All Screen articles in 17 June 2007 – Page 3
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Carbone, Gulko, Thorpe promoted at Focus Features
Focus Features has promoted three longtime members of the publicity team to executive positions. East Coast-based VJ Carbone, who most recently served as director of national publicity, West Coast-based Harlan Gulko, most recently director of national publicity, and Kyle Thorpe, most recently director of field publicity, have all been promoted ...
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Academy changes rules to allow for more than three producers
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has adjusted the rules for the best picture Oscar in advance of next year's 80th annual ceremony. Following the controversy of Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa being removed from the nomination list of last year's Little Miss Sunshine, the Academy has now ...
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Attendance up 38% at second Film Screenings Of Madrid
The second edition of the Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid (June 10-12) closed on Tuesday night with a turnout that was 38 percent larger than last year.More than 138 buyers from 33 countries travelled to Madrid, where 56 recent Spanish features were screened and more than 100 tiles were available ...
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Inside (A l'Interieur)
Dirs: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo. Fr. 2007. 80mins.Imagine a graphic, feature-length riff on that line in Macbeth about Macduff being 'from his mother's womb untimely ripped' and you have the kernel of Inside, a vicious gore-fest, which seems designed to prove that Europeans too can up the horror stakes too ...
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Japan's new CoFesta announces autumn plans
Details of this year's newly-established Japan International Contents Festival were announced at a press conference at Tokyo's National Art Centre in downtown Tokyo yesterday. The festival, nicknamed CoFesta, is the result of several years' planning to consolidate contents events surrounding the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) and TIFFCOM Market. CoFesta ...
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Northwest Vision + Media settles on new name
The combined agencies North West Vision and Media Training North West have announced the new name for their merged company: Northwest Vision + Media. The Manchester-based company as formed on May 1 after the regional screen agency and the media skills and training organistion joined forces. 'We deliberated for a ...
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Cinefile takes UK rights to True North and Change Of Address
Scottish-based distributor Cinefile has acquired the UK theatrical rights to Emmanuel Mouret's Change Of Address (Changement D'Adresse) and Steve Hudson's drama True North. As a specialist in French-language titles, Cinefile is best known for the UK release of Cedric Klapisch's L'Auberge Espagnole (also known as The Spanish Apartment or Pot ...
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FORTHCOMING FILM FESTIVALS
Click festival name for further details: for full festival calendar click here Sydney Film Festival June 8 - 24 Taormina Filmfest June 16 - 22 Shanghai International Film Festival June 16 - 24 Edinburgh International Film Festival June 18-29Moscow International Film Festival June 21 - 30 Karlovy Vary International Film ...
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Babelgum signs up 25 new content partners
Internet TV network Babelgum has announced new deals with 25 content owners and distributors, both newcomers and established. The content partners include the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, Minstry of Sound TV, Shine, IMG, 3DD, Off The Fence, Journeyman Films, Entertainment Rights, Film Chest and Breakthrough Films. The content includes exclusive ...
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Pinewood warns of flat film revenues from delayed shoots
UK studio Pinewood Shepperton has issued a warning to investors that its full-year revenues will only show a small increase and film-related revenues will be flat. Ivan Dunleavy, chief executive of the Pinewood Studios Group, said: 'The timing of film production is always a major variable for our film services ...
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Mumbai's Yashraj pacts with Walt Disney Animation
Leading Mumbai-based movie studio, Yashraj Films, has announced a 50-50 alliance with Walt Disney Animation.'We've tied up with Walt Disney to make exclusive animation films. The first, Roadside Romeo, would be released in summer 2008 and will have its share of music, dance, songs and romance,' said producer-director Yash Chopra, ...
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Cast lines up for Cattaneo's Rocker at Fox Atomic
Christina Applegate has joined Rainn Wilson and Josh Gad on the cast of Peter Cattaneo's comedy The Rocker for Fox Atomic.Jeff Garlin, Emma Stone, musician and actor Teddy Geiger, Jane Lynch and Demetri Martin have also boarded the project, which is set to begin principal photography on Jun 18 in ...
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First Run acquires North American rights to For The Bible Tells Me So
First Run Features has acquired North American rights to Daniel Karslake's documentary For The Bible Tells Me So, which received its world premiere at Sundance.First Run Features plans an October theatrical release on the film, which reconciles homosexuality with the traditional reading of scripture through the personal stories of the ...
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Abaunza, Schwarz join Participant in social action campaign department
Bonnie Abaunza and Liana Schwarz have joined Participant Productions as vice presidents of social action campaign development and operations.Abaunza and Schwarz will be responsible for the conception, development and execution of individual social action campaigns for each Participant film.They will source non-governmental organisations and non-profit partners for specific campaigns, and ...
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Tribeca prize winner We Are Together partners with ONE Campaign
Documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye), which won prizes at IDFA and Tribeca, is working with the ONE Campaign to promote the film in the US. The film is already partnered with Alicia Keys' charity Keep A Child Alive and now is also working with Bono's ONE organisation, which fights ...
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Busan Film Commission expands support programme
The Busan Film Commission (BFC) has announced changes in its Busan film development support fund programme. The organisation will award a total of $32,300 to two films in development to shoot in Busan, without any conditions attached. The BFC has been awarding the support fund since 2001 but from this ...
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Korea's SM Entertainment launches production outfit
Seoul-based SM Entertainment, talent management agency for pan-Asian pop stars such as BoA, TVXQ, and Kangta, has set up its own production unit SM Pictures. The company will shoot a comic mystery starring the four members of the pop group Super Junior as its first production. The film Ggotminam Yonsweh ...
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China's summer blackout begins following Pirates release
China's 'national film protection month' or so-called summer blackout on foreign films will take place from June 13 to July 13, local cinema owners confirmed this week. Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End , which opens in China on June 13, will be the last foreign film opening this ...
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HandMade books $50m in Cannes, led by Good Friday and Planet One
HandMade Films, the sales arm of the revived HandMade plc, has reported $50m-plus sales at the Cannes Market, the best in the company's history. Sales were led by HandMade's $50m remake of The Long Good Friday and its $54m CGI animated feature Planet One. Paul WS Anderson's contemporary US version ...
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Joost adds short film channel Movieola to line-up
Internet television service Joost has added Canadian short film channel Movieola to its content mix. A unit of Toronto-based Channel Zero, a specialty digital broadcaster, Movieola currently has over 1m subscribers in Canada. The Joost platform uses secure P2P streaming technology to deliver more than 150 channels via broadband. Joost ...