All Screen articles in 20 August 2007 – Page 3
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Features
United Arab Emirates - Gulf of opportunity
Jon Fitzgerald's career has taken him from Park City to Santa Barbara via the Bahamas and Florida - and now to the Gulf, where he has been appointed director of Abu Dhabi's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (Meiff).Invited by the Abu Dhabi Film Commission's Abed Awad, Fitzgerald was initially ...
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Locations - 'I've always tried to enjoy wherever I go'
When it comes to hardened veterans of international film production, they don't come much more experienced than Anthony Waye.Executive producer of Casino Royale, he has worked on no fewer than 10 Bond films, and his remarkable record includes working as assistant director on the original Star Wars, The Elephant Man, ...
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MWFF 2007: World competition
WORLD PREMIERES1 Day (Une Journee) (Switz-Fr)Dir Jacob BergerSales Vega Film, (41) 44 384 80 90The Other Side (A Outra Margem) (Port-Br)Dir Luis Filipe RochaSales Madfilmes, (351) 21 325 58 00Ben X (Bel-Neth)Dir Nic BalthazarSales MMG NV, (32) 2 453 03 04The Other Boy (Der Andere Junge) (Ger)Dir Volker EinrauchSales Josefine ...
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Film Sales Company takes on NYC Serenade
Andrew Herwitz' Film Sales Company has acquired worldwide rights to Frank Whaley's NYC Serenade, which will premiere in Toronto next month. Whaley's third feature stars Freddie Prinze Jr, Chris Klein and Jamie Lynn Sigler in a coming-of-age tale about two boyhood friends who try to work out their place ...
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Studios clear decks as summer season reaches end
Hollywood's international distribution divisions are clearing out thedecks before the autumn season arrives and for many this will be aweekend of consolidation.Fox International can expect healthy sustained play on The SimpsonsMovie with five new releases including Russia and Holland on Aug 16and Brazil a day later. The film stands at ...
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Zentropa plans feature about Danish terrorist group
Zentropa is planning a feature film to tell the story of the Blekinge Street Gang, the Danish terrorist group which will also be the subject of two TV projects.Since last year Zentropa has been preparing Blekinge Street, anoriginal story based on the real-life events 20 years ago scripted byLars Kjeldgaard ...
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Goa to host new script development workshop with NFDC
India's National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), in collaboration with the Directorate of Film Festivals, will conduct a script development workshop from Nov 18-24 in Goa during the International Film Festival of India. The Indian Script Development Workshop (ISDW) 2007 is designed for Indian scriptwriters who have finalized their scripts for ...
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Slingshot and Screen WM to co-produce seven features
UK regional screen agency Screen WM and new digital studio Slingshot Studios have struck a slate co-financing deal that will cover seven features during the next two years. Screen WM's production funds will finance 25% of film budgets, with the rest covered by Slingshot and its financing partners. Screen WM ...
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Bruce Dickinson-penned Chemical Weddingstarts shooting
London-based Focus Films has started production on supernatural horror film Chemical Wedding. Julian Doyle, who edited Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Time Bandits, will direct. The story is based on an original screenplay by Bruce Dickinson, frontman of Iron Maiden. Dickinson will provide the soundtrack to the film. Warner Music has ...
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Fortissimo takes worldwide sales on Love Comes Lately
Fortissimo has taken worldwide rights outside Germany to Jan Schuette's Love Comes Lately from zero fiction film / zero west filmproduktion.The English-language drama, which will screenas anofficial selection inToronto, is based on short stories by Nobel prizewinner Isaac Bashevis Singer. The film stars Otto Tausig, Rhea Perlman, Barbara Hershey and ...
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Reviews
The Invasion
Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel. US. 2007. 100mins The latest remake of Jack Finney's 1955 novel The Body Snatchers is a success if viewed as a slick thriller from mainstream producer Joel Silver but a disappointment as the US debut of Germany's Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall, The Experiment) starring Nicole Kidman. Completed, reportedly, ...
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Tykwer action thriller gets $5.3m from German fund
Tom Tykwer's action thriller The International has been awarded Euros 4m by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).It isthe third largest amount allocated by the incentive programme after the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer (£12m) and Bryan Singer's Valkyrie ($6.4m). The 'German spend' incentive scheme has now paid out almost two-thirds ...
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Credit slump hits $1bn studio slate plan, says report
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank have pulled out of a commitment to underwrite a $1bn MGM slate deal in the wake of a credit crunch in global markets, according to The Financial Times.The planned deal aims to attract private equity, hedge fund and institutional investors to back MGM productions and ...
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16 films feature at Nordic Co-Production Forum
16 new Scandinavian and German feature film projects, with budgetsbetween $1.2 and $9m (Euros 0.9m-7m), will be presented at the second NordicCo-Production Forum, which takes place between Aug 22-23 as part of theNew Nordic Films market during the Norwegian International FilmFestival in Haugesund. Total production volume exceeds $68m (Euros 50m.)Last ...
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IFC takes North American rights to The Last Mistress
IFC Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Catherine Breillat's drama The Last Mistress (Une Vieille Maitresse) and will be release theatrically and on its On Demand platform. The Last Mistress was announced today in the line-up of the 45th New York Film Festival that runs from Sept ...
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Ganis re-elected as AMPAS president
Sid Ganis was re-elected for a third consecutive term as president ofthe Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences this week [14]following a meeting of the board of governors.Robert Rehme, an executives branch governor and previous Academypresident, was re-elected first vice president, while actors branchgovernor Tom Hanks and music branch ...
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Sony Pictures Classics to finance Demme drama
Sony Pictures Classics will fully finance Jonathan Demme's upcoming family drama Dancing With Shiva, which as previously announced will star Anne Hathaway. The company holds worldwide rights to the story, which takes place over the course of a wedding as an estranged daughter returns home to her family and ...
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Sayles' Honeydripper at heart of Clark Atlanta markering course
Independent distributor Ira Deutchman and film-maker Will Packer will launch an educational and marketing partnership with Clark Atlanta University during this autumn. The partnership has developed a marketing course centred on the upcoming theatrical release of John Sayles' Honeydripper starring Danny Glover. The course will be taught through ...
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New York Film Festival reveals line-up
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis will close the 45th New York Film Festival, which runs from Sept 28-Oct 14. As previously announced, Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited is the opening night screening and the Coen Brothers' No Country For Old Men is the Centerpiece selection. Predictably American film-makers ...
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New Thai production outfit Extra Virgin kicks off with media documentary
Thai film-maker Pimpaka Towira has set up a new Bangkok-based production outfit Extra Virgin with former Bangkok International Film Festival programmer Mai Meksawan and former Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) executive Ruengsang Sripaoraya.'The company aims to start with independent and low-budget productions and branch out to a more diverse range ...