All Screen articles in 24 June 2008 – Page 4
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In Focus - UK Distribution - How to plan a Channel crossing
The worldwide success of films such as the critically acclaimed La Vie En Rose and the thriller Tell No One has whetted foreign appetite once again for French product - but not all of it fits the UK theatrical market.Vincent Maraval of Wild Bunch, whose The Fox And The Child ...
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European Box Office Review
While Sex And The City and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull battle it out with local super-hits for European box-office supremacy, the words 'recession', 'credit crunch' and 'weak dollar' are worrying the region's distributors and exhibitors.Click for country reviews: United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Russia & ...
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Profile: Luis Berdejo
Many international directors working in Hollywood can fall victim to being over-hyped by agents and publicists. There has been plenty of buzz, for example, surrounding Spanish director Luis Berdejo and his first English-language film, The New Daughter, which is produced by Gold Circle Films and stars Kevin Costner.This time, if ...
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Bandit country
The death in May of Paul Reyes, one of the leaders of the Colombian terrorist group, Farc (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), lends a timely appeal to Victor Gaviria's new project about the origins of the movement.The Colombian director, probably the best known film-maker to emerge from the territory, ...
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International - Indian Summer Arrives
Tamil film Dasavatharam was the highest non-US entry in the international chart, taking $4.6m from 11 territories in its opening weekend.The sci-fi drama played on 1,211 screens for a $3,825 screen average, putting it at number seven this weekend. It opened at number 11 in the UK with a $248,175 ...
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In focus - Distribution - Start of a French affair
According to Unifrance, France's film export body, French films account for an estimated 3 million admissions in the UK, an impressive 2% of the market. This was led by 2007's Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose, directed by Olivier Dahan, which took $3.3m in the territory, while Guillaume Canet's ...
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Palme d'Orwinner The Class opens Munich Filmfest
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class (Entre Les Murs) will open this year's Munich Filmfest on Friday evening (June 20), which will show 237 films from 41 countries, including a retrospective dedicated to the Bavarian film-maker and artist Herbert Achternbusch and an homage to the UK actress Julie Christie ...
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Gigantic picks up Dews documentary
Gigantic Releasing, the new distribution arm of New York-based Gigantic NYC, has acquired all North American and English-speaking rights to Morgan Dews' documentary, Must Read After My Death.The film will receive its US premiere on June 20 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Gigantic Releasing plans to open it ...
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Lightning takes international rights to Shortcut
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up internationalrights from Leomax Entertainment to the recently announced thrillerShortcut.Ingo Vollkammer's Leomax Entertainment is financing the film andco-producing with Adam Sandler's newly launched production label ScaryMadison.Nicholaus Goosen will direct from a script by Scott Sandler and DanHannon about two brothers who discover a strange ...
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Kaplan takes anti-piracy role at Warner Bros
David P Kaplan has been named senior vice-president and intellectualproperty counsel on worldwide anti-piracy operations at Warner BrosEntertainment.Kaplan will be responsible for the coordination and execution of thestudio's anti-piracy strategy and reports to president of Warner BrosTechnical Operations Darcy Antonellis.He joined the studio in 1996 and previously served as vice ...
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Grover Crisp takes seniorSony library role
Grover Crisp has been named senior vice president of asset management, restoration and digital mastering for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE).Crisp previously served as vice president and will oversee all facetsof the restoration, preservation and mastering programme for theColumbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures feature film and televisionlibraries.Under Crisp the feature and ...
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AMPAS changes foreign-language Oscar rules
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has tweaked itsforeign-language picture rules and made changes to its original songcategory.The first stage in the two-step process to determine the foreignlanguage entries for the 81st Annual Academy Awards has been amended so the Phase I Committee, open to any voting member ...
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Hulk casts green shadow over weekend box office
Marvel Studios' The Incredible Hulk has amassed more than $36.1mmostly through UPI and is expected to dominate this weekend as itlaunches in 12 territories including Italy on June 18 and India onJune 20.The comic-book adaptation has amassed more than $36.1m and wasreleased in Australia and New Zealand through PPI.Comedy Forgetting ...
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Film4 extends sponsorship of FrightFest until 2009
Film4 has extended its headline sponsor deal with the UK's FrightFest for the third year running.The 2009 event will be the 10th anniversary of the genre festival. The partnership will expand further with Film4 for more on-air and off-air initiatives.Meanwhile, the 2008 FrightFest will be held at London's Odeon West ...
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Dogwoof's Whitaker sets up new indie distribution co-operative
Andy Whittaker, head of forward-thinking UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures, is heading a new film distribution co-operative. Essentially, ordinary film fans will be part of a group acquiring rights to independent films.TheMoviesClub.com launches officially today at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.The co-op has been set up to raise capitol to invest ...
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AAM moves into Spain with five-screen Yelmo deal
Digital cinema company Arts Alliance Media is making its first move into the Spanish exhibition market with a Madrid multiplex.AAM has struck a deal with exhibitor Yelmo Cines and equipment installer Suministros Kelonik to fully outfit Yelmo's Isla Azul five-screen site in Madrid.The five digital systems - Christie 2K projectors ...
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Edinburgh kicks off first Directors' Lab with Woolley as patron
Six rising film-makers have been selected for the new Directors' Lab at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.The six directors, moving from shorts to features, are: Hope Dickson Leach, Charles-Henri Belleville, Scott Graham, Jane Linfoot, Rene Mohandas and Amy Neil.Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films has come on board as a ...
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EM Media backs new Considine, Glenaan, Meadows films
EM Media, the UK's regional screen agency based in the East Midlands, announced a new slate of projects today at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.They are: Brian Percival's A Boy Called Dad, Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur, Shane Meadows' King Of the Gypsies, Kenny Glenaan's Red Sail and Paul King's Bunny And ...
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Davies, Skenderlis-Kallis join post house Evolutions
London-based post-production facility Evolutions has appointed two new key staff members.Jeremy Davies joins as business development manager and Fiona Skenderlis-Kallis joins as post production producer.Jeremy joins from a business development role at Elmwood Design, and Fiona from The Sanctuary where she was post-production manager and head of bookings.Simon Kanjee, managing ...