All Screen articles in 23 March 2008 – Page 3
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The Grand, Young@Heart bookend Palm Beach Film Festival
Zak Penn's ensemble comedy The Grand will be the opening night film of the 13th annual Palm Beach International Film Festival in Florida on April 10. Stephen Walker's documentary Young@Heart will be closing night on April 17.A total of 141 films will screen at this year's event, while the Awards ...
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Brisbane, 4, Bra Boys take audience prizes at London Aussie fest
The London Australian Film Festival closed March 16 with a record 7,000 attendees in its 14th year.The audience awards went to Louise Alston's All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane for best feature; and a tie of Tim Slade's 4 and Sunny Abberton & Macario de Souza's Bra Boys as best ...
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French hit Ch'tis to run at London's Cine Lumiere
Pathe UK is releasing French hit Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis exclusively at London's Cine Lumiere from April 1-24.The comedy, which has clocked up a mammoth $103.5m after three weeks on release, proved a surprise hit at the French box office after taking more than 5m admissions in its first week ...
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On-demand market could hit $1.1bn in 2012
On-demand media could generate revenues of $1.1bn by 2012 in the US and Europe, according to a new report from Screen Digest.That will include $665m of new revenue and the rest replacement for DVD spending.Screen Digest noted that the on-demand market 'has the potential not only to revolutionise how consumers ...
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Nu Boyana expands with new city streets sets
Outside sets re-creating streets of London, Paris and Berlin are being planned next year to join the 2.5 kilometres of New York streets currently in construction at Sofia's Nu Boyana Film Studios.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com on the studio lot at the weekend, Nu Boyana's CEO and Chairman David Varod said ...
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Quantum of Solace to have early UK launch Oct 31
Sony Pictures Releasing (UK) has set an early Oct 31 opening date in the UK for the next James Bond film, Quantum Of Solace. On that Friday, the 22nd Bond film will open at the Odeon Leicester Square and at cinemas across the UK.The date is a week before the ...
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Goldby's The Waiting Room to open East End Film Festival
London's East End Film Festival will open April 17 with the city premiere of Roger Goldby's The Waiting Room.The drama about the tangled love lives of a group of Londoners stars Anne-Marie Duff, Ralf Little and Rupert Graves. Sarah Sulick produced.The cast also features Frank Finlay, Zoe Telford, Phyllida Law, ...
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CEC strikes financing deal for Osborne's Laundry Warrior
Specialty finance and investment company Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) has announced a single-picture financing deal for highly-anticipated, English-language action feature The Laundry Warrior. Total production capital for the project, which stars Geoffrey Rush, Kate Bosworth and Korean star Jang Dong-gun, comes from a combination of CEC's financing and third-party equity.Budgeted ...
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Pang Ho-cheung, Ning Hao win top HAF awards
Pang Ho Cheung's The Bus picked up the HAF Award for best Hong Kong project at the close of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF)today (March 19). Chinese director Ning Hao's 7 Dreams won the HAF Award for best project from outside of Hong Kong. Both awards, which ...
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'Wait and see' attitude prevails in complex digital rights world
If there was one thing that the delegates at Screen's Maximising Digital Revenue conference agreed on, it's that nobody really knows what will happen next with digital rights.The conference brought together key producers, distributors, sales agents and lawyers to discuss how the film industry could move forward to create revenue ...
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Hong Kong's Salon Films forms pan-Asian alliance
Hong Kong's Salon Films has formed an affiliation of pan-Asian production and financing companies to help facilitate international productions in the region. In addition to Salon Films, the partners include China's Hengdian World Studios, leading Japanese talent agency and producer Yoshimoto Kogyo Co, Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and Cayman Islands-based ...
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T-Joy pulls Yasukuni doc from Tokyo theatre
Japan-based Chinese-born director Li Ying's controversial documentary Yasukuni has had its theatrical release cancelled by exhibitor T-Joy. The film was set to begin its theatrical run on April 12 at Shinjuku's ultramodern Wald 9 multiplex through distributor Argo Pictures.The cancellation follows an increasing number of threats toward Li and his ...
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JA Mediascores sales on Tsui Hark rom-com
Beijing-based JA Media hassealed a number of deals for Tsui Hark's She Ain't Mean.The romantic comedy was picked up by Scorpio East in Singapore, GSC in Malaysia, Intercontinental Film Distributors in Hong Kong, Polybona in China, Serenity Entertainmentin Taiwan and Celestial Movies for pay-TV in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.JA ...
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De Niro, Garcia and Choi on Hyun Jin's street
Korean production company Hyun Jin Cinema has announced a $40m Japan-Korea-US co-production, Street of Dreams, about legendary Asian-American gangster Montana Joe to star Robert DeNiro, Andy Garcia, and Choi Min-soo.Raymond De Felitta, whose Two Family House won the Audience Award at Sundance, is directing the film.The film's producer Fred Roos, ...
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Gunnarson's Air India 182 has world premiere at Hot Docs
Sturla Gunnarson's Air India 182 will be one of several Canadian feature documentaries to make its world premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, April 17-27. The 15th edition unveiled its complete line-up at a press conference in Toronto this morning. Also announced were the 35 projects up ...
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Scene Play to open BA International Festival Of Independent Cinema
The 10th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) announced its full line-up of 437 features and shorts, including 60 local films. The $1.2m event (April 8-18) will open with Scene Play (Jogo de Cena), the new work by Brazilian master Eduardo Coutinho, who will be presenting the film.A ...
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79 shorts selected for Tribeca Film Festival
79 shorts have been selected to play at this year's Tribeca Film Festival (April 23 to May 4) out of a total of 2,497 submissions. The shorts will be presented in 11 thematic programmes as well as preceding features in the festival.Among the shorts are narratives featuring stars such as ...
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AFCI launches new programmes for Locations Trade Show 2008
The Association Of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) will launch Phase Two of its Global Initiatives programme at the 23rd annual ACFI Locations Trade Show in Santa Monica (April 10-12).Over 300 exhibitors from more than 30 countries will participate in the event this year and an estimated 4,000 professionals will attend ...
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Tribeca 2008 announces Spotlight, Showcase and Restored sections
The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place April 23 to May 4, has announced the films in its Spotlight, Showcase and Restored/Rediscovered sections.'Our Spotlight section presents a group of films already acquired for U.S. distribution but not yet released, including hotly-anticipated new titles by Jose Padilha, Julian Schnabel, Harmony ...
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Paul Elliott's Aussie horror The Red Car gets Aurora go-ahead
A brand new car brings only tragedy to its owners in the horror film The Red Car, one of four films chosen for Aurora, the flagship development and financing program of the New South Wales Film and Television Office.The Black Balloon, which won this year's Crystal Bear in the Generation ...