All Screen articles in 22 July 2008 – Page 4
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Space Chimps
Dir: Kirk De Micco. US. 2008. 81 mins.An amiable animated tale in which a group of chimpanzees is sent to a faraway planet to test its viability for life but ends up freeing an enslaved alien populace, Space Chimps is, in terms of plotting, a throwback to the animation of ...
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Film London in pre-production on three more Microwave features
Film London's low-budget Microwave scheme has three new films in pre-production: Suki Singh's psychological thriller Analogue; Jes Benstock's Alternative Miss World documentary, The British Guide to Showing Off (working title); and Kolton Lee's Freestyle, a teen romance set in the world of freestyle basketball.This year's applications are now open and ...
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Swinton's Ballerina Ballroom Fest to open with Henry Hathaway
The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, the eccentric new filmfestival in Nairn, Scotland, being organised by Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins, has announced details of its first programme.The festival kicks off the afternoon of Aug 15 with Peter Ibbetson's Henry Hathaway (1935), an amour fou drama described as one of ...
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Veteran entertainment attorney Suddleson joins Wildman Harrold
M Kenneth Suddleson has joined Wildman Harrold to head its new Los Angeles Office, effective July 18.Suddleson will focus on building a leading media and entertainment practice for the firm. The 30-year entertainment law veteran arrives from Foley & Lardner, where he served as chair of the media and entertainment ...
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New films from Demme, Eyre get gala screenings at Toronto
Programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have boosted the line-up with gala presentations of Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married and Richard Eyre's The Other Man.Rachel Getting Married gets its North American premiere and stars Anne Hathaway as a sharp-witted drama queen who returns to the family homestead for ...
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IMAX signs deal for four new theatres in Japan
IMAX Corporation has signed a deal with Japanese exhibitor Tokyu Recreation to install four IMAX theatres in Japan.The announcement follows a record setting event in Japan recently in which 25,000 people watched the Japanese premiere of Speed Racer: The IMAX Experience at the Tokyo Dome. The venue was converted into ...
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TWC strikes exclusive pay-TV deal with Sky Italia
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed an exclusive deal with digital pay-TV operator Sky Italia to distribute its films in Italy.The deal is the latest piece in TWC's international free and pay-TV jigsaw that already includes Star TV in Asia, Canal+ in France, ARD in Germany, Village Roadshow in Australia ...
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European Commission OKs revised Hungarian film scheme
The European Commission has approved changes to the Hungarian support scheme for film, which now requires projects pass a broad test for European cultureFrom 2008, every production must achieve at least 16 points on a 32-point cultural test in order to qualify for the 20% tax rebate. The majority of ...
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Admissions tumble in Brazil by 11.3% in first six months 2008
In the first six months of 2008 Brazil recorded a 11.3% fall in admissions and a 8.8% drop in box office revenues over the same period last year. According to figures released by Filme B, a local company that reviews theatrical market data, the country's sales amounted R$352m ($221.3m), as ...
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Locarno adds Paskaljevic, Brakni to international jury
The members for Locarno's International Competition jury are now complete with the addition of French actress Rachida Brakni (The Over-Eater) and Serbian filmmaker Goran Paskaljevic to the previously announced line-up of directors Masahiro Kobayashi (Japan), Dani Levy (Switzerland), and Paolo Sorrentino (Italy), and Mexican producer Bertha Navarro.Meanwhile, Argentina's Albertina Carri ...
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European Commission urges film preservation in digital age
Most films will be distributed in digital format within the next five years, which might be good news for cinemas, but it also has serious implications for Europe's film heritage.That is one of the key conclusions of a new European Commission (EC) report measuring European Union (EU) progress in preserving ...
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Raindance.tv finds initial funding, sets board chaired by Chris Auty
Raindance.tv, a new online platform for independent film, has said that it has successfully completed its initial fund raising, backed by a dozen private investors.The business was started 10 months ago to aggregate and distribute independent films to third parties. The plc was incorporated in January 2008 and fund-raising for ...
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Leonsis launches online doc distributor SnagFilms
Ted Leonsis, the AOL vice chairman, self-styled 'filmanthropist' and producer of Nanking and Kicking It has launched the online destination and documentary distributor SnagFilms.The site enables film-makers to sidestep the perilous arena of traditional distribution by offering an alternative platform that allows viewers to stream films or share them on ...
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Alexander named co-head of business and legal affairs at New Line
Craig Alexander has been promoted to co-head of business and legal affairs at New Line and will share duties with Judd Funk.Alexander and Funk will be jointly responsible for establishing New Line's business policies, negotiating talent and rights deals, and will oversee the legal affairs division.Alexander has been at the ...
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IFC acquires Lynn Shelton's My Effortless Brilliance
IFC Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Lynn Shelton's My Effortless Brilliance, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival earlier in the year.The film will go out through IFC's VOD platform Festival Direct in August and will screen as part of Rooftop Films in New York on August 1.'Films like ...
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Producers Guild Of America Awards to take place on Jan 24, 2009
The Producers Guild of America will hold its 20th Annual PGA Awards at the Hollywood Palladium on January 24, 2009.'Our event is all about providing an entertaining show for our guests and the newly remodeled Palladium is the ideal location for the type of event we are planning,' awards co-chair ...
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Film Society Of Lincoln Center gets new executive director
Mara Manus has been appointed executive director of the Film Society Of Lincoln Center, effective September 15.Manus becomes the third person to hold the title and succeeds Claudia Bonn, who served the organisation for 15 years and took over as executive director from Joanne Koch in 2003.Manus joins the organisation ...
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here! buys domestic rights to Sarif's The World Unseen
here! Films has acquired North American rights from Enlightenment Films to Shamim Sarif's The World Unseen, which plays in official selection at Outfest 2008: The 26th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.Sister company Regent Releasing will launch the film in autumn. The World Unseen takes place in Apartheid-era South ...
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Houellebecq to present premiere of feature debut in Locarno
Bestselling French writer Michel Houellebecq's feature film directorial debut The Impossibility Of An Island, adapted from his 2005 novel of the same name, will have its world premiere in Locarno's Play Forward sidebar which is dedicated to all contemporary forms of audio-visual experimentation and creation.The $10.3m (Euros 6.5m) futuristic drama, ...
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New Wave continues buying with Christmas Tale, Sleep Furiously
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has acquired two more films.They are Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes Competitor A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel) and Gideon Koppel's documentary Sleep Furiously.A Christmas Tale, already a box-office success in France, stars Catherine Deneuve and Mathieu Amalric. In ...