All Screen articles in 28 April 2007 – Page 3
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Cannes Critics Week to close with Miniucchi's Expired
The 46th Cannes Critics Week will kick off with Bruno Merle's Heros, starring Michael Youn, Patrick Chesnais and Elodie Bouchez and close with Expired from Cecilia Miniucchi and starring Samantha Morton and Jason Patric.The Critics Week line up was announced Thursday morning in Paris with seven titles in the main ...
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China's J.A. Media taps Chan, Shi as consultants
Start-up Chinese producer-distributor J.A. Media has tapped former Media Asia sales chief Jeffrey Chan and leading Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi as consultants as it ramps up its film distribution activities. Based in Beijing, the company is a subsidiary of Jilin-based biotech and alternative energy producer, Jian Group, owned by ...
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300 sweeps past $20m in worldwide grosses on IMAX screens
IMAX chiefs said this week that Warner Bros' smash action feature 300, which swept past $20m in worldwide receipts on the large screen format in record time, has opened the door to a new demographic for the company.Zack Snyder's adventure feature has grossed more than $422m worldwide through all formats ...
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Al Gore opens Tribeca with climate-change shorts programme
The sixth-annual Tribeca Film Festival opened Wednesday night in downtown Manhattan with a programme of short films and music to raise awareness for climate change.TFF's opening night presented the premieres of nine of the planned 60 short films that are part of the SOS campaign about the global climate crisis.There ...
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HBO Films, FSLC stage US competition for film trailers
HBO Films and The Film Society of Lincoln Center are holding a nationwide competition offering students the chance to create a trailer to precede film screenings at the Lincoln Center.The Film Society of Lincoln Center will premiere the winning work in the Student Trailer Competition at its 45th New York ...
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Vollman gets expanded publicity duties at Paramount
Paramount's executive vice president of integrated marketing Mike Vollman has added theatrical publicity to his duties.In his expanded role, Vollman will oversee national publicity campaigns and lead the studio's field and integrated marketing activities. He will continue to report to president of worldwide marketing Gerry Rich.'Mike has played an integral ...
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Peter Naish joins Capitol Films as managing director
Former Icon Entertainment head of distribution Peter Naish has joined Capitol Films as managing director and will oversee both Capitol and THINKFilm under David Bergstein's growing entertainment empire.Naish will start work on Apr 30 and will join the team of Capitol head of sales James Norrie and sales manager Sophia ...
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Cannes Film Festival: 60th may be a dignified affair
Emir Kusturica returns but Francis Ford Coppola's comeback is nowhere to be seen. The British have not received an invitation to the party but Stephen Frears will still sit at the top table. The French presence does not display an unseemly bias towards the home team but the Italians are ...
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'It would be good if there was a new leadership'
In a move which took even her staff by surprise, Sandra Den Hamer today confirmed that she will be leaving her position as director of the Rotterdam International Festival to take over as director of Amsterdam's Filmmuseum.'For me as well, it was quite sudden,' Den Hamer told ScreenDaily.com of her ...
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Cannes announces three additions to Un Certain Regard
A week after unveiling its official line up, the Cannes Film Festival has added three films to the Un Certain Regard sidebar, organizers announced today.Hou Hsiao Hsien's Looking For The Red Balloon will open the section on May 17. The film stars Juliette Binoche and is being handled by Films ...
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Destiny (Kader)
Dir/scr: Zeki Demirkubuz. Turk. 2006. 104mins. International film festivals should have another look at Zeki Demirkubuz' latest offering Destiny, which has been on the circuit since last year. Flawed it may be, but it has enough merit to deserve a niche of its own, certainly compared to some of the ...
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Sandra Den Hamer leaves Rotterdam International Film Festival
Sandra Den Hamer is to step down as director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Den Hamer, who has been involved with the event for more than two decades, will start work as director of Amsterdam's Filmmuseum from September 1.The Board of the Rotterdam Film Festival will start exploratory talks ...
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Adam And The Devil (Adem'in Trenleri)
Dir. Baris Pirhasan. Turk, 2007. 103mins. Cute, corny, folksy, but also heart-warming and crowd pleasing, Baris Pirhasan's feature Adam And The Devil deserves to do well, not only as an entertaining festival vignette but also as a pleasant nostalgic breath of home for Turkish audiences abroad. The story of a ...
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Nikkatsu, IMJ join forces to launch production outfit
Japan 's Nikkatsu Corp and production company/creative agency Inter Media Japan Entertainment (IMJE) have jointly established a new production company named Dzonot Corp. IMJE invested 51% and Nikkatsu 49% of the initial $85,000 (Y10m) in capital to set up Dzonot, which will be headed by IMJE chief executive Osamu Naito. ...
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Japanese animation Doraemon secures Chinese release
Japanese publisher Shogakukan has announced that one of its recent feature films in the popular Doraemon franchise will screen theatrically in 35 cities across mainland China. Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 , which was released domestically in March last year, will become the first Japanese animated feature to be screened theatrically ...
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Cineclick Asia picks up Lucky Miles, Misencounter
Korean sales agent Cineclick Asia, newly incorporated into Fantom Co Ltd, has today announced additional foreign pick-ups from Argentina and Australia for its Cannes market line-up, as well as the crank-up of Afghan title Opium War and other title updates. This follows its acquisition of world sales right for the ...
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Barmettler's Omega signs Rogers, slate from Baldwins
Former Lakeshore International president Peter Rogers (pictured above on the right) has resurfaced at Markus Barmettler's Swiss-based production, financing and sales company Omega Entertainment and will serve as president.Rogers will head up the expanded company's new London office and oversee all international operations. He will arrive in Cannes with a ...
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Corbijn's Control to open Cannes Directors Fortnight
Anton Corbijn's debut feature Control has been selected as the opening night film of Directors Fortnight in Cannes next month.The film is a biopic of the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, whom Corbijn knew personally, and follows his rise to fame, his relationships with both wife and girlfriend, his ...
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Shochiku flies with Universal Japan's Midnight Eagle
Shochiku has announced that it will distribute $10m action thriller Midnight Eagle, produced by the Midnight Eagle Partners production consortium, led by co-producer Universal Pictures Japan. The film, which began production in January, is directed by Izuru Narushima whose credits include box office hit Fly, Daddy, Fly. Starring in the ...
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Stiles to produce, star in Plum Pictures' The Bell Jar
Julia Stiles will produce and star in Plum Pictures' adaptation of The Bell Jar, the psychodrama and only novel written by the late poet Sylvia Plath.Stiles and Plum optioned the book and will produce in association with Killer Films. Tristine Skyler is adapting the project, which is currently out to ...