All Screen articles in 25 Aug 2011 – Page 4
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Chinese productions shooting in France in last 12 months up tenfold
Sino productions shooting in France over last year include Jackie Chan’s upcoming adventure thriller Chinese Zodiac and box office hit Eternal Moment (Jiang Ai).
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FilmNation hires Paul Solet to direct The Faces
FilmNation Entertainment and Sonny Mallhi are producing the story of newlyweds who escape a brutal kidnapping and unwittingly fall into the clutches of a shadowy group that uses terror as a means of entertainment.
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Bath Spa University launches filmmaking MA
UK university launches practical filmmaking course aimed at directors, producers, DOPs, editors
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Smurfs, Cowboys, Apes vie for international supremacy
Sony’s The Smurfs stood at more than $211m as of last weekend and face an international showdown with Cowboys & Aliens heading into the new session.
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Olivia Wilde gets taste for Occupant’s Chemistry
The star of Cowboys & Aliens and Tron: Legacy is understood to have joined Sam Rockwell and Michelle Monaghan on the darkly comedic Better Living Through Chemistry, set to shoot this autumn in Maryland.
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Miramax hires Adrienne Gary as svp organisational strategy and admin
The third announced hire in a week sees the “human capital executive” come aboard to oversee all recruiting, organisational structure, global HR and corporate administration.
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Production wraps on Nicholas McCarthy’s ghost story The Pact
The project has been converted from a short that screened in Sundance into a feature in less than a year. Content is handling international sales and Preferred Content represents North American sales.
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The Flying Machine to world premiere at Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall
The 3D adventure story starring Heather Graham will go on to screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Kids section.
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Quinto's Banshee Chapter finds cast ahead of New Mexico shoot
Ted Levine, Katia Winter and Michael McMillian will star in horror feature The Banshee Chapter, which Zachary Quinto is producing through his Before The Door Pictures alongside Sunchaser Entertainment and German producer Christian Arnold-Beutel.
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Brazilian culture promoter Inffinito launches digital platform
MediaFundMarket.comis billed as the first digital platform and marketplace to generate private and public production funding for shorts, features and documentaries by Brazilian filmmakers and will facilitate the acquisition and distribution of Brazilian product at the markets.
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Naked ambition
With all eyes on Scandinavia to find the next lucrative international franchise, Norway is stepping into the frame.
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Haugesund’s hot tickets
The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (Aug 17-26) offers international attendees a window on some of the hottest new projects from the region. Jorn Rossing Jensen reports
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On the road with the rain man
The welcomes might have been warm at the Karlovy Vary, St Petersburg and Sarajevo festivals, but the weather proved more inhospitable
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Northern exposure
Some of the world’s most electric foreign-language titles are being made by Norwegian film-makers right now. Screen profiles a selection of new films and spotlights a trio of rising directors.
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Welcome to the future
Norway is the first country in the world to have digitised all of its film theatres. Jorn Rossing Jensen looks at the impact it is having on cinema-going in the territory
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The next chapter
As the number of Nordic crime film and TV adaptations increases, Mike Goodridge talks to two of the region’s most successful novelists, Jo Nesbo and Camilla Lackberg, about the process of bringing their hot properties to the screen.
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Venice 2011: Competition profiles
Screen gears up for the Venice Film Festival’s 2011 edition, which promises to kickstart the annual awards season.
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Eddie Berg appointed to director of partnerships role at BFI
Berg’s current position as artistic director, BFI Southbank is set to disappear when it is merged with the artistic director, LFF position into the bigger “head of exhibition” role, to be taken over by Clare Stewart.
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Kollywood's time to shine
Is Kollywood the new Bollywood? Hollywood certainly hopes so as the studios increase their local-language collaborations with the Tamil industry to tap into a homegrown audience of 70 million.