All Screen articles in 21 November 2008 – Page 3
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Moszkowicz commits to Constantin for another five years
Constantin Film's executive director for production Martin Moszkowicz has had his contract as a member of the German producer-distributor's management board extended to end 2013.Moszkowicz's commitment to stay at the helm of Constantin Film for production contradicts suggestions in recent months that the future of the producer-distributor could be in ...
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NZ award-winning producers to partner with Bavaria Film
New Zealand producers Rachel Gardner and Philip Smith of Great Southern Film and Television have been crowned New Zealand's Independent Producers of the Year. The duo are developing a slate of eight features with the most advanced being Scott Reynolds' Falling Angels and writer/director Anthony McCarten's Death Of A Superhero, ...
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Perez, Ferguson, Hall join Ricci in voice cast of Hero Of Color City
Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson and Arsenio Hall have joined Christina Ricci on the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG animated feature The Hero Of Color City.Exodus Film Group founder and CEO John D Eraklis and president Max Howard are producing the story of a pack of crayons who save ...
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Claymation feature Mary And Max to open Sundance Film Festival 2009
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival will launch on January 15 with the world premiere of Oscar winning animator Adam Elliot's claymation feature Mary And Max.Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette voice the lead characters, a lonely Australian girl and a middle-aged New Yorker with Asperger's Syndrome who become pen pals.The ...
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European Film Promotion secures three year partnership withEC
European Film Promotion (EFP) has announced a partnership agreement with the European Commission MEDIA programme that will secure EFP's activities for the next three years.The agreement includes a budget of $1.57 m (Euros 1.25m) for 2009 alone.The partnership agreement is a first for EFP who until now have received project ...
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2009 European Film Awards to be held in Essen
The 22nd European Film Awards in December 2009 will be hosted by the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Essen and not Berlin as generally expected.This is a change in usual practice as the venue for the awards ceremony has alternated between Berlin and other European cities such as Warsaw, Barcelona, Rome, ...
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Mannheim top prize for Rain, FIPRESCI Prize to Borderline
Argentinian director Paula Hernandez's Rain (Lluvia) received the top award at this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival. The international jury headed by veteran German filmmaker Edgar Reitz gave the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize to Stephanie Duvivier for her film A Police Romance (Un Roman Policier).Its special award was presented to ...
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White Night Wedding is best feature at Icelandic awards
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur's White Night Wedding took best feature and six other awards at the Icelandic Film & Television Academy Awards in Reykjavik. The awards honour the local industry.White Night Wedding had been nominated for a record 14 awards. It is Iceland's official candidate for an Oscar nomination as ...
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Lord Puttnamto bepresident of UK Film Distributor's Association
The Film Distributor's Association (FDA) has appointed Lord Puttnam CBE as its president.His remit is to champion the business of film distribution at a time when the industry is reshaping itself to embrace the challenges and opportunities of digital technology. He will start in the position on December 1.Lord Puttnam ...
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Australia
Dir: Baz Luhrmann. Aus/US. 2008. 165 mins With Australia, Baz Luhrmann has fearlessly gone for the biggest, lushest goal he could imagine - a romantic, old-fashioned epic to stand beside Gone With The Wind. Though it fails to reach such Hollywood heyday heights, Australia's combination of high adventure, awesome landscapes ...
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Film treaty to boost relations between UK and Morocco
UK and Moroccan Government officials have completed negotiations on a film co-production agreement that will enable UK and Moroccan film-makers to co-produce films eligible for national status in both countries. The treaty is due to come into effect in the first half of next year.Commenting on the agreement, Culture minister ...
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IMAX signs five-film deal with Disney starting 2009
IMAX and Disney will finally work together after signing a five-film deal that kicks off with Robert Zemeckis' 3D retelling of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey in November 2009.According to Disney sources close to the deal the roster may include films from Tim Burton and ...
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Transporter 3
Dir: Olivier Megaton. US/UK/France. 2008. 103 mins.A perfunctory action film which drives around in noisy circles but goes nowhere, Transporter 3 is neither compelling enough nor outlandishly goofy enough to leave much of an impression. Series star Jason Statham supplies ironic cool as the titular tough-guy courier, but first-time director ...
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Sony to release Blu-ray discs in mainland China
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is releasing 30 titles on high-definition Blu-ray discs in the mainland China market, making it the first studio to distribute the new format in the territory. The releases will coincide with Sony Electronic's introduction of the BDP-S350 model Blu-ray player to the Chinese market on ...
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Jeff Skoll to win Visionary Award at annual PGA Awards
Jeff Skoll will receive the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) 2009 Visionary Award at the 20th Annual PGA Awards on January 24 in Hollywood.Skoll is a philanthropist and the chairman and founder of Participant Media, which financed such films as The Visitor, Charlie Wilson's War, The Kite Runner, Darfur Now, ...
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Fortissimo takes international rights to Schrader classic Mishima
Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights from American Zoetrope to Paul Schrader's cult classic Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters.The 1985 film is a portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, played by Ken Ogata, who died last month. As well as Schrader's direction, John Bailey's cinematography, Eiko ...
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Paulo Branco to work with Raoul Ruiz on Misterios De Lisboa
Portugal's leading producer Paulo Branco is set to work with Chile 's leading director Raoul Ruiz on the dark, suspense drama Misterios De Lisboa. 'The film is based on the work of Camilo Castelo Branco, one of Portugal 's greatest writers,' Paulo Branco told ScreenDaily. 'It is a melodrama ...
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Oz director Alston to expand Brisbane into a trilogy
Australian director Louise Alston is set to make two more low-budget romantic comedies, following her debut film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, which is being released in Denmark through Sunrise Film Distribution. Cameras will roll on January 7 on Jucy, the second of the films, with Alston again directing ...
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Chinese exhibitors predict bumper year-end box office
With more than 16 heavy-weight releases jamming thre three-month period starting Nov 20, Chinese cinema owners are estimating that box office during the year-end season will reach $146m (RMB1bn), which is10% higher than the same season last year. China'syear-end season, which traditionally takes place from late Nov to late Feb, ...