All Screen articles in 18 February 2008 – Page 3
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Former BBC boss Greg Dyke named as chair of British Film Institute
The former Director-General of the BBC Greg Dyke has been names as the new chairman of the British Film Institute (BFI).He replaces Anthony Minghella, beginning his four-year term in March.The chair of the BFI is a high-profile role, Dyke has 30-years experience in television and took the top job of ...
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Murphy, Page to star in Mandate Pictures' Peacock
Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page are to star in the psychological thriller Peacock for Mandate Pictures. Michael Lander is directing, from a script he co-wrote with Ryan Roy.Barry Mendel will produce the film with Roy; Mandate Pictures' head of production Nicole Brown will executive produce with Nathan Kahane.Murphy will play ...
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UK Film Council highlights 3D potential
The UK Film Council is to look at the success of 3D in cinemas with a London masterclass with the makers of U2 3D.3D cinema has been making serious critical and box-office advances this year, not only with the U2 concert film but also the extraordinary success in the US ...
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Consumer attitudes turn against piracy
Just seven months in to the new approach, the research shows marked improvements in public attitudes to copyright theft which directly reflect the campaign's key goal - to attach a social stigma to copyright theft so that people choose to not take part in it:Two thirds of consumers (67%) now ...
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Consumer attitudes turn against piracy
An NOP survey commissioned by The Industry Trust suggests changing attitudes among consumers to piracy.The trusthas been carrying out a social stigma campaign which hopes to convince people that copyright theft is not a harmless vice.And it claims the survey shows signs of success.The study suggests67% ofconsumers now regard copyright ...
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European Film Market deals
European Film Market Sales (Sales company in brackets)US deals in red. Click on film to see moreAntichrist(Nordisk/Trust)Apres Lui (Films Distribution)The Argentine/ Guerrilla (Wild Bunch)The Baker (Bankside)Balls Out - The Gary Houseman Story Bank Job (Arclight Films)Before The Rains (Maximum)Black Ice (Bavaria Film International)Bob Marley documentary (untitled) (Fortissimo)CATcher - Cat City ...
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Berlinale and EFM review
This year's Berlinale kicked off in fine style with Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine A Light.Butthe story of this year's event has been that - at least for buyers - the festival line-up was in danger of being upstaged by the market.Focus inevitably turned to the EFM following a ...
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ReviewsI've Loved You So Long... (Il Ya Longtemps Que Je T'aime...)
Dir: Philippe Claudel. France/Germany. 2008. 110 mins.
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Production - Jumping to the next level
The high-profile collapse in 2006 of Peter Jackson's Halo adaptation could well have dampened the ardour with which millions of dollars are spent transforming video games into blockbusters each year. Yet it seems Hollywood has not only returned to embracing video-game adaptations but is pitching them as upscale tentpoles on ...
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Purple heart
Hadeel Reda got more publicity than she had bargained for during the making of The Hottie And The Nottie, the first project from her Los Angeles-based production company Purple Pictures.With Paris Hilton starring and executive producing, the project - also starring Joel David Moore and Christine Lakin, with Tom Putnam ...
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International - The winning Gaul
Asterix At The Olympic Games won the gold medal again this weekend, generating $24.5m after expanding in six territories. Pathe's family film opened at number one in Spain, where it took $2.7m, beating rival openers No Country For Old Men (starring local favourite Javier Bardem) and 30 Days Of Night. ...
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Jetset Studios - Online high flyers
Last month, Russell Scott and Patrick Young were the matchmakers who put male movie-goers together with Carmen Electra, star of 20th Century Fox's genre spoof Meet The Spartans. And last year, they took audience members out for a spin on the ice with Will Ferrell and Jon Heder, stars of ...
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Europe's distribution revolution
The international film industry has now seen a year in which high expectations of a buoyant film market have fallen flat. Not enough to be a bona fide crisis, but enough to create the flap of butterfly wings that might yet cause a hurricane in the future.The 2008 European Film ...
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European film market - Signed, sealed and delivered
Jeremy Kay reports on the key deals at this week's Berlin International Film Festival.lUniversal bought North American, German, Spanish and Latin American rights from Mandate International to Sam Raimi's upcoming horror film Drag Me To Hell starring Oscar nominee Ellen Page.l Miramax paid mid-six figures for North American rights from ...
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Best documentary and shorts
DOCUMENTARIESNO END IN SIGHT In his first film, Charles Ferguson examines the decisions behind the invasion of Iraq. Ferguson, nominated with associate producer Audrey Marrs, describes the Representational Pictures production as 'a comprehensive portrait of occupation policies, their errors, and their consequences'.The film won the special documentary jury prize at ...
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Critical Mass- Best of the fests
Halfway through what is likely to be viewed as a non-vintage, drink-as-soon-as-possible Berlinale, I've been pondering the question of how to rate a film festival in critical terms.After all, anyone's view is influenced by the films they happened to catch there, whether they satisfied their cravings (cutting-edge Asian, Euro auteurs, ...
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Awards Countdown - People - Awards People
UK director Paul Greengrass is renowned for his dynamic and visceral style that puts the audience in the centre of the action. Editor Christopher Rouse, who worked with Greengrass on United 93 and also cut The Bourne Supremacy, shares the director's aesthetic sensibilities."We are both relentless in exploring the potential ...
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United Kingdom - Aria on song
From the office of his Aria Films in London, the Italian-born producer Carlo Dusi is keen to expand his realm. "Historically, a lot of the films I have been involved in have been firmly in the arthouse sector," Dusi says. "That is a dirty word here, but not for me, ...
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Thailand's Aditya Assarat on Wonderful Town
'There's nothing special about this little town,' says Thai writer-director Aditya Assarat of Takua Pa, the southern Thailand town that is the setting of his debut feature film. 'Except it got hit by a tsunami.'That post-tsunami calm is what Assarat explores in the somewhat ironically titled Wonderful Town, which recently ...
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Flashback: BAFTA 2008
Everyone thought they knew who would win this year’s Bafta film awards. Atonement was supposed to sweep the board. Julie Christie was the best actress favourite for Away From Her and Control was considered a certainty to nab the Alexander Korda award for best British film.