All Screen articles in 16 March 2008 – Page 6
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The Light to launch digital cinemas in Romania
UK-based exhibitor The Light has announced it will open its first two digital cinemas, in Romania, this autumn.Both eight-screen cinemas -- one at Liberty Center in Bucharest and the other at the Tiago Mall in Oradea -- are scheduled to open on Nov 1. The cinemas will offer up to ...
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Prague to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe
Barrandov Studios has signed a contract to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe.The $170m action film would be one of the most expensive ever in the Czech studio's history, between the estimated $150m Casino Royale and the $180m Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And the Wardrobe.Set construction for for ...
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Barbarian Princess starts UK, Hawaii shoot
UK-based Matador Pictures and Hawaii-based Island Film Group have started production today on Barbarian Princess, which director Marc Forby is shooting in Honolulu and in Norfolk, UK.As previously reporter, Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Will Patton and Shaun Evans star.The film becomes the first feature to shoot inside Honolulu's Iolani Palace.The ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Fear(s) Of The Dark
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to French animated feature Fear(s) Of The Dark from Celluloid Dreams.Pierre Menahem of Celluloid Dreams negotiated with Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general manager-home entertainment Tom Stewart and acquisitions & business affairs manager Kate Edwards.Metrodome plans an autumn 2008 release.Sara Frain, Metrodome general manager-theatrical, ...
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Fortissimo takes on Jordan's Sundance hit Captain Abu Raed
Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide rights (outside the Middle East and North America) on Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed.The film won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance and Best Actor for Nadim Sawalha at Dubai.Captain Abu Raed marks the first feature from Jordan to be exported internationally.Fortissimo will give ...
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Eros strikes DVD deal with Wal-Mart for Canada stores
Indian film powerhouse Eros International and retail giant Wal-Mart have announced a collaboration to sell Bollywood content through the latter's distribution network in Canada.Eros DVDs will be available in 27 Wal-Mart stores in Canada and the distribution deal will subsequently be extended to the entire Canadian Wal-Mart network.One of the ...
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Spanish producers and distributors forming coalition to tackle piracy
Leading Spanish producer associations FAPAE and Egeda are forming a coalition with the local anti-piracy organisation, FAP (supported bythe Motion Picture Association), the Federation of Spanish distributors (Fedecine), the music producers association Promusicae and representatives from the publishing sector to help build relations with internet service providers and clamp down ...
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Vancouver shoot for Parnassus resumes with Depp, Farrell, Law
Producers have announced that filming has begun again on Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which had been on hold after actor Heath Ledger's death on January 22.The $30m modern-day fantasy had finished the first third of the film's shoot in the UK and was gearing up for a ...
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Chinese government unveils details of censorship criteria
In an unusual gesture, China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) announced a list of film censorship criteria re-addressing its ban on pornography and violence in movies.The announcement came around the same timethat an official rejected the possibility of a film ratings system, as well as an alleged ...
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Italy loses 254 cinemas since 2003 as multiplexes grow
The Italian exhibitor association Anec has said that 254 cinemas have closed in Italy since 2003, shutting down 306 screens.The Northern Lombard region sustained the most losses at 58 screens. Emiglia-Romagna and Tuscany followed.Traditional downtown cinemas in Florence, Milan, Rome, Naples and Bologna sustained the most closures, but Anec says ...
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Malaysia's Flower In The Pocketwins Fribourg Grand Prix
Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat's feature debut Flower In The Pocket was awarded the Grand Prix - the Regard d'Or - at this year's Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF), the first edition under the new artistic director Eduoard Waintrop.The story about two small boys growing up without their mother and ...
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Seville and Maximum to join forces in Canada
Montreal-based Seville Pictures and Toronto-based Maximum Films Distribution are launching a joint venture to distribute their films theatrically in Canada. The move comes seven months after the launch of both the new-look Seville, acquired by fast-rising multinational entertainment company Entertainment One (E1) in August, and Maximum, launched the same month ...
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Tricks, Santiago among winners at Miami Film Festival
The 25th annual Miami International Film Festival closed on Saturday night (March 8) with the presentation of $77,500 in grand jury prizes to five films.The prizegiving, held at the Gusman Center For The Performing Arts, saw the Knight Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema Competition go to Andrzej Jakimowksi's Tricks ...
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IFC takes worldwide rights to Nights And Weekends
IFC Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's SXSW entry Nights And Weekends.The follow-up to IFC's 2007 release Hannah Takes The Stairs received its world premiere at the Austin, Texas, festival on Mar 9.Nights And Weekends follows a remote couple as their disparate lives in New ...
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Film Source picks up Stuart Urban's doc Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead
Alex Massis' Florida-based The Film Source Company has picked up worldwide rights in all media to Stuart Urban's documentary Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead.Urban's film is a personal journey to solve the mystery surrounding his late father, Garri Urban, a survivor of the Holocaust and the Gulag who may have ...
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Warner scores number one US opening for 10,000 BC with $35.7m
10,000 BC clubbed the competition as it soared to the top of the North American charts on a $35.7m estimated launch through Warner Bros.Roland Emmerich's prehistoric saga didn't fare as well as his previous releases The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, although those titles launched during the summer.Opening in ...
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10,000 BC has epic $25.3m opening in 20 territories
Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) prehistoric epic 10,000 BC turned up trumps at the weekend and led the overseas charts thanks to a $25.3m estimated launch from 3,600 prints that delivered 19 number one debuts in 20 territories.Combined with the film's $35.7m domestic opening the worldwide tally already stands at ...