All Screen articles in 2 February 2007 – Page 6

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    Aardman and Dreamworks finally part ways

    2007-01-31T04:00:00Z

    DreamWorks andAardman have formally announced the premature ending of their five-film exclusive partnership that dates back to 1999.They worked together on award winning animanations including Chicken Run, Oscar winner Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and, most recently, Flushed Away.But the split was widely expected. 'Both companies areaware ...

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    Court lets ACTRA's strike strategy stand

    2007-01-31T03:06:00Z

    Canadian performers representative ACTRA won a preliminary battle in its labour dispute with Canadian and US producers when the Superior Court of Ontario today dismissed an injunction application from the Canadian Film & Television Production Association (CFTPA). The CFTPA was asking the court to deem illegal the letters of continuation ...

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    Hoblit's Untraceable rounds out cyber thriller cast

    2007-01-31T00:20:00Z

    Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Cross and Mary Beth Hurt have joined Diane Lane in the cast of Lakeshore Entertainment's upcoming cyber thriller Untraceable.Screen Gems will release the film in North America and Sony Pictures Releasing International is distributing in Latin America.Untraceable is set to begin production in February and ...

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    Universal unveils regional film-buying network across its labels

    2007-01-31T00:08:00Z

    Universal Pictures and Focus Features are consolidating their worldwide acquisitions operations to support NBC Universal's global theatrical distribution network.Universal Pictures chairman Marc Shmuger, co-chairman David Linde, and Focus Features and Rogue Pictures chairman James Schamus will oversee the restructured division along with Universal executive vice president Michael Joe and Focus ...

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    Relativity strikes massive studio co-financing pact with Citigroup

    2007-01-30T23:00:00Z

    Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is teaming up with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking to co-finance approximately 45 films from an as-yet-unnamed Hollywood studio over the next five years. Exact details of the this massive deal were not disclosed at time of writing. However, if it follows the parameters of recent ...

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    SilverDocs pays tribute to Jonathan Demme

    2007-01-30T22:35:00Z

    SilverDocs will honour Jonathan Demme at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, the six-day documentary festival's centerpiece event set to take place in June just outside Washington DC.Demme's documentary work includes: last year's Neil Young: Heart Of Gold; The Agronomist (2003), an account of the life of Haitian journalist and human rights ...

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    Cinemavault adds three European premieres to Berlin slate

    2007-01-30T22:24:00Z

    Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has boarded a number of new projects for the European Film Market in Berlin, among them the schizophrenia drama Canvas starring Marcia Gay Harden.Joe Pantoliano and newcomer Devon Gearhart also star in Joseph Greco's film, which will receive its European premiere in Berlin and centres on ...

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    IFC pounces on Wild Tigers for North America

    2007-01-30T21:55:00Z

    IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights from Genius Products to Cam Archer's coming-of-age drama Wild Tigers I Have Known.IFC will release the film on Feb 28 through its theatrical and On Demand cable day-and-date distribution division IFC First Take.The deal is the latest example of IFC's strong alignment with ...

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    Chinese box office to double by 2010, says report

    2007-01-30T21:40:00Z

    Chinese box office revenues will almost double over the next three years, according to analyst Screen Digest and Nielsen NRG, from last year's $336m to $720m by 2010.The rapid box office growth that has been driven by the opening up of the Chinese market and the fast development of modern ...

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    Barab named international chief at American World Pictures

    2007-01-30T20:56:00Z

    Martin Barab has joined Los Angeles-based distributor American World Pictures as president of international production and distribution.Barab, who recently exited his post as president of beleaguered Bauer Martinez Studio's production division Lucky 50 Productions, will work closely with American World Pictures chairman Mark Lester and production president Dana Dubovsky.Aside from ...

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    Bogeydom acquires Kitamura's LoveDeath for EFM launch

    2007-01-30T20:06:00Z

    Toronto-based Bogeydom Licensing has acquired world rights to Japanese cult director Ryuhei Kitamura's LoveDeath, a production of Tokyo-based companies Napalm Films and Suplex Inc. The film, which premieres at Berlin's European Film Market, follows two lovers whose passion for each other incites the wrath of everyone around them, from the ...

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    Fox promotes key production and animation executives

    2007-01-30T17:38:00Z

    Fox Filmed Entertainment has announced a number of promotions of key production executives, with Hutch Parker appointed vice chairman, to also oversee Fox Animation in addition to Twentieth Century Fox (TCF) Film Group. He had been president of Twentieth Century Fox since 2005 and joined Fox in 1995. Emma Watts ...

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    UK investigations lead to arrest of 16 pirate DVD suspects

    2007-01-30T17:06:00Z

    The UK 's Federation Against Copyright Theft announced that its anti-piracy investigators have worked with law enforcement officials to target pirate DVD sellers at markets in Durham and Nottingham, England. There were 16 suspects arrested: nine at Tanfield Lea, Durham and seven at Hucknall, Nottingham. More than 18,000 pirate DVDs ...

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    Japanese films take 53% share of local box office

    2007-01-30T14:26:00Z

    As predicted, Japanese films had their most successful year ever at the local box office in 2006, grossing $884.48m (Y107.75bn) for a 53.2% market share, according to the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren). The strong results mark an increase of 31.8% over 2005 when the local industry had ...

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    Berlinale Cameras to be awarded to Mina, Meszaros and KINO publishers

    2007-01-30T14:13:00Z

    The Berlinale Camera awards will be presented at this year's festival as part of the Berlinale Special section to Hungary's Marta Meszaros, the Italian documentary filmmaker Gianni Mina, and Dorothea Moritz and Ron Holloway, publishers of KINO German Film. Announcing this year's programme at a press conference on Tuesday morning ...

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    Rome aims to lure 300 buyers to second Business Street event

    2007-01-30T12:45:00Z

    The Rome Festival's industry event Business Street is looking to target buyers and sellers yet more aggressively. Speaking in Rotterdam, Sylvain Auzou, who runs Business Street with Diamara Parodi, has explained just how the market will be expanded further. The second festival is to run from October 18-27 (just a ...

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    Klimt finally gets UK release

    2007-01-30T10:08:00Z

    Raoul Ruiz's film Klimt, about the fin de siecle Austrian painter, is to be released in the UK in the summer by Soda Pictures. Two versions of the film are in circulation - a 129 minute director's cut and a shorter producer's version. After consulting with exhibitors, Soda has decided ...

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    Bavaria Film International to handle Israel's Beaufort

    2007-01-30T09:54:00Z

    Bavaria Film International has taken on international sales for Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar's powerful anti-war statement Beaufort which will have its world premiere in the forthcoming Berlinale's Competition.Produced by Metro Communications in cooperation with United King Films and Movie Plus, Beaufort was adapted by Cedar from the novel of the ...

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    Coach 14 takes Heros and Shotgun to Berlin

    2007-01-30T06:36:00Z

    New French sales house Coach 14 has acquired two films heading into Berlin. The first, Heros, is a $2.6m (Euros 2m) psycho drama in the styleof Fabrice du Welz's Calvairesays Coach 14 co-founder Pape Boye.Directedby first-timer Bruno Merle, the film stars Michael Youn, Patrick Chesnais andElodie Bouchez. Heros marks adeparture ...

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    Soren Kragh-Jacobsen plans political thriller for Nimbus

    2007-01-30T04:00:00Z

    Danish director Soren Kragh-Jacobsen will start shooting political thriller Det som ingen ved (literal translation: What No One Knows) on Feb 19. The eight-week shoot will take place in Denmark and Sweden. The project will star Anders W. Berthelsen, who starred in the director's Mifune as well as in another ...