All Screen articles in 23 October 2007 – Page 4
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Bassett, Wyle join all-star cast of YFG's Nothing But The Truth
Angela Bassett and Noah Wyle have joined Yari Film Group's (YFG) thriller Nothing But The Truth, which Rod Lurie is directing.Bassett and Wyle join Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, Harry Lennix and David Schwimmer on the production, which commenced shooting in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this month.Bob Yari ...
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Wind Dancer plans US, Provence shoot on Williams' Mistral
Wind Dancer Films is lining up a US and Provence, France, shoot on the romantic fable Mistral with Wind Dancer partner Matt Williams attached to directed.Josh Kesselman and Andrea Smith will produce with Wind Dancer Films based on a screenplay by Brett Hershey and Matt Tilker loosely inspired by a ...
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Melissa Wohl to head international sales at Allumination
Melissa Wohl has been hired as senior vice president of international sales at Allumination FilmWorksWohl will report directly to Allumination chief executive officer and president Cheryl Freeman.She most recently, she served as vice president of sales and acquisitions at Harmony Gold.Prior to that she worked at Circle M Media as ...
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Robbie Coltrane to voice Gooby for PorchLight/Condor
Production began in Toronto this week [Oct 15] on the CGI-live action family film Gooby, which has been acquired by PorchLight's new division Condor Releasing and features Eugene Levy and the voice talent of Robbie Coltrane.Condor has picked up worldwide rights to the $6m-7m project about a children's stuffed toy ...
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Argentina's Gaggero to direct Wildlife for Point Road Films
John Moore and Peter Veverka's Point Road Films has hired Argentinean film-maker Jorge Gaggero to direct the adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning Richard Ford's coming-of-age novel Wildlife.Producers Moore and Peter Veverka are aiming for a late summer 2008 shoot in Montana on the $3m tale of a 16-year-old who learns ...
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International - Land of opportunity'
The following glass half full/half empty debate has been going on for as long as I can remember. On the one hand is the argument that there's never been a worse time for independent and alternative film to get access to the North American marketplace. On the other hand, the ...
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Editorial - Peer pressure
There's an interesting survey out this week that demonstrates how gossip influences human behaviour. Boffins (or possibly eggheads) at the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology have spent large amounts of time and public money showing that humans give an extraordinary amount of credence to word-of-mouth references.The methodology involved ...
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A good news day
The Egyptian film industry is ruled by a clutch of players that typically act as producers, distributors and exhibitors, churning out comedies that dominate the local box office. Adel Adeeb, managing director of indie Good News Group, can add a fourth arm - directing - to the list. He is ...
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Critical Mass with Lee Marshall -Past perfect
There's a film that's been building in my mind ever since I saw it, to the point where I've started to think it might just be the future of cinema. It's En La Ciudad De Sylvia by Jose Luis Guerin, a Spanish director who every five years or so makes ...
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Ratatouille still cooking
Disney/Pixar animation Ratatouille held the top international slot this weekend, with more than $21m from 39 territories. The family film was up 9% at the weekend, thanks to a $9m opening in the UK, and now boasts a $271.8m international tally. Resident Evil: Extinction was up by 18%, holding on ...
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Japan International Contents Festival - Tokyo events gather momentum
The Japan International Contents Festival (CoFesta) debuts this year (September 20-October 28) as a sprawling amalgamation of 18 events running alongside the Tokyo International Film Festival (see sidebar, below). Key international events include the Tiffcom market and its attendant Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG).Tiffcom (October 22-24) is entering its fourth year, ...
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Pusan cements regional role
As it turned 12 this year, the Pusan International Film Festival (Piff) started to exhibit growing pains. But the burgeoning South Korean festival, with its mandate to discover and support Asian cinema, is still widely recognised as the premiere event in Asia - putting it in the rankings that follow ...
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US icon Phil Donahue moves into film with Body Of War
Phil Donahue is a household name in the US, famous for his eponymous talk show and a TV career that spanned three decades. But that does not mean making his first feature documentary was a piece of cake.'I feel like I'm in a dark hallway, feeling my way around. This ...
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Tony Kaye returns with Lake Of Fire and Black Water Transit
Tony Kaye is back. Though he has stayed busy shooting the kind of innovative commercials and music videos that first made his name, the maverick conceptual artist and director has not had a feature in cinemas since his 1998 debut American History X, the edgy drama about neo-Nazi skinheads that ...
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Hollywood World Award - Meet the world leaders
The fourth annual Hollywood World Award, a collaboration between Screen International and the Hollywood Film Festival, will be presented in Los Angeles on October 22 this year and the line-up of 10 finalists is an impressive one. All of this year's shortlisted titles had their world premieres at Cannes in ...
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Gems from the festival season: our picks for hot films and talent from the summer and autumn
LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALAudience award winner: Death At A Funeral, Frank Oz's low-budget (for him) farce about dirty doings at an English funeral, had Swiss audiences falling off their seats. International distribution is assured - the film has MGM behind it. Verve will be releasing it on behalf of MGM ...
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Festival - Asian talent - The stars come out at Pusan
Korean actor Yang Jin-woo was the proud winner of the first ever Screen International/Star Summit Asia best new actor award, which was presented during the Asian Film Market in Pusan last week.Screen presents the award to a participant in the Casting Board section of the Asian Film Market's Star Summit ...
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United Kingdom - Life After Death
Death At A Funeral was written as a spec script by London-based writer Dean Craig to direct himself for around $200,000 (£100,000). But a friend, US writer-director-producer Laurence Malkin had bigger ambitions."He said, 'No, we'll do it for $20m,'" Craig remembers. "I said, 'Are you nuts' It's a little film ...
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Tranter welcomes six-year stability of new BBC Films budget
'Discreetly celebratory' was how Jane Tranter, Controller BBC Fiction, described the state of mind at BBC Films, where a $4m (£2 m) increase in the current annual budget of $20m (£10m) was confirmed Thursday. There was also the added news that $2m (£1m) of the BBC's film acquisition budget would ...
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Al Shaibani and Al Muhairi take Emirates awards in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi's Middle East International Film Festival (Oct 14-19) today announced the winners of its competition for Emirati filmmakers. Hani Al Shaibani, whose second feature Jumaa and the Sea screens at the festival, and Fadel Al Muhairi, who participated in the festival's pitching programme with his Gulf-based period action-adventure project ...