All Screen articles in 19 December 2007 – Page 4
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Warner Bros signs longterm TV deal with Saran Media in Turkey
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-year television distribution agreement with Saran Media in Turkey.The new output deal expands upon WBITD's current deal with Saran, its partner of the last 10 years.Under the terms Saran has acquired premium, basic, free and subscription VOD rights to a wide ...
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Marketing - The Social Revolution
Last December, Bettina Sherick, executive vice-president of international digital marketing at Twentieth Century Fox, sat down with her team and said: 'This is the year we figure out how to make all our content portable.' Aware that web browsers are no longer drawn automatically to a film's official website and ...
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United Kingdom - Off The Record
EMI has a long history as a record label - everyone from the Beatles to Coldplay - but its burgeoning film business owes much to two men and their motorcycles."Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to meet with us about a soundtrack, and we ended up doing the DVD release ...
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Production - Joined up writing
In the beginning was the word. Then there was the motion picture. And now it is increasingly difficult to tell the difference.The film industry is going through a book adaptation frenzy. While this has been an important part of the inspiration for films since the industry began, today books are ...
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Marketing - How to win friends
The rise of MySpace has propelled social-networking communities into the web stratosphere. Launched in 2003 and sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $580m two years later, MySpace's early symbiosis between indie-rock bands and their fans - and the ability for users to personalise their pages - earned it a ...
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The critical eye - Tolly good show
I have a suspicion we're on the verge of a sub-prime crash in commercial film style. It's a crash that has been postponed by Hollywood's traditional strengths in the script and acting departments, not to mention the studios' marketing muscle and distribution leverage. But it seems to me that in ...
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International - Compass points up
While The Golden Compass was largely responsible for the 14.5% week-on-week increase in the international top 40, two new entries from France made their presence known taking a collective $4.3m.Roissy Films' comedy L'Auberge Rouge was the second highest new entry, coming in at number nine with a $3.1m take. The ...
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Profile:Adulthooddirector Noel Clarke
It is mid-November and almost four weeks into the five-week shoot of his debut feature, actor-writer-director Noel Clarke is a man in his element. He is shooting on the west London streets where he grew up and today's council flat location is 250m from the gym where he was working ...
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United States - Quarterlife change
I don't watch TV, I make TV," says Marshall Herskovitz. "I don't do what other people do. I do what I do and I do it the same way, whether it's film or TV or the internet."Herskovitz and partner Ed Zwick - who between them have writing, producing and directing ...
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Screen opinion - Wave building
There's no technical definition of a 'wave' in cinema. Mostly it's just a convenient and somewhat patronising way of lumping together three or more films that happen to come from a small territory. It matters little whether there's anything other than coincidence to these films' success.The wide variations in style ...
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Awards Countdown - Screenwriting - Keeping To The Script
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY1. Tony GilroyMichael ClaytonGilroy, who wrote all three Bourne films, came up with one of the year's smartest original scripts in Michael Clayton, which also marked his directorial debut. If he is pushed out of the director category by heavyweight veterans, he will likely be the front runner for ...
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Screenwriters vying fortop awards
The Coen brothers tell Geoffrey Macnab about the process of adapting Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For OldMen.
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United States - Slings and arrows
Writer-director Alex Holdridge has been on Hollywood's radar for several years, yet circumstances led him to shoot his third feature, In Search Of A Midnight Kiss, for just $12,000.Holdridge, who attended the University of Texas, was living in Austin when he was inspired to move into film by the early ...
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International Box Office review 2007
By December 9, the six US majors - Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, Sony and Walt Disney Studios - had recorded a total box office of more than $8.6bn in the international marketplace, surpassing their combined international gross for the whole of 2006 ($8.5bn). Last year ...
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Alvin And The Chipmunks
Dir: Tim Hill. US. 2007. 91minsFor nearly 50 years, in various incarnations on the small screen and in other forms of media, lively chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore have been delighting young audiences around the world, wreaking havoc and crooning in distinctively high-pitched, three-part harmonies which have become a pop ...
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Humphreys includes Katyn, Waveriders in first Dublin programme
Grainne Humphreys, new Director of the Jameson Dublin InternationalFilm Festival (JDIFF), has announced the first titles included in her first programme for the sixth JDIFF, running Feb 15-24, 2008. There will be a Special Presentation of GW Pabst's classic Pandora's Box (1929) in the 900-seater Savoy Cinema with live ...
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Atonement leads Golden Globe nominations
Joe Wright’s Atonement leads the nominations for the 65th annual Golden Globes, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Atonement has seven nominations, for best film, director (Joe Wright), screenplay (Christopher Hampton), actress (Keira Knightley), actor (James McAvoy), supporting actress (Saoirse Ronan), and score (Dario Marianelli).
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Israeli Producers Association to host international networking session
Feeling they did not get the credit they deserve for the recent forward leap of the Israeli films and their resounding worldwide success, the Israeli Producers Association is organizing a networking session to be attended by international experts, including producer-director Claude Lelouch, producers Cedomir Kolar, Paul Trijbits, and the BBC's ...
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Rezo works on new Cebula and Laine projects
At the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, Rezo Films will unveil two new films, one from director Idit Cebula and the other from Marion Laine. The former, Two Lives Plus One, is produced by Les Films du Kiosque and stars Emmanuelle Devos and Gerard Darmon in the story of ...
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European Commission approves UK Lottery funding
The European Commission has given the greenlight to 12 Lottery funded film support schemes in the UK. This allays any concerns that the funding could fall foul of EU state aid rules and the schemes have now been approved until the end of 2012.The go-ahead covers more than $45m (£22m) ...