All Screen articles in 23 March 2006 – Page 5
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Making it as a scriptwriter in Hollywood: speech
It would be true to say that I havepuzzled about screenwriting a lot. What I puzzle about is why we screenwritershave such a shitty life. Even though things have gonemoderately well for me - I think I have a success rate of something like 30%,which is not bad - that's ...
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The government link with creative industries for biggest ever UK crackdown on counterfeiting and benefit fraud
The government and creative industries announced onMarch 16 the completion of the biggest crackdown on counterfeiters and benefitfraudsters ever seen in the UK.The operation was conducted by the Department forWork and Pensions (DWP) in conjunction with British record industry associationthe BPI, film industry anti-piracy body the Federation AgainstCopyright Theft (FACT) ...
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American Dreamz opens ninth Bermuda festival
The ninth Bermuda International Film Festival willkick off tonight with a screening of Paul Weitz's American Dreamz,a satire of American politics and show business starring Dennis Quaid, Willem Dafoe, Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore. The festival has expanded to a nine-day event thisyear, and will close March 25 with Julian ...
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Script Factory, Skillset start programme for crossover film writers
UK training organizations The Script Factory and Skillset have announced a new initiative, Writers' Circle,to find new screenwriters from the worlds of theatre, literature, TV, radio,and stand-up comedy. The programme will support eight'conversion' writers who have already had success in other fields andwant to cross over into film. ...
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Former President of UIP dies of a stroke
Industryveteran, Pano Alafouzo,died of a stroke in London on March 10. Pano Alafouzowas born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1918. He started his film career at 20th Century Fox in Cairo beforerelocating to Warner Bros in London in 1966, where he became European Supervisor. Two years later, he moved to Universal'snewly ...
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Mackenzie to start shooting fourth film Hallam Foe
David Mackenzie is to direct Hallam Foe on location in Scotland from March 27. Mackenzie1s fourth feature after The Last Great Wilderness (2002), Young Adam (2003) and Asylum (2005) is a $5.4m ( £3.1m) adaptation of the Peter Jinks novel in which JamieBell stars as a misfit teenager who becomes ...
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Spain's Sogepaq pre-sells Bollain feature to Indie Circle
Spain's Sogepaq has closed a pre-sale on director Iciar Bollain's new film, Mataharis, topan-European distribution pool Indie Circle.The deal, which Sogepaq negotiated withMataharis producers La Iguana and Sogecine, includes rights in France (Haut et Court), Italy (Lucky Red), Belgium (Cineart), the Netherlands (A-Film) and Switzerland (Frenetic). Indie Circlepreviously handled ...
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Mar Del Plata attracts record numbers
The 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival has attracted morethan 100.000 spectators in its first seven days, confirming its place as LatinAmerica's leading film event.The Argentinian festival, running until next Sunday, hasalso seen an unprecedentedly large number of international guests; Tim Robbins,Susan Sarandon, Michael Winterbottom, Abel Ferrara and Juliette Binoche ...
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Ozon, TLA to get tributes, Reinas to open Miami gay and lesbian fest
Manuel Gomez Pereira's ensemble comedy Reinas (Queens) and Todd Stephens' comedy AnotherGay Movie bookend theeighth Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which runs from Apr 21-30.Amnon Buchbinder's rites of passage comedy Whole New Thing has been named by organisers as thecenterpiece gala screening.The festival will pay tribute to distributor ...
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A dialogue with Marc Shmuger and David Linde
Marc Shmuger and DavidLinde (pictured), the new co-chiefs at Universal Studios, spoke to Screen yesterday abouttheir new roles at the company, the future of Focus Features and theinternational distribution arm which begins operating in Jan 2007.Screen: First, what will happen at Focus, David' Will JamesSchamus be sole president'Linde: I'm not ...
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MPA to host film production workshops in Beijing
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) is holding a series of workshops on film production andscreenwriting in Beijing starting this weekend. Organised with the supportof the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), the five-daycourse offers 20 Chinese producers and 20 screenwriters the chance to developtheir projects with help from established ...
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Kenny moves to US to head up Warner digital arm
Simon Kenny has been appointed president of the newly formedWarner Bros Digital Distribution, part of the sprawling Warner Bros Home EntertainmentGroup (WBHEG) division announced last October.Kenny will manage the worldwide electronic distribution streams ofcontent across a wide array of platforms that includes pay-per-view, electronicsell-through, video-on-demand, subscription-video-on-demand, and wireless,among others.He will ...
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Tribeca Spotlight, Discovery sections announced
High profile independenttitles including Mini's First Timestarring Alec Baldwin and Nikki Reed, Five Fingers with Ryan Phillippe and Laurence Fishburne, ComebackSeason with Ray Liotta and EdwardBurns' latest film The Groomsmenstarring Burns and Britanny Murphy will all have their world premieres in theSpotlight or Discovery sections of this year's Tribeca Film ...
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Puiu, Weerasethakul among film-makers in Cannes Atelier
The Cannes Film Festivalhas selected 18 filmmakers to participate in the second annual Atelier duFestival.Under the aegis of theCannes Cinefondation, the workshop began last year in an effort to aide youngfilmmakers with their projects. During the festival, May 17 28, the selectgroup will meet with producers and distributors in order ...
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Bobby goes to North America through Weinsteins
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired domestic rights from LosAngeles-based Bold Films to Emilio Estevez' keenly anticipated Bobby Kennedyassassination drama Bobby.Bobbyrevisits the night Kennedy was shot dead at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in1968 and presents a tapestry of interwoven stories about the people at thehotel that night.The star-studded ensemble piece ...
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BVI hires production and acquisitions head in India
Shyam PS has been named head of film production and acquisitionsat Buena Vista International (India) as The Walt Disney Company moves toexplore synergies with Bollywood.Based in Mumbai, Shyam will take the lead on creating original andacquiring original Indian-language films that combine Disney storytelling withIndian sensibilities.He will report directly to Rajat ...
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