All Screen articles in 27 August 2007 – Page 2
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AFI executive vice president Estrin steps down
The American Film Institute's executive vice president Jonathan Estrin will depart his post after three years on Sept 28 to pursue other opportunities.Estrin will continue as a consultant for AFI on a variety of projects. During his tenure he was instrumental in designing the AFI Dallas International Film Festival and ...
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Ang Lee's Lust, Caution gets NC-17 rating in US
Focus Features said today [Aug 23] that it will not contest a ruling by the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) to award Ang Lee's Lust, Caution an NC-17 rating.MPAA officers had not returned calls at time of writing, however the ruling is believed to be in response to the ...
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United States - Tales: Take two
I feel like the pilot of a 747 that's been flying through a hurricane and is finally coming in to land," Richard Kelly says of his most recent film, Southland Tales.It has been two years since Kelly began production on his labyrinthine black comedy-cum-thriller, about the Apocalypse, set in Southern ...
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United States - Planting Marigold
Since setting up its US distribution operation last year, Indian entertainment giant Adlabs has released a swathe of Bollywood pictures to US-based Indian audiences, including sci-fi box-office hit Krrish, which took $2.2m across North America.Now, the company is gearing up for its first ever release to US mainstream theatres, with ...
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Industry moves
Boltho takes on Paramount roleAlexei Boltho, former business development manager for BBC Films, has taken on a newly created acquisitions post at Paramount Pictures International (PPI). As of August 20, he will be PPI's director, co-productions and acquisitions, working out of Paramount's London headquarters and reporting to Los Angeles-based Ellen ...
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Opinion -getting in the grown-ups
Getting the grown-ups in is becoming a healthy obsession for distributors and theatres. Venice film festival head Marco Mueller celebrates the change in Screen this week (See Venice buzz, p16-20): 'Just four years ago, to think that Universal would put an opening film in competition (Atonement) ... or that Warner ...
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Venice International Film Festival - Venice spans the generations
Marco Mueller, artistic director of the Venice international film festival, has been carving a personal stamp that becomes more defined each year.For his fourth line-up, Mueller has constructed a competition with a strong bedrock of English-language pictures from directors including Paul Haggis, Wes Anderson, Brian De Palma, Andrew Dominik, Tony ...
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Taiwan - Eros as a labour of love
Lee Kang-sheng has walked the Venice red carpet three times as the leading man of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang's Vive L'Amour (1994), Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) and most recently, I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2006). This year, however, will see him there as not just an actor but as ...
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Critical Mass: Opportunity knocks
It's curious how little effect the advent of digital recording technologies have had on film style and structure - compared to, say, the introduction of synchronised sound in the late 1920s.Back then, films underwent a seismic shift. I'm not just referring to the thing most people know about the changeover: ...
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United Kingdom - British promises
Like most, if not all, successful UK producers, Paul Webster is not afraid of the US. "We're trying to work on projects with scale, so that means we need American partners," says Webster, the former Miramax head of production and Film4 chief executive who now oversees the film division of ...
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Hitting the books
It used to be common to see ads that heralded a $100m gross but now that figure seems rather puny. Still, it's not that common to see a double truck for a picture that's done $500m. Certainly when you toss in ancillary revenues from cable, merchandising, soundtracks, and DVD sales ...
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Red's army on the march
It is a scorching summer day of around 36C at a tank base three hours outside Beijing. More than 1,000 actors and extras wearing ancient armour are in the midst of battle. As flags fly and war drums pound, Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chiu-wai dashes among the crowds, waving ...
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China - Felling tales in the digital age
In the winter of 2004, Yu Guangyi entered the snowy forests of Black Bear Valley to record the lives of some of China's last lumberjacks. He spent four months, shooting with a single Sony PD150, a documentary that captures the dangerous and arduous nature of their work as well as ...
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Bring on the class action
After a summer in which most of the films had the number three after them, the Hollywood studios and their specialised divisions are preparing for the deluge of prestige movies that comprise the so-called awards season - high-profile, director-led features which are being carefully groomed for prime positions in the ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend August 17-19
The Simpsons Movie barely keeps hold of the top spot for a fourth weekend, taking $22.3m from 49 territories, just beating The Bourne Ultimatum's $22.2m weekend take. The third instalment of the Bourne franchise shot up 423% this weekend after expanding in a further seven territories. The increase was catapulted ...
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Yablans' Promenade launches with The Ten Commandments
Former Paramount president Frank Yablans' Promenade Pictures will enter the US theatrical distribution arena with the 3-D CGI feature The Ten Commandments on Oct 26.The film is the first in the 12-title Epic Stories Of The Bible series to be launched by the family-oriented production and distribution outfit.Each film will ...
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Fortissimo takes international rights to Israeli doc Children Of The Sun
Fortissimo Films hasacquiredinternational sales rights outside Israel and North America to Lama Films'documentary Children Of The Sun, directed by Ran Tal.Thefilm follows the lives of people brought up in the Kibbutzim in 1920s and 30s Israel.The film premiered to critical acclaim at the Jerusalem Film Festival, where it won a ...
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Bong Joon-ho begins shoot on his part of Tokyo omnibus
The Host director Bong Joon-ho this week started shooting Shaking Tokyo, starring Japanese actress Aoi Yu as his segment of the multinational Tokyo omnibus. Following in the steps of Paris Je T'aime, the Tokyo project has three directors - Bong, Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and Leos ...
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Reviews
The Living and the Dead (Zivi I Mirtvi)
Dir: Kristijan Milic. Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia, 2007. 90 mins.The winner of theGrand Prixat The 54th Pula Film Festival,garnering seven awards in total (including best picture and director), The Living and the Dead is a striking examination of war-fever, unadulterated and Balkan-style. Kristijan Milic's debut film will strike a familiar chordwith its own ...
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Asian trio join Hartnett in I Come With The Rain cast
Korean star Lee Byung-hun, Japan 's Takuya Kimura and Hong Kong 's Shawn Yue have joined Josh Harnett in the cast of Tran Anh Hung's I Come With The Rain. The $18m film, which marks the Vietnamese director's English-language debut, has been shooting in Hong Kong for the past two ...
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