All Screen articles in 26 Apr 2012 – Page 2
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Jonah Hill joins cast of The Wolf Of Wall Street
Red Granite is fully financing the $85m true-life account of trader Jordan Belfort’s debauched rise and tumultuous fall and has set Martin Scorsese to direct and Leonardo DiCaprio (pictured) to play the lead.
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Djinn Carrenard starts shooting for Faire L’Amour
After €150 guerrilla film Donoma, director kicks off €2.7 million feature Faire L’Amour, produced by Realitism Films and backed by Arte and Pathé.
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JCA remasters A Queen Is Crowned for ITV
Digital restoration timed for Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
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King of the plants
It’s not often that you are in the presence of greatness. But that was the case last night at a preview screening of Sky’s latest series, David Attenborough’s Kingdom Of Plants, attended by the man himself.
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Happy, Happy director Sewitsky plans Sonja Henie biopic
Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky, whose 2010 feature debut Happy, Happy won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, is currently casting her next feature, a $10 million biopic of skating princess Sonja Henie who became a Hollywood star.
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Global Screen to handle Denis Dercourt's third feature
Global Screen, the world sales joint venture of Bavaria Film and Telepool, are to handle French director Denis Dercourt’s seventh feature film Zum Geburtstag and Arne Birkenstock’s documentary about the art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.
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Films Boutique selling two Critics' Week world premieres
Berlin-based Films Boutique will handle international sales for David Lambert’s Beyond The Walls (Hors Les Murs) and Bulgarian Ilian Metev’s documentary Sofia’s Last Ambulance [pictured] which will both have their world premieres in this year’s Critics’ Week in Cannes.
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Geoffrey Fletcher
Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher talks about his latest collaboration with Bombay Sapphire on a new short film competition.
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Martin Carr and Neil Thompson, Formosa Films
The producers talk about their EIS experiences and their busy slate.
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TWC in tune with Hoffman’s Quartet
TWC picks up US and Latin American rights to Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet from HanWay.
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Dogwoof partners with FilmClub
EXCLUSIVE: FilmClub adds ten titles to screening roster from UK distributor Dogwoof.
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Celsius on board for Kasdan's The First Time
EXCLUSIVE: Celsius takes on world sales (excluding North America) for the teen romance which premiered at Sundance.
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Avengers target $600m global through second weekend
SATURDAY UPDATE: Marvel Studios’ superhero mash-up enters Saturday on a $414.8m worldwide running total after adding $30.3m internationally on Friday and launching in North America on $80.5m including $18.7m in Thursday midnight shows. The international tally stands at $334.3m.
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Artsploitation unveils inaugural distribution slate
TLA Entertainment Inc. president Raymond Murray’s newly formed Artsploitation Films has announced three North American acquisitions.
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Poverty Row Entertainment heads to Croisette with Pickford biopic
Producers Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia are headed to Cannes to stage talks on financing and casting for their newly acquired Mary Pickford project.
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The Exchange heads to Cannes with Thin Ice
Brian O’Shea’s sales and finance company is Croisette-bound with international rights to the thriller starring Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Lea Thompson and Billy Crudup.
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UPIE takes all int’l rights from Radiant Films to I Am
Radiant Films International president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer (pictured) has struck a deal for all rights outside the US and Canada on Tom Shadyac’s life affirming documentary.
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The Avengers crosses $280m at international box office
Thursday’s daily report from Disney revealed that the Marvel Studios action epic added $20.6m on Wednesday.
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Lance Volland, Désirée Finnegan rise at Warner Bros int’l publicity
Volland has led the studio’s international publicity efforts for the past five years and is promoted to evp while Finnegan becomes svp.