All Screen articles in 18 September 2006 – Page 5

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    IFC Films steps up to buy Dahl's You Kill Me

    2006-09-18T04:00:00Z

    IFC Films has picked up all North American rights in Toronto fromICM to Code Entertainment's upcoming mob comedy You Kill Me.John Dahl directed the picture, which is currently inpost-production and stars Ben Kingsley as an alcoholic hitman sent to the WestCoast to dry out. Tea Leoni, Luke Wilson, Dennis Farina, ...

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    Orange on board for Northern Lights production prize

    2006-09-18T11:42:00Z

    The Northern Lights FilmFestival has announced that Orangeis now sponsoring the North Star Short Film Award, the largest film productionprize in the UK. The award is open to UK film-makers and the winner will be assistedprofessional and financially to shoot a short film of any genre with a budgetof up ...

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    Skillset backs new low-budget training from Film London

    2006-09-18T13:41:00Z

    Skillset has awarded $166,100(£88,509) to Film London for its new Microwave Training Programme.The training scheme, with a total budget of $255,183(£136,000), is part of Film London's new Microwave scheme for low-budgetfeature production. The Microwave scheme got 71 applications and hasshortlisted 11 projects to attend the Microschool, a three day programmeof ...

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    British Film Commissioner Norris to join Framestore

    2006-09-18T14:04:00Z

    Visual effects company Framestore Ltd has appointed Steve Norris as managingdirector of its film interests. Norris will join Framestorein late November after leaving the post he has held for the past nine years, asBritish Film Commissioner with the UK Film Council.In that role, he had beenresponsible for bringing international productions, ...

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    Tykwer's Perfume scores more than 1m admissions in Germany

    2006-09-18T15:05:00Z

    Despiteless than enthusiastic reviews from many German film critics, Tom Tykwer's $63.3m (Euros 50m) adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's bestselling novel Perfume - The Story Of A Murdererattracted more than 1m admissions on its opening weekend for distributor Constantin Filmverleih in Germancinemas.The1.04m admissions from 700 cinemas - with a screen average ...

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    Krauze's Saviour's Square takes top prizes at Polish festival

    2006-09-18T15:53:00Z

    Saviour's Square, the new film from Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze, haswon the grand prize at the 31st Festival of Polish Film in Gdynia. The film also received bestactress honours for Jowita Budnik, best supporting actress for EwaWencel, best score for PawelSzymanski and a special award from the Polish president.A ...

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    Universal strikes VOD deal for UK Freeview customers

    2006-09-18T17:13:00Z

    Universal Pictures and Top Up TV are working together to launch PictureBox,a video-on-demand subscription service in the UK. The PictureBoxservice, owned by Universal, will launch this autumn on Top UpTV's new Anytime service (available to customers of Freeviewin the UK). PictureBox will feature current and library feature filmssuch as The ...