All Screen articles in 26 May 2011 – Page 19
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Abu Dhabi’s Sanad fund selects 11 projects
The Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) has unveiled the 11 projects to receive support from its Sanad fund in the first application cycle this year.
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CommentWhoopi’s wise words
Three young film-makers - and Screen - met the legendary Whoopi Goldberg in aid of charity Films Without Borders.
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NewsDench, McKellen bite for zombie romp
EXCLUSIVE: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Gillian Anderson, and Mark Williams are attached to star in Matthew Butler’s 18th century zombie romp, The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet.
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CommentPower trip
Xavier Durringer tells Screen that Thiérry Fremaux’s decision to include Durringer’s film The Conquest, which charts Nicolas Sarkozy’s rise to power, in the Cannes line-up was a “total surprise”.
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CommentKhoo meets his sensei
Singaporean director Eric Khoo has been a fan of Japanese manga master Yoshihiro Tatsumi for decades, but when he picked up his autobiography, A Drifting Life, he knew he had to turn it into a film.
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CommentVon Trier is serious, meditative in Melancholia
There’s nobody like Lars Von Trier to divide audiences and his latest opus Melancholia is already doing just that, some calling it an unqualified masterpiece and others a load of rubbish.
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Peter Nichols appointed chairman of Prescience
Nichols is the owner of wealth management group Chancery, which has raised over $800m for UK films in the last ten years.
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FeaturesPablo Giorgelli
Argentinian director Pablo Giorgelli’s first feature Las Acacias is screening in Cannes’ Critics Week.
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FeaturesLiza Johnson
Artist turned film-maker Liza Johnson makes her feature debut with Return, a portrait of her hometown in Ohio starring Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon and Tim Blake Nelson, which is screening in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.
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NewsOnline platform StudioBeyond to connect film industry
A new online platform, StudioBeyond, is aiming to become the first integrated online office space specially designed for the movie and TV industry.
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NewsPhase 4 picks up Canadian rights to Red State
Kevin Smith’s genre thriller premiered at Sundance and centres on a group of teenagers who fall into the clutches of an evangelist and his sinister army of followers.
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Bleiberg closes UK, China on There Be Dragons
Bleiberg Entertainment has licensed Roland Joffe’s epic There Be Dragons to key territories including Stealth Media in the UK and HIG in China.
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NewsItaly's M2 Pictures plucks Wallflower, Nurse 3D
Italian Indie distributor M2 Pictures, which opened in October 2010 is making tracks in the territory, adding high profile Hollywood pictures to their 2012 slate during the Cannes market.
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Cinema Libre takes US rights to Genius On Hold
Cinema Libre Studio and Top Cat Productions have struck a US distribution deal for documentary Genius On Hold and has committed $500,000 in p&a to release in at least 25 US cities starting in October.