All Screen articles in 23 October 2007 – Page 6
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Wild Bunch adds thriller Pop Skull ahead of Rome
In addition to the recently announced acquisition of Hayo Freitag's The Three Robbers, Wild Bunch has picked up Pop Skull heading into the Rome Film Festival. The film, made for just a $2,000 budget, was found by Wild Bunch on 24-year-old director Adam Wingard's MySpace page. The trailer posted on ...
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Real D signs 500-system deal with Odeon and UCI
Real D has signed another huge deal, partnering with Odeon and UCI for the installation of 500 digital 3-D systems across the UK and Europe. The distribution partnership is Real D's largest international deal to date. The rollout of 500 systems will start immediately and continue for the next two ...
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As Europa acquires Roissy, market operations could merge in 2008
As Luc Besson's EuropaCorp agreed to acquire sales company Roissy Films and its 500-title strong catalog, Roissy's president and owner Raphael Berdugo calls the deal 'a very logical' step, The deal, which values the catalog at about $40m, is set to be finalised in early 2008 and ensures Roissy's ability ...
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Rome's Business Street includes focus on local films
Italian sellers are hoping that the second edition of Rome's Business Street (Oct 18-21) will prove a successful launchpad for a slew of local titles.Sales outfit Adrianna Chiesa Enterprises is going to present the first market screenings including a Mafia drama, war documentary, 3-D animation and black comedy. Chiesa says ...
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Gondry casts Kase, Ito in Tokyo! segment
The cast for Michel Gondry's segment of omnibus film Tokyo ! (working title) has been announced. Letters From Iwo Jima star Ryo Kase will be joined by Ayumi Ito (Tokyo Tower: Mom And Me And Sometimes Dad), Satoshi Tsumabuki (Dororo), Ayako Fujitani (Gamera 3) and Nao Omori (Midnight Eagle). Gondry's ...
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Zhang to star in Golden Rooster Awards short film
The organisers of China's Golden Rooster Awards have announced that Zhang Ziyi, Liu Ye, Ge You and Huang Bo will star in a short film to be screened at the awards ceremony in Suzhou on Oct 27. Dayyan Eng (Waiting Alone) will direct the three-minute action satire about a group ...
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Visual Factory takes on sales for Vampire Diary
UK-based sales company Visual Factory has come on board for Vampire Diary. Anna Walton (The Mutant Chronicles, Hellboy 2) stars along with Morven Macbeth, Jamie King and Kate Sissons. Mark James is directing with Phil O'Shea. James previously directed TV documentaries including Freeze an Omnibus, as well as one-hour special ...
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Nicholson picks Evans' White Elephants for UK script prize
Patrick Evans has won South West Screen's Screenwriter Development Competition, judged by Oscar-winning screenwriter Bill Nicholson. His screenplay White Elephants is about a father and teenage daughter, set against the backdrop of corruption in the Nigerian oil industry. Gloucestershire-born, Cornwall-based Evans beat screenplays from 128 other budding writers from the ...
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Copenhagen children's festival Buster moves back to September
As part of the recent merger of the Copenhagen International Film Festival and NATFilm, the CIFF festival for Children and Youth, entitled Buster, has been moved back to September. In recent years, the festival had moved to March to make the most of festival resources, but the changed landscape in ...
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FACT works with Crimestoppers for anonymous piracy tips
The UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and the charity Crimestoppers are partnering to offer anonymous public reporting of film piracy.Members of the public can report potential piracy issues to Crimestoppers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.FACT had previously run its own tip line to generate intelligence on ...
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Independent takes on sales for Kidulthood follow-up Adulthood
UK sales company Independent has come on board for Noel Clarke's Adulthood, which has now started shooting in London. Noel Clarke, writer and actor of Kidulthood, will make his directorial debut with that controversial hit's follow-up.In Adulthood, Clarke reprises his role as Sam from the first film, picking up as ...
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Government pledges $50m for UKFC to protect BFI archives
As the Times BFI London Film Festival gears up to open its 51st edition tonight, UK Culture Secretary James Purnell has announced that the UK Film Council has been awarded $50.8m (£25m) for the UK's national and regional film archives. The $50.8m allowance comes on top of the UK Film ...
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Towards Zero (L'Heure Zero)
Dir. Pascal Thomas. France, 2007. 107 min.This adaptation of an Agatha Christie crime story originally published in 1944 it is a handsome, pleasant but quite conventional cinematic piece of work, that wasa surprise choice to premiere at Pusan this year. With familiar faces like Melvil Poupaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Alessandra Martinez ...
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Epitaph
Dir. Jung Brothers. Korea, 2007. 98 min.The performance of Epitaphin Koreancinemas in August was relatively disappointing with just 600,000 admissions but much of the blame was put on the release date. However, the film itself must have something to do with it: this mystifying, often confused first filmlooks much better ...
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Epitaph
Dir. Jung Brothers. Korea, 2007. 98 minsThe performance of Epitaph in Korean cinemas in August was relatively disappointing with just 600,000 admissions but much of the blame was put on the release date. However, the film itself must have something to do with it: this mystifying, often confused first film ...
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Meaney, Crook and Staunton line up for 3 and OUT
UK indie comedy 3 and OUT, starring Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton and Gemma Arterton, will start principal photography Oct 29.Jonathan Gershfield makes his feature directorial debut after working on TV series including Big Train and Dead Ringers.Wayne Marc Godfrey is producing for new production outfit RMPC. Steve Lewis ...
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Sales veteran Adam Wright joins Maverick
Adam Wright has joined Maverick Global, the international sales arm of US home entertainment genre distributor Maverick Entertainment Group, as senior vice president of international distribution and domestic television sales.Wright will report directly to executive vice president Pamela White and will continue to live in Los Angeles, where he most ...
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Arikian leaves EFM to head up Hamptons International Film Festival
Co-director of the Berlin International Film Festival's European Film Market (EFM) Karen Arikian has been named new executive director of The Hamptons International Film Festival.Arikian will assume her duties in March 2008 and will attend the gala opening night on Oct 17 this year as an observer.The executive director's duties ...
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Fogelson, Edgan promoted to president positions within Universal
Adam Fogelson has been appointed to the newly created role of Universal Pictures' president of marketing and distribution and Eddie Egan has been promoted to president of marketing.Fogelson assumes executive oversight of Universal's domestic marketing and distribution divisions as well as marketing and distribution of Rogue Pictures.He reports to Universal ...