All Screen articles in 18 September 2007 – Page 3
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SCREEN INTERNATIONAL AFM 2007 GUIDE TO SELLERSNOTE: Films under 70mins duration or films completed before 2003 will not be listedPRODUCT FORM (company name here) ________________________Please photocopy for more entries.TITLE ____________________________________________________Has this title been to any other market' Yes/NoGENRE (Only one can be used from list below)____________________Action/adventure Animation Black Comedy Children'sComedy ...
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SCREEN INTERNATIONAL AFM 2007 GUIDE TO SELLERSNOTE: Films under 70mins duration or films completed before 2003 will not be listedPRODUCT FORM (company name here) ________________________Please photocopy for more entries.TITLE ____________________________________________________Has this title been to any other market' Yes/NoGENRE (Only one can be used from list below)____________________Action/adventure Animation Black Comedy Children'sComedy ...
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SCREEN INTERNATIONAL AFM 2007 GUIDE TO SELLERSCOMPANY DETAILSCompany name _____________________________________E-mail contact for listings ______________________________(Please list most up to date direct e-mail for personnel in charge of supplying listings information to ensure you receive all future correspondence)Address ___________________________________________Town/city _________________________________________Postal/Zip code ____________ State/country _____________Telephone _____________________ Fax _______________Company e-mail address _____________________________Company website address ...
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Just Like Home (Hjemve)
Dir Lone Scherfig Denmark . 2007. 97 minsFive years after her admired English-language debut Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, writer-director Lone Scherfig makes an eagerly awaited return to her native Denmark for Just Like Home, an idiosyncratic ensemble comedy depicting a community in crisis. A slight, slow-burning tale, it lacks ...
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Reservation Road
Dir: Terry George USA. 2007. 102 minsA respectable, well-intentioned exploration of grief, guilt and the instinct for revenge, Reservation Road boasts some fine performances but tries too hard to pass itself off as a weighty, tear-stained Oscar contender. A plot heavily reliant on coincidence may have worked on the page ...
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Japan selects I Just Didn't Do It as Oscar entry
Masayuki Suo's I Just Didn't Do It has been selected as Japan 's official entry to the Academy Awards' foreign-language film category, the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan announced Friday. I Just Didn't Do It follows the struggles of a young man, played by Ryo Kase (Letters From Iwo ...
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First Look spends $3m on US rights to comedy Bill
As Toronto headed into the closing weekend, First Look Studios paid just over $3m to US rights for Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann's comedy Bill starring Aaron Eckhart. Maple Films paid mid-six figures for Canadian rights.First Look Holdings co-chairmen Avi Lerner and Henry Winterstern and executive vice president of acquisitions ...
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First Look takes US rights to Bill for $3m
As Toronto wound down over the weekend, First Look Studios paid just over $3m to US rights for Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann's comedy Bill starring Aaron Eckhart. Maple Films paid mid-six figures for Canadian rights. First Look Holdings co-chairmen Avi Lerner and Henry Winterstern and executive vice president ...
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Arthouse signs Canadian distribution deal with Mongrel Media
Arthouse Films has signed an exclusive output and distribution deal with Mongrel Media in Canada.David Koh and Lilly Bright negotiated the deal for Arthouse Films with Stanley Buchthal of LM Media along with Mongrel Media president Hussain Amarshi.The multi-year deal covers more than 10 titles a year, kicking of with ...
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The Brave One opens number one in the US
Jodie Foster drew in a largely female crowd as Warner Bros' revenge thriller The Brave One opened top on an estimated $14m.Foster, in her first lead role since Flightplan in 2005, stars as a radio host who turns vigilante after she is nearly beaten to death. Neil Jordan directed and ...
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Bourne remains top in international markets
Universal's The Bourne Ultimatum remained the number one film in international markets as an estimated $20.8m from 4,333 sites in 46 territories raised theinternational total through UPI to $125m.The spy thriller has now passed the lifetime totals of The Bourne Identity on $92m and The Bourne Supremacy on $112m and ...
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Visit Films takes international rights to Hannah Takes The Stairs
New York-based production and sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes The Stairs, which will screen at the 2007 London Film Festival. Filmscience's Anish Savjani produced the story of a post-graduate heartbreaker and the various love interests she encounters over the course of ...
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Theodorakis to receive lifetime achievement honour
Mikis Theodorakis is to be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the World Soundtrack Awards at this year's Ghent International Film Festival (Oct 9-20).The Greek composer is best known for his iconic music for Michael Cacoyannis' Zorba The Greek. He also wrote the music for three other of the ...
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Maddin's Winnipeg sells to IFC, Soda, Maximum
Fresh from its victory for Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, Guy Maddin's idiosyncratic documentary My Winnipeg has been sold to IFC Entertainment in US, Soda Pictures in the UK and Maximum Films Distribution in Canada. The deals were announced by My Winnipeg producer (and DoP) Jody Shapiro from the podium ...
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Eastern Promises, My Winnipeg win top prizes as TIFF winds down
Guy Maddin's personal documentary My Winnipeg won the C$30,000 Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature and David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises won the C$15,000 Cadillac People's Choice Award as the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival wrapped on Saturday. Runners up for the audience prize, first and second respectively, were Jason Reitman's ...
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Nova Scotia boosts tax credit for producers
Tax relief on local labour costs for productions shooting in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has been increased from 35% to 50%, it was announced at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. Nova Scotia premier Rodney MacDonald announced the rise at the opening gala screening of Roger Spottiswoode's Shake ...
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Welsh fund backs Marc Evans documentary
The $14m ($7m) Wales Creative IP Fund is backing its first documentaries.Among the first recipients is In Prison My Whole Life, directed by Marc Evans (Snowcake) and executive produced by Colin Firth.The film follows an investigation into the trial and conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a member of the Black ...
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2929 Productions take to The Road
Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Productions is set to shoot The Road at the beginning of 2008 with John Hillcoat (The Proposition) on board to direct. Scriptwriter Joe Penhall (Enduring Love) will adapt Cormac McCarthy's novel about a father who tries to get his son to safety in a ...
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Meadows and Frazer collaborate again on Somers Town
Director Shane Meadows and writer Paul Frazer are working together again on Tomboy Films' Somers Town, which began shooting this week. The short film follows the lives of two boys living in the Somers Town area of London. Filming started last week for three weeks on location in the UK ...
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Ben X selected as Belgian Oscar candidate
Nic Balthazar's debut feature Ben X has been chosen as this year's Belgian Oscar candidate. The decision was made on Friday and was agreed on unanimously by both Flemish and French-speaking communities. Since its world premiere last month in Montreal, where it won the audience prize and shared the ...