All Screen articles in 16 October 2008 – Page 4
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MIPCOM focus: Is TV tuning back into film'
The relationship between Europe's film distributors and their local TV broadcasters is peculiarly vexed and complicated. It mingles dependency and resentment. Tensions were exacerbated around a decade ago, as the market for TV pre-sales for film contracted in an alarming fashion. The collapse of the Kirch media group in Germany, ...
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DreamWorks and Universal sign distribution deal
Universal and DreamWorks have signed a seven-year worldwide distribution deal in a much anticipated move that is understood to cover up to six films a year commencing sometime in 2009.Speculation had been rife in recent weeks as to which studio would distribute the DreamWorks slate following the recent departure from ...
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Russian cinema struggles to overcome arthouse stereotype
The international development of new Russian cinema is struggling to overcome the shadow of the great tradition of Soviet arthouse, according to leading Russian critic and FIPRESCI president Andrei Plakhov.Speaking at an Academia-Rossica roundtable at BAFTA in London, Plakhov warned there was a tendency to stereotype Russian film-making based on ...
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In Focus: Andrei Kravchuk's Admiral
Russia 's Channel One/Solyaris production and 20th Fox CIS distributor topped the Russian box office with Admiral following its world premiere last Monday.Having taken $11.3m in Russia alone, Andrei Kravchuk's biopic is now the biggest Russian opener of all time, beating the $9.6m first weekend record set by The Irony ...
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ReviewsSkin
Dir: Anthony Fabian. 2008. UK/South Africa. 107 mins .Telling the extraordinary true story of Sandra Laing, a woman born black to white parents in 1955 South Africa, Skin is a moving film which illustrates the impact of apartheid on a single family unit.Boasting a measured and harrowing central performance from ...
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Sex Drive
Dir Sean Anders. US. 2008. 108 mins A raunchy title and some gross-out gags have earned Sex Drive an R rating in the US, but deep down this teen comedy from Summit Entertainment is a sweet-natured and likeable coming-of-age tale that recalls the feel of the American Pie movies. Though ...
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Thessaloniki selects 15 projects for festival's co-production forum
Fifteen projects from 11 countries have been chosen for the 3rd Crossroads Co-Production Forum at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) from Nov 14-23.Crossroads caters to projects from countries in the Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean regions, introducing them to a network of financiers, producers and leading industry specialists from across ...
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Quarantine
Dir: John Eric Dowdle. US. 2008. 89 mins.A remake of the 2007 Spanish cult hit [Rec], Quarantine is a passably-engaging claustrophobic horror told entirely via hand-held footage shot by one of its characters (a la Cloverfield or Blair Witch). The story - about a television reporter who accompanies a group ...
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Oliver Stone's W to open 26th Turin Film Festival
Oliver Stone's George W. Bush inspired drama W will open the 26th edition of the Turin Film Festival.Turin's organisers also announced today that the film-maker would attend the festival to present the film in its Italian premiere.W is Stone's third examination of an American Presidency after JFK and Nixon.The film ...
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Icon buys UK rights to Fraser's Dean Spanley
Icon Films has signed for the highly imaginative and whimsical period film after seeing it last month at the world premiere in Toronto. Kathleen Drumm, head of sales agent New Zealand Film, says an offer for US rights is on the table but won't elaborate.Drumm negotiated the deal with head ...
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Evans, Jurjens launch sales outfit Tavix Pictures at AFM
Producer Casey Evans and director Brad Jurjens have announced they will launch the distribution company Tavix Pictures at AFM, which runs from November 5-12 in Santa Monica.The inaugural slate includes Jurjens' action thriller Hired Gun starring Michael Madsen, John W Kim's Hitchcockian thriller Blur and Michael O'Brien's baby boomer documentary ...
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Chihuahua bites $17.5m for number one spot at domestic box office
Historically American audiences have been happy to anoint talking animals as their champions and so it was little surprise that Buena Vista's Beverly Hills Chihuahua was the top dog in its second week of release.The family film added an estimated $17.5m to raise the running total to $52.5m and had ...
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Russia's Admiral has huge local bow for Fox International
A local Russian hit and a Hollywood paranoia thriller knocked Mamma Mia off its perch after a grand five-week reign as international champion.The Russian market has yielded mighty returns this year for local titles in particular and the trend continued as Fox International opened Channel 1/Solyaris' Admiral (Kolchak) in Russia ...
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Theresa Peters leaves WMA to become partner at UTA
United Talent Agency (UTA) has scored a coup and lured Theresa Peters following a 14-year stint at the William Morris Agency.Peters becomes the 18th partner and an agent in the UTA talent department and brings a client list that includes James McAvoy, Kirsten Dunst, Mads Mikkelsen, Mandy Moore and Hugh ...
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Salon to co-produce sequel to Eat Drink Man Woman
Hong Kong's Salon Films is co-producing a slate of films with pan-Asian partners including a sequel to Ang Lee's 1994 Eat Drink Man Woman with producer Hsu Li-kong's Taipei-based Zoom Hunt International.The $2.9m contemporary drama will be co-written by Hsu, who was a producer on the original. The planned cast ...
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Met Film School launches four new industry degrees
Ealing Studios-based Met Film School has launched four new two-year degrees in film-industry specialist subject areas.The move follows last year's success with an intensive two-year BA in film-making.The new degrees are: BA Film & Television; BA Film & Digital Media; BA Film, Visual Effects & Animation; and BA Film & ...
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AMPCO, Salon and Hengdian unite for Sino-Ozco-productions
Australia's Adelaide Motion Picture Company (AMPCO), Hong Kong's Salon Films and Hengdian Film Productions from China's Zhejiang Province are forming a China-Australia co-production alliance. The three companies signed a Memorandum Of Understanding in Hengdian in Zhejiang province to shoot three movies starting from December. The first film will be family ...
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Abu Dhabi launches media zone for Arab film content
A media zone has been launched in Abu Dhabi as part of the city's bid to establish itself as a major player in the global film industry. The multimedia park - called twofour54 - aims to create Arab content in film, broadcasting, publishing and digital. It will supply production ...
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Senator's head of acquisitions leaves for Atlas Film + Medien
Milada Rybarova has exited her position as Head of Acquisitions at the beleaguered German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment to take up the newly created post of VP Sales and Acquisitions at Atlas Film + Medien from this week. Rybarova began working at Senator in 2000 as an acquisitions executive and ...
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Imagenation Abu Dhabi teams with National Geographic for slate of films
Imagenation Abu Dhabi, the film financing arm of Abu Dhabi Media Company launched last month, is teaming up with National Geographic Entertainment on a $100m slate of films over the next five years. The fund was announced in Abu Dhabi on Saturday by Tim Kelly, president of National Geographic Global ...