All Screen articles in 23 February 2007 – Page 2
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News
Japanese box office hit Dororo spawns two sequels
TBS producer Takashi Hirano has announced that he plans to make two sequels of Japanese box office hit Dororo. The sequels will be filmed next year in the back-to-back style of Lord Of The Rings, with a tentative release set for 2009. The combined budget for the films will be ...
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Oscar nominees open far and wide across the globe
Ghost Rider ruled the roost last weekend and Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) will be looking to reap more rewards in the all-important second weekend.The comic book adaptation stands at $16.6m and takes off in Germany and Switzerland today (Feb 22), followed by India a day later.Fox International opens Notes ...
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Reviews
Saturno Contro
Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek. It-Fr-Turk. 2007. 109mins. The problems of nine little people don't amount to a hill of beans in Italo-Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek's latest offering, Saturno Contro. Billed as a melancholy generational comedy, this occasionally affecting - but dramatically inert - feature deals with a close-knit circle of thirty- ...
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Features
Production - Stock market moves
Argentinian production consortium Cine.ar, set up in 2006, is launching InvertFilm, the country's first film trust fund, raising $5m on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange to finance local projects. Films set to benefit are Daniel Burman's The Empty Nest, shooting in August, and projects from new talent including Mirta Raquel ...
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Features
United Kingdom - Shaking things up
Summing up the frustrations of many of his peers, Edward Fletcher of Soda Pictures says simply: "It's difficult to be an independent in the current climate."Fletcher and co-managing director Eve Gabereau started the indie UK distributor in 2002 when foreign-language and arthouse films seemed to be connecting with audiences. But ...
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Features
Production - Set jetting
Bollywood productions may bring work for UK crews and facilities, but another financial benefit is found through tourism.The UK Film Council's Clare Wise says: "The Bollywood films that are going to travel are going to be somewhere between the $2m-$20m mark, which means even if they spend 70% or 80% ...
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Features
Industry moves
Lischak joins Odd LotFormer First Look Studios COO Bill Lischak has joined Odd Lot Entertainment in the same capacity. Also Linda McDonough has been promoted to executive vice-president of production and development; Natalya Petrosova has joined as vice-president of finance; Eryl Woodlief as vice-president of development and acquisitions; Delphine Perrier ...
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Features
United Kingdom - Rise of the Gilbeys
When Julian Gilbey was told he had received a Bafta nomination for special achievement by a first-time British film-maker, he thought someone was pulling his leg. But while his film Rollin' With The Nines enjoyed only modest commercial returns last year, it won the best film jury prize at the ...
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Features
Production - Festival - Talent spot
Argentina's leading film event, Mar del Plata is this year increasing its focus on Latin America's new talent with a cash prize of $50,000 for the best film in a new competition section for first and second features to run parallel to the official competition.The Latin American competition will feature ...
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News
Fox executive VP Grass to take leading role at Universal
Christian Grass, London-based executive vice president at Fox International, is leaving to take on the key international production job at Universal Pictures.The move reunites Grass with his old Miramax International boss David Linde, who was named co-chairman of Universal Studios in March last year.Neither Grass nor Universal would comment on ...
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Features
Production - co-productions - Forming partnerships
Aside from Bollywood projects coming to the UK solely for location work, there is now a new generation of Indian film-makers interested in working more closely with UK producers and technicians and even considering the benefits of the new tax relief."Although the treaty obviously isn't having an effect yet, the ...
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Features
In focus - Critical round-up - Potsdamer clamour
This may prove to have been the biggest Berlinale ever - in everything but film quality. The patchy selection of films in competition failed to ride the wave of success, and left critics muttering that the Berlinale would do better to refocus on its core business.True, there was a last-minute ...
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Features
Market focus - Calling on the neighbours
The performance of European films outside their home markets remains one of the thorniest issues for the EU's policy-makers. Last year's box-office recovery in many European territories was largely built on the success of local films in local markets and a number of Hollywood blockbusters. There were high-profile exceptions: Pedro ...
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Features
In focus - Digital rights sales - The fight for bytes
The spectre of digital rights haunted this year's Berlinale."It's a difficult market in general because of anxieties over VoD (video on demand)," admitted Celluloid Dreams' Charlotte Mickie.The potential of new platforms is a mainstream issue but quantifying the value of downloads, VoD and online distribution is tough. Smaller content owners ...
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Production - International Locations - The travel bug
If Western audiences turn to Hindi movies for exotica and spectacle, Bollywood film-makers too have returned the favour by shooting on foreign soil. Although Bollywood's footprint has grown considerably beyond Indian borders in the last decade, Hindi movies have been locating sequences, songs and even whole movies in foreign locations ...
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Production - UK shoots - The brit factor
GoalDir: Vivek AgnihotriThis Bollywood production from major Indian conglomerate UTV - about a group of Indians playing football in the UK - starts shooting in London this month. Starring real-life couple John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, director Agnihotri will use mostly Indian crew.Dance Baby Dance (Jhoom Barabar Jhoom)Dir. Shaad AliThis ...
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Features
So long, Bombay
Bollywood will pick up its traveling bags several times this year. A portion of Anurag Kashyap's No Smoking, which opens in April, has been shot in Uzbekistan. Two Yash Raj Films productions are being shot in different parts of the globe, Shimit Amin's Chak De India and Siddharth Anand's Ta ...
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Production - Bollywood in the UK - Passage from India
When UK chancellor Gordon Brown made a government visit to India last month it was telling that he made a bee-line for Bollywood, taking in a tour of the YRF Studios in Mumbai and speaking of the need to provide further incentives for Indian film-makers to shoot in the UK.This ...
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Think's big picture
ThinkFilm went on a bit of a shopping spree at last month's Sundance Film Festival. The five-year-old independent US and Canadian distributor, not known for high-profile purchases, paid a reported $2m for North American rights to space-programme documentary M, wrote another big cheque for North American theatrical rights to spoof ...
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Features
Production - The big pull
Italy's government has designated India as its trade target for 2007. Speaking at a press conference earlier this month in Mumbai, minister for international trade Emma Bonino said: "We want to invite Indian film-makers to shoot in Italy. After all, we too have some of the most picturesque locales."India has ...