All Screen articles in 20 March 2009 – Page 5
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Sprockets to host North American premiere of Letter For The King
Two Dutch child-oriented features will make their North American premiere at the upcoming Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children. The festival unveiled its line-up of 29 features and 41 short films in an announcement today.Most prominent is Dutch filmmaker Pieter Verhoeff's period adventure Letter For The King, reportedly the ...
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Spanish outfit Avalon Distribution picks up In The Loop for Spain
Spanish indie production and distribution outfit Avalon has picked up rights for Spain to Armando Iannucci's political comedy In The Loop from Protagonist Pictures. Based on the popular British TV comedy series The Thick Of It, Iannucci's In The Loop charts the progress of a fictional Secretary of State for ...
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Cast assembles for UA's The Cabin In The Woods
Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz and Jesse Williams will join previously announced Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford in UA's horror project The Cabin In The Woods.Drew Goddard is directing from a screenplay by Goddard and Joss Whedon, who is also producing. Details of the plot ...
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Max Manus main winner at Norwegian film awards
Norwegian directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Søndberg's Max Manus, cashed in on five out of its nine nominations for the Kanon Awards the Norwegian film industry's annual prizes. The World War II epic's wins included best producer, won by John M Jacobsen, Sveinung Golimo; Thomas Nordseth-Tiller's win for best script; ...
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33 Scenes From Life named Best Film at 11th Polish Film Awards
Malgorzata Szumowska's drama 33 Scenes From Life was named best film at the 11th Polish Film Awards in Warsaw and Jerzy Skolimowksi received the Eagle for best director for his work on Four Nights With Anna. In addition to best film, 33 Scenes From Life received the Audience Award as ...
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Wanda Films pick up Francois Ozon's Ricky for Spain
Leading Spanish distributor Wanda Films has picked up theatrical rights for Spain to Francois Ozon's comedy drama Ricky from Le Pacte, following its competition screening at Berlin. 'We believe the film has genuine commercial appeal,' Miguel Morales, head of acquisitions at Wanda Films, told ScreenDaily. Based on a short story ...
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Mason appointed chief executive of NZ Film Commission
Former PolyGram, Universal Pictures and Channel 4 executive Graeme Mason has been appointed chief executive of the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC), replacing Ruth Harley who moved to head new Australian super agency Screen Australia last year. The appointment was announced early this morning (March 11)by NZFC chair David Cullwick. ...
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KOFIC cuts funding, overhauls investment strategy
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has slashed its overall programme budget by 25% from last year's $42.48m (KW65.8bn) to $32.73m for 2009. However, it has also overhauled its investment strategy in an attempt to counter falling profits and investment in the Korean film industry and piracy in ancillary markets. The ...
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Chow Yun-fat to star in Dadi Century's Confucius biopic
Beijing-based Dadi Century Film has confirmed that Chow Yun-fat will star in its upcoming biopic Confucius, in which he will portray the great Chinese philosopher and sage. Chen Daoming (Hero) will portray Lao Zi, another Chinese philosopher and the founder of Taoism, who gave Confucius advice on history and the ...
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Bratt's homegrown La Mission to open San Franciso Film Festival
Peter Bratt's redemptive drama La Mission will open the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from April 23-May 7.Bratt's brother Benjamin Bratt stars in the tale of an ex-con whose powerful bond with his son and his peaceful way of life are threatened by a sudden revelation. Erika ...
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Ted Hatfield to receive career achievement award at ShoWest
Regal Entertainment Group director of film marketing Ted Hatfield will receive the Marvin Levy Career Achievement in Film Marketing Award at ShoWest 2009.Hatfield will collect the honour on April 1 in Las Vegas. He joined Regal Entertainment in 1997 after serving seven years as vice-president of exhibitor relations at Sony ...
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