All Screen articles in 23 January 2009 – Page 6
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Elevenworld premieres in 14 latest titles for Berlinale Competition
Some eleven of the 14 latest films announced for the Berlinale's Competition programme are world premieres, including new films by Stephen Frears (Cheri), Bertrand Tavernier (In the Electric Mist), Francois Ozon (Ricky) and Andrzej Wajda (Sweet Rush). 25 of the 26 films screening in the Competition programme have now been ...
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Dir: Steve Carr . US. 2009. 87mins. A depressingly strained comedic riff on Die Hard, Paul Blart: Mall Cop mixes fat jokes, a sappy romantic subplot and hostages-in-a-mall action elements without much verve or wit. As his first starring vehicle after playing second-fiddle to bigger box-office names in recent films, ...
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Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button top BAFTA nominations
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire looks favourite to add BAFTA honours to its huge Golden Globe success.The film - which picked up four Globes this week including best picture - is nominated in 11 categories including best film, best director (Boyle), best actor (Dev Patel), best supporting actresss (Freida Pinto), best ...
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Government to consider UK co-production report early in 2009
The UK's Departmentfor Culture, Media and Sport is analysing a report on the effect of the country's tax credit on co-production activity with recommendations to ministers expected in the next few months.The report from Oxford Economics, whichhas been seen by Screen,warns that theUK film tax credit has created adverse effects ...
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Revolver takes UK rights to Slamdance premiere City Rats
Revolver Entertainment has snapped up UK rights from Facefilms and Scanner Rhodes Productions to City Rats ahead of its world premiere in competition at Slamdance.Steve M Kelly directed from Simon Fantauzzo's script about eight individuals who seek to help each other improve their lives. Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, MyAnna Buring ...
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Oscilloscope buys So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain for North America
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up North American rights to So Yong Kim's South Korean drama Treeless Mountain, which premiered in Toronto and will screen in the Forum section at next month's Berlinale.The new York-based company plans an April 22 theatrical release at the Film Forum in New York City followed ...
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Richard Matson joins Anywhere Road as vice president
Marketing executive Richard Matson has joined San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York-based distributor Anywhere Road as vice president and head of distribution and marketing.Anywhere Road's 2009 release slate includes the drama Sinner starring Nick Chinlund as priest who faces a crisis of faith when a fundamentalist junior colleague clashes ...
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Brendan Fraser joins Harrison Ford in CBS Films' true life drama
Brendan Fraser will star opposite Harrison Ford in drama The Untitled Crowley Project for CBS Films, the first production to go for the new division when shooting commences in April.Fraser will play John Crowley, the father who recruited the services of a maverick scientist to solve a mystery that could ...
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Focus teams up with Universal's production arm to create global entity
Focus Features has joined forces with the international production arm of Universal Pictures to create a global financing, production and distribution entity on the heels of a successful 2008 in which both divisions’ films grossed more than $350m worldwide.Styled as a one-stop shop for the world’s film-makers, the venture will ...
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In Focus: the 2009 Hollywood blockbusters
Some of the world's biggest film-makers, including James Cameron, Peter Jackson and Martin Scorsese, have new films this year, while the latest in the Harry Potter, Terminator, X-Men and Twilight franchises will hope to build on their existing fanbases.Some - Knowing, Surrogates and The Box, for example - are new ...
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SPC takes on North America to Mexican smash Rudo Y Cursi
Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed it has taken North American rights to Carlos Cuaron's Mexican blockbuster Rudo Y Cursi, which gets its North American premiere at Sundance on January 16.Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna reunite for the first time since Y Tu Mama Tambien opened in 2001 and are ...
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Consortium gets together to launch new east coast film studio
A consortium of business partners led by real estate billionaire Arthur G Cohen, Adi Cohen and Joseph Grinkorn of Killer Films owners GC Venture Capital Fund's, Baldwin Entertainment's Howard and Karen Baldwin and City Lights Media are launching the East Coast studio United Studios Of America.The group is expected to ...
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Unified signs two-picture US distribution deal with Cinema Epoch
Keith Kjarval's Los Angeles-based production, finance and international distribution company Unified Pictures has signed a two-film US distribution deal with Cinema Epoch.The deal covers mystery noir The Perfect Sleep directed by Jeremy Alter and starring Roselyn Sanchez, and Craig Carlisle's romance Bob Funk starring Rachael Leigh Cook. Both films are ...
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Jaman launches UK film site
Jaman, the company behind the eponymous US website featuring independent and world cinema, is expanding into the UK film distribution film market with the launch of its first localized site in the UK. The website has a collection of 1,000 titles, which include international dramas, documentaries, shorts, Japanese animated titles ...
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The Home of Dark Butterflies frontrunner for Jussi awards.
Finnish director Dome Karukoski's The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien perhosten koti) took a total of 10 nominations for the Jussi awards, Finland's national film prize. The film tells the story of Juhani, who ends up at a boys' institution, the Island, after six years of wandering between foster homes. ...
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IMAX signs digital cinema deal with Russia's Rising Star
IMAX Corp. and Moscow-based Rising Star Media have signed a deal that will see the installation of Russia's first IMAX digital cinema. Rising Star is a joint venture between US exhibitor National Amusements and Soquel Ventures, the leisure investment group run by Paul Heth, credited with revitalizing the Russian cinema ...
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Jaman.com to launch first localised site in the UK
Entertainment website Jaman.com has begun its international expansion plan by launching its first localised site in the UK.Former executive vice president and managing director of MySpace and Fox Interactive Media David Fischer, is named managing director of Jaman's UK and international operations.Based in London, Fischer will be responsible for international ...
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Panorama world premieres include Breillat, Winterbottom, Glawogger
World premieres of new films by Catherine Breillat, Micheal Winterbottom and Michael Glawogger will screen in Berlinale's Panorama section. Catherine Breillat will present her latest work La Barbe Bleue, an exploration of the famous Bluebeard story, Directing team Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross will show a work in progress, The ...
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Latin film market to launch backed by INCAA, Cannes Marche
Liliana Mazure, president of the Argentinian Film Institute (INCAA), and Jerôme Paillard, head of Cannes' Marche du Film, announced this Tuesday in Buenos Aires that the city will host a new film market for Latin American productions. The three-day event will be right after the Mar del Plata Film Festival ...
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Cinetic Rights Management signs content deal with iTunes
Cinetic Media's digital aggregator for independent producers Cinetic Rights Management has signed a deal to make its film and TV content available on iTunes store.Among the feature film programming is Rob Epstein's Oscar-winning documentary The Times Of Harvey Milk, Dave McLaughlin's comedy On Broadway and Randall Sharp's period drama Henry ...