All Screen articles in 17 June 2008 – Page 5
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Roberts, Mortimer take new posts at UK's Contender
Growing UK distributor Contender Films has appointed Theresa Roberts as head of publicity and Rebecca Mortimer as head of marketing.Roberts, who takes the post July 1, had been head of publicity for Momentum Pictures.Mortimer, who takes her post as of Aug 5, comes from Universal Pictures (UK), where she was ...
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Tabb hired to adapt Lukyanenko novel Knights Of 40 Islands
Producers Rubi Zack of Run Entertainment, Maxim Bakhamatov of Ledokol Bakhmatov Group and Evgen Kuch have hired Michael Tabb to adapt Sergey Lukyanenko's Russian sci-fi fantasy novel The Knights Of 40 Islands.Lukyanenko previously wrote the Night Watch fantasy novels that spawned Timor Bekmambetov's Russian box office smashes.The Knights Of 40 ...
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Hirschbiegel starts Belfast shoot for Five Minutes Of Heaven
Oliver Hirschbiegel has started shooting his new feature, Five Minutes Of Heaven, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt star as two men who are struggling to come to terms with their experiences of past conflict in Northern Ireland.Eoin O'Callaghan is producing for Big Fish Films and executive ...
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The Incredible Hulk
Dir. Louis Leterrier. 2008. US. 112mins.Two big-budget, high-profile attempts later and it's perfectly clear that Marvel sincerely believes The Incredible Hulk is a viable film franchise. What's not so clear is why.Producer Gale Anne Hurd's second stab at The Incredible Hulk throws all the tricks in the blockbuster book at ...
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Sarkar Raj, Magic Hour start strong at international box-office
Indian film Sarkar Raj was this weekend's highest non-US entry in the international arena, taking $5.4m from 1,433 screens in 17 territories.The top 40 international films generated $171.2m from 42,947 screens for the period of June 6-8. For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.The Indian thriller is ...
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Akin, Tykwer and Weingartner backed by Hamburg fund
The Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund has allocated over$4.8m (Euros 3.15m) to new feature projects by Fatih Akin, Tom Tykwer and Hans Weingartner as well as international co-productions by such filmmakers as Les Brodeuses directorEleonore Faucher, Norway's Sara Johnsen and Poland's Radek Wegrzyn.The largest sum - $1.24m (Euros 800,000) - went ...
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Skip City to open with world premiere of Yamada's Bunshichi
Japan's Skip City International Digital Cinema Festival has announced the line-up for its fifth edition, which includes the world premiere of Yoji Yamada's The Tale Of Bunshichi as the opening gala ahead of its local autumn release. As covered on Screendaily last September, the film was produced as part of ...
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The Happening
Dir: M Night Shyamalan. US. 2008. 90 mins. The phenomenon that was M Night Shyamalan is further diminished by The Happening, a paranoia-fuelled disaster movie which will leave audiences scratching their heads. Less dramatically convincing than his previous efforts and lacking the heart-thumping momentum or stunning revelations you'd expect, it ...
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Stuntman killed on theset of John Woo's Red Cliff
A stuntman was killed and six others injured in an accidental fire during the filming of John Woo's $75m war epic Red Cliff on Monday (June 9). Red Cliff film crew confirmed the accident and casualty later that day. The fire took place in Xiaotangshan of Changping district in Northwest ...
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Soderbergh to present Corrente's The Prince Of Providence
Steven Soderbergh will present Michael Corrente's upcoming political drama The Prince Of Providence starring Oliver Platt as Buddy Cianci, the colourful former mayor from Rhode Island who became one of the longest serving 'big city' mayors in US history.Adam Goldberg, Ed Burns, Dermot Mulroney and Bradley Cooper are also attached ...
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2929 will self-distribute What Just Happened' through Magnolia
Nearly five months after What Just Happened' premiered at Sundance, Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban have announced they will self-distribute the Hollywood satire through Magnolia Pictures on October 3.Magnolia would appear to be a logical and convenient outlet given that the film was co-produced by 2929 Productions, its sister company ...
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Sundance Institute names fellows for Documentary Lab in June
Sundance Institute has selected the Documentary Film Fellows representing four projects that will take part in the Documentary Film Edit and Story Laboratory set to run in Utah from June 21-28.The Laboratory offers one intensive week of creative feedback and the chance to work closely with a pool of creative ...
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