All Screen articles in 21 November 2008 – Page 4
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Red Cliff remains at highest altitude in Japan
John Woo's Red Cliff has held the number one position for the third week in a row at the Japanese box office. The film has now earned a total of $25.87m (Y2.5bn) and surpassed two million admissions in the first sixteen days of its release. It held off Fuji TV-produced ...
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Overture signs two-year, first-look deal with Cheadle's Crescendo
Overture Films has signed a two-year first look deal with Crescendo Productions headed by Don Cheadle, Lenore Zerman and Kay Liberman.The arrangement gives Overture access to film product from Crescendo. Cheadle starred in the terrorism thriller Traitor that Overture released in August and went on to gross more than $23m.This ...
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HDNet's Mark Cuban charged by SEC with insider trading
The Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged HDNet founder Mark Cuban with insider trading.The SEC alleges that the flamboyant billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team sold 60,000 shares of internet search engine Mamma.com after he received confidential information about an imminent stock offering.According to the official ...
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Morris, Marsh, Herzog down to shortlist for documentary Oscar
The Academy has unveiled the shortlist of 15 documentaries that will advance to the next stage in 81st Academy Awards.The 15 films are:At the Death House DoorThe Betrayal (Nerakhoon)Blessed Is The Match: The Life And Death Of Hannah SeneshEncounters At The End Of The WorldFuelThe GardenGlass: A Portrait Of Philip ...
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SPHE launches International Product Expansion Group
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has launched the International Product Expansion Group to coordinate the production and acquisition of overseas titles for global distribution by SPHE. Based in Culver City, Los Angeles, the group is headed by newly appointed International Product Expansion vice president Tony Ishizuka.As well as broad operational ...
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Maya backs Robinson brothers thriller Preparation For A Murder
Vertically integrated entertainment company Maya Entertainment has boarded the thriller Preparation For A Murder written and to be directed by Jonathan and R M Robinson.The Robinson brothers make their feature directorial debut on the story of two young men who embark on a hit without realising the repercussions that will ...
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LongTale International sells Milarepa to Axess TV in Sweden
Los Angeles-based LongTale International has licensed Neten Chokling's Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint to Sweden's Axess TV.The exclusive free and pay cable and broadcast rights deal closed at AFM.The Tibetan-language revenge and redemption saga tells of Milarepa, Tibet's greatest spiritual warrior.
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Myriad sells Dino Mom to Gussi, Imagem among others at AFM
Kirk D'Amico's Myriad Pictures' closed key territories on the 3D English-language animated feature Dino Mom at AFM.Myriad holds worldwide rights to the film, currently in production in South Korea, about three children who travel back in time 65 million years.This is the first English-language 3D animated feature to come out ...
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Zvyagintsev's The Banishment wins best film at Lone Star
Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Banishment was named best foreign language film as the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, wrapped at the weekend.Igor Volshin's Nirvana won the grand jury prize for narrative feature competition and Eric Bricker's Visual Acoustics - The Modernism Of Julius Shulman took documentary honours.Clay ...
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Sony Classics takes multiple territory rights on It Might Get Loud
Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed the acquisition from The Little Film Company of Davis Guggenheim's music documentary It Might Get Loud.SPC has taken rights for North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on the story of the evolution of the electric guitar featuring rock luminaries Jimmy Page, ...
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LAFCA to announce winners on Dec 9, present awards on Jan 12
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will announce this season's winners immediately after the voting meeting on December 9.The 34th annual film achievement awards ceremony will take place on January 12 at the InterContinental Los Angeles in Century City.LAFCA president Lael Loewenstein made the announcement earlier today [Nov 17]. ...
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Dutch Filmworks reports big buys for Benelux at AFM 2008
Dutch Filmworks (DFW) reported brisk business at AFM despite the global economic crisis and acquired Benelux rights to a number of high profile titles including the Sylvester Stallone action saga The Expendables from Nu Image/Millenium.Stallone will direct The Expendables from his own screenplay about a team of mercenaries sent on ...
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Dubai International Film Festival announces festival sidebars
The Dubai International Film festival has announced the lineup for three of the 2008 festival segments; the Focus on Italy section, the Cultural Bridge, and the Gulf Voices section.Each of the three sections provides a perspective on different cultural and regional contributions to cinema or society.Focus on ItalyThe Focus on ...
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UK 's Women in Film and Television honours Julie Walters
Julie Walters to be honoured by Women in Film and Television with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning actress Julie Walters CBE is the latest British star to be honoured by Women in Film and Television (WFTV).She will receive its highest accolade - the Lifetime Achievement Award ...
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James McAvoy joins Orange Rising Star jury
James McAvoy has joined the jury of the Orange Rising Star Award. McAvoy, winner of the firstOrange Rising Star Award in 2006, joined his fellow jurors to cast their final votes for the five 2009nominees.
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Directors UK announces additional board members at its first AGM
Directors UK, which represents over 3,500 members, held its first AGM last Thursday at BAFTA. At the meeting, seven new board members were named.The seven members are: Anna Davies (Wife Swap, Extraordinary People), Piers Haggard (Quatermass, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Enduring Love), Stuart Orme (Merlin, Colditz), ...
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Curzon Artificial Eye announces senior management changes
Curzon Artificial Eye has announced a number of senior management changes. The company has said the restructuring is to meet the challenges faced by the growing group.Richard Napper will move from his role as managing director of Curzon Cinemas to Chief Operating Officer of Curzon Artificial Eye. He will have ...
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European Film Promotion appoints jury for Berlinale's Shooting Stars.
Five well known film industry figures have been appointed by European Film Promotion (EFP) to the jury for the Berlin Film Festival's Shooting Stars programme. The EFP, which is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, has appointed Belgian director Marion Hänsel, Spanish producer Antonio Saura, British film ...
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Australian government secures production of Happy Feet 2 in Sydney
Tax assistance secures production of Happy Feet 2 in Sydney through Dr.D, director George Miller's joint venture with Omnilab media. Happy Feet 2 is in production in Sydney, Omnilab Media confirmed today following a statement from the New South Wales (NSW) Government to that effect.The NSW Minister for State Development, ...