All Screen articles in 23 March 2008 – Page 5
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Cool Hand picks up film rights to vampire thriller The Vines
Cool Hand International, an LA- and London-based production outfit run by Matthew Wolf, Simon Kelton and Luke G-Jones, has acquired the option to Barbara Ankrum's novel The Vines, a vampire thriller set in the vineyards of northern California.Brian Austin Green, who is currently starring in US TV hit Terminator: The ...
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Everyman acquires seven-cinema chain Screen Cinemas
UK exhibitor Screen Cinemas has been sold to Everyman Media Group, the parent company of Everyman Cinema Club.Investment banking firm Livingston Partners advised the Screen Cinemas shareholders, including managind director Romaine Hart, during the deal negotiations. Terms were not disclosed.Screen Cinemas operates seven theatres across London and the Southeast of ...
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HanWay takes on library sales for British Film Institute
The British Film Institute has appointed HanWay films as its worldwide sales and marketing agent for its lucrative catalogue of more than 400 films.The BFI collection is comprised of BFI Production Board films, works from the BFI National Archive and a number of additional features, shorts and documentaries for which ...
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Michael Elson leaves UK's Moving Picture Company
Michael Elson has stepped down as head of film and COO at UK-based Moving Picture Company.He will now pursue other film production interests.Christian Roberton, who had been head of production for film at MPC, will take over as head of film.'Michael has played an enormous part in establishing MPC as ...
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Negativ wins record Czech government backing for Alois Nebel
A new project from producer Pavel Strnad (Something Like Happiness, Year Of The Devil) has received a record $946,000 (CZK 15m) in financing from the Czech state film fund for a new project, comic book adaptation Alois Nebel.The move may signal a change in the way the state funding body ...
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EFP gives support to seven films at Hong Kong film festival
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) has, for the first time, been included in the list of non-European film festivals eligible for European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support (FSS) initiative.Four European sales agents and one production company are receiving FFS support for the marketing of seven films.These include Stefan ...
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China's Wanda Group enters film production
Exhibitor Wanda Group, owner of Wanda Cinema Circuit, is to enter the film production business in 2008.The group will invest $28m (RMB200m) in building a media and entertainment arm, including plans for a 4500-acre film studio in its home base of Dalian City.According to Wanda Group president Wang Jianlin, the ...
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Thailand lures international shoots
Thailand continues to be a hot Asian shooting destination with six international feature films scheduled to shoot there in the upcoming months, including Lee Jun-ik's Sunny, the Pang Brothers' Stormriders 2 and Street Fighter.Korean director Lee (King And The Clown) has just wrapped his latest film Sunny after a three-month ...
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Chengtian/Golden Harvest plan Chinese cinema growth
Following its acquisition of a major stake in Golden Harvest Group, Beijing-based Chengtian Entertainment is entering the multiplex business with expansion plans in mainland China.Apart from the existing Golden Harvest cinema in Shenzhen, three more theatres are planned in Beijing, Wuxi and Hangzhou.Wuxi's Mao Ye Mall 11-screen multiplex will open ...
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Maria Bello to receive award at San Francisco Film Festival
Actress Maria Bello will receive the Peter J Owens Award during the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival which runs from April 24 to May 8.The Owens Award, named after local cultural benefactor and longtime Film Society board member Peter J Owens honours an actor whose work exemplifies 'brilliance, independence ...
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Easternlight Films acquires Legendary Assassin
Arclight Films' Asian label Easternlight Films has picked up worldwide rights to Wu Jing's action film Legendary Assassin at Filmart.The deal, which excludes Hong Kong and China, is the first between Easternlight and Paco Wong's production company Gold Label Pictures from Hong Kong.The $4m film marks the directorial debut of ...
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Theron plots return of Lady Vengeance
Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron is to produce and star in a remake of Korean director Park Chan-wook's hit thriller Sympathy For Lady Vengeance. 'We are still in the very preliminary stages. We're working with Ms. Theron and her production company to make the remake happen,' said Chong Choe, director ...
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Dominic Cooper replaces Orlando Bloom in Scherfig's Education
Orlando Bloom has pulled out of the cast of Lone Scherfig's new film An Education, which starts shooting today. Dominic Cooper now takes the role after Bloom had scheduling clashes. Cara Seymour has also joined the cast for An Education, shooting now in London, is based on a screenplay by ...
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Mandarin brings Bruce Lee's kung-fu master to big screen
Hong Kong's Mandarin Films is producing a biopic of Ip Man, the kung-fu master of global superstar Bruce Lee, which is set to star Donnie Yen and Simon Yam.Wilson Yip is directing the film which is currently in pre-production, with Sammo Hung as action director. Yip and Yen previously collaborated ...
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14 Kilometres (14 Kilometros)
Dir: Gerardo Olivares. Spain , Bolivia , 2007. 93 mins.14 Kilometres, which documents the woeful journey of three immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa who leave home in search of an imaginary Europe 'where no one dies of hunger', is a well-intentioned effort but seems far more comfortable dealing with the spectacular ...
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Secret Sunshine lights up Asian Film Awards
Korea's Secret Sunshine was the big winner at the second edition of the Asian Film Awards (AFAs) last night, scooping best film, best director for Lee Chang-dong and best actress for Jeon Do-yeon's performance.The AFA prizes follow almost of a year of top honours for Secret Sunshine, which also won ...
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UK Film Council backs Edinburgh Film Fest with $3.8m over 3 years
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has become the first beneficiary of the UK Film Council's Film Festival Strategy to support UK Festivals of national and international significance. Edinburgh will receive $3.8m (£1.88m) of funding over a three-year period until 2010.The announcement is a major boost for a Festival that is ...
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UKFC commits almost $4m to Edinburgh festival over 3 years
The UK Film Council has announced $3.78m (£1.88m)in funding over three years to the Edinburgh International Film Festival.The Lottery funding, coming via the UKFC's Film Festival Strategy, will run until 2010.The groups said the funding will support growth for public audiences as well as industry professionals from the UK and ...
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Vietnam Media brings Nguyen's award-winning Little Heart to market
Vietnam Media is debuting Nguyen Thanh Van's Little Heart (Trai Tim Be Bong) at Hong Kong's Filmart.The film follows the plight of a village girl when she is sold to a brothel in the city.Nguyen, who was named best director for this film at the Golden Kite Awards, said the ...