All Screen articles in 25 Aug 2011 – Page 2
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Josephine Rose joins Wiggin to lead new finance/distribution packaging business
UK-based media law firm Wiggin is launching a new film and TV packaging service as of Sept 5.
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Golden Carpathian festival and market
Romanian event (Aug 25-28) attracted 50 buyers and sellers.
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Paul Walker burns rubber in Vehicle 19
I spent the bank holiday weekend in Johannesburg (as you do) watching Paul Walker drive a car into a supermarket window.
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Fortissimo picks up Vietnam’s Paradise
Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights to Vietnamese director Vu Ngoc Dang’s Lost In Paradise (Hot Boy Noi Loan), which will receive its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
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Borcuch readies shoot for Lasting Moments in Spain, Poland
Polish director Jacek Borcuch will start shooting his new film Lasting Moments (Chwile Nieulotne) on Sept 8 in Valencia, Spain.
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As Venice 2011 kicks off, Mueller talks about final edition under his current mandate
George Clooney’s Ides of March opens a line-up that’s heavy on English-language fare and likely awards contenders.
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Academy grants $50,000 to Telluride Film Festival
For the fourth consecutive year the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has awarded a $50,000 grant to underwrite the Colorado event’s guest director programme.
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New work from Ken Loach, Cedric Kahn to feature at OMDC market
The Ontario Media Development Corporation announced that 41 projects have been accepted for the sixth annual International Financing Forum (IFF), set to take place during the Toronto International Film Festival from Sept 11-12.
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The Inbetweeners Movie stands at £27.7m after second weekend
The Inbetweeners Movie continues its remarkable assault as One Day and Final Destination 5 enter the fray
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Phase 4, Submarine to partner on Rid Of Me in North America
President and CEO Berry Meyerowitz said the company will partner with Submarine on an “aggressive” theatrical run in the autumn on James Westby’s black comedy.
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Oscilloscope takes North America on We Can’t Go Home Again
Nicholas Ray’s last film will be restored and reconstructed for its world premiere in Venice, which kicked off today (Aug 31).
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Icahn, Lionsgate cease hostilities as corporate raider sells stake
The activist shareholder and his son Brett are to sell up to 44,161,971 of their shares of Lionsgate common stock in a move that ends their long-running battle for control of the company.
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Zurich Film Festival to open with Soderbergh's Contagion
The seventh Zurich Film Festival (Sept 22-Oct 2) will open with Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion.Laurence Fishburne, one of the stars of Contagion, will preside over the jury for ZZ’f international section, and the festival will also honour him with a special achievement award.The other jurors on the international narrative feature jury ...
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Ludmila Cvikova leaves Rotterdam for Doha
Cvikova joins the Doha Film Institute as new head of international programming.
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France's MPM Film to sell Historias through new in-house sales dept
Marie-Pierre Macia and Juliette Lepoutre’s MPM Film launch in-house sales operation in alliance with former Celluloid Dreams sales manager Pierre Menahem.
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Comment
Shifting into top gear
Ben Parker’s short Shifter impresses before the UK premiere of Kill Listat FrightFest.
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The Disappeared to start shooting in Nova Scotia in September
Writer and director Shandi Mitchell will make her feature directorial debut on the film, which will begin shooting this September off the coast of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
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Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea to close LFF
It will be the UK premiere of the film, which stars Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale. Weisz films bookend the festival.
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Lawrence Gough unveils Extraction, talks up Drought
The winner of Edinburgh’s 2009 Trailblazer Award for his feature debut Salvage has revealed details of his supernatural home invasion project Extraction, which will shoot before Drought pending casting availability.