All Screen articles in 23 Feb 2012 – Page 14
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NewsOdin’s Eye to take Forbidden Ground, One Mile Above to Berlin
Sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment will be at the European Film Market with Australian war film Forbidden Ground and Chinese adventure drama One Mile Above.
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ReviewsNow, Forager: A Film About Love And Fungi
Dirs: Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin. US-Poland. 2012. 93mins
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NewsSundance: Weinsteins take Favorite, Indomina gets Rap, FilmDistrict takes on Safety
In two late-breaking deals on Sunday (29), The Weinstein Company took US rights to Stephen Frears’ caper Lay The Favorite while Indomina Releasing acquired the world on Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap. Also, FilmDistrict took Safety Not Guaranteed.
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NewsOpen Road scores number one US launch for The Grey on $20m
Tom Ortenberg’s second release under his new company after Killer Elite delivered as expected a number one result for the critically acclaimed survival story starring Liam Neeson. Joe Carnahan directed.
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NewsGhost Protocol reclaims int'l pole position on $25m
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol — now the biggest in the franchise on a $571m worldwide tally — got back into the driving seat internationally through PPI thanks to a big debut in China and $25m overall from 7,837 sites in 63 markets to boost the score to $369m.
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NewsSingaporean, Malaysian film industries increase ties
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) is taking a delegation of 33 media and entertainment companies to the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, as part of a drive to increase ties between the two South-East Asian neighbours.
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NewsDujardin, Davis, The Help among big SAG winners
The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night (29) threw up a surprise as Viola Davis (pictured) trumped Meryl Streep in the lead actress race for her performance in The Help, while Jean Dujardin claimed the lead actor prize for The Artist.
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NewsJapanese box office falls 18% after lack of mega-hits and March 11 disaster
Overall box office revenue for 2011 totalled $2.36bn (Y181.2bn), a steep drop of 18% from 2010; local films declined by 16%.
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NewsLightning lines up comedy The Hot Flashes for EFM
Principal photography is set to begin in New Orleans on Feb 13 on the story of a tough middle-aged women’s basketball team. Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Melanie Griffith, Wanda Sykes, and Camryn Manheim star.
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NewsLevelK boards indie rom com Not Another Happy Ending
Cast includes Jessica Brown Findlay [pictured], Karen Gillan, Emun Elliott.
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NewsKaurismaki's Le Havre lands top Jussi awards
Le Havre took Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at last night’s gala ceremony in Helsinki
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Encounters Film Festival appoints new short film programmer
Gaia Meucci will replace Mark Cosgrove who takes on his new role as artistic director for the 2012 edition of the short film festival, which is in its ealier slot of September 18-23.
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NewsThe Five Parts Of The World wins Grand Prize at FIPAs
The awards celebrating European television production are now in their 25th year.
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NewsAlex Lewis appointed vice president and director of marketing, Warner Bros UK
She joins Warner Bros from News Corporation, taking up the role in March.
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NewsRelativity takes over Stretch Armstrong project with Hasbro
Universal has dropped the action adaptation, allowing Relativity to come on board the tentpole based on the action figure launched in 1976 and re-launched in the 1990’s. The parties did not mention Taylor Lautner, who had been attached to the Universal project.
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NewsLikely Story sets writers for Too Cool graphic novel adaptation
Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko will adapt the Top Shelf Productions graphic novel about a family man who reverts to his 15-year-old body after a hypnosis course to stop smoking.
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NewsTate Taylor to receive 2012 WGA Paul Selvin Award
The Writers Guild Of America will honour The Help screenwriter and director with the award in recognition of “work that touches on the constitutional rights and civil liberties.”
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NewsHarrison Ford to receive ASC Board of Governors Award
Ford will collect the honour at the 26th Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards in Hollywood on Feb 12 in recognition of his “extraordinary achievements to advancing the art and craft of filmmaking.”
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NewsNala Films plans festival run for Decoding Deepak
The financier and producer has unveiled its latest project, a documentary that chronicles one year in the life of the spiritualist Deepak Chopra.