All Screen articles in 2 October 2008 – Page 3
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Abbott Vision in talks to acquire Tightrope Pictures
Writer's think-tank Abbott Vision, headed by Paul Abbott, aims to buy out producer Hilary Bevan Jones from her share of their independent production company Tightrope Pictures and rename it Abbott Productions.Abbott, creator of Shameless, aims to expand Abbott Vision through production of new drama and other content, for which Tightrope ...
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Six film-makers begin Cannes Residence de la Cinefondation
The Cannes Residence de la Cinefondation has started its autumn session with six new film-makers. The group will spend the nextfour and a half months in Paris whilst honing their first or second feature with the support of the local film industry.Contrary to recent editions which seemed particularly female-heavy, this ...
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Danish production Valhalla Rising completes shooting
After ten weeks in the Scottish highlands, shooting on Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising has been completed. The film stars Bond villain Mads Mikkelsenk as One-Eye, a savage warrior held captive by a clan leader. With the help of a young child, he escapes on a Viking ship which leads ...
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Irish exhibitors to receive grants for switch to digital
Ireland's Cultural Cinema Consortium has announced a scheme which will provide funding for the purchase and installation of digital projection equipment in Irish cinemas. The consortium comprises the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board (IFB),The grants will be made available to full-time cinema operators who can demonstrate that they ...
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A French Gigolo (Cliente)
Dir: Josiane Balasko. France. 2008.102mins.Nathalie Baye gives a classy, nuanced performance as a successful divorced woman who pays young male escorts for sex in A French Gigolo (Cliente). Writer, director and co-star Josiane Balasko's intelligent take on how the need for money and/or sex dictates human behaviour is consistently engaging ...
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How To Lose Friends & Alienate People
Dir: Robert Weide. 2008. 109mins.The big-screen translation of Brit journalist Toby Young's doomed sojourn at Vanity Fair is a slick package that recalls everything from The Devil Wears Prada to A Fish Called Wanda (mainly for the dead dog gag). It's a breezy interpretation which should turn out the crowds ...
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Momentum Pictures acquires rights to The Crew
Momentum Pictures has acquired all UK and Irish rights to The Crew, a thriller based on the novel Outlaws by Kevin Sampson.The Crew stars Scot Williams (Backbeat, The Tulse Luper Suitcases), Kenny Doughty (Elizabeth, Crush) Rory McCann (Alexander, Hot Fuzz) and Stephen Graham (This is England and Michael Mann's forthcoming ...
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Rotterdam Festival undergoes revamp
Rotterdam is going in for a revamp. The 38th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), running 21st Jan to 1st Feb 2009, is to get a new and simplified format with three main sections - Bright Futures, Spectrum and Signals.The overhaul comes amid criticisms in recent years that ...
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Sparrow, Monkeys lead nominees for Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Five films - two co-productions and one each from Hong Kong, India and China - are in the running to be crowned best feature at the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs), being held in early November in Australia.The films are Tulpan (Kazakhstan/Russia/Switzerland/Poland/Germany), Uc maymun (Three Monkeys, Turkey/France/Italy), Men Jeuk ...
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Pierre Morel to direct action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity
District B13's Pierre Morel is in talks to direct the action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity Media, who acquired the screenplay from producer Arne Schmidt based on the novel Firing Point by Don Keith and George Wallace.Kavanaugh will produce with Original Film's Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe. Relativity's Tucker Tooley will ...
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90% of digital screens not adequate for 3D experience, film-maker claims
Only one-in-10 of digital screens is adequate for 3D screenings, claims pioneering 3D film-maker Ben Stassen.Stassen is CEO of Brussels-based nWave which has been behing a series of successful IMAX projects and this year released 3D animation Fly Me To The Moon. But although he claims 3D is the 'second ...
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India rolls out three big titles for Eid, Gandhi holidays
Two big Hindi movies and a Pakistani film are set to open on Thursday, October 2, in India in order to capitalise on the Eid and Gandhi Jayanti (Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary) holidays. Traditionally, the Muslim festival of Eid and the Hindu festival of Diwali are the two big holidays ...
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Quantum Of Solace to open in India one week before US
Sony Pictures Releasing India has announced that Quantum Of Solace will be released in India on November 7, one week before the US opening on November 14. The latest film in the Bond franchise will be released in the UK on October 31. However, this marks the first time that ...
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Tigerlily wraps production on Guo Xiaolu's La Chinoise
The UK's Tigerlily Films has wrapped production on London-set drama La Chinoise (working title), which is directed by Chinese writer and filmmaker Guo Xiaolu. Produced by Tigerlily's Natasha Dack through the Warp X Low Budget Initiative, the film follows a Chinese girl who moves to London and her encounters with ...
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Japan's Avex and Docomo establish mobile contents company
Avex Group film subsidiary Avex Entertainment and mobile communications giant NTT Docomo have partnered to establish a company to create mobile contents. Under the name Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc, the company will incorporate next February and begin operations in March. Avex will contribute 70% and Docomo 30% of start-up ...
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Wajda, Krauze & Kos-Krauze receive funding from PISF
The Polish Film Institute (PISF) has awarded funding to four projects in its third funding session this year and has tagged a number of films as eligible for support in the coming months. Husband-and-wife film-makers Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze (Saviour's Square, My Nikifor) will receive $1.9m (PLN 4.5m) for ...
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Deepa Mehta to be honoured by LA's Loyola Marymount SFTV
Loyola Marymount University's School Of Film And Television (SFTV) will honour Deepa Mehta with the 2008 Infinite Power Of Story Lifetime Achievement Award.Mehta will receive the award during the univesity's Film Outside The Frame Festival on October 13 at the DGA in Los Angeles.. She will also be the first ...
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David J Anderman named general counsel for Lucasfilm
David J. Anderman has been named general counsel for Lucasfilm Ltd and will now oversee all business affairs and legal issues for the privately held company.Anderman has been a key member of Lucasfilm's legal team since he joined the company in 1998 as associate director of business affairs. He was ...
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Peter Webber to directThe Spider's House
Peter Webber, who directed the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising, will direct Timothy Burrill's next production The Spider's House. Burrill's co-producer credits include La Vie En Rose and Swimming Pool. The screenplay for The Spider's House is by Laurie Cooke ...
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Peter Webber to directThe Spider's House
Peter Webber, who directed the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising, will direct Timothy Burrill's next production The Spider's House. Burrill's co-producer credits include La Vie En Rose and Swimming Pool. The screenplay for The Spider's House is by Laurie Cooke ...