All Screen articles in 26 January 2006 – Page 2
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Korea set to cut screen quota in half
South Korea's government is to cut its 146-day screen quota forlocal productions in half starting July 1. Deputy Prime Minister andFinance Minister Han Duck-soo announced in a weekly briefing today (Jan 26)that the government is planning to legislate the enforcement ordinance on Jan27. As Korea's second-largest trade partner, the US ...
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Deal finalised for Usen-Daiwa content fund
Gaga Communicationsannounced at its first board meeting of the year (Jan 25) that the $259m (Y30bn)content fund partnership between its parent company Usen Corp and DaiwaSecurities SMBC, tabled last December, is now a done deal. The two partners and their respectivegroup companies will each contribute 50% of the 10-year fund, ...
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MPA settles Singapore piracy case
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) and Singapore home video licensee Alliance Entertainment havereached an out-of-court settlement with the TS Group which was sued forcopyright infringement. As part of the settlementterms, TS, a group of home video companies with over 20 retail outlets in Singapore, has admitted illegally infringing four copyrightedtitles (Die ...
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Shelton, Clarke join London's Capital FX
London post-production company Capital FX has expanded its team, with Rod Shelton joining as head of digital intermediate and Liz Clarke joining as head of sales and marketing. Both formerly worked at the VTR Group. Shelton leads Capital's new digital intermediate division, which was created due to an increase in ...
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Sundance: Revolver buys UK rights to explicit portmanteau film Destricted
London-based Revolver Entertainment has bought UK rights to theexplicit shorts compilation Destricted, featuring contributions from Matthew Barney, Larry Clark,Gaspar Noe, and Sam Taylor-Wood, among others.Neville Wakefield, MelAgace and Andrew Hale produced the compilation, which first screened here overthe weekend.Revolver's Nick Taussig and Justin Marciano negotiated the dealwith Katapult Film Sales ...
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Lumet and Panahi complete Berlin Competition line-up
World premieres from Sidney Lumet and Iranian director Jafar Panahi are the final Competition selections for this year's Berlinale.Lumet's Find Me Guilty, starring Vin Diesel, is based on the true story of the 1980s trial of Mafia boss Jack DiNorscio. The veteran director won the Golden Bear back in 1957 ...
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China's Huayi Brothers brings Banquet to Berlin
Beijing-based productioncompany Huayi Brothers Film Investment will be making its debut as a seller atthe upcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin.The company will be offeringits two latest productions - The Banquetand One Foot Off The Ground - whichrecently wrapped and are both in post-production. Period drama The Banquet, which ...
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UIP signs exclusive licensing agreement in Pakistan
UIP has become the first major theatrical distributor to sign anexclusive license agreement in Pakistan following the December launch of KingKong.UIP's new agent, BoxOffice Limited, is the distribution affiliate of Cinepax, the country's firstcineplex company that plans to develop 120 screens in Pakistan's larger cities.King Kongopened through Box Office Limited ...
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WBITD signs output deal with Orbit for Middle East, North Africa
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) andOrbit Communications have signed a multi-year output deal giving Orbit the exclusivepay television rights for Warner product in the Middle East and North Africa.The deal includes such titles as Batman Begins, Harry PotterAnd The Goblet Of Fireand Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, as well ...
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Film and TV shooting up 18% in London
UK film production may have had a down year in 2005 - with overall film production spending down 31% -- but filming in London was up 18%, according to agency Film London. That figure, however, is not just based on film shoots but also includes TV and commercial shoots as ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y. leads pack with 12 Genie Award nominations
Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. picked up 12 nominations and Deepa Mehta's Water earned nine Canada's Genie Awards. Both films werenominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Achievement in Direction. Michael Dowse's It's AllGone Pete Tong had eight nominationswhile Luc Picard's debut feature L'Audition and Andre Turpin's Familia had seven. Five films ...
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Berlinale announces final sidebar entries
Newfilms by Lukas Moodysson, Christian Vincent, AnnetteK. Olesen, and Romuald Karmakar are among the final titles to be confirmed for theline-up of the Berlinale's Panorama whose mainprogramme will be opened by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe'sBrothers Of TheHead about young Siamese twins who appeared on the punk rock scene in ...
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Fabio Ferzetti to replace Giorgio Gosetti at Venice Days
Italian critic Fabio Ferzetti isto replace Giorgio Gosetti as head of Venice'sDirectors' Fortnight - known as Venice Days.Gosetti, who had been in charge ofthe independent Venice sidebarsince its creation in 2004, will now concentrate on his role as generaldirector of the new Rome Film Festival, officially called "Cinema Festa Internazionale ...
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Silverline takes rights to UK film Displaced
Silverline Entertainment has takenon worldwide rights to the science fiction adventure film Displaced. The UKproject, currently in post-production, is directed by Martin Holland and producedby Mark Strange.Lancashire-based SkylandianPictures produced with Chee KeongCheung from Intense Productions as associate producer. The film is about a humanoid alien who works with a Britishsolider ...
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Israeli company United King to begin shooting two new features
United King, the leading distributor of domestic films in Israel,is launching two new productions one by Josef Cedar and the other by Avi Nesher in February. The first, The Secret,an Israeli-French co-production, starts shooting next month with Avi Nesher inthe director's chair. Nesher, whose previous effort, Turn Left at the ...
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The Science Of Sleep
Dir: Michel Gondry. Fr. 2006. 105mins.For his third feature The Science Of Sleep, French directorMichel Gondry leaves behind Charlie Kaufman, whowrote his first two films, and finds a droll, eccentric voice all his own. Amadcap surreal comedy set in Paris and shot in English and French, it doesn'thave the emotional ...
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UK distributors start spending at Sundance
UK deals dominated Sundancetoday [Tuesday] as the BBC announced it had bought Kirby Dick's documentary ThisFilm Is Not Yet Rated, Momentumpicked up Jody Hill's comedy The Foot Fist Way, and Pathe UK took Luc Jacquet's upcoming The Fox& The Child.The BBC will air ThisFilm Is Not Yet Rated to UKaudiences ...
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Paltrow, Wigmore sign deal with Moxie to direct commercials, music videos
Gwyneth Paltrow and Mary Wigmore have signed an exclusive dealwith Moxie Pictures to co-direct commercials and music videos.The move follows the Sundance premiere of their short film Dealbreaker, which is causing a buzz here in theshorts programme."We look forward to working with such talented filmmakers notonly here in the US ...
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Branagh's Magic Flute starts shooting at Shepperton
Principal photography got underway on Jan 19 at Shepperton Studiosoutside London on Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute.Conceived and directed byBranagh, the $27m production features a newly-adapted libretto by Stephen Fryand takes place on the eve of the first world war as a pair of lovers hold thedestiny ...
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Miramax seals third big deal of Sundance with Night Listener
Miramax Films has made it first Sundance acquisition under theDaniel Battsek regime, paying in the region of $3m for North American rights toPatrick Stettner's Armistead Maupin adaptation The Night Listener."Night Listener is a smart thriller with commercial appeal that is bothfascinating and topical and fits perfectly with Miramax's intention todistribute ...