% stake in the newlyformed NBC Universal and was given the option to begin selling in 2006 althoughthat option ...
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Sundance names 12 screenplays in Jan 2007 Screenwriters Lab
12 projects covering themes ranging from the Haitian immigrationexperience to the legacy of violence in Argentina make the cut for the SundanceInstitute's annual Screenwriters Lab, which takes place from Jan 12-17 2007 atthe Sundance Resort in Utah.The five-day writer's workshop gives independent screenwriters theopportunity to work intensively on their feature ...
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Pirates DVD sells 10.5m units in first week for Buena Vista
Pirates OfThe Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sold 10.5 million units in its first week of release in NorthAmerica, putting it on course to become the biggest live-action DVD seller ofall time and the biggest DVD of the year.Results overseashave been similarly impressive. Pirates has sold nearly 1.5 million copies inits ...
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UK producers voice concerns over new tax laws
UK producers remain concerned about the scope of the new British tax laws, a panel of government representatives were told in London yesterday.The UK's new film tax breaks will come into practice on Jan 1, 2007, after a long journey of uncertainty but producers remain concerned about the qualifying criteria ...
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Happy Feet ends James Bond's UK reign
Warner Bros' animatedfeature film Happy Feet has kicked JamesBond from the top spot in the UK box office this weekend, taking $5.43m (£2.76m). The penguins barely knockedSony's Casino Royale from itsthree-week tenure at number one by raking-in a site average of $12,206 (£6,217)from 445 sites across the UK. The animated ...
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German funds back new films by Khrzhanovsky, Madsen
New featurefilms by Doris Doerrie, Esther Gronenborn, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, and Ole ChristianMadsen are among the projects supported with more than $5.3m (Euros 4m) by thethree German regional funds FFF Bayern, FilmFoerderung Hamburg and MDM at their last funding sessions for2006. The largestamount allocated by the Bavarian fund - $663,024 (Euros ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Sherrybaby
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired all UK rights to the award winning drama Sherrybaby, starring Maggie Gyllenhaaland written and directed by Laurie Collyer. The deal was negotiatedbetween David Jourdan, general manager from US sales agent Katapult and Metrodome's general managertheatrical Sara Frain and acquisitions manager Kate Falconer.Frain said: 'Maggieproves once ...
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Welsh TV producers team with Pact
Pact plans to merge with TeledwyrAnnibynnol Cymru (TAC)/Welsh Independent Producers, which representsindependent TV companies in Wales. The groups have agreed tomove towards a formal merger. The Welsh body will have access to Pact's greaterresources and lobbying power. TAC currentlyrepresents about 70 businesses.TAC said it expected abilingual strategic board to be ...
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Roberts to produce, may star in Happiness Sold Separately
Julia Roberts will produce and may star in Scott Coffey'sbittersweet drama Happiness Sold Separately.Fox Searchlight is in talks to distribute the film and Roberts will produce throughher company Red Om alongside Team Todd's Suzanne and Jennifer Todd, as well asJoe Roth and Valeska Ramet.Based on Lolly Winston's bestseller, Happiness Sold ...
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Pinewood Studios Group relaunches website
As part of its rebranding as the Pinewood Studios Group - including Pinewood,Shepperton and Teddington Studios - the company has re-launched its website. The new site has enhancedservices for both clients and consumers and has added an online shop. The sitewill be updated daily with news and other content as ...
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Indonesian censors ban five films screening at Jiffest
Dutch documentary Promised Paradise by Leonard RetelHelmrich, which contains images of 2002 Bali bomber Imam Samudra, has becomethe fifth film to be banned at this year's Jakarta International Film Festival(Jiffest) which opened last Friday.The documentary is about anIndonesian puppeteer who travels to Bali to find theroots of the terrorist attacks. ...
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Lotte Cinema to sell movie tickets through ATMs
Major Korean exhibitor LotteCinema has announced it will start selling film tickets at automated tellermachines (ATMs) in subway stations and convenience stores starting in March ofnext year. Lotte Cinema signed amemorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nice E-banking Services today regardingthe strategic alliance to sell tickets at the Nice ATMs in ...
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Met Film School adds two-year BA in film-making
London-basedMetropolitan Film School has launched a new two-year BA degree in film-making,which will start in October 2007.The schoolsaid this course would offer practical training in digital film production,with an estimated contact time with tutors of 50% compared to the usual 20%.Producer and school director Jonny Persey said: "Creating aprofessional working ...
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Cinemavault acquires Chatham with Reynolds, Hopper
Cinemavault Releasing International has picked up internationalrights to the $8m romantic comedy Chatham starring Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper and Martin Landau.Anne Archer and Peter Boyle also star in the story, which takesplace in Cape Cod in 1905 and follows three retired sea captains as they try toseduce an attractive middle-aged ...
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