All Screen articles in 2 February 2007 – Page 3
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Features
In focus - Screen conference - Sunshine states
Screen International is hosting a conference covering all aspects of film financing, from private equity to state tax breaks.Among the speakers will be Ryan Kavanaugh whose Relativity Media this week announced a monster deal, co-financing 45 films from an unnamed studio.There are also speakers on the tax breaks that have ...
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Market focus - Is China really set to roar'
Chinese box-office revenues will almost double over the next three years, from $336m to $720m by 2010, according to analyst Screen Digest and Nielsen NRG.The rapid box-office growth has been driven by the opening up of the Chinese market, and the swift development of modern multiplexes looks set to continue.The ...
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EFM buzz - the ones to watch
USFocus Features International will commence sales on playwright Martin McDonagh's in-production black comedy In Bruges about hitmen, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes.Lionsgate brings David Moreau and Xavier Palud's adaptation of the Pang Brothers' cult horror hit The Eye, starring Jessica Alba, to market.Voltage Pictures will begin selling ...
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Burton joins Bradley's Indievest launch
Wade H Bradley, CEO and founder of film financing outfit IndieVest, has launched production and distribution house IndieVest Pictures and hired Mark Burton as head of production.
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Berlin buzz - updated with reviews
Reviewed films appear in blue - click to go to review.WORLD PREMIERESIN COMPETITIONAngel (Fr-Belg-UK) (CLOSING FILM)Dir: Francois OzonBerlinale regular and arthouse favourite Ozon makes his English-language debut with Angel, starring Romola Garai, Sam Neill and Charlotte Rampling. Celluloid Dreams did brisk business during Cannes for most key territories on the ...
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Berlin buzz - Significant others
PANORAMAAlice's House (Bra)Dir: Chico TeixeiraA winner at last year's Films in Progress at San Sebastian, the film tells of a woman who tries to overcome the hardships of working in a poor neighbourhood of Sao Paulo.Contact: Cinematografica Superfilmes, (55) 11 3031 5522Good Bye, Southern City (Azerb-Rus)Dir: Oleg SafarliyevProduced and written ...
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United Kingdom - Banking on sales
Like many producers, Phil Hunt of Head Gear Films had ambitions to expand into other areas of the business. "I knew in-house sales was a good idea, it was just a question of finding the right people to partner with," Hunt says. "There aren't that many good sales agents out ...
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Heaven scent or just a bad smell'
German producer Bernd Eichinger has been involved in some pretty sizeable hits, including The NeverEnding Story, The Name Of The Rose, Fantastic Four, Downfall and Oscar-winner Nowhere In Africa.He has made dumb German comedies (Werner) and smart German comedies (Der Bewegte Mann) and some outright stinkers (Prince Valiant, Body Of ...
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Czech Republic/Poland - Ay Karamazov!
Numerous directors have filmed Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, most notably Richard Brooks in 1958 and Russians Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov in a 1969 joint effort. Now Czech director Petr Zelenka (Wrong Side Up, Year Of The Devil) thinks the novel's time has come again."It's quite a thrilling ...
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Participant social action role for Schreiber
Participant Productions has hired event producer John Schreiber in the newly created position of executive vice-president of social action and advocacy.
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Spain - Saints above
Like The Da Vinci Code before it, Ray Loriga's Teresa (Teresa, El Cuerpo De Cristo) has drawn the ire of the Catholic Church from Madrid to London before the film - which stars Spanish siren Paz Vega as the 16th century saint - has even premiered.Controversy, says writer-director Loriga, "is ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend January 26-28
International box office continues to favour Night At The Museum despite new entries from local films making significant dents in the chart.Fox's comedy adventure spends its sixth-week running at the top spot, grossing $15.2m at the weekend, taking it up 2% despite dropping from two territories. Bollywood romance Salaam E ...
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Reviews
Summer Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses)
Dir: Antonio Banderas. Spain. 2007. 118 mins.A dreamlike and seductive second feature from Antonio Banderas, Summer Rain follows a group of young men and women in Malaga in the 1970s as they struggle to transition into adulthood. A nostalgic exercise of sorts for Banderas, himself born and raised in Malaga, ...
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Eastwood wins MPAA's inaugural Valenti Award
Clint Eastwood will receive the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) inaugural Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award on Feb 6 in Washington DC.The award, to be presented annually to an individual in the industry whose work has reached out positively and respectfully to all countries, creeds and cultures, will be presented ...
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Int'l Box Office Preview: the march rolls on for big US trio
Ben Stiller, Will Smith and Beyonce are all in action this weekend as the race to dominate the international arena heats up.Fox International's Night At The Museum starring Stiller has swept all before it in the overseas arena for several weeks and must still be the one to beat.The family ...
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New TIFF headquarters to break ground in Spring
The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) expects to break ground in the spring on its much-anticipated Festival Centre, according to TIFFG. The site consists of TIFFG's Festival Centre, a five-storey podium building housing the Group's operations, a gallery, five cinemas, educational suites and a film reference library, and Festival ...
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HotDocs welcome German, Italian, Brazilian delegations
Hots Doc Canadian Documentary Film Festival has announced it will play host to official delegations from Germany, Italy and Brazil at its 14th annual event, April 19-29. Each of the three nations will be represented by 20 to 30 established producers and broadcasters working in the format. The key events ...
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Crazy Love
Dir: Dan Klores, US, 2007, 91 minutes, color, SONY HD-cam. Love is blind, or so it turned out in the romance of ambulance-chasing lawyer Burton Pugach, who hired thugs to throw a caustic chemical into the face of his girlfriend Linda Riss when she refused to marry him ...
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UK exhibitors pull Museum in row over DVD release window
Some of the UK's biggest exhibitors are pulling Fox's Night At The Museum this weekend in a row over a shortened 13-week window between theatrical and DVD release. Odeon and Vue cinemas are amongst those taking action - though none of the chains involved was making a statement tonight.It follows ...
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StudioCanal picks up three new projects, including new Klapisch film
StudioCanal has announced three new films set to debut on its Berlin slate. The first is from director Cedric Klapisch who will re-team with his Auberge Espagnole star Romain Duris. Few details are currently available apart from cast with Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, Francois Cluzet, Karin Viard and Albert Dupontel ...