All Screen articles in 24 June 2007 – Page 4

  • News

    Mitulescu's Romanian Way finds US home in Film Movement

    2007-06-21T00:07:00Z

    Film Movement has picked up domestic rights to Catalin Mitulescu's Romanian drama The Way I Spent The End Of The World, on which Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders served as executive producers.The film takes place in 1989 in the last year of Ceausesu's regime as a seven-year-old boy who vows ...

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    Pirates' ship gets Shrek'd

    2007-06-21T00:00:00Z

    Good things come in threes, as Shrek The Third knocked Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End off the top spot this weekend. The royal ogre grossed $46.6m over the three-day period - an 86% increase after expanding to an additional 11 territories.Pirates held on strongly to second place, generating ...

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    Jamie Morgan: the explorer

    2007-06-21T00:00:00Z

    Wendy Mitchell meets Jamie Morgan, a first-time documentary film-maker who created a stir in Tribeca with his provocative and personal documentary, The Workshop. Documentary film-maker Jamie Morgan set out on a personal spiritual quest and ended up with a legal battle hours before the world premiere of his film at ...

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    When LUFF comes to town

    2007-06-21T00:00:00Z

    Cementing its place in the international calendar, the London UK Film Focus (June 25-28) is attracting influential buyers and a growing number of premieres. Geoffrey Macnab reports. Four years after its inception, the London UK Film Focus (Luff) is now an established part of the calendar. UK sales agents are ...

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    Box-office: undiscovered territory

    2007-06-21T00:00:00Z

    Current measures of the international market fail to include more than a sixth of the world's population, says Len KladyThere was an odd popular culture annotation to the story of British seamen held captive in Iran, which was this week the subject of a major inquiry in the UK. One ...

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    Locarno to honour actresses in Italian cinema

    2007-06-20T17:20:00Z

    The 60th Locarno International Film Festival is planning a special programme, Signore & Signore, of 19 films that highlight great actresses in Italian Cinema. The programme is supported by Cinecitta Holding and curated by Piera Detassis.The films stretch from 1941 to today, and all will be shown in Locarno on ...

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    Paramount plans Japanese theatrical unit after UIP office shuts

    2007-06-20T16:14:00Z

    Following the news that United International Pictures (UIP) Japan will close at the end of 2007, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) has announced that it will start its theatrical distribution buisiness in Japan at the start of 2008. PPI Japan will be combined with the existing Paramount Home Entertainment Japan. Andrew ...

  • Ratatouille
    Reviews

    Ratatouille

    2007-06-20T14:45:00Z

    Dir: Brad Bird. US. 2007. 110mins.

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    Dolmen strikes deal for 50 Cristaldi classics including Cinema Paradiso

    2007-06-20T14:24:00Z

    Dolmen Home Library has acquired DVD distribution rights for 50 films from the Cristaldi Film Library, including several Oscar-winning titles produced by the legendary Italian producer Franco Cristaldi. The deal was signed by Cristaldi library heirs Zeuda Araya and Massimo Cristaldo with Dolmen chief Alessandro Usai. Titles in the package ...

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    New Anglo-Jamaican co-production treaty unveiled

    2007-06-20T13:35:00Z

    From Broadcast:The British and Jamaican governments are joining forces to encourage filmmakers from the two countries to work on co-productions. Broadcasting minister Shaun Woodward and Del Crooks, Jamaica's film commissioner, joined together at a specially organised press conference at the BroadcastLive trade show in London today to publicise the deal, ...

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    Shanghai film market has slow first edition

    2007-06-20T13:19:00Z

    Shanghai International Film Festival's (SIFF) film market wrapped yesterday with only a few sales concluded. And although it could have potential, most buyers at the three-day event felt there was a lot to be improved. By the time that festival workers began to dismantle the booths, there were only two ...

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    Moscow to host Emir Kusturica for opening night film Promise Me This

    2007-06-20T12:36:00Z

    The 29th Moscow International Film Festival (June 21-30) will open with Promise Me This (Zavet), directed by Emir Kusturica, and will close with Claude Lelouch's Roman de gare. Kusturica will travel to Moscow for the opening night as well as a retrospective of his early work. The festival will show ...

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    Edinburgh Film Festival to open with Mackenzie's Hallam Foe

    2007-06-20T12:15:00Z

    The 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival will open with David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe, which is largely set in the Scottish city. Jamie Bell stars alongside Sophia Myles, Ciaran Hinds and Claire Forlani in the story of a voyeuristic teenage boy who struggles with the aftermath of his mother's suicide and ...

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    Cologne's MMC Studios to launch in-house strand

    2007-06-20T11:39:00Z

    MMC Independent, the production arm of Cologne's MMC Studios, will start developing feature films in-house in addition to serving as a co-producer on third-party projects. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com during this week's Medienforum NRW, MMC Independent production executive Basti Griese explained that MMC Independent's recently expanded team 'intends to become ...

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    EM Media to offer producers tour of Nottingham

    2007-06-20T11:32:00Z

    UK regional screen agency EM Media is hosting a tour of Nottingham for film and TV producers. The familiarisation tour on June 27 will include visits to the Galleries of Justic, post-production house Spool Films, and former Carlton TV studios. Similar tours have already been held in Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, ...

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    Terence Davies joins screenwriters festival

    2007-06-20T06:23:00Z

    Terence Davies, director of House Of Mirth, Distant Voices, Still Lives, and The Long Day Closes, has joined a packed line-up of speakers for the second International Screenwriters Festival.Liverpool-born Davies is one of the UK's most influential directors. The British Film Institute has restored Distant Voices StillLives, which ...

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    National Lampoon acquires worldwide on Rifkin's Homo Erectus

    2007-06-19T23:27:00Z

    National Lampoon has acquired worldwide rights to Homo Erectus by Adam Rifkin, whose feature Look just won the Grand Jury Prize at the CineVegas Film Festival.The National Lampoon, Burnt Orange Productions and University Of Texas Film Institute co-production premiered at Slamdance this year and will be released in September as ...

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    Akamas wins best feature prize at LA Greek Film Festival

    2007-06-19T23:13:00Z

    Panikos Chrysanthou's Akamas won the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival's Orpheus Award for best narrative feature and Valerie Kontakos's Who's On First won corresponding documentary honours as the festival closed on Jun 17.A Special Jury Award went to Dimitris Koutsiabasakos for The Guardian's Son. Alexander Voulgaris was named best director ...

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    Former ICM CFO Murphy joins Participant Productions

    2007-06-19T20:16:00Z

    Former ICM chief financial officer Robert Murphy has joined Participant Productions as chief financial officer and executive vice-president.Murphy will report directly to chief executive officer Jim Berk and will oversee the company's financial activities and operations, and act as a key member of the management team responsible for long-term strategic ...

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    Charlotte Mickie leaving Dreamachine to reunite with Robert Lantos

    2007-06-19T20:10:00Z

    Canadian producer Robert Lantos is stepping back into the distribution business, according to industry sources in Toronto. While it's unclear whether the new operation will be part of Lantos' production company Serendipity Point Films, it is certain that veteran sales executive Charlotte Mickie has left her post as a director ...