All Screen articles in 20 March 2009 – Page 2
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Roissy sells four more territories for Cesar winner Seraphine
Roissy Films has concluded further sales on Cesar winner Seraphine. The film by Martin Provost has sold to Alcine Terran in Japanas well as Atalanta Filmes in Portugal, Gutek in Poland and With Cinema in South Korea.Roissy Films' Yohann Comte tells ScreenDaily.com that a number of other territories are currently ...
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KOFIC hands out p&a funding to three companies
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced that it will award p&a funds to LA-based Eleven Arts, Belgium's Cineart and Taiwan's Infinity International in its first p&a funding round of 2009. Eleven Arts will receive $10,211 (KW15m) to support the US theatrical release of Noh Young-seok's low-budget road movie Daytime ...
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Duplicity
Reviewed by Mike Goodridge Dir: Tony Gilroy. US. 2009. 122 mins. A high-tech romantic thriller set in the little-seen world of corporate espionage, Tony Gilroy's second feature is sophisticated adult entertainment which puts the lazy Ocean's films to shame with its clever writing, lively direction and visual panache. An old-fashioned ...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers
Dir. Phil Claydon. UK. 2009. 84 mins. British cinema is littered with the broken dreams of popular television comedians who failed to make the transition to the big screen. BAFTA-winning Gavin & Stacey duo James Corden and Matthew Horne are the latest ones to accept the challenge but their horror ...
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For My Father takes Grand Prix in Sofia
The 13th Sofia International Film Festival concluded March 14 with the Grand Prix in the international competition going to For My Father, directed by Dror Zahavi. An Israeli-German co-production, For My Father portrays an accidental meeting of three people in Tel Aviv. The international jury, led by Hungarian director Janos ...
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Witch Mountain scales domestic box office for Disney with $25m
Disney's decision to plunder the live-action back catalogue and revisit its Witch Mountain franchise from the 1970s exceeded expectations with an estimated $25m launch that still wasn't enough to prevent the first year-on-year drop in six weeks as box office slid 16% against the same weekend in 2008.Dwayne Johnson (formerly ...
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Fox leads international weekend with Marley, Dragonball
Fox International's comedy Marley & Me produced the biggest result of any Hollywood release overseas over a subdued weekend as an estimated $13.9m haul from 2,708 screens in 34 territories raised the running total to $51m.Driving this were nine new launches led by a superb $6.5m number one start in ...
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Unmistaken Child, Paranoids get domestic pickups from Oscilloscope
New York’s Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Nati Baratz’s documentary Unmistaken Child and from Visit Films to Gabriel Medina’s Argentinean debut featureThe Paranoids (Los Paranoicos).Unmistaken Child follows a shy and devoted Tibetan disciple in search of the reincarnated form of his beloved Buddhist teacher, ...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers
Dir. Phil Claydon. UK. 2009. 84 mins. British cinema is littered with the broken dreams of popular television comedians who failed to make the transition to the big screen. BAFTA-winning Gavin & Stacey duo James Corden and Matthew Horne are the latest ones to accept the challenge but their horror ...
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E1 Entertainment promote Knowing with Sci Fi UK sponsorship
E1 Entertainment will use niche marketing to promote its latest acquisition Knowing by providing the Sci Fi channel with a five figure sponsorship payment to run film ads during Sci Fi prime time slots. Directed by Alex Proyas (I, Robot), Knowing, although an action-thriller, should attract Sci Fi viewers, because ...
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The Last House On The Left
Dir: Dennis Iliadis. US. 2009. 110 mins. A commercially-streamlined remake of Wes Craven's nasty, low-budget 1972 horror, The Last House on the Left can't decide whether it wants to play it straight and grim, or dash headlong into over-the-top cathartic vigilantism. While director Dennis Iliadis has no trouble capturing depravity, ...
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NewsSteven Spielberg claims BAFTA for video game
Steven Spielberg has claimed his third BAFTA, but on this occasion it was for his debut as a gamescreator with video game Boom Blox.
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John Rabe leads German Film Awards with seven nominations
John Rabe is the clear favourite for this year's German Film Awards after picking up seven nominations including best film, and best director for Florian Gallenberger. The film also picked up nominations for best lead actor for Ulrich Tukur, best supporting actor Steve Buscemi and best cinematography for Juergen Juerges. ...
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Fox opens Dragonball Evolution across Asia before North America
Fox International launches Dragonball Evolution in nine territories in Asia this weekend ahead of the April 8 North American opening. The film, directed by James Wong and produced by Stephen Chow, features Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum and Chow Yun-Fat and is based on the classic manga series.Its openings include South ...
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The Answer Man to open Sonoma International Film Festival
John Hindman's romantic comedy The Answer Man (formerly Arlen Faber) starring Jeff Daniels and Benoit Pilon's Canadian drama The Necessities Of Life bookend the 12th annual Sonoma International Film Festival, set to run from April 1-5.All in all more than 75 pictures will screen at the Northern California event featuring ...
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Opinion: taking superheroes seriously
The global opening of Watchmen last weekend - $55.7m in North America through Warner Bros and $27.5m in 45 territories through PPI - was strong, but considered by many commentators to be disappointing.This, after all, was the most-hyped superhero movie since Iron Man and The Dark Knight last summer and ...
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Reviews - Race to Witch Mountain
'Reimagining' of Disney's classic 1975 action favourite.US. 2009. 98mins. Director Andy Fickman Production companies Gunn Films, Walt Disney Pictures International distribution Walt Disney Studios Producer Andrew Gunn Screenplay Matt Lopez and Mark Bomback, from the book by Alexander Key Cinematography Greg Gardiner Main cast Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, ...
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Reviews - Last Ride
Father and son take a road trip, with menace looming large.Australia. 2009. 96mins. Director Glendyn Ivin Production companies Talk Films, Screen Australia, Film Victoria, South Australian Film Corporation, Adelaide Film Festival Distributors Madman (Aus), ContentFilm International +44 20 7851 6500 Producers Nicholas Cole, Antonia Barnard Screenplay Mac Gudgeon, from the ...
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South Korea's new sexual revolution
When Sponge Entertainment CEO David Cho picked up John Cameron Mitchell's sexually explicit US indie Shortbus for South Korea back in 2006, he knew he was in for a fight. Now, after more than two years battling the Korea Media Ratings Board (KMRB), Sponge finally opened the film commercially on ...
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Jean-Marc Vallee rocks with The Young Victoria
In the second half of 2007 French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee was allocated 51 days to shoot The Young Victoria. The penultimate day of shooting was set to coincide with England’s match against South Africa in the rugby union world cup final. The mainly British film crew wanted to wrap early ...