All Screen articles in 24 June 2007 – Page 6
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Telefilm Canada greenlights six French-language projects
Telefilm Canada has greenlit six French-language feature film projects, including France-Canada coproduction Instinct De Mort, directed by Jean-Francois Richet and starring Vincent Cassel, Gerard Depardieu and Roy Dupuis; and Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Un Ange A La Mer. Instinct De Mort (Mesrine) partners French producer Thomas Langmann of Paris production house La ...
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MPD sale met by low-ball offers, says owner Fund
The proposed sale of Canadian film distributor Motion Picture Distribution LP (MPD) is mired by low-ball offers, according to Movie Distribution Income Fund, the publicly-traded entity which owns 49 per cent of MPD's limited partnership.Alliance Atlantis (AAC) owns the controlling 51 per cent. AAC is in the process of being ...
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Bertolucci to receive Venice's special Golden Lion
Bernardo Bertolucci will receive the 'Golden Lion of the 75th,' a special prize in celebration of the Biennale's Jubilee anniversary, organisers have said. Bertolucci will receive the prize at Venice's closing night ceremony on Sept 8, just before the announcement of the Golden Lion winner. At this year's edition, Bertolucci's ...
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Huayi Brothers set to shoot Zhou Xun romantic drama
Chinese producer-distributor Huayi Brothers Films is lining up a new project from up-and-coming film-maker Cao Baoping, Something About Limi, which is set to star Zhou Xun and Taiwanese TV drama idol Vic Chou. The $1.3m (RMB10m) romantic drama with suspense elements is scheduled to start shooting in July. It tells ...
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TEA joins forces with trailer company Wonderland
Design and advertising agency TEA - The Entertainment Agency, has joined forces with trailer company Wonderland, and the companies are now known as TEA: Wonderland. TEA has more than 20 years experience in print film marketing, and Wonderland is a year-old company started by Rob Darvell and Joe Pisano that ...
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Future Cinema to host Chinese themed tent at Glastonbury
Future Cinema will host the Chinese Cinema Palace at this weekend's Glastonbury music festival, in the Lost Vagueness field. The tent is inspired by Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love. The programme includes international shorts films and music videos presented by Future Shorts. Live theatre will also be ...
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Sarah Smith promoted as Aardman unveils new feature slate
UK-based animation powerhouse Aardman Features has announced a slate of six films in development, including a Christmas project written by Borat co-writer Peter Baynham, new non-Wallace and Gromit film from Nick Park and company founder Peter Lord's return to directing. These are the first new projects to be announced since ...
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Shanghai Film Forum delegates talk finance, festivals
Marketing is no longer a dirty word in the new China and indeed a whole day was devoted to the topic on the second day of the Jin Jue International Film Forum at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF). In a session entitled 'Increasing Film Market Value - Revolution ...
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Indian Film Company makes trading debut on London's AIM
The new Guernsey-registered Indian Film Company (IFC) has started trading on London 's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) today, after raising $109m by going public. Shares rose 20% on their trading debut. IFC, a Bollywood film production and film asset management fund started by Mumbai-based giant Network 18 Group, plans to ...
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1408
Dir: Mikael Hafstrom. US. 2007. 94mins.Pitched as summer counter-programming but arriving in the midst of a glut of underperforming horror releases, 1408 is a spooky Stephen King adaptation given an extra touch of class by leads John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson and Swedish director Mikael Hafstrom.The Dimension Films chiller ...
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Marcel Grant starts shooting third feature Just Ines
Shipwreck Film is currently shooting its third feature, Just Ines, from director Marcel Grant. The production is shooting next week in the South of France before returning to the UK to shoot in London July 14-Aug 3. Daniel Weyman and Caroline Ducey star in the story of a London businessman ...
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Rocksavage starts Norfolk shoot for drama The Wreck
Principal photography has started near in north Norfolk, UK, for David Rocksavage's 1960s-set family drama The Wreck. Jean Simmons, James Wilby, Jamie Dornan, Ophelia Lovibond and Toby Marlow head the cast. The screenplay, by Rocksavage and Margaret Glover, is about a widow living on the East Anglian coast who befriends ...
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Irons, Schlondorff, George to give Galway masterclasses
The Galway Film Fleadh (July 10 - 15) will host masterclasses in acting, directing and screenwriting given respectively by Jeremy Irons, Volker Schlondorff, and Terry George. Events confirmed so far for the 19th edition of the Fleadh include the Real Deal day-long finance and distribution seminar and a New Media ...
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Slyngstad to leave Norwegian Film Fund at end of July
Managing director Stein Slyngstad of the Norwegian Film Fund will not extend his fixed-term contact and will leave his position as it expires by the end of July. A former CEO of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra-the Stavanger Concert Hall and chief of Oslo's Henie Onstad Arts Centre, Slyngstad became the ...
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ARRI picks up world sales for Sanders-Brahms' new feature Clara
ARRI Media Worldsales has picked up international distribution rights for Helma Sanders-Brahms' drama Clara which begins the German part of its shoot in North Rhine-Westphalia from tomorrow. The German-French-Hungarian co-production between Integral Film/Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion, B.A. Produktion, France's MACT Productions and Budapest-based Objektiv Filmstudio had been shooting at locations in ...
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Please Vote For Me wins top feature award at Silverdocs
The Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival came to a close at the weekend following a programme of 100 films from 42 countries.The Silverdocs Sterling Award for a feature film was awarded to Weijun Chen's Please Vote For Me. The director receives $10,000 cash and $10,000 in-kind services from Video Labs ...
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Shotgun Stories, Out Of Time take prizes at Seattle
The 33rd Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) closed at the weekend [June 17] with the presentation of the Golden Space Needle Awards and the North American premiere of Laurent Tirard's Moliere.All in all 405 films screened during the 25-day event, which festival organisers hailed as a record-breaker as they ...
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Evan Almighty
Dir: Tom Shadyac. US. 2007. 96mins.Borrowing liberally from Field Of Dreams in addition to its previous swipes from Oh, God!, Evan Almighty is an ungainly melding of religious paean, big-budget studio comedy, and summer-blockbuster spectacle. Taking over for Bruce Almighty star Jim Carrey, Steve Carell proves to be a difficult ...
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Evening
Dir. Lajos Koltai. US. 2007. 117mins.In Evening, director Lajos Koltai makes his English-language feature debut with an earnest adaptation of Susan Minot's successful novel about a dying woman looking back at the love of her youth. With a dream-team cast of actresses - Vanessa Redgrave, Clare Danes, Meryl Streep, Natascha ...