All Screen articles in 20 August 2007 – Page 2
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Tribeca organisers set 2008 dates starting Apr 23
The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival will run in New York City from Apr 23-May 4, organisers have announced. The early deadline for entries is Nov 16 and the official deadline is Dec 14. The late deadline for 2008 feature work in progress is Jan 11, 2008. The line-up for ...
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Boone elected to AMPAS education and culture arm
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Public Relations Branch governor Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been elected president of the Academy's educational and cultural arm the Academy Foundation. Executives Branch governor Robert Rehme was elected vice president, Film Editors Branch governor Donn Cambern was re-elected vice president, Music Branch ...
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United Artists secures $500m slate deal
Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's United Artists have secured the awaited $500m slate financing deal through Merrill Lynch.The financing from investors in Europe, Asia, Africa and the US was expected but it comes against the background of financial turmoil in global markets which has threatened some deals.Yesterday Goldman Sachs and ...
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Evans and Fanning join Push cast
Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Djimon Hounsou have joined the cast of Paul McGuigan's thriller Push, which Summit Entertainment will finance and distribute in North America. Summit holds the majority of international rights to the project, which is being co-financed by Icon who will release in the ...
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Reviews
3:10 To Yuma
Dir: James Mangold US . 2007. 117minsThe western has become the most unfashionable of genres, with a reputation for box-office poison that persists despite the relatively recent success of Open Range (2003). The fiftieth anniversary remake of 3:10 To Yuma is sturdy enough to withstand the jinx. Handsomely crafted, it ...
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Private investment firm buys Sunset Gower Studios
California-based private equity fund GI Partners has sold Sunset Gower Studios to Hudson Capital. GI Partners purchased the studio, formerly home to Columbia Pictures for 50 years, in 2004 and transformed the lot into a modern full-service independent studio. Studio facilities include fibre-optic communications, CGI-ready Cyclorama stages, 130-space ...
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Strike jitters ripple out worldwide
The possibility of an industry-wide stoppage in the summer of 2008 by the US industry's writers', actors' and directors' guilds is already having an impact in North America - an impact that could soon be felt in the international marketplace.As they did in 2000-01, the last time there was a ...
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Features
Industry moves
PPI FILLS KEY POSTSParamount Pictures International has hired new executives in two key territories. Ichiro Okazaki, who comes from BVI, will take up the role of president of Paramount Pictures Japan from September 1. Pierre Auger will become general manager, Paramount Pictures Spain, from December 2007.ODD LOT BOOSTS TOP LINEOdd ...
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United States - Freedom of the pen
When series regular Steve Kloves ducked out of writing the fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, producer David Heyman turned to Michael Goldenberg. Goldenberg is no stranger to challenging adaptations, with Contact and Peter Pan among his credits. He immediately felt he had a ...
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Opinion: Format war is futile
A barely noted landmark was passed this week when next-generation DVDs overtook VHS in worldwide sales. Although it is not much of a breakthrough, the unsung but remarkable resilience of tape is a reminder that new media does not simply kill its predecessors.Still, the arrival of the rival Blu-ray and ...
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In Focus - The Latest Strike News
Contract talks between Hollywood writers and their studio employers got off to a testy start last month: Writers Guild of America (WGA) reps dismissed a proposal by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (Amptp) for a study of the residuals paid in new media markets - perhaps the ...
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Finland - The war zone
Marko Makilaakso is a tenacious film-maker. When film school turned him down, he started making his own short films and music videos, eventually establishing an award-winning career.A few years later, when the Finnish Film Foundation refused to fund his debut feature on the grounds it was a horror film, Makilaakso ...
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Montreal World Film Festival - Second life
Serge Losique is on the phone and he is laughing. The president of the Montreal World Film Festival (Mwff) is not unlike the captain of a storm-tossed ship now entering safe harbour. The distributors who refused to give him films are now providing top titles (see sidebar). The agencies that ...
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United Kingdom - East meets west
A chance meeting on holiday set Donal Fernandes on the previously untrodden Estonian route to Cannes.The first-time producer was on a trip to the Eastern European country when he bumped into local film-maker Kadri Kousaar, who was struggling to produce her first feature, Magnus.He had previously met her in 2006 ...
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Creating the legend
In the next month or so, film festivals in Montreal, Venice and Toronto will debut hundreds of new films. Some will be world premieres; others will be the first screenings outside the country of origin; and still others will be a picture's North American or European premiere.Many of these films ...
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Yellow fever still contagious
Springfield's favourite family held on to the top spot as The Simpsons Movie generated $24.1m in its third week, pushing it well past the $200m mark. Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix trailed behind, taking $23.8m over the three-day period for $548.4m to date. And Disney's Ratatouille continued ...
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Challenge sees Roeg in his element
Rather unusually for my movies, it does have a beginning and an end,' Nicolas Roeg says as an introduction of his new feature Puffball at the Galway Film Fleadh in July.That is not to say the 79-year-old director, who made his mark with challenging films including Don't Look Now, Bad ...
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International box office - That rising feeling
Japan's overall box-office earnings for the first half of 2007 totalled $778.2m (Yen92.5bn), a tiny 0.7% increase from the same period last year, according to data from Japan's top 13 largest distributors.Toho, Japan's largest distributor, topped the list with earnings of $194.1m (Yen23.8bn), but managed only 75% of last year's ...
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The little black book
When deciding where to locate a shoot, the crucial factors might seem cut and dried. What are the tax breaks' Are there decent production facilities' Is there a skilled local workforce' What locations are needed'But such hard-headed considerations overlook an aspect of film-making that has a major impact on the ...
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Chasing The Long Tail: Mike Binder
For Mike Binder, the 2001 comedy The Search For John Gissing remains something of a bittersweet experience. The film-maker, who scored critical success with The Upside Of Anger (2005) and this year's Reign Over Me, financed the film independently 'with a lot of my own money and that of family ...