All Screen articles in 27 March 2009 – Page 5
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Lionsgate takes North America on Paris With Love
Lionsgate has taken North American rights to Luc Besson's EuropaCorp thriller From Paris With Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and directed by Pierre Morel. The deal reunites Lionsgate and Europa after Lionsgate released Olivier Megaton's Transporter 3 last year and Alexandre Aja's horror film High Tension in ...
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USAID invites international film productions to Serbia
A new website to promote Serbia as a location for international co-productions has been launched by Film In Serbia, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) project set up to promote Serbia to the international filmmaking community. Michael Harvey, chief of the USAID mission in Serbia told Screendaily that he ...
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Norwegian blockbuster Max Manus to open Norwegian Film Days
Max Manus, from directors Espen Sandberg and Jachim Ronning, will open the 3rdedition of Norwegian Film Days in Stockholm, taking place on March 19-22. The war drama is now the second most popular Norwegian film of all time after Pinchcliffe Grand Prix. Other films included in the programme will be ...
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Film 4's Tessa Ross concerned for channel's future in face of cuts
Tessa Ross, controller of film and drama at Film 4, which is currently riding high on the success of Slumdog Millionaire, has told a UK House of Lords select committee that the channel could be in danger in the face of Channel 4 cut-backs. 'We would be foolish not to ...
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Made In China, 35365 win top juried prizes at SXSW
Judi Krant's drama Made In China won the South By Southwest Film's narrative feature juried prize while Bill Ross' portrait of MidWest life 45365 took corresponding documentary honours.In the audience awards, Scott Teems' Tennessee-set grudge story That Evening Sun won narrative feature, Geralyn Pezanoski's post-Katrina tale Mine won the documentary ...
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Lionsgate acquires young adult franchise The Hunger Games
Lionsgate has acquired worldwide rights to the film version of Suzanne Collins' bestselling futuristic young adult novel The Hunger Games.Collins will adapt the screenplay from her novel, which is conceived as the first in a trilogy, and Nina Jacobson is producing through her Color Force company.Lionsgate president of motion picture ...
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Roger Ebert to receive career achievement award at ShoWest
Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert will receive a special ShoWest Career Achievement In Film Journalism Award in Las Vegas on April 2.Ebert began his career as a film critic in 1967, writing for The Chicago Sun-Times. In 1976 he teamed with Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune to ...
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National Geographic acquires US rights to Sundance hit Amreeka
National Geographic Entertainment has acquired US rights to Cherien Dabis' hit Sundance drama Amreeka and will release in theatres this autumn.The picture will open the New Directors/New Films series at The Museum Of Modern Art and The Film Society Of Lincoln Center in New York on March 25.National Geographic Films ...
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Sundance names Perlmutt, Rivera as winners of Sloan grants
Sundance Institute has announced the recipients of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Science-in-Film Initiative awards, including recipients of the Sloan Commissioning Grant and the Sloan Fellowship.Sundance Institute's Sloan Science-in-Film Initiative supports and celebrates films that explore issues of science and technology. The 2009 Commissioning Grant co-recipients are Bent-Jurgen Perlmutt for ...
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Matt Birch leaves Endgame and joins Montana Artists Agency
LA-based production services outfit Montana Artists Agency has hired studio and production veteran Matt Birch as senior vice president of features.The move bolsters both the domestic and global reach of the company, which services the film, commercial, television, music video and multimedia industries worldwide.Through his experience and network of relationships, ...
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Spike Lee's latest doc gets world premiere at Tribeca
Spike Lee's Kobe Doin' Work will receive its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25 as the gala premiere of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival.Lee and his cinematographer Matthew Libatique spent a day with the LA Lakers' basketball star Kobe Bryant during last year's playoffs.The picture features ...
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James Marsh reunites with UK production company Wall to Wall
Director James Marsh and UK production company Wall to Wall are working on a documentary that focuses on the world of dreams. Dream Diaries (working title) is based on a Canadian man's dreams that were written down over the course of his lifetime. In conversation with ScreenDaily.com Marsh said 'The ...
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Michael Algar to head High Point Media Group in Ireland
Michael Algar has been appointed to the role of director of High Point Media Group's Irish outfit. 'I am delighted to be joining the High Point team' Algar said. 'They have demonstrated clear support and enthusiasm for Irish product over the years, and now from the advantage of a Dublin ...
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Middle East International Film Festival announces 2009 dates
The third edition of the Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) will take place from October 8-17 and will be held at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi.The call for entries for the 2009 edition will open in May at a press conference during the Cannes Film Festival. Popular initiatives ...
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Leap Year jumps on Ireland's new tax deal
The US feature Leap Year staring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode has been green lit for an Irish shoot at the end of this month.The news was confirmed after improvements to the Irish tax incentive, Section 481, were ratified by the European Commission this week. The amendments increase the cap ...
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Sakamoto starts production on Zatoichi The Last
Japanese director Junji Sakamoto has started shooting Zatoichi The Last, starring SMAP member Shingo Katori in the lead role of the famed blind swordsman, for Japan's Sedic International and Toho Studios. Toho has announced a 2010 release for the film which has secured investment from Celluloid Dreams. The French sales ...
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PIFF receives public funding boost to offset downturn
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) is set to receive an increase in government funding to offset the effects of the economic downturn anddiminishing corporate sponsorship.
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SPHE appoints Meade to oversee China operations
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has appointed Tim Meade as vice president, SPHE China. He was previously vice president, Asia Emerging Markets for the studio. Based in Hong Kong, Meade will oversee the expansion of SPHE's operations in China wherethe studiohas recently begun the manufacture and distribution of Blu-ray discs. ...
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Shively and Dix set up new LA outfit Tower Hill Entertainment
The Butterfly Effect franchise producers William J Shively and AJ Dix have teamed up with former Collective packaging division head Shaun Redick to from the management, production and finance company Tower Hill Entertainment.Redick arrives with his Collective colleague Ray Mansfield while Channing Shively rounds out the core team.Tower Hill is ...
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