All Screen articles in 22 Mar 2012 – Page 16
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BAFTA LA announces three-year scholarship programme
The initiative for graduate students studying in the US will grant a $15,000 scholarship. Runner-up will receive a grant worth $5,000 and there will be two $1,500 honourable mention awards.
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NewsRandom House production arm options Dog Loves Books
The production arm of publisher Random House has optioned a book by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Louise Yates.
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Sobini, Payam Films to partner on Manhattan Undying
Mark Amin and award winning Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami are collaborating on the story of a dying artist who paints a beautiful vampire who wants to see an image of herself for the first time.
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NewsMeise's Still Life wins at Diagonale; Fribourg opens with Salt
Michael wins several awards in Graz; Thierry Jobin takes the helm at Switzerland’s Fribourg.
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NewsKen Munekata named president of BBC Worldwide Japan
He had been president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan.
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Outfest, NewFest strike strategic alliance
The LA-based non-profit and the New York-based festival are to merge into one national arts organisation dedicated to promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) interests.
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Mayor Bloomberg unveils five soundstages at Steiner Studios
The New York City Mayor was at Brooklyn Navy Yard with the city’s media and entertainment commissioner Katherine Oliver today for the ceremony, which brings an extra 45,000 sq ft of film set in addition to the venue’s existing facilities.
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Freestyle Digital Media takes North American rights to A Bird Of The Air
The deal with Tashtego Films excludes US theatrical after Paladin released the rom-com in autumn 2011.
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NewsBBC Films joins RPC for Julien Temple's Kinks feature
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Films is partnering with Jeremy Thomas’s Recorded Picture Company on You Really Got Me, Julien Temple’s feature film about British band The Kinks.
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NewsUnderworld duo Marlind and Stein return to Sweden for Collected Swedish Cults
Svensk adapting Anders Fager’s book.
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NewsUniversal, Focus win bidding war for Fifty Shades trilogy
Ending the most frenzied studio auction in years, the studio partners have snapped up rights to the S&M thriller Fifty Shades Of Grey and its two sequels by West London housewife and former TV executive E L James.
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FeaturesEuropean pictures
How are Europe’s broadcasters adapting their film acquisition policies in the face of changing consumer patterns and economic crisis?
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FeaturesCase Study: Parade's End
Tom Stoppard reteams with Shakespeare In Love producer David Parfitt for the BBC-HBO mini-series Parade’s End, which shot in the UK and Belgium.
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NewseOne takes UK rights to The 4th Reich from Mann Made and AV Pictures
Shaun Robert Smith to direct the WW2 action horror; producers include Scott Mann [pictured].
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FeaturesFine tuning
Movie acquisitions for US TV channels are steady but the picture will soon get more complex as studio output deals come up for renewal and SVoD players step up.
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FeaturesCase Study: Titanic
The UK-Canada-Hungary co-production for TV written by Julian Fellowes will be seen in more than 85 countries.
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FeaturesAnna Higgs, Film4.0
Film4’s new digital arm will tell stories in ‘parallel places’ with film-makers including Ken Loach.
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FeaturesFabien Riggall, Future Cinema
A film made in 1949 inspires more than $1.1m in ticket sales in a six-week London run — no wonder the industry is paying more attention to Secret Cinema. Wendy Mitchell talks to Future Cinema founder Fabien Riggall.
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NewsWerner Herzog eyes volcano, Helmut Newton docs
EXCLUSIVE: Werner Herzog developing “stylised documentary” about volcanoes, Helmut Newton portrait and Gertrude Bell feature, all with regular producing partner Andre Singer.