All Screen articles in 20 January 2008 – Page 6
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Village, Golden Harvest settle Singapore dispute
Kenneth Tan will step down as head of Singapore exhibitor Golden Village (GV) as the company's co-owners, Australia's Village Roadshow and Hong Kong 's Golden Harvest, settle their dispute over their Singapore business partnership. The partners were at odds with each other when Golden Harvest petitioned to end their Singapore ...
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Village, Golden Harvest settle Singapore dispute
Kenneth Tan will step down as head of Singapore exhibitor Golden Village (GV) as the company's co-owners, Australia's Village Roadshow and Hong Kong 's Golden Harvest, settle their dispute over their Singapore business partnership. The partners were at odds with each other when Golden Harvest petitioned to end their Singapore ...
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UK film industry remains upbeat despite US strike worries
Leading figures in theUK film industryare remaining upbeat about the prospects for the territory despite theimpact oftheHollywood writers' strike on shoots.Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, Ridley Scott's Nottingham and the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Prince Of Persia have either withdrawn from the UK or been postponed.The WGA strike is having an impact, ...
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Iain Smith plans $20m rugby drama The Originals
UK-based producer Iain Smith (Cold Mountain, Children Of Men) is in advanced development on The Originals, a Chariots Of Fire-style drama about the exploits of the famous 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team during their tour of Great Britain. The team was known as 'The Originals.'Mark Joffe is to ...
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Union Square changes its name to Berk-Lane Entertainment
Union Square Entertainment principals Jason Berk and Matt Lane, whose company produced the William H Macy and Meg Ryan comedy The Deal headed for Sundance, have changed the company name to Berk-Lane Entertainment.Berk-Lane will continue to finance and produce and aims to increase its involvement in feature development and expand ...
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Red Envelope, B-Side team for unusual US release of football doc
Netflix' theatrical distributor Red Envelope Entertainment and independent distributor B-Side Entertainment are to stage the day-and-date theatrical, DVD and internet streaming release of American football documentary Two Days In April.The film will launch as a DVD rental and 'instant view' through Netflix's web-based service and open the same day in ...
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IFC launches new VOD initiative for international films
IFC Entertainment has launched the video-on-demand package Festival Direct that will showcase for a limited time a selection of IFC films that premiered at international festivals.The initiative will launch on Feb 29 on local cable carriers' On Demand platforms across the US for $5.99 each. Titles include Ken Loach's It's ...
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Benso named to senior financial position at Paramount Home Entertainment
Gaspare Benso has been appointed senior vice president of international finance and planning at Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE).Benso is responsible for all international financial functions, including planning and forecasting, financial reporting and business support and will report to PHE president Dennis Maguire and executive vice president of finance and planning ...
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Gay drama Misconceptions starts shooting in Florida
Principal photography began on Jan 14 in St Petersburg, Florida, on the independent feature Misconceptions.Ron Satlof is directing from the script he co-wrote with Ira Pearlstein that examines the ongoing culture war between same-sex parents and Christian conservatives.Steven J Brown is producing and Ted Perkins and J A Bremont act ...
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Dark Matter finally gets domestic deal with First Independent
First Independent Pictures has picked up Dark Matter and will release it in North American in April.The drama premiered at Sundance 2007 and won the Alfred P Sloan Award for its portrayal of a brilliant Chinese cosmology student who is marginalized when he goes to the US to study for ...
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Alan Amman promoted at LA PR firm mPRm
Alan Amman has been promoted to executive vice president and COO at Los Angeles-based publicity firm mPRm Public Relations.The move recognises Amman's growing managerial role and expands his remit to encompass the events/lifestyle practice and the recently formed viral marketing and PR service mPRm sPRead Solutions alongside his ongoing commitment ...
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Maike Haas rejoins Sony in international production unit
Maike Haas has returned to Sony following an eight-year stint at Buena Vista International Germany and has been named vice president of international production, Europe, for Sony Pictures Entertainment's International Motion Picture Production division.Haas will oversee European operations from Berlin and identify and develop projects with a focus on German-language ...
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Former CinemaVault executive Arroyave launches new sales outfit
Former Cinemavault Releasing executive Steve Arroyave has launched a new world sales outfit, Arrow Entertainment. Based in Toronto, Arrow will make its debut at the European Film Market with writer-director Stewart Raffil's Mysterious, a supernatural thriller starring James Brolin, Antonio Sabato and Annalynne McCord and produced by Diane Kirman of ...
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Alliance Films loses one owner, expects a new one
Alliance Films has lost one co-owner but a new one is expected to be announced shortly. According to a report in the Globe and Mail newspaper, Toronto-based private equity firm EdgeStone Capital Partners has sold its 49 per cent stake in the Canadian distribution company, formerly Motion Picture Distribution (MPD). ...
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Media Rights Capital strikes interim deal with WGA
Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu's film, television and digital financing and production firm Media Rights Capital (MRC) has struck an interim deal with the Writers Guild Of America (WGA).The agreement is similar to the one signed by the WGA and The Weinstein Company late last week and earlier deals closed ...
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PGA's five finalists include Diving Bell, Juno, Michael Clayton
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood will contest the Darryl F Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award In Theatrical Motion Pictures at this year's 19th Annual Producers Guild Of America (PGA) awards ceremony.The PGA's animated nominees are ...
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Sci-Fi-London programmes Paragraph 78 and Wolfhound
Independent genre festival Sci-Fi-London has announced that it is to return on April 30 for five days of screenings and events. Now in its seventh year, Sci-Fi-London, or The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, will take place at the Apollo West End cinema until May 4.Films ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Liz Mermin's Shot In Bombay
UK-based international sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales for Liz Mermin's latest documentary, Shot In Bombay.Little Bird produced the feature documentary, which goes behind the scenes of Bollywood film Shootout At Lokhandwala and follows the controversial trial of Indian screen legend Sanjay Dutt. The film includes the last ...
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Berlinale's Generation to open with Winky, Black Balloon
The Berlinale's Generation section for children and young people has finalised its 2008 lineup with 24 feature and 31 short films from 20 countries, including eight world and seven international feature film premieres.The Generation Kplus competition will open on February 8 at the Zoo Palast with the Dutch film Where ...
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Bavaria picks up Kollek's Berlinale competitorRestless
Bavaria Film International has take on the world sales for Israeli independent filmmaker Amos Kollek's latest feature Restless which has been selected by the Berlinale for one of the places in the 2008 Competition lineup.The co-production between Israel, Germany, Canada, France and Belgium tells the story of the writer Moshe ...