All Screen articles in 25 January 2008 – Page 5
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Karynn Austin leaves TVA for Equinoxe Films
Canadian distribution veteran Karynn Austin has left TVA Films to join Equinoxe Films as director of distribution and marketing. Based in the company's Toronto office, she will oversee all aspects of marketing Equinoxe's theatrical and home entertainment releases in English Canada. Austin has 20 years experience in the business including ...
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Bell Canada to launch new film download store
Canadian telecom and internet service provider Bell Canada will launch a movie download service in April or May, ScreenDaily.com has learned.Similar in methodology to Apple's iTunes, the new service, called The Bell Video Store will offer Hollywood titles for rental or to own for use on up to three authorized ...
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Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden'
Dir: Morgan Spurlock. US. 2008. 93minsIn Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden', Morgan Spurlock super-sizes the scope of the one-man quest for truth and goes global, searching around the Middle East for the Al Qaeda leader with a $25 million price on his head. After sitting down with ...
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Incendiary (2007)
Dir: Sharon Maguire. UK. 2008. 96mins.This relatively large-scale UK production about the human cost of terrorism is an overly earnest, narratively muddled affair notable chiefly for a gutsy performance by Michelle Williams. Although it starts promisingly, Sharon Maguire's first film since Bridget Jones's Diary in 2001 quickly veers into the ...
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IMAX signs to build two cinemas in Philippines
IMAX Corp. and SM Prime Holdings, the largest mall operator in the Philippines, have signed a deal that will see two IMAX digital projection systems installed at shopping malls in the cities of Manila and Cebu. Both cinemas are expected to open by late 2009. SM already operates an IMAX ...
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Reactions from 2008 Academy Award nominees
Labour unrest may have taken some of the sparkle out of this year's awards season but it did little to dampen the spirits of Oscar nominees around the world as they reacted to the Academy Awards nominations announcement. In Los Angeles, producer JoAnne Sellar said she and her partner (and ...
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Sundance deal-making speeds up midway through festival
Four days of dark pronouncements about the dearth of commercial narrative films at Sundance vanished on Tuesday [Jan 22] as business exploded with a flurry of activity headed by Focus Features' $10m deal for worldwide rights to Andrew Fleming's comedy Hamlet 2.In two other prominent deals, Fox Searchlight reportedly paid ...
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Smart People
Dir: Noam Murro. US. 2007. 93min.Noam Murro's debut feature Smart People is somewhat deceptive work in which the primary story of a tentative love affair between a difficult and intellectually arrogant university professor and his former student is constantly usurped by the more interesting dynamics of the man's brilliantly acid ...
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Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger found dead
Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger has been found dead at a Manhattan apartment.Police are investigating the death of the 28-year-oldAustralian who was nominated for an Oscar in 2006for his role in Ang Lee's Western.Reportssuggests a possible drugs overdose.The Perth-born actor appeared in Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan film I'm Not There ...
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Ascot Elite takes Swiss rights to The Interrogation Of Harry Wind
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has picked up Swiss theatrical and DVD rights to Pascal Verdosci's political thriller The Interrogation Of Harry Wind which began shooting in Basle last week.The adaptation of a novel by Matthias Diggelmann, one of the leading post-war Swiss novelists with Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, stars ...
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Metrodome plans re-release of Oscar nominated Away From Her
On the back of the two Oscar nominations for Away From Her, the film's UK distributor, Metrodome, has announced plans to revive the film in a limited theatrical re-release in select UK cinemas from Feb 15.Metrodome originally released the film, nominated for best actress (Julie Christie) and best adapted screenplay ...
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Oscars analysis: Surprises include Tommy Lee Jones, Laura Linney
Dark dramas There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men led the pack in the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards with eight apiece. Michael Clayton and Atonement followed with seven each.Those four films together with Juno were nominated for best picture, although Atonement director Joe Wright ...
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Away From Her
Dir: Sarah Polley. Canada. 110 minsSarah Polley's Away From Her is a lovingly wrought and heartfelt exploration of the end of a complicated relationship. The young Canadian actress has a reputation as a nuanced stalwart of the international indie film scene. That reputation is set for a dramatic transformation. Polley's ...
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Indian Censor Board derails Darjeeling Limited
Wes Anderson's India-set Darjeeling Limited was derailed in the country where it was filmed last week, when the Indian Censor Board denied the film a certification. The board claimed that the film, which was scheduled for release on Jan 18, did not have adequate permissions to shoot animal life. While ...
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There Will Be Blood, NoCountry For Old Menlead Oscar nominations
Joel & Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood lead the Oscar race with eight nods each; Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton and Joe Wright's Atonement follow with seven each.All are in the Best Picture race, along with Jason Reitman's Juno. Wright is ...
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Glasgow to open with UK premiere of Cassandra's Dream
The Glasgow Film Festival has announced its 2008 programme, with a number of high-profile UK premieres including Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream (the opening night film), Craig Gillespie's Lars And The Real Girl (closing night), Roger Donaldson's The Bank Job, Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage, Guiseppe Tornatore's The Unknown, Alain Corneau's ...
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High Point takes on sales for Kuijpers'Nothing To Lose
High Point Films has continued its long-time relationship with Dutch film-maker Pieter Kuijpers by taking on world sales (outside Benelux) for his latest film Nothing To Lose.The project, which will have a gala premiere at this week's International Film Festival Rotterdam, will later screen at Berlin's European Film Market. Independent ...
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VTR adds Machine Effects to Prime Focus Group
Post-production powerhouse VTR has acquired visual effects company Machine Effects Ltd, in a deal worth just over $4m (£2m).John Lockwood and Steve Street founded UK-based Machine Effects, which as worked on films including Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Hot Fuzz and several Harry Potter films. Services provided include pre-production, pre-visualisation and ...
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You, the Living wins big at Sweden's Guldbagge awards
Swedish director Roy Andersson's You, the Living (Du levande) won three Guldbagge awards - the Swedish national film prizes - as the Swedish Film Institute last night celebrated the 2007 film crop at a ceremony in Stockholm's Cirkus.Andersson's film - Sweden's official Oscar candidate, which didn't make it to the ...
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Romanian Film Center awards $4.5m for new films
The Romanian Film Center (CNC) has approved just over Euros 3.1m($4.5m) in support for 11 new feature films, including projects from Radu Mihaileanu, Titus Munteanu and Razvan Radulescu. The largest sum - $626,000 (Euros 432,000) - went to Mihaileanu's film The Concert, about a Bolshoi Theater manager who loses his ...