All Screen articles in 27 February 2009 – Page 2
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Pathe boards Dead Man Running for UK and Ireland
Pathe Distribution has taken UK and Irish rights for Dead Man Running from Park Entertainment. Dead Man Running is produced by Nicholas 'Pikki' Fearon, Alan Latham and Tom Matinson. Alex de Rakoff wrote and directed the film which shot in London in November and December 2008. The story follows notorious ...
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UK's LoveFilm promotes Chris Bird to director of film strategy
LoveFilm's Chris Bird has been promoted to director of film strategy, having previously held the role of head of marketing services. Bird will handle LoveFilm's strategic relationships with studios and distributors and will developing the commercial arm of the new LoveFilm On-Demand service. Jo Underhill, who replaces Bird in the ...
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James Morris re-appointed Irish Film Board Chair for twelve months
After a hiatus of five weeks, Ireland’s Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen, has announced the appointment of a new governing board for the Irish Film Board following the end of the tenure of the previous board members.The new board will have a four-year remit until February 2013 ...
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Metrodome builds its French cinema slate with Anything For Her
Metrodome has acquired UK and Irish rights to the French feature Anything For Her. Metrodome's CEO Peter Urie, general manager distribution Sara Frain and head of acquisitions James Brown negotiated the deal with Elle Driver. Thriller Anything For Her stars Diane Kruger as a wife wrongly accused of murder, alongside ...
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Anna Butler to head up marketing at Icon
Anna Butler has been appointed head of marketing at Icon Distribution and is due to start in her new role on March 9. Butler previously headed up Fox Searchlight's UK marketing department, where she worked on titles such as The Last King Of Scotland and Notes On A Scandal. Prior ...
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AWPto handle sales onTaraporevala's Little Zizou
LA-based American World Pictures (AWP) has picked up international rights to Indian screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala's directorial debut, Little Zizou, from The Indian Film Company (TIFC). Produced by TIFC and executive produced by Mira Nair, the film recently won two awards - best director and best screenplay - at the Mahindra ...
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E1 strikes film and TV content deal with iTunes in Canada, US, UK
Canadian media company E1 is offering its film and TV content via iTunes online stores in Canada, the US and the UK. The company's key launch title is the blockbuster Twilight, which it distributed theatrically in Canada and the UK. 'We are excited to be able to offer film and ...
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Hamptons moves festival forward by a week to Oct 8-12
Seeking to benefit the local economy, the board of directors of the Hamptons International Film Festival has moved this year's event forward by one week to take place over Columbus Day Weekend holiday and run from October 8-12.The 17th annual event will remain based in East Hampton with additional venues ...
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Alta Films picks up award winning Salt Of This Sea
Spanish outfit Alta Films has picked up Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir's romantic drama Salt Of This Sea for theatrical distribution in Spain. Salt Of This Sea picked up the best screenplay award at the Dubai International film festival in December and played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year. ...
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Inaugral 'Write Here, Write Now' awardgiven to Sonya Gildea for Faith
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in association withWaltDisneyStudios Motion Pictures (Ireland) have announced that Sonya Gildea's script Faith has won the inaugural 'Write Here, Write Now' screenwriting award. The judging panel also gave an honourable mention to Rodney Lee for his script Do Not Pass Go. The 'Write Here, ...
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Film veteran Hercules Bellville dies
Hercules Bellville passed away on Saturday February 21at the age of 69 following a fifteen month fight with lung cancer. Born in San Diego, California to an American mother and an English father, Bellville attended boarding school in Britain and went on to study modern languages at Oxford. He started ...
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UK's Firefly Vision and Lansdowne Films to produce Skin
Firefly Vision, sister company of the UK's Firefly Films, has signed with Jordi Devas' Lansdowne Films to produce Skin. Skin marks the debut of screenwriter Steven Elliott and is set in Thailand and London. Speleers is set to star in the film and the producers are currently in talks with ...
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UK Film Council awards distribution support to Che
Che: Part One, Bronson and Franklyn are among a list of films to have benefited from the latest round of awards from the UK Film Council's prints and advertising fund. While blockbusters are often released in the UK with more than 1,000 film prints, the average number of prints for ...
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Wonderful Town wins top honours at Thai Oscars
Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town scooped five awards, including best film and best director, at Thailand's leading film honours, the Subhanahongsa Awards, on Sunday night (Feb 22). The indie drama also won best screenplay - which also went to Assarat - best cinematography and best art direction. A love story set ...
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NewsSlumdog takes eight Oscars including best picture, best director
Slumdog Millionaire wins 8 Oscars including best picture and best director.
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Poul, Wright to adapt Dews' Must Read After My Death
Alan Poul and Craig Wright have optioned the family story captured in documentary Must Read After My Death and plan to co-produce the feature film which Wright will write and Poul will direct.The documentary, directed by Morgan Dews, was released Friday (February 20) at New York's Quad Cinemas and in ...
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NewsOscar winners - Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Picture
Winners of the 81st Annual Academy AwardsBest Supporting ActressPenelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina BarcelonaBest Original ScreenplayDustin Lance Black, MilkBest Adapted ScreenplaySimon Beaufoy, Slumdog MillionaireBest Animated FeatureWall-E, Andrew StantonBest Animated ShortLa Maison en Petits Cubes, Kunio KatoArt DirectionThe Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Donald Graham Burt (art direction) ...
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Screen Actors Guild rejects studios' 'best and final offer'
Hopes of a settlement in the ongoing contract dispute between the Screen Actors Guild and the studios suffered the latest setback at the weekend as the Guild's national board of directors rejected the studios' 'best and final offer.'On Saturday the board of directors voted 73% to 27% in favour of ...
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Button adds $19.6m for Warner Bros to sweep past $150m
While 13 Oscar nominations for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button may not translate into such a dominant reality once the awards are handed out at tonight's 81st Annual Academy Awards, what is in no doubt is the incontrovertible evidence of the picture's commercial clout. Staying on top of the ...
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Tyler Perry's latest Madea film tops domestic box office with $41.1m
As fruitful relationships between studio and film-maker go, they don't get much better than the collaboration between Lionsgate and Tyler Perry. Both parties scored the highest launch of their careers at the weekend as Madea Goes To Jail stormed to the top with an estimated $41.1m number one debut that ...
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