All Screen articles in 15 July 2008 – Page 4

  • News

    One-To-One withSimon Beaufoy

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    One-To-One: UK Star Of Tomorrow writer Virginia Gilbert talks to writer Simon Beaufoy, whose work includes The Full Monty, The Darkest Light and Yasmin.Virginia Gilbert: How did you get into the business'Simon Beaufoy: I went to Bournemouth College of Art and Design and trained as a documentary director. I was ...

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    In focus - Audience Award

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    James Marsh's Man On Wire, a thrilling documentary about Philippe Petit's daring 1974 walk on a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, beat off strong competition from Pixar's Wall-E to win Eiff's Standard Life Audience Award. Icon's August release of the film in the UK will ...

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    Profile: ambitious Eon look beyond Bond

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    British screenwriters need to become more ambitious. That is the message behind the Eon Screenwriters' Workshop (ESW), an initiative set up last year by the James Bond franchise's famed production company Eon Productions.'As a (film-making) culture in the UK, we are predominantly low-budget and we are very heavily television focused,' ...

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    New talent - UK Stars of Tomorrow 2008

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    "The US has money but a shortage of stories. And in the UK, there is material and talent without financing. It's a marriage made in heaven." So said Mark Gill of The Film Department at the end of last year. Financial incentives and exchange rates will wax and wane but ...

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    New talent - Where are they now' - The Class of 2007

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    THE ACTORSArsher Ali spent most of the year at the Royal Shakespeare Company in The Merchant Of Venice, The Taming Of The Shrew and The Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbs.Following his starring role in The Kite Runner, Khalid Abdalla has just completed Paul Greengrass' Green Zone.Gemma Arterton won acclaim for her ...

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    New talent - The Actors part 2

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    GEORGIA GROOMEGeorgia Groome made her big-screen debut aged 14 in Paul Andrew Williams' festival hit London To Brighton, in which she played a young homeless girl. She is about to prove her versatility as an actor in Gurinder Chadha's comedy Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging which opens at the end ...

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    New talent - The Film-makers part 2

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    VIRGINIA GILBERT - WRITER-DIRECTORA coolly directed short about a morally compromised man whose holiday is ruined by an unruly boy, Hesitation marks Virginia Gilbert's first foray into directing. That it was nominated for a Bafta this year (as well as winning awards at Galway and Chicago film festivals last year) ...

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    New talent - The Actors part 1

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    BEN ALDRIDGEHe has not yet graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) but Ben Aldridge has already caught the eye of UK casting directors. Earlier this year he was cast opposite Parminder Nagra and Ray Winstone in the ITV drama Compulsion and from there he went ...

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    New talent - The Film-makers part 1

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    ANDREW HAIGH - WRITER-DIRECTORAndrew Haigh cut his teeth in the editing suite, on such mainstream hits as Gladiator and Notting Hill, but his own shorts display a much more indie sensibility. His debut, Oil, employs fast cutting and voiceover to create a poetic and poignant portrait of a man reminiscing ...

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    Screen International UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2008: The Film-makers 2

    2008-07-10T21:59:00Z

    THE FILM-MAKERS 2Click on a name to see profileEsther May CampbellVirginia GilbertHugo Godwin & Sebastian GodwinJane LinfootJeremy LoveringLaura ReesMatthew Walker

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    Shaye, Lynne form Unique with three-year Warner Bros deal

    2008-07-10T21:57:00Z

    Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne haven't completely left the Warner Bros fold. Months after New Line Cinema was absorbed into the parent company, the entrepreneurs have resurfaced with Unique Features and have secured a three-year first-look deal at the studio.The Los Angeles and New York-based company aims to produce two ...

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    Screen International UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2008: The Film-makers 1

    2008-07-10T21:52:00Z

    THE FILM-MAKERS 1Click on a name to see profileDaisy DonovanAndrew HaighMichael LesslieTom MarshallChina Moo-YoungJoseph PierceJanis PughPolly StenhamJustin Trefgarne

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    Screen International Stars Of Tomorrow 2008: The Actors 2

    2008-07-10T21:41:00Z

    THE ACTORS 2Click on name for full profileBen AldridgeOlly AlexanderClaire FoyGeorgia GroomeTom HiddlestonAaron JohnsonScarlett JohnsonGugu Mbatha-RawChristine McKayCharlotte Riley

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    Screen International UK Stars Of Tomorrow: Actors 1

    2008-07-10T20:56:00Z

    THE ACTORS 1Click namefor fullprofileMichelle DockeryOlivia HallinanEdward HoggCharles MneneColin MorganCarey MulliganJack O’ConnellDev PatelKaya Scodelario

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    IMAX pacts with Australia's Hoyts for four new digital systems

    2008-07-10T18:40:00Z

    IMAX Corporation has secured a deal to install four IMAX theatres in theatres in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney operated by Australian exhibitor Hoyts Cinemas.The agreement marks IMAX Corporation's first international joint venture featuring the new IMAX Digital Theatre System and will double IMAX's footprint in Australia.The partners will share in ...

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    The Duchess, Secret Life Of Bees get TIFF gala screenings

    2008-07-10T18:03:00Z

    Programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have added two gala presentations and seven special presentations to the line-up, as well as 13 additions to the Masters and Contemporary World Cinema strands.The gala screenings are the world premiere of Gina Prince-Bythewood's Southern States family drama Secret Life Of Bees ...

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    Germany's SquareOne picks up Descent 2, Tell-Tale

    2008-07-10T12:15:00Z

    Munich-based German distributor SquareOne Entertainment has announced new additions to its 2008 and 2009 release slate.SquareOne President Al Munteanu revealed that the company's latest acquisitions include Jeffrey Nachmanoff's action thriller Traitor starring Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce and Jeff Daniels, set for a fourth-quarter 2008 release.For 2009 releases, SquareOne has added ...

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    Future Cinema plans Eraserhead/Guillemots event

    2008-07-10T12:05:00Z

    Future Cinema Live will return to the UK's Latitude Festival by presenting a special event for Guillemots playing an improvised set to David Lynch's Eraserhead.In addition to the band's new live 'score' for the cult classic, there will be a performance by dancers the Chamelion Collective.Psychedelic rock band Invasion will ...

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    JANE LINFOOT

    2008-07-10T11:58:00Z

    Writer-directorA background working in production has served Jane Linfoot well. Not only because it has given her an address book full of contacts to call on when making her selffinanced shorts, but because it has taught her the importance of the relationship between directors and actors. Two shorts so far ...

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    MATTHEW WALKER

    2008-07-10T11:57:00Z

    Writer-director-animatorMatthew Walker's smart little animations have won him an army of fans at festivals. John And Karen, a sweet film about a penguin and a polar bear making up over tea and biscuits, premiered at Edinburgh last year and has been around the world winning awards including best short at ...