All Screen articles in 23 January 2009 – Page 3
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Seven Pounds claims international crown with $19.8m take
Will Smith was the number one Hollywood attraction overseas at the weekend as Seven Pounds grossed an estimated $19.8m from 3,502 screens in 25 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International and has now reached $40.8m.Warner Bros Pictures International had not reported estimates on its wide launch of Bollywood title Chandni ...
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Sony's Paul Blart a smash at powerful domestic holiday weekend
Sony's comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop starring Kevin James in his first solo lead role shunted Warner Bros' Gran Torino into second place as it stormed to the top on an impressive $33.8m estimated launch.The PG-rated comedy is expected to reach $40m by the end of the Martin Luther King ...
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Film Sharks takes on international sales to Tear This Heart Out
Guido Rud's Argentina-based Film Sharks International has picked up sales rights outside Latin America to Roberto Sneider's Tear This Heart Out (Arrancame La Vida) which is on the shortlist of nine films for this year's best foreign language film Oscar.The film, which has drawn over two million admissions in Mexico ...
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Sundance 2009 news and reviewsround-up
All the main stories, sales and reviews from Screen's team in Park CityClick section for moreSundance newsSundance reviewsSundance hope fornew indie dawn
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SUNDANCE NEWS ROUND UP
Sundance sensation Push wins both jury and audience prizes David Mackenzie's Spread sold to Anchor Bay in $3.5m deal Arthouse Films picks up worldwide on Doug Pray's Art & Copy IFC Films takes UK comedy In The Loop for US distribution Sony Classics seals North American deal on Lone Scherfig's ...
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SUNDANCE REVIEWS: UPDATED DAILY
Adam (Max Mayer)Adventureland (Greg Mottola)Against The Current (Peter Callahan)Amreeka (Cherien Dabis)Arlen Faber (John Hindman)Big River Man (John Maringouin)Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (John Krasinski)Brooklyn's Finest (Antoine Fuqua)Cold Souls (Sophie Barthes)Dare (Adam Salky)Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola)An Education (Lone Scherfig)Five Minutes Of Heaven (Oliver Hirschbiegl)The Greatest (Shana Feste)Helen (Sandra Nettelbeck)The Informers (Gregor ...
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Baader Meinhof and John Rabe share top Bavarian prize
Uli Edel's Oscar shortlisted The Baader Meinhof Complex and Florian Gallenberger's John Rabe shared the top honour of the Producer Prize at the 30th Bavarian Film Awards held in Munich at the weekend. Gallenberger's film, which will have its world premiere at the Berlinale next month in the Berlinale Special ...
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Chabrol and Gallenberger world premieresin Berlinale Special
World premieres of new films by Hermine Huntgeburth, Claude Chabrol, Florian Gallenberger are among the 13 titles confirmed so far for the Berlinale Special sidebar which presents extraordinary new productions and topical works by contemporary filmmakers whose films the Berlinale wants to honour. The Berlinale's new screening venue at the ...
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ReviewsThe Greatest
Dir: Shana Feste. US. 2008. 98mins.The Greatest charts the uneasy journey people must undertake in the face of grief, but first-time filmmaker Shana Feste can’t quite fully bring this emotionally delicate drama to fruition. A tearjerker about a middle-aged couple coping with the loss of their ...
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Visit Films buys worldwide rights to Kimjongilia, Little Drizzle
New York-based sales company Visit Films has bulked up its already busy Sundance slate by acquiring worldwide rights to NC Heikin's World Cinema Documentary Competition entry Kimjongilia and David Russo's Spectrum screener The Immaculate Conception Of Little Drizzle.Kimjongilia gets its world premiere here on Sunday [January 18] and examines life ...
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Senator takes Brooklyn's Finest in first Sundance domestic deal
In the first North American deal of Sundance 2009 Senator Distribution swooped on Antoine Fuqua's New York crime drama Brooklyn's Finest, paying more than $3m plus a substantial P&A commitment.Senator president Mark Urman made an initial offer after the film's world premiere here on Friday night and finally sealed the ...
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Eric Kops lands at ID as svp overseeing agency's entertainment team
ID has hired Eric Kops as senior vice president overseeing the agency's entertainment team.Kops will expand ID's film department with additional film release and award campaigns, festival support and production companies. He will also represent a slate of film-makers.The veteran executive has previously served as executive vice president of MGM ...
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ReviewsTaking Chance
Dir: Ross Katz. US. 2009. 80mins.A heartfelt and sorrowful memorial to the war dead of Iraq marked by a typically restrained and concentrated performance by Kevin Bacon, Ross Katz’s Taking Chance is a quietly observational study of memory and loss. The fact-based story of a career ...
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CMG takes on martial arts action feature Blood & Bone
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group has taken on international rights to Remarkable Films' just completed martial arts feature Blood & Bone and will introduce the film to buyers at EFM next month.Martial artist Michael Jai White, starring in the Sundance premiere Black Dynamite, leads the key cast along with Julian ...
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ReviewsThe Killing Room
Dir:Jonathan Liebesman. US. 2008. 93mins.Unremittingly gripping and unnerving, The Killing Room transforms a simple premise into a almost unbearably tense experience. As a departure from his gory 2006 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, director Jonathan Liebesman squeezes every little ounce of mind-game intrigue from the ...
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