All Screen articles in 22 Mar 2012 – Page 14
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Royo, Eigenberg, Press star in Calloused Hands
Writer/director Jesse Quinones’ debut about a promising baseball player from a tough background is executive produced by Effie Brown.
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Penny Woolcock amongst Bertha Britdoc grantees
Fourteen grants totaling £230,000 have been awarded through The Bertha Foundation and BRITDOC’s new Connect Fund and Documentary Journalism Fund.
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Moo-vie making
A competition launched by UK magazine Farmer’s Weekly has inspired us to come up with our own agriculturally themed film titles.
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Earliest Charles Dickens film discovered
The oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character – The Death Of Poor Joe - has been discovered by BFI curator Bryony Dixon.
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K5 snaps up international rights to SXSW screener King Kelly
Andrew Neel’s sparky drama is made up entirely of camera phone diaries and follows an aspiring internet star as she embarks on a hedonistic quest to reclaim a stash of narcotics.
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Chadwick, Harris circle Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom
EXCLUSIVE: Anant Singh’s long-gestating Nelson Mandela biopic heats up with Justin Chadwick in advanced talks to direct and Skyfall actress Naomie Harris in talks to star as Winnie Mandela opposite Idris Elba.
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Kevin Macdonald
Oscar winning director Kevin Macdonald talks about the challenges of making his latest documentary about reggae legend Marley.
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Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom to open Cannes
The American indie darling’s ensemble piece will kick off proceedings on the Croisette on May 16, the same day as the film’s release in France through StudioCanal.
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MGM cements int’l network with Lusomundo, Selim Ramia deals
Hot on the heels of clearing debt and securing a $500m revolving credit facility, the revitalised studio’s co-chairmen and CEOs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum say they have effectively sealed their global distribution network with two fresh multi-year agreements.
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The Blind Side producer Molly Smith launches Belle Pictures
Smith, who will remain Hilary Swank’s partner at 2S Films, will make features and TV in association with Alcon Entertainment in a four-year discretionary first-look deal.
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Int'l preview: Disney plots global domination for John Carter
The fantasy adventure opens day-and-date around the world this weekend in virtually every major market through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International except China and Japan.
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MarVista Entertainment expands management team
Following new investment in August, the film and television company has brought in finance expert Susan Young as CFO and promoted Vanessa Goglio Shapiro from svp of worldwide sales to evp of sales.
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San Francisco Film Society announces SFFS/KRF grants
The Society in association with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation have selected 11 narrative feature projects for the seventh round of grants up to $300,000.
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Autonomy Pictures kicks off with US rights deal on The Bunny Game
Distribution veterans Derek Curl, David Gregory and Lewis Tice’s new distributor aims to release “uncompromising cinema on a worldwide scale” and will handle four films this year, starting with Adam Rehmeier’s torture porn.
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Searchlight, Red Flag buy SXSW comedy Do-Deca-Pentathlon
Jay and Mark Duplass wrote and directed the film, set to receive its world premiere in Austin on Mar 11.
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Gravitas, Variance Films launch distribution alliance at SXSW
The partners aim to acquire and jointly release seven or eight films a year simultaneously in theatres and on VoD.