All Screen articles in 22 July 2007 – Page 4
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New Zealand boosts incentive for foreign producers
Significant improvements have been made to the financial incentives available to foreign producers taking advantage of New Zealand's locations and filmmaking skills, the Government announced today. Films that spend over $11.9m (NZ$15m) in New Zealand on production can now claim back 15 percent, instead of the previous ...
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New Zealand makes production grants more attractive
New Zealand's film industry got a boost today for both local andinternational film-makers as the country's economic developmentminister Trevor Mallard announced increased government incentives forfilms being made in New Zealand. The Large Budget Screen Production Grant has been increased from 12.5% to 15% ...
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Robert Carlyle to star in Justin Kerrigan's new feature
Robert Carlyle has signed on to star in Justin Kerrigan's new feature I Know You Know.The coming-of-age drama is about a boy who is fascinated by his father's espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real.. ...
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LA's Danish Film Fest to include post-production expo
Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 La Passion De Jeanne d'Arc - complete with a new score - will open the second-annual Danish Film Fest in Los Angeles, which runs from Oct 4-11. The event combines an appreciation of Danish cinema with a Danish film expo on post-production co-presented by the ...
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Thessaloniki lands European premiere of Sayles' Honeydripper
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival will host the European premiere of John Sayles' new film Honeydripper.The film is currently in the final stages of post production. Starring Danny Glover and Lisa Gay Hamilton, Honeydripper is about the origins of rockand roll in America's deep South. The director himself appears in ...
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Jon Fitzgerald to head new Abu Dhabi film festival
The Middle East International Film Festival is set to announce its director today. Jon Fitzgerald, who co-founded Slamdance, was Director of Festivals at the American Film Institute (AFI) between 1997 and 1999, and later an executive director of Santa Barbara International Film Festival, will head up the inaugural festival, which ...
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City Lights takes US rights to The Year My Parents Went On Vacation
New York-based City Lights Pictures has acquired US rights to Cao Hamburger's Brazilian film The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (O Ano Em Que Meus Pais Sairam De Ferias). The announcement comes just one month after the distributor picked up Jason Kohn's 2007 Sundance documentary Grand Jury Prize winner ...
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Goodman joins Media Rights Capital as digital media president
Film financier Media Rights Capital (MRC) has appointed Dan Goodman aspresident of digital media.Goodman will be responsible for shaping and executing MRC's digitalstrategy across broadband, mobile, gaming, Video On Demand and otheremerging platforms.Formerly chief digital officer for Ogilvy, Goodman will focus on developing premium content for the entertainment arenas and ...
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Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix dominates domestic
North American audiences flocked to Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix as the film dominated the domestic charts - as it did overseas and globally - with an estimated $77.4m three-day and $140m five-day launch. This was the biggest launch in the franchise by virtue of the fact ...
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Gill and Sacker take on Chloe King's script Lorelei
Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's fledgling finance, production and international sales company The Film Department has unveiled its first acquisition since launching last month and will fast-track Chloe King's script Lorelei.The project centres on the story of a bitterly divorced New York City couple who are told they must conceive ...
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Harry Potter weaves a magical international opening for Warner Bros
Warner Bros weaved a magical opening for Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix at the weekend as the fifth episode in the fantasy saga conjured up an estimated $190.3m from 44 territories.Approximately 31m people overseas turned out to see the film, which amassed $330m around the world in ...
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Dir: Dennis Dugan. US. 2007. 115mins.Tiptoeing carefully around the touchy subject of gay marriage, Adam Sandler farce I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry turns out to be a pretty inoffensive but not terrifically funny buddy comedy that slips its vague pleas for lifestyle tolerance in between bursts of the ...
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Egoyan readies Adoration with Lantos
Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan is set to shoot his next project Adoration in September with Robert Lantos of Serendipity Point Pictures as executive producer. The film will be produced by Egoyan's long-time assistant Simone Urdl and her partner Jennifer Weiss of Toronto-based Film Farm, producers of Sarah Polley's Away From ...
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Konchalovsky starts shooting $65m Nutcracker in Budapest
Principal photography starts today in Budapest on $65m fantasy film Nutcracker - The Untold Story. Russian director Andrei Konchalovksy (Runaway Train, Tango & Cash) co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Solimine, inspired by Tchaikovsky's classic ballet. Tim Rice will write lyrics to eight new original songs based on the Tchaikovsky scores. ...
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Croatia's Pula fesival starts Adriatic market programme
The 54th Pula Film Festival (July 12-21), the national Croatian festival, is this year starting a regional programme to present work from the Adriatic region countries: Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania.The programme, July 16-21, will have a pure market character and will be out of competition.In 2008. ...
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Sweden's Film i Vast to host $96m level of international features
Swedish regional film centre, Film i Vast in Trollhattan, will this year co-produce and facilitate local or international features at a total volume of $96m (Euros 70.5m), with Denmark's Zentropa Entertainments accounting for $13.3m (Euros 9.8m) of the business. Film i Vast's own investment reaches $8.3m (Euros 6m).'Zentropa has an ...
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