All Screen articles in 18 September 2008 – Page 4
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Igor
Dir: Tony Leondis. US. 2008. 86 mins.Sweet-natured but saddled with strained wisecracking humour and over-busy plotting, children's animated feature Igor never quite manages to shake off a feeling of familiarity that extends from the story's archly hip tone to the misunderstood, lovable main character of a hunchback trying to escape ...
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Profile: International Screenwriters Festival
As the International Screenwriters Festival begins work on its fourth edition, it's worth remembering that the number of events that have been able to break into the crowded international industry calendar are very thin on the ground.But the festival, founded three years ago, was the perfect match of business need ...
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Sony Classics buys Toronto doc favourite Every Little Step
Sony Pictures Classics has beaten out other bidders and picked up North American and Australian rights to Every Little Step hot on the heels of the documentary's world premiere at Toronto. Click here to see review.Endgame Entertainment served as majority financier and produced the project, which traces performers as they ...
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Dark Sky strikes alliance with Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix
Dark Sky Films has struck an alliance with Larry Fessenden's New York-based production company Glass Eye Pix, whose drama Wendy And Lucy starring Michelle Williams played at Toronto last week.The partners will make films that Fessenden described as 'little bit pulpy, a little bit high-brow' and kick off with the ...
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International - Ponyo on the make
Studio Ghibli's Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea has held on to the top slot at the Japanese box office for a fifth week - despite going head to head with the latest Pokemon film, The Dark Knight and a strong $6.97m opening for Asian-themed The Mummy: Tomb Of ...
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United States/India - A Taste For India
When producer Debra Martin Chase was looking for a location for the third film in Disney's Cheetah Girls franchise, she immediately thought of India.The Cheetah Girls first appeared in 2003 in a Disney Channel TV film about a four-member teen girl group making their way in Manhattan. After it became ...
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In Focus - The Year to Date
Watch out for awards recognition for:- Martin McDonagh (original screenplay) for In Bruges (Focus Features)- Sandy Powell (costume design) for The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony Pictures/Focus Features)- Horton Hears A Who! for animated feature (20th Century Fox)- Tom McCarthy (writer/director), Richard Jenkins (actor), Haaz Sleiman (supporting actor) and Hiam Abbass ...
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Venice: A critical preview
The 2008 Venice line-up looks like one of the riskiest major festival selections in recent memory.Cross the Italian contenders, the Coen brothers, Kathryn Bigelow, Jonathan Demme and a few other media darlings off the list, and you are left with directors such as Semih Kaplanoglu from Turkey, Algerian Tariq Teguia ...
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Festival talk - The Gospel according to Marco
Which festivals are important to you'I enjoy being in Berlin and Cannes because that's where we start working and making international contacts, and it's when I first get an inkling of what's going to happen in the next few months in terms of artistic films and original, special films. I ...
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International - 3D's looking flat
Can technical innovation save the movie theatre as it faces up to a period of extreme competition'Technology has, of course, fundamentally changed the fortunes of the business before. On October 6, 1927, the talking pictures revolution was launched with The Jazz Singer at Los Angeles' Tower Theater.Sound could not lay ...
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San Francisco Film Society launches $25,000 doc award
The San Francisco Film Society has launched a new $25,000 Golden Gate Award for investigative documentaries to be presented at the Film Society's San Francisco International Film Festival next spring.Society top brass will also introduce an annual week-long theatrical run of a leading non-fiction film beginning this autumn with Secrecy ...
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London Film Festival boosts industry credentials
The Times BFI London Film Festival has expanded its industry programme with a series of events aimed at the international film business.They include the third Production Finance Market, bringing together international financiers and producers. This year, the market will run over two days from October 20th-21st.The three-day innovation event Power ...
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Rockwell, Roberts to star in The Winning Season for Gigi, Plum
New York-based Gigi Productions and Plum Pictures have attached Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts and Rob Corddry to star in the comedy The Winning Season, set to begin shooting in October in the New York region.James Strouse will direct The Winning Season from his original screenplay about a washed-up divorcee basketball ...
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Disney starts production of first Russian-produced movie
Disney has started production on its first Russian-produced feature film, Vadim Sokolovsky's family fantasyThe Book Of Masters.Walt Disney Company CIS, founded in 2006, is working with Nikita Mikhalkov's production companyThree T Studio on the project, which has begun shooting in the Belarus capital Minsk before it moves to Moscow'sMosfilm Studio ...
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Hanks to receive gala tribute at Film Society Of Lincoln Center
Tom Hanks is next in line to receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center's gala tribute and will be guest of honour at a special event on April 27, 2009.Hanks becomes the 36th recipient and follows in the footsteps of Jane Fonda, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Shirley Maclaine, Federico Fellini, ...
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Screen Australia considers industry support package
Screen Australia is considering giving bonuses to producers of small to medium budget features that perform well at the box office. No details are available on the budget levels of eligible films, the criteria for success or the extent of the reward. However, the proposal clearly indicates that the new ...
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Russia's Central Partnership partners with Paramount
In a groundbreaking deal that highlights the increasing lure of Russia for the US majors, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) is to partner with Russian major, Central Partnership.The exclusive agreement, which comes into force on January 1st 2009, will see Central Partnership releasing Paramount titles theatrically in the former USSR, excluding ...
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German incentive programme to pay outall $86.4m annual budget.
The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive programme will pay out all of its $86.4m (Euros 61m) annual budget this year. According to the DFFF, a total of $62m (Euros 43.7m) had been allocated to the end of August, generating a German spend of Euros 261m in the local economy. ...
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Wall-E to close Tokyo film festival
Pixar's Wall-E will be the closing film of this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct 18-26). Wall-E opens theatrically in Japan on December 20th as the last major territory for the $290m international hit. As previously reported, John Woo's Red Cliff will be TIFF's opening film.TIFF has also announced the ...