All Screen articles in 20 February 2009 – Page 2
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India's FICCI Frames conference opens in reflective mood
The tenth FICCI Frames entertainment convention got underway in Mumbai today (Feb 17) with industry leaders chewing over the impact that the global financial crisis is having on the local film and television industries. Although domestic box office picked up in the fourth quarter of 2008, India's film industry is ...
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Robert Towne to receive AFI Dallas Star Award at late March festival
Robert Towne will receive the AFI Dallas Star Award in recognition of his career as a film-maker and screenwriter on the 35th anniversary of Chinatown.The festival also announced ten new additions to the line-up, among them Scott Hamilton's documentary Oscar nominee The Garden, Kazuya Tsurumaki's Japanese anime adaptation Evangelion 1.0 ...
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Dod Mantle takes ASC feature film prize for Slumdog Millionaire
Anthony Dod Mantle won top feature film honours for his work on Slumdog Millionaire at the 23rd Annual American Society Of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards on Sunday [February 15].Mantle's victory served as the latest reminder - not that any were needed - that the Mumbai-set rags-to-riches tale approaches Oscar weekend ...
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Alta Films picks up Spanish rights to Stephen Frears' Cheri
Spanish distribution outfit Alta Films has picked up theatrical rights for Spain to Stephen Frears' Berlin competition title Cheri, starring Michelle Pfeiffer. The deal was done at Berlin between Alta and Pathe International who hold sales rights to the film. A release date is yet to be confirmed. Frears' drama ...
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Film producers to access Saxony-Anhalt $64m loan programme
Film producers will have access to a $64m (Euros 50m) loan programme in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt which has been launched to support the media industry in the state. The 'Sachsen -Anhalt IMPULS Medien' programme offers locally based production companies loans of up to $3.8m (Euros 3m) per project. The loans are ...
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UK Film Council takes delegation to FICCI Frames in Mumbai
On the back of the success of Slumdog Millionaire and with the UK India co-production treaty in place, UK film companies will travel to Mumbai to meet their Indian counterparts and to attend the 10th edition of India's FICCI Frames Entertainment Conference. UK film sales, production, facilities and service companies ...
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Motion Picture Association opens Mumbai office
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has opened an office in Mumbai to represent the US film, video and TV industries at a time when the US studios are stepping up their investment in Indian film and TV. The newly-established Motion Picture Distribution Association (India) Pvt Ltd will work with local ...
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Hyde Park, Activers to co-produce Korean Mata Hari story
Korea's Activers Entertainment has announced a deal with Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and investment banking firm Film Financial Services (FFS) to co-produce Against Conspiracy (working title), a $20m film based on 'the Korean Mata Hari story' of Kim Soo-im, a woman accused of and executed for being a North ...
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Red Cliff leads the charge for Hong Kong Film Awards
John Woo's war epic Red Cliff is the front-runner for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards, with 14 nominations, followed by biopic Ip Man and fantasy epic Painted Skin with 12 nods each. Red Cliff was nominated for best film, best director, best actor for Tony Leung Chiu-wai's performance, and ...
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Hunger dominates Irish Film & Television Awards
Steve McQueen's Hunger collected six of the major film awards at last night's Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony in Dublin. Hunger was named best film, and also collected IFTAs for actor in a lead role, film for Michael Fassbender, actor in a supporting role, film for Liam Cunningham, original ...
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Reviews
Crossing Over
Dir/scr: Wayne Kramer. US. 2008. 113mins.Trying to put a human face on the plight of undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles, Crossing Over is an unsteady balancing act of bleeding-heart melodrama, crime thriller, and multi-thread ensemble piece in the vein of Crash or Babel. Writer-director Wayne Kramer's ambitious third feature has ...
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Chan, Polybona establish production company Cinema Popular
Beijing-based Polybona Film Distribution, Hong Kong film-maker Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Chinese producer/director Huang Jianxin have jointly established Beijing-based film production company Cinema Popular, as part of Beijing-based Bona International Film Group.The company has set up a film fund of $73.1m (RMB500m) and plans to produce 15 films in the ...
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Rai sells Fausto Brizzi's Ex to Notro for Spain
Rai Trade has seen a flurry of interest in Ex, the new romantic comedy directed by Fausto Brizzi. The film is currently at the top of the domestic box office, grossing $6.1m (Euros 4.76m) off its first seven days in Italian cinemas.During Berlin's EFM, Rai Trade sold Ex to Notro ...
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BritWeek to kick off on April 21 with a gala dinner for Blair
BritWeek 2009 will kick off on April 21 with a gala dinner honouring former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in support of the charity Malaria No More.The programme for the third annual networking and fundraising event includes a film-makers forum for Los Angeles and London-based creatives.'We Brits love Los Angeles ...
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Benjamin Button scores another stunning weekend for WBPI
If there were any doubts that The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button lacked the momentum to replicate its impressive North American success overseas those were dispelled at the weekend as David Fincher's Oscar-nominated drama stayed ahead of the Hollywood pack and soared past $100m with another dominant display.An estimated $31m ...
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Marcos De Oliveira named head of MPAA's Brazil operations
Marcos De Oliveira has been named managing director of the Motion Picture Association's Brazil operations, a role that will place him front and centre of the body's government relations and anti-piracy initiatives in the territory.De Oliviera will assume his new position on February 16 and will report to Motion Picture ...
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Keri Russell joins Fraser, Ford in CBS Films' first feature
Keri Russell has signed to star opposite Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford in The Untitled Crowley Project, CBS Films' first feature that is set to go before the cameras on April 6.In the drama Russell and Fraser will play parents of children with a rare genetic disorder who hook up ...
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Friday The 13th remake sets horror opening record with $42.2m
Horror has a new champion as remake specialist Marcus Nispel's Friday The 13th (2009) scored the biggest launch weekend in the history of the genre thanks to an estimated $42.2m three-day haul, breezing past the previous mark set by The Grudge on $39.1m in October 2004.That the number one launch ...
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Peru's The Milk Of Sorrow wins Golden Bear at Berlinale
For the second year running, the Berlinale's Golden Bear has gone to Latin America with the International Jury led by Tilda Swinton selecting Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa's second feature The Milk Of Sorrow for the top honours this year.Sold internationally by The Match Factory and supported by the Berlinale's World ...