All Screen articles in 27 February 2009 – Page 3
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The Wrestler named best feature, actor at Independent Spirit Awards
The Wrestler was named best feature and won the best actor award for Mickey Rourke and the best cinematography award for Maryse Alberti at the 2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards which took place today (Saturday) in Santa Monica.The annual event, which honours films embodying independence and 'who dare to challenge ...
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Departures sweeps Japanese academy awards
Yojiro Takita's Departures picked up ten prizes, including best picture of 2008, at the 32nd Japan Academy prize awards ceremony, held Friday evening at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo. The film, which had thirteen nominations, also won best director, best actor (Masahiro Motoki), best supporting actor (Tsutomu ...
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Polish film festival in UK to kick off with 33 Scenes From Life
The seventh edition of the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival will open in London with Malgorzata Szumowska's drama, 33 Scenes from Life, a study of the resilience of the human spirit and the ties that unite people. The festival will take place in London from March 12 to April 8. The ...
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Russian Financial Alliance Bank puts film fund operation on hold
As reported by Kommersant, Russian Financial Alliance's (RFA) $10m mutual fund, Kinofond, has been put on hold. RFA has refused to comment at this stage as to why Kinofond's operations have been suspended. The RFA bank established, the $10m Kinofond in 2007 through a sister company, the RFA investment agency. ...
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Alta Films picks up French comedy LOL for Spain
Spanish outfit Alta Films has picked up theatrical distribution rights for Spain to Lisa Azuelo's French comedy LOL (Laughing Out Loud) from Pathe International. The film is a co-production between Pathe, Bethsabee Mucho, TF1 and M6 Films in collaboration with Canal+, CNC, CineCinema and Poisson Rouge Pictures. LOL (Laughing Out ...
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Korea's Sponge Entertainment wins Shortbus ratings battle
After two years, Sponge Entertainment has won the fight to screen John Cameron Mitchell's sexually explicit film Shortbus in South Korea with a 'Teenager Restricted' rating. The film follows a sex therapist, who has never experienced an orgasm, as she is introduced to the people in an underground sex club ...
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Frames wraps with talk of cost-cutting and collaboration
As the three-day FICCI Frames media and entertainment conference came to a close in Mumbai yesterday, industry leaders had agreed on three recession-busting strategies - collaboration, improving consumer relations and cutting costs. Speaking at the closing session, Zee chairman Subhash Chandra spoke of the entertainment industry's need to pull together ...
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Warner's Button should continue international lead this weekend
Warner Bros Pictures International's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button has ruled the roost for the past two weekends and has reached an impressive $130m and crossed $250m worldwide.With no wide release of any Hollywood picture planned this weekend, the Oscar nominated drama starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett looks ...
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Australia's ABC TV considers investing in film
Australian broadcaster, the ABC, is hoping to invest in 15 feature films over the next three years. 'We must be one of the few public broadcasters in the developed western world that does not have a connection with its national feature film industry,' said the director of ABC TV, Kim ...
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Dasgupta quits as CEO of India's Multi Screen Media
Kunal Dasgupta has quit as CEO of India's Multi Screen Media (MSM), previously known as Sony Entertainment Television (SET), after almost 14 years in the role. Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) issued a statement on Thursday saying that Dasgupta had resigned for 'personal reasons'. However, local press is speculating that ...
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Marston, Bahrani projects to get grant support from Cinereach
New work from Maria Full Of Grace director Joshua Marston and Man Push Cart director Ramin Bahrani are among a selection of ten works-in-progress to receive grants totaling $250,000 from non-profit film support body Cinereach.Cinereach was founded in 2006 by a group of young film-makers, philanthropists and entrepreneurs to champion ...
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Russian Film Hub - Company Profile - New world order
Founded a decade ago by Yuri Sapronov and Andrei Smirnov, Russian World Studios (RWS) comprises state-of-the-art studios in both Moscow and St Petersburg, a production company, a location scouting service and a camera rental house.The company is now preparing to launch a production and distribution unit with Sergei Chliyants' Moscow-based ...
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Christie Digital USA's Jack Kline on changing models
Over the past three years, digital cinema has finally become a reality for a growing number of exhibitors and distributors around the world. And although the global credit crunch has slowed the industry's conversion from 35mm prints and projection, Jack Kline still has his sights set firmly on the digital ...
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Russian Film Hub - On Location - Moscow calling
Russia has two main production facilities: Mosfilm in Moscow and Russian World Studios (RWS) which has facilities in both Moscow and St Petersburg. The consensus among producers is that the country needs more modern facilities. Post facilities abound - in addition to RWS and Mosfilm, Cinemateka and Dr Picture have ...
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Hot Russia projects to tempt international buyers
The Inhabited IslandIn this two-part adaptation of a popular novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, an improbably handsome cosmonaut, played by Vasily Stepanov, crashes on a hostile planet. Fyodor Bondarchuk, who directed the 2005 hit The 9th Company now ventures an epic spectacle along the lines of Timur Bekmambetov's Night ...
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International - Button holds fast
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button dominates the international chart this week, crossing the $100m mark internationally and falling off just 6% to take $30.5m over the February 13-15 weekend. With Warner Bros distributing in 49 markets, David Fincher's Oscar contender now stands at $119.6m from eight weeks on release ...
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Russian Film Hub - Q&A - 'Have a healthy budget and a lot of time'
Les WeldonProduction: Command Performance. Dolph Lundgren directed and starred in this action thriller, produced by Nu Image Films and Millennium Films. Shot on location on Red Square and elsewhere in Moscow for two days in autumn 2008, with other locations in Bulgaria.Why did you choose to shoot in Russia'We needed ...
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Olaf de Fleur breaks the ice
Olaf de Fleur says he has been through 'a good film school of dos and don'ts' in the past few busy years making a string of very different feature films. 'I've been working on quantity, just doing a lot of films for the past four or five years,' the Icelandic ...
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Will Russia's film boom survive the credit crunch'
In recent years, the Russian film industry has been remarkably robust. The 78 Russian films released in 2008 enjoyed a 22% share of the $830m CIS gross (excluding Ukraine), according to local analysts Nevafilm. Russian box office grosses alone came to $548.1m (rub19.9bn). State funding for production increased to $88.5m ...
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