All Screen articles in 23 October 2008 – Page 3
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Protti renamed president ofItaly's cinema body with reform agenda
Paolo Protti has been reappointed president of Italy's exhibitor organisation ANEC or the National Association of Cinema Exhibitors for a second three-year term.Protti, who oversees the concerns of the nation's some 3,000 screens, says his aims include restructuring ANEC by merging ANEM (National Association of Multiplex Exhibitors) into ANEC. FICE ...
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Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham among cast for 13 remake
Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Sam Riley and 50 Cent will star in 13, Gela Babluani's remake of his 2005 French thriller 13 Tzameti that Paramount Vantage will begin to pre-sell at AFM. Endeavor represents North American rights on the story of a young man who steals a mysterious package ...
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The Band's Visit takes top prize at Cinemanila fest
The 10th Cinemanila Film Festival awarded its top prize to Israeli film The Band's Visit, directed by Eran Kolirin, it was announced on Monday night (Oct 20). The bittersweet comedy about an Egyptian police band arriving at a wrong destination in Israel beat six other films in the main competition ...
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AFI Awards to celebrate 50th edition with audience vote
The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, The Castle, Gallipoli, Lantana and Muriel's Wedding have been voted Australia's favourite films in an online poll conducted to celebrate 50 years of Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. The films are listed alphabetically, not in order of their popularity; the biggest vote ...
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Laurence Fishburne to be honoured at Bahamas festival
Laurence Fishburne will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Career Achievement Award in Nassau in December 7. Festival patron Sean Connery will present the honour, which was set up to recognise film-makers whose work has had a 'major impact and has advanced the frontiers of cinematic artistry around ...
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Four young film-makers join Cinereach 2009 programme
Cinereach, the non-profit media organisation set up in 2006 and dedicated to supporting socially-conscious film-making, has selected four young film-makers to take part in its 2009 Reach Film Fellowship Programme. Now in its second year, the Fellowship is an intensive six-month programme that assigns mentors to help four promising ...
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Ron Perlman joins cast of Season Of The Witch.
Ron Perlman has joined Nicolas Cage in Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment's supernatural thriller Season Of The Witch. Mandate International will commence pre-sales at AFM on the story of a 14th century knight who escorts a suspected witch across Europe. Production is set to begin in Austria and ...
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Khamsa and Still Walking take top awards at Eurasia Film Festival
Tunisian-born filmmaker's Karim Dridi's Khamsa was named Best Film at this year's International Eurasia Film Festival at the Turkish resort of Antalya.The International Jury, under president Paul Verhoeven, named Japan's Hirokazu Koreeda Best Director for his family drama Still Walking (Aruitemo Aruitemo).Prizes by other juries included the Siyad Award for ...
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RED Digital Cinema to have a UK base at Pinewood Studios
The digital cinematography camera company, RED Digital Cinema, will launch RED Europe at Eastside Complex, Pinewood Studios from 1 November 2008. RED will offer technologically-advanced digital capture, over 4 times the resolution of HD video.Alan Piper of RED Europe said: 'Outside of the US, the European market is RED's largest. ...
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RED Digital Cinema to have a UK base at Pinewood Studios
The digital cinematography camera company, RED Digital Cinema, will launch RED Europe at Eastside Complex, Pinewood Studios from 1 November 2008. RED will offer technologically-advanced digital capture, over 4 times the resolution of HD video.Alan Piper of RED Europe said: 'Outside of the US, the European market is RED's largest. ...
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Ballast earns four nominations atGotham Independent Film Awards
Lance Hammer's Ballast is nominated for best feature, director, breakthrough actor and ensemble performance at IFP awards, 22 films nominated in six categories. Lance Hammer's Ballast leads the pack in the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards with four nominations for best feature, director, breakthrough actor and ensemble performance.Six titles ...
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Too many specialty films being released says Miramax's Daniel Battsek
Too many specialty films being released, according to Miramax President Daniel Battsek.Giving the keynote speech at Film London's second Production Finance Market (October 20-21), Battsek addressed the continuing problem of oversupply in a market that is not expanding.Asked whether Miramax had been helped by the recent closure of Warner independent ...
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Four Nights With Anna is best film at European Cinema Festival
Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski's Polish-French co-production Four Nights With Anna, has won the best film award and $8,000 (Euros 6,000) at the 21st Panorama of European Cinema Festival in Athens.The purse, intended to back the local release of the film, was offered by festival organizer Athens daily, Eleftherotypia.Skolimowski's film received ...
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Yuri's Day wins Grand Prix at Warsaw Film Festival
Russian-German co-production Yuri's Day won top honours at the 24th Warsaw Film Festival.Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz presented the Warsaw Grand Prix at the festival's closing ceremony on October 18. Yuri's Day tells the story of a self-centred opera singer whose son disappears when she takes him to visit her provincial ...
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MK2 sells Rumba to Koch Lorber Films for the US
France 's MK2 has sold Rumba to Koch Lorber Films for the US.The Belgian slapstick dance comedy was directed by the trio known as Abel, Gordon and Romy. It ran in this year's Critics Week in Cannes as a special screening.Released in France in September, the film has sold over ...
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Odyssey has taken rights to Wickie And The Mighty Vikings
Odyssey Entertainment has struck a deal with Rat Pack Filmproduktion (The Wave, Hui Buh) and Constantin Film (The Baader Meinhof Complex, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) to handle worldwide sales and distribution (excluding German speaking Europe) on the family adventure film Wickie And The Mighty Vikings.The film is ...
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Berenice Fugard joins Optimum as head of acquisitions
Berenice Fugard has been appointed as head of acquisitions for StudioCanal and Optimum Releasing. She will be based in London and will report both to Optimum Releasing CEO Will Clarke, and Ron Halpern executive vice-president, international production and acquisitions for StudioCanal.Fugard will be responsible for acquiring films for Optimum Releasing ...
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Tulpan takes top prize at Montreal's FNC
Sergei Dvortsevoy's Un Certain Regard-winner Tulpan took the top prize as Montreal's 37th Festival du Nouveau Cinema wrapped over the weekend. The debut feature, a Kazakstan-Germany coproduction, has been gathering laurels since its Cannes debut.Meanwhile the festival's jury, composed of Charlotte Laurier, Robert Levesque and Michel Savoy, was impressed with ...
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Troubled Water wins Hamptons' Golden Starfish
Erik Poppe's Norwegian-Swedish film Troubled Water won the 16th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival's Golden Starfish Best Narrative Feature and an awards package of more than $185,000 of in-kind production services. Megumi Sasaki's US entry Herb And Dorothy took the documentary award and a $5,000 cash prize while special ...