All Screen articles in 28 April 2007 – Page 4
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Cannes 2007: the line-up
Screen International profiles this year's Cannes contenders - click on sales company name to be taken to relevant websiteIN COMPETITIONAlexandraDir: Alexander SokurovIn Competition for three consecutive years with Telets, Russian Ark and Father And Son, Sokurov returns to Cannes with Alexandra, about an elderly woman who visits Chechnya where her ...
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Finnish family drama wins River Run Film Festival
Elaville Ja Kuolleille's Finnish family drama For The Living And The Dead won the best narrative feature award at the Ninth Annual RiverRun International Film Festival, which came to a close at the weekend. The jury also presented the best actor award to Hannu-Pekka Bjorkman for his portrayal as a ...
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Warner, IMAX hatch 3D Deep Sea-quel
Warner Bros and IMAX Corp. are plotting a third aquatic 3D adventure. Working-titled Deep Sea-quel, the new film will be produced by the team behind last year's $40m-grossing Deep Sea 3D and the 1991 picture Into The Deep: director/cinematographer Howard Hall, producer Toni Myers and executive producer Graeme Ferguson. Joining ...
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Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg puts $9.3m into 26 projects
New feature films by Jaco van Dormael, Dennis Gansel, Chris Kraus and Stefan Ruzowitzky are among 26 projects backed by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg with over $9.3m Euros 6.8m at its last sitting. The largest single amount - $1.2m (Euros 900,000) - went to Gavin Millar's biopic of Albert Schweitzer.Jaco van Dormael ...
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Driver, Goldberg, Falco, Cooper among Tribeca jurors
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the jurors ahead of this week's launch.The main jury for the World Narrative Competition category is Chris Cooper, Edie Falco, Goran Paskaljevic, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Barry Sonnenfeld.Heidi Ewing, Whoopi Goldberg, Jehane Noujaim, Raoul Peck and Gideon Yago will serve on the World Documentary ...
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Hollywood Film Festival sets dates as Oct 17-22
The 11th Hollywood Film Festival will run in Los Angeles from Oct 17-22, culminating in the Hollywood Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.'We are very proud that we have become recognised as a pre-Oscar showcase, as well as a source for providing great networking opportunities for film-makers looking for a ...
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Image executive Gordon joins TWC as evp, home entertainment
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has hired Barry Gordon as executive vice president of home entertainment.Reporting to Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Gordon will be based in TWC's Los Angeles office and will serve as liaison for the company's home entertainment operations.He will work closely with Trevor Drinkwater, president and chief executive ...
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Vince Vaughn's Comedy Show goes to Picturehouse, NLI
Picturehouse and New Line International have acquired worldwide rights to Ari Sandel's Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood To The Heartland.Vaughn produced the film, which originally premiered at Toronto last autumn and follows him on a comedy road tour with four up-and-coming comics. ...
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The Condemned
Dir: Scott Wiper. US. 2007. 113mins.Criticising the dumbing-down of entertainment culture while shamelessly catering to the lowest-common denominator, The Condemned gets points for chutzpah but little else. The result, an action film about a hyper-violent reality contest, quickly devolves into a series of hand-to-hand combat scenes that become monotonous since ...
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World premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
The Air I Breathe (Encounters)Contact: Mark Ankner and Graham Taylor, Endeavor Independent Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother (Discovery) Contact: Nikki Parrott, Tigerlily Films (domestic), ID Distribution (international) Amexicano (Discovery) Contact: Matthew Bonifacio, The Brooklyn-Queens Experiment Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer (Encounters) Contact: Melissa Davis, Elan Entertainment Autism: ...
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Tribeca Talent: Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz
Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz's debut feature Lovesickness (Maldeamores) deals with the universal theme of love in very Puerto Rican terms. For Ruiz, 'It's a slice of our Latin idiosyncrasies which also shows how intense and intensely flawed love can be.'Having received a bachelors degree in photography from the Art Institute of ...
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Tribeca Talent: Marshall Lewy
Marshall Lewy's debut feature Blue State, a character-driven road film about a Democrat activist moving to Canada after George W Bush is re-elected in 2004, reflects the director's life in several ways. Like his main character, director Lewy did field work in Ohio for the Democratic Party in 2004. And ...
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Tribeca Talent: Bill Guttentag
Director Bill Guttentag's debut feature film Live!, a mockumentary about a reality TV show whose ultimate showdown ends with a nasty game of Russian roulette, combines his many talents in one package.As a respected non-fiction film-maker who won an Oscar for his 2003 documentary short Twin Towers, Guttentag knows how ...
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SPTI, Daum seal free VoD licensing deal for Korea
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and Daum Communications (Daum) announced today the first free video-on-demand (VOD) licensing deal between a Hollywood studio and a Korean company. SPTI will license annually selected library titles to top South Korean internet portal site Daum. The latter will stream these films via its site ...
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Tokyo to host world premiere of fifth Harry Potter
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will receive its world premiere in Tokyo, Japan on June 28. Japanese audiences will get to see the fifth installment in the franchise before the rest of the world, including the UK, which traditionally hosts the premieres. The Japan screening will be ...
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Lost In Beijing to be released in mainland China in May
The edited version of Chinese filmmaker Li Yu's second feature Lost In Beijing will be released in mainland China on May 18, according to the film's producer Fang Li and its distributor Polybona. The version to be released in mainland China is 15 minutes shorter than the one that premiered ...
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Gabor Csupo to direct children's fantasy The Moon Princess
Gabor Csupo, director of Walden Media's $100m worldwide grosser Bridge to Terabithia is to direct children's fantasy The Moon Princess, based on Elizabeth Goudge's 1946 classic The Little White Horse.The live-actionproject, planned to begin pre-production in June, will star Colin Firth with other cast to be confirmed.The production will be ...
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Hooper to direct Katharine Graham biopic for Ziskin, HBO Films
Tom Hooper is set to direct a biopic about the legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham which is being produced later this year by Laura Ziskin for HBO Films.Joan Didion (The Year Of Magical Thinking) is scripting the film from Carol Felsenthal's 1993 biography Power, Privilege And The Post: The ...
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Valley Of Flowers wins top prize at LA Indian Film Fest
Pan Nalin's Valley Of Flowers won the 5th Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles' grand jury prize for best feature as the event came to a close at the weekend.Paromita Vohra's Q2P won the best documentary award, while Srinivas Sunderrajan's Tea Break took best short honours.The Audience Choice Award went ...
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Coens sign two-picture deal with Focus, Working Title
Joel and Ethan Coen will write, produce, and direct their next two projects Burn After Reading and A Serious Man for Focus Features and Working Title Films following a two-film deal announced yesterday [April 23].Brad Pitt has joined George Clooney and Frances McDormand on the previously announced espionage black comedy ...