All Screen articles in 25 September 2008 – Page 4
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LoveFilm UK strikes marketing deal for Lionsgate UK titles
Online DVD rental company and entertainment website LoveFilm has struck a multi-title marketing partnership with Lionsgate UK.The pact kicks off with Righteous Kill, the new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.The six-month media deal continues into 2009 for titles also including I've Love You So Long, Midnight Meat ...
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Pusan's Asian Film Market to host Asian Film Funds Forum
The Pusan International Film Festival's 3rd Asian Film Market will be holding a three-day film financing event, the Asian Film Funds Forum (Oct 3-5), which is being co-hosted by Screen International. 'Participants will be able to obtain the key information on film financing in Asia, in addition to a general ...
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Son quits Show East to launch M-Line Distribution
South Korean film company Show East's head of international business Michelle Son has left to launch a new sales outfit, M-Line Distribution. The new company will make its debut at the upcoming Asian Film Market during the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).'We have to look harder for good Korean titles ...
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Warner Brothers' case against Mirchi Movies dismissed
The Delhi High Court has rejected Warner Bros' plea that Indian film Hari Puttar - A Comedy Of Terrors, produced by Mirchi Movies, sounds too similar to their franchise series Harry Potter. The Hollywood studio had moved the court for an interim restraining order on the release of the Punjabi ...
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US independent Liberation signs video deal with RYKO
LA-based independent Liberation Entertainment has signed a deal with RYKO Distribution for exclusive rights to all Liberation video releases in the US beginning October 1.The agreement covers all catalogue titles as well as new releases. Upcoming titles include Eden, TOKYO! and Just Buried.'We view this new partnership as a perfect ...
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Revolver scares up multi-platform holiday plans for Mum & Dad
Revolver Entertainment is planning an innovative UK multi-platform release for Steven Sheil's Mum & Dad.The distributor says the film's Dec 26 release will be simultaneous in theatres, DVD, VoD, electronic sell-through and rental. A similar US release is planned timed for Mother's Day 2009.Sheil's low-budget horror film is described as ...
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Slamdance to offer features two hours after festival premieres
Organisers at the 15th Slamdance Film Festival have signed a deal with online distributor Indieroad.net to stream features two hours after their theatrical premiere at the festival.Viewers will be charged $9 per stream with one-third of profits going back to the film-maker. Each selection will be available in two bandwidths ...
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Elliott Associates increases minority stake in Relativity Media
New York based private investment firm Elliott Associates has increased its minority stake in Relativity Media in the second major financing story of the day following Media Rights Capital's deal for a $350m revolving credit facility.Elliott decided to increase its investment on the heels of a profitable summer for the ...
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Hamptons teams with EFP to present three Shooting Stars
The Hamptons International Film Festival has partnered with European Film Promotion to showcase talent from the European Shooting Stars programme, marking the first time the talent campus will come to the US.The festival runs from October 15-19 and will present three stars from the Shooting Stars programme, now in its ...
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Summit sets Oct 23, 2009, as Astro Boy release date
Summit Entertainment will release Imagi Studios' animated feature Astro Boy in North America on October 23, 2009, on more than 3,000 screens.Summit and Imagi are putting together the final details on a marketing plan targeting family and adult audiences. The marketing strategy includes a commitment from a major fast food ...
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Media Rights Capital scores $350m revolving credit facility
Media Rights Capital (MRC) co-CEOs Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyk announced today [September 22] a three-year $350m revolving credit facility for the company's feature, television and digital content business.The arrangement, which comes in the midst of one of the most severe systemic collapses in US financial history, was provided by ...
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HBO's Sheila Nevins will receive Gotham Award Tribute
HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins will be the subject of a Gotham Award Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.'Sheila has unquestionably been one of the most influential forces in documentary film-making,' IFP executive director Michelle Byrd said. 'She is almost single-handedly responsible ...
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Wide Management sells La Vida Loca to Siren Visual for Australia/New Zealand
Wide Management has sold Christian Poveda's documentary La Vida Loca to Siren Visual for theatrical distribution in Australia and New Zealand.The deal was struck following the film's world premiere at the San Sebastian film festival on Saturday. In addition, Wide Management is negotiating the rights to La Vida Loca for ...
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TwentyTwenty Vision to co-produce Rafi Pitts' The Hunter
Berlin-based production house TwentyTwenty Vision will be the German co-producer on Iranian-British director Rafi Pitts' fifth feature The Hunter.Speaking exclusively to Screendaily.com, Pitts explained that the drama will be produced by AMA Media Productions - which co-produced his 2006 Berlinale competition film It's Winter (Zemestan) - and Aftab Negaran Productions, ...
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Once Upon A Time...
Dir: Breno Silveira. Brazil. 2008. 117 mins.A Romeo And Juliet tale about the doomed love between a Rio favela boy and a rich girl from Ipanema, Once Upon A Time (Era Uma Vez...) is a glossier, sudsier take on crime and poverty in the favelas than we have seenin films ...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest's pitching forum attracts record submissions.
Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket has received 385 entries from documentary film-makers, an increase of almost 200% from last year.The initiative, which launched in 2006, is a pitching forum that uses online systems to match film-makers' project ideas with UK and international buyers.Submissions have been received from first-time and established filmmakers, including ...
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UK effects studio Framestore looks to outside investment
Framestore, the Oscar-winning provider of visual effects, animation and computer generated imagery announced that it plans to consider interest in the company from potential new investors.The company hopes to aid the growth of its business and has instructed Hawkpoint Partners to investigate options, including the introduction of an external investor.William ...
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Award winning director McPherson starts shoot for The Eclipse
Shooting has started on the latest feature-length drama from Tony-award winning Irish playwright and director Conor McPherson.Based on a supernatural love story by Wexford writer Billy Roche, the film stars Aidan Quinn, Ciaran Hinds and Iben Hjejle. Rob Walpole of Treasure Entertainment is producing.Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning costume designer Consolata ...
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Metrodome and Rialto strike double deal for Seraphine
Metrodome has joined forces with Rialto on a deal for Martin Provost'sSeraphine.Metrodome takes on all UK and Ireland rights while Rialto takes on New Zealand and Australia rights.The deal was brokered by Metrodome's CEO Peter Urie, general manager distribution Sara Frain and head of acquisitions James Brown with Yohann Comte ...
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Nights In Rodanthe
Dir: George C Wolfe. US. 2008. 110 mins.Novelist Nicholas Sparks seems to have single-handedly resuscitated the women's picture in the last few years with films of his bestsellers including The Notebook, Message In A Bottle and A Walk To Remember. Nights In Rodanthe, which teams up Richard Gere and Diane ...