All Screen articles in 20 February 2009 – Page 3
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Berlin's EFM a 'mixed bag', according to market director Beki Probst
'It has been a mixed bag this year' was market director Beki Probst's verdict on the 2009 edition of the European Film Market (EFM) which finally closed its doors on February 13.'Some people would say it was good, some better than what they expected and some that it was not ...
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Film Critics honour The Black Balloon as best Australian film
The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) tonight in Sydney presented its annual best Australian film award to The Black Balloon and voted the film's director, Elissa Down, the best in her category.Slumdog Millionaire topped the category for English-language foreign films and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly for foreign ...
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ShoWest to honour Sienna Miller as supporting actress of year
Sienna Miller will be anointed as ShoWest 2009's supporting actress ofthe year when the annual convention runs from March 30-April 2 in LasVegas.Miller, who will star this summer in Paramount/Spyglass' spy actionpicture G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, will accept the accolade at thefinal night banquet and awards ceremony on ...
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Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhind-Tutt are Meant To Be for Corsan
Belgian production, finance and international sales company Corsanannounced that production began this week in Puerto Rico on theromantic comedy Meant To Be.Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhindt-Tutt, Mia Maestro, Santiago Cabrera andKris Marshall star in the tale of a guardian angel who risks becominga fallen angel when he comes to earth in ...
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Working Title closes its Australian doors - again
Working Title will be closing the doors of its Australian office as of today, sources have confirmed. Deborah Balderstone has been the head of the Sydney office since relocating from the UK in late 2004. It is understood that things between her and head honchos Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan ...
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Friday The 13th
Dir Marcus Nispel. US. 2009. 97mins. Hollywood's latest 're-imagining' of a video era horror classic is a muscular but pretty unimaginative take on the films that turned hockey-masked, machete-wielding anti-hero Jason Voorhees into a slasher icon. Director Marcus Nispel and producer Michael Bay, who successfully updated The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ...
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Paramount scares up 30+ territory opening for Friday The 13th
Paramount and New Line's horror remake Friday The 13th will be the oneto beat when it opens day-and-date with North America in more than 30territories through PPI this weekend.Highlights are expected to come from France on February 11, Germanyand Russia on February 12 and the UK, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain,Brazil ...
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Dimension networks with Sara Rue, Robert Green
Dimension Films is developing an untitled thriller based on anoriginal idea about a social networking website from actress Sara Rueand producing partner Robert Green.Rue and Green will produce and T S Faull will write the script, whichis being kept under wraps and centres on high school students and issaid to ...
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Shoreline cleans up with The Maid deals at EFM
Shoreline has closed several key territories at EFM on SebastianSilva's Chilean drama The Maid (La Nana) on the back of its grand jury prize win in Sundance's world cinema dramatic section.Rights have gone to Golem Distribucion in Spain, Bolero Films inItaly, Ost For Paradis for Denmark, Action Film for Norway, ...
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Short sighted: Screen profiles the Oscar-nominated shorts
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECTTHE CONSCIENCE OF NHEM ENNominated three times before and an Oscar winner in 1990 for his documentary short Days Of Waiting, Steven Okazaki went to Cambodia to research and shoot The Conscience Of Nhem En. The film explores issues of conscience and complicity in the story of ...
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A dog's path to glory: The ups and downs of financing and producing Slumdog Millionaire
The UK's Film4 rarely buys a book without a production company involved, but chief Tessa Ross did just that when she first read Q&A by Vikas Swarup, the source novel for Slumdog Millionaire. 'It had a fantastic landscape, a clever plot and a way of telling the story of a ...
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Simon Ellis talks Dogging...and romance
Simon Ellis became one of the hottest rising talents of the UK film scene with his lauded short film, Soft, about a father and son coming to terms with bullying. That Bafta-nominated film won 35 festival prizes including best international short at Sundance 2008.For his first feature he isn't playing ...
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Promotional Feature - Irish Cream
Now in its sixth year, the annual Irish Film & Television Awards (Iftas) focuses on Irish talent working at home and around the world. Irish Film & Television Academy CEO Aine Moriarty says the awards recognise the working lives of Irish people in front of and behind the camera. 'Ireland ...
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Waisbren: Don't hesitate - consolidate!
In times of trouble, the big beasts always herd together. 'Consolidate or die' has been the frequent mantra when the independent film business is under threat. It was very much the message given by Ben Waisbren, president and chief executive of Continental Entertainment Capital, during his keynote speech at the ...
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Editorial - Making connections
Those uninitiated in the idiosyncrasies of the film business would have come away from Berlin with their heads spinning.The market itself, of course, was confusing enough without a really clean-cut theme. In good times, one can wheel out cliches about booms and ringing tills but in the downturn, it's tougher. ...
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NeoClassics' new wave of world cinema
Though he did an early stint in Hollywood as a senior attorney at Warner Bros and a business affairs executive at ICM, Irwin Olian has spent most of his working life as an entrepreneur in the financial, medical and mining industries.But even while he was busy in other fields, he ...
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International - Button's up to top
Warner Bros' The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button climbed to the top of Screen's international chart over the February 6-8 weekend. It was up 171% on the weekend before to $32.6m, with over 4 million admissions in 42 markets. Debuts in key territories helped boost revenue, with France, Spain, the ...
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Brazil - Odd couple on top
After six weeks on release, Fox International's If I Were You 2 (Se Eu Fosse Voce 2) has out-performed the highest grossing film of 2008, Warner Bros' The Dark Knight, to become one of the most successful local films of all time in Brazil. With revenues of $17m (r$39.1m) to ...