All Screen articles in 19 December 2008 – Page 2
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New Talent - A Star is Born
Benjamin Gilmour, Writer-directorAustralian film-maker Gilmour clearly relishes a challenge - he shot his debut feature, Son Of A Lion, in the radical north-west frontier of Pakistan, with non professionals and entirely undercover (foreigners are not allowed in the province). The result is a gritty drama about an Islamic boy in ...
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Profile:The VFX genius behind The Spirit
His title at San Francisco and Los Angeles-based visual effects and production company The Orphanage is chief technology officer. But Stu Maschwitz is no gadget-obsessed geek.'There are a lot of people who get off on the technical challenges; I'm not one of them,' asserts Maschwitz, who co-founded The Orphanage in ...
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Awards Countdown - Best Director
1. DANNY BOYLE - SLUMDOG MILLIONAIREBoyle’s dazzling command of his medium was never more apparent than in Slumdog, as it is now simply known. In applying his trademark visceral style famous from Trainspotting and 28 Days Later to a cheerfully preposterous Mumbai romantic saga, he is thrilling audiences everywhere the ...
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Awards Countdown - Best Screenplay
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY1. TOM McCARTHY - THE VISITOROne of the most admired screenplays of the year from McCarthy (who won the Bafta for his script for The Station Agent), The Visitor could be the one to beat for its sensitive combination of social and political issues and touching character arcs. If ...
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Awards Countdown - People
Frank: Langella: The Frost/Nixon star tells Wendy Mitchell why his on-screen portrayal of Richard Nixon had to be deeper and quieter than his stage performances
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2008 Review of the Year - Crunch time
This has been the year of the reality check. Over the last few years, there has been reason for confidence about strong growth. Globalisation was opening or reopening territories, with vast populations seemingly all demanding to be entertained. New technologies were promising to crash through the limitations of the physical ...
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2008 Review of the Year - Specialty crunch: Reality bites
The talk in the specialty and independent sector right now is all about the importance of discipline and modest scales of economy. The inflated budgets of previous high-profile awards contenders such as Cold Mountain and last year's There Will Be Blood may have raised eyebrows, but now the industry has ...
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2008 Review of the Year - 2008: The headlines
JANUARYHeath Ledger is found dead in New York; UK co-productions crash in the first year of the tax incentive; Golden Globes ceremony cancelled as writers' strike bites - Atonement and Sweeney Todd win best film honours; SPC buys The Wackness and Frozen River as Sundance ends; Trouble The Water and ...
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2008 Review of the Year - North America box office and international charts
The headline story of the 2008 box office can be summed up in three words - The Dark Knight. Warner Bros' triumphant follow-up to Batman Begins made history when it became only the second film to cross the half-billion dollar mark in North America and ended up as the second ...
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2008 Review of the Year - What they said in 2008 - Quotes of the Year
'Visual effects and animation dominate the movie-going experience like at no time in history.'Yair Landau, former president of Sony Pictures Digital, on the drive towards the cinema of spectacle (January)'A fundamental problem with film, from an investor's point of view, is the lack of visibility of both past and future ...
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2008 Review of the Year - Selected Festival prize-winners
Frozen RiverSUNDANCEGrand jury prize: dramatic awardFrozen River Dir: Courtney Hunt (w'wide gross: $2.3m)Grand Jury Prize documentary awardTrouble The Water Dirs: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal ($481,000)Audience award (dramatic)The Wackness Dir: Jonathan Levine ($2.8m)Audience award (documentary)Fields Of Fuel Dir: Josh TickellGOTHENBERGNordic film awardLet the Right One In Dir: Tomas Alfredson ($2.8m)Wonderful ...
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2008 Review of the Year - What they said in 2008 - Quotes of the Year
'We are facing a major phenomenon that could endanger the film and television industry.'Frederic Delacroix, the director of Alpa, on rising levels of online piracy (August)'They will be out of the film-finance business for a long time.'Stephen Prough, founder of Los Angeles-based investment bank Salem Partners, on the banks (August)'In ...
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Slumdog Millionaire leads London critics' nominations
Slumdog Millionaire heads the list of nominees for the 29th London Critics' Circle Film Awardswith six nominations, including Best British Film.In a strong UK line-up, there are five nominations for Hunger, Frost/Nixon and Happy-Go-Lucky.The highlight of the night will be the Critics' Circle's presentation of the Dilys Powell Award for ...
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Lyes Salem's Masquerades takes top prize in Dubai
The Dubai International Film Festival closed its fifth edition tonight with Lyes Salem's comedy Masquerades taking the top prize for best film in the Muhr Awards for Excellence In Arab Cinema. The French-Algerian production also won the festival's first FIPRESCI prize. Director Salem also stars in the tale of an ...
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Slumdog Millionaire named best film by Florida Film Critics Circle
Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler's Mickey Rourke and Frozen River's Melissa Leo are the big winners in the Florida Film Critics Circle's annual poll. Slumdog Millionaire won best picture and also earned the best director award for Danny Boyle and best screenplay for Simon Beaufoy.Marisa Tomei's supporting role in Darren Aronofsky's ...
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France creates new tax rebate system for foreign films
After four years of strategic planning and lobbying, Film France has announced the creation of a new tax rebate system aimed at foreign films shooting in the country. Adopted by the French parliament, the measure will give qualifying foreign productions a 20% rebate on their local spend with a cap ...
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here! acquires worldwide rights to Eleven Minutes documentary
here! Films has acquired worldwide rights to Michael Selditch and Rob Tate's documentary Eleven Minutes about fashion designer Jay McCarroll, winner of Season One of the reality TV show Project Runway.here!'s sister company Regent Releasing and here! Networks will distribute the film day-and-date in theatres and on the cable network ...
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SAG Award nominations include Penn, Winslet, Streep, Langella
As Hollywood actors pitch their tents on either side of the strike authorisation vote, the Screen Actors Guild announced its nominees today [December 18] for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 25.Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Mickey Rourke will contest the lead actor ...
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Lars Bredo Rahbek leaves Denmark's Nimbus
In a surprise move, producer Lars Bredo Rahbek (the man behind Denmark's biggest box-office hit of the year Flame & Citron) is to leave Nimbus after 11 years to take up a new position as Chief of Fiction at state broadcaster DR TV.The move comes as Nimbus appears to have ...
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France 's annual IFCIC production prize goes to Les Films du Poisson.
Film financing institute's $14,600 purse for most promising young independent production company goes to Les Films du Poisson. IFCIC, France's film financing institute, has given its annual prize to Les Films du Poisson. The award comes with a $14,600 (Euros 10,000) purse and is given for the most promising young ...