All Screen articles in 15 July 2008 – Page 7
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Chin Hanjoins cast ofEmmerich's 2012
Singapore-born actor Chin Han, who starred in 3 Needles and plays one of the main villains in The Dark Knight, has landed a role in Roland Emmerich's 2012. He has joined the ensemble cast to play Lin Pang, a character who becomes indispensable in the fight to save a group ...
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Film Department, Downtown Music Publishing form TFD Music
The Film Department (TFD) and music publisher Downtown Music Publishing have formed the film music company and partnership TFD Music.Through the partnership, Downtown Publishing will serve as the exclusive worldwide administrator for TFD Music copyrights and master recordings and offer music supervision and soundtrack consulting services on features.The first TFD ...
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Participant hires Title, Penner to write eco-horror The Colony
Participant Media has hired Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner to write eco-horror tale The Colony.Steven Schneider of ROOM 101 and Vertigo Entertainment's Doug Davison and Roy Lee are producing and Gabriel Mason will serve as executive producer.Participant's executive vice president of production Jonathan King brought in the project and will ...
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Film Center Serbia shares $2.7m between nine projects
The Film Center Serbia, whose board is now headed by Emir Kusturica, has chosen nine projects to co-finance. Seven projects selected for financing of production are feature films and one feature documentary, while one is a feature in post-production.FEATURE FILMSWhite, White World (Beli, Beli Svet), written by Milena Markovic and ...
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Sean Gascoine leaves Coulson for United Agents
London-based United Agents has announced two newcomers to the agency: agent Sean Gascoine and his associate agent Hania Elkington.Gascoine is a 15-year veteran of Lou Coulson Associates.His clients are writers, actors and directors. He brings to United clients including: Hallam Foe director David Mackenzie,writer/actor Sanjeev Bhaskar, playwright Kwame Kwei Armah, ...
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UK genre download site to launch in November with $6m backing
A new genre-specific online film site, The Film Lounge (www.filmlounge.com), is set for a November launch in the UK, backed by about $6m (£3m) from private investors.Founder Terry Stone said the site would launch with about 60 independent titles, most of which would be exclusive to Film Lounge.The unique position ...
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Laurence Dawkin-Jones named UK MD for Global Networks
Laurence Dawkin-Jones has been appointed UK managing director of Global Networks, an international division of NBC Universal.He will report to Roma Khanna, president, Global Networks & Digital Initiatives, to whom he will report.Dawkin-Jones will take up the London-based post this autumn. He had been executive director (commercial) for UKTV since ...
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Match Factory to sell Somali supermodel film Desert Flower
The Match Factory will be handling international sales on Sherry Hormann's adaptation of Waris Dirie's bestselling autobiography Desert Flower.The film is currently shooting in Berlin before being due to wrap in New York next week.Structured as a $17.4m (Euros 11m) European co-production by the 'single purpose' company Desert Flower Filmproductions ...
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Toei, TV Asahi set to co-produce Partners spin-off
Japanese studio Toei and regular television partner TV Asahi are planning to co-produce a spin-off to local hit Partners: The Movie. Entitled Partners: Investigator Mamoru Yonezawa's Case File (Aibo Series: Kanshiki Yonezawa Mamoru No Jikenbo), the story will focus on the character of the image and fingerprint expert who played ...
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Wild Bunchto handle sales and French distribution on Chanel film
Wild Bunch will handle international sales and French distribution on Chanel And Stravinsky. The film is to be directed by Jan Kounen and produced by Claudie Ossard and Chris Bolzli of Eurowide Film Production.Anna Mouglalis starring as the legendary designer.While other Chanel films are currently in the works, Wild Bunch ...
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Halcyon takes on UK for Critics Week title Moscow, Belgium
As it ramps up its UK distribution activities, Chris Coen's Halcyon Pictures has added another title to its fast growing release slate. The new acquisition is Christophe Van Rompaey's Moscow, Belgium (sold by Bavaria Film International).The film premiered in the Critics' Week in Cannes.'I loved it. I thought it was ...
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SPWAG lands domestic rights to animated Planet 51
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired all US rights to the $60m CGI animated family picture Planet 51.Sony Pictures Releasing will give the picture a wide North American release under the TriStar Pictures label on November 20 2009.Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman ...
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Sci-fi actioner Road To Hell starts shooting in LA
Santa Monica-based Filmwerks has begun principal photography in Los Angeles on the action sci-fi Road To Hell starring Michael Pare, Clare Kramer, and Courtney Peldon. Albert Pyun (Left For Dead, Invasion) is the director.Cynthia Curnan wrote the screenplay about a soldier whose attempt to return to a normal life after ...