All Screen articles in 18 September 2008 – Page 3
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Nighy, Blunt, Grint, Everett star in UK comedy Wild Target
Principal photographyhas begunon the comedy Wild Target starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint and Rupert Everett.Jonathan Lynn is directing the story of an uptight hitman who falls for his intended victim from a screenplay by Lucinda Coxon based on Pierre Salvadori's 1993 French film Cible Emouvante that earned two ...
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John Schulman leaves Warner Bros after 25 years at the studio
Long-time Warner Bros Entertainment executive vice president and general counsel John Schulman is retiring after a 25-year career at the studio.Schulman joined Warner Bros in 1984 as vice president and general counsel and set about building the studio's in-house legal department. Five years later he was promoted to senior vice ...
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Lance Still joins TWC as evp of promotions and integrated marketing
Lance Still has arrived from New Line as executive vice president of promotions and integrated marketing for The Weinstein Company (TWC).Still will oversee global promotions, branded entertainment, consumer products, licensing, product integrations, corporate sponsorship and strategic alliances for TWC and Dimension Films.Still will be based in Los Angeles and reports ...
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here! buys North American rights to Sarif's I Can't Think Straight
here! Films has acquired North American rights to author and film-maker Shamim Sarif's lesbian romance I Can't Think Straight.Sister company Regent Releasing will distribute Sarif's The World Unseen on November 7 in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto followed by I Can't Think Straight on November 21 in the same ...
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Jim Sherry moves in at Maple Pictures as co-president
Jim Sherry, the former managing director of Alliance Atlantis' Motion Picture Distribution (AAC MDP), is joining Toronto-based distributor Maple Pictures as co-president.Sherry will share the presidency with current co-president Laurie May while colleague Brad Pelman will become COO. Pelman will also head up Maple Films, a new branded distribution label. ...
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Flash Of Genius wins Alfred P Sloan prize at the Hamptons
Marc Abraham's Flash Of Genius starring Greg Kinnear as the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper has won the Hamptons International Film Festival's $25,000 Alfred P Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize.The cash prize is awarded to a feature that 'explores science and technology themes in fresh, innovative ways and depicts ...
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John Boorman to be feted at Montreal's FNC
Film director John Boorman will receive a lifetime achievement award at the upcoming Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, October 8 to 19. The British director will present his 2006 film, The Tiger's Tail, starring Brendan Gleeson, as well as three of his best-known works, the cult classic Zardoz, Leo ...
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Franco, Hawkins to receive breakthrough acting awards at HFA
James Franco and Sally Hawkins, riding high following acclaimed performances in Pineapple Express and Happy-Go-Lucky, will receive the breakthrough acting awards at the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards gala on October 27.Doubt director John Patrick Shanley and Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will each collect breakthrough honours for ...
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Imagi raises $30m in financing to develop four CG-animated films
Imagi International Holdings announce today [Sept 16] that it has raised $30m in financing through two separate subscription agreements.Both agreements are expected to be completed later this month subject to regulatory procedures. The proceeds of the two transactions will be used to develop four CGI animated features including Astro Boy ...
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Star India, STAR DEN Media Services to carry MGM Channel in India
MGM is extending its cable channel reach into India after signing a deal that will see News Corp's Star India and DEN Digital Entertainment's STAR DEN Media Services carry the MGM Channel in the world's third largest cable market.The MGM Channel is currently available in India through satellite group Dish ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market announces deadline
The 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market has announced that submissions are now open for new film projects for the 2009 market (Feb. 8-10).The deadline for submissions is Oct. 30, 2008. Projects must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market announces deadline
The 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market has announced that submissions are now open for new film projects for the 2009 market (Feb. 8-10).The deadline for submissions is Oct. 30, 2008. Projects must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market announces deadline
The 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market has announced that submissions are now open for new film projects for the 2009 market (Feb. 8-10).Film projects must be submitttedby Oct. 30, 2008. They must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The ...
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Everlasting Momentsis Swedish pick forBest Foreign-Language Oscar
Swedish director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) has been entered as Sweden's candidate forthe best foreign-language filmOscar. Click here to see Screen review.The film stars Finnish-Swedish actress Maria Heiskanan, with Sweden's Mikael Persbrandt and Denmark's Jesper Christensen.Everlasting Moments is a Danish-Swedish co-production, realised by Thomas Stenderup, of ...
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Baader Meinhof Complex is German entry for foreign language Oscar
Germany has announced its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex.The film chronicles the Red Army Faction terrorist group, which terrorised Germany in the 1970s. Itstars Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck and Johanna Wokalek.The filmhad its world premiere in Munich this week and ...
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Vadim Ivanovb becomes MD of UPI Russia
Vadim Ivanov, currently Commercial Director of Universal Pictures International in Russia, has been promoted to Managing Director (MD).He replaces Eugene Beginin, MD, Russia, who is leaving to pursue other interests within the Russian film industry. The announcement was made today by David Kosse, President, Universal Pictures International (UPI).As the new ...
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Berlinale's European Film Market centres business presence
The Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) has found an alternative venue for its EFM Business Offices which are currently on Potsdamer Platz.In 2009 it will expand its presence at the Marriott Hotel where three EFM screening rooms have already been located since 2007. In addition to the central market venue ...
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ReviewsOne Week
Dir/Scr: Michael McGowan. Canada. 2008. 94mins.Canadian filmmaker Michael McGowan’s second feature after Saint Ralph, One Week marks another dispiriting example of a director using sickness and physical deterioration in rationalising dishonest and narcissistic behaviour.Coming on the heels of Amy Redford’s Sundance entry The Guitar, One Week ...
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