All Screen articles in 28 April 2008 – Page 4
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Interview: Thierry Fremaux
Cannes' general manager Thierry Fremaux has become a respected trendsetter, carving his mark on the festival by welcoming feature documentaries and animations into the competition and embracing US film-makers.In the week the 2008 Cannes line-up is unveiled, Fremaux talks to Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte about where he plans to take the festival ...
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Set visit: Lone Scherfig's An Education
It is the Easter holidays and in a quiet Japanese school in West London, Danish director Lone Scherfig is shooting a scene with a school orchestra in an airy assembly hall.With its dark wood the hall looks right at home in the early 1960s period in which An Education is ...
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United States - A one-shot deal
On a sombre late March morning in Chicago before dawn breaks, it is day four of shooting on Helix, the first feature from the Beverly Hills-based production company Windward Entertainment.The story, about the kidnap of a young woman (played by Alexa Vega), is drawn from an actual incident involving Aram ...
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Filmaka- the contest Engine
Deepak Nayar's original idea in hatching Filmaka in late 2006 was to create a platform for pitching material that would then be judged by peers and a panel of A-list judges.The concept was that aspiring film-makers submit one to three-minute short films to the site on designated themes. Every month, ...
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United Kingdom - Virtuous circle
It is a bitterly cold February day in deepest Nottinghamshire in the middle of England, with rain-clouds looming. But that does not stop cast and crew from braving the elements and putting their Thai curry lunch on hold while their enthusiastic, perfectionist director Stephan Elliott freeze-frames the shot he is ...
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United Kingdom - Character Counts
Bob Hoskins' ease at switching from cuddly to menacing has kept his career ticking along nicely for decades. Since 1980's The Long Good Friday launched him as a film star, the actor has worked with Steven Spielberg, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Oliver Stone and Atom Egoyan.Hoskins has also lent his support to ...
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Screen opinion: The changing face of distribution
In any list of over-rated virtues, suffering for one's art should come pretty high. Of course, there's the great myth of the tortured artist - slicing off the occasional ear or slaving in a cockroach-ridden garret is meant to get the juices flowing.Most, however, find it possible to operate effectively ...
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UK Special - Hot Brits At The Box Office
ACTORSW/wide grossSacha Baron CohenBorat (2006)$261.5mTalladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006)$163mAli G Indahouse (2002)$23.3mWhat's next: He creates another memorable character in Bruno, for Universal.Gerard ButlerW/wide grossNim's Island (2008)$38.9mPS I Love You (2008)$141m300 (2007)$456.1mThe Phantom Of The Opera (2004)$155mLara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life (2003)$156.5mWhat's next: Stars in ...
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Australia - Hopscotch jumps to next level
Independent Australian distributor Hopscotch is reinventing itself. The company's ambitious managing director Troy Lum wants to transform Hopscotch from a theatrically-focused distributor to a vertically integrated, content-driven entity.'When the digital era really hits, producers will reap the rewards,' says Lum. 'Distribution is changing because people consume content in different ways ...
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International - Mangas draw audience
Japanese animated sequels came up trumps this weekend with two entries from Toho entering the top 15 and generating a combined $6.5m in their home territory.Detective Conan: Full Score Of Fear came in at number seven with a $4m take over 335 screens for an enormous $12,087 screen average - ...
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The critical view: the art of the film ending
Those of you who have been living in a forest hut for the last year and haven't got around to seeing the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men should stop reading here.This week my subject is film endings - in particular the frustratingly brilliant climax to their adaptation of ...
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Special report: Hollywood goes anglophile
'Britain isin a golden era right now, particularly with directors,' says David Livingstone, worldwide president of marketing and distribution at UK powerhouse Working Title.Will and actors' strike benefit UK talent'At that company alone, there are new projects in the works from Edgar Wright, Joe Wright, Kevin Macdonald and Paul Greengrass. ...
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Mark Urman takes over from Sackman as THINKFilm president
Mark Urman has been named president of THINKFilm in the wake of Jeff Sackman's departure last week.Urman was a co-founder of the company and previously served as head of the theatrical division. He will remain in New York, which will serve as the company's new headquarters.'Mark has played a crucial ...
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Hamer selected for Un Certain Regard as Norway targets the Croisette
Norwegian director Bent Hamer's O'Horten - his return to local film-making after his US feature, Factotum (2005), from Charles Bukowski's novel - will unspool in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, as Hamer's fourth official entry in the festival. The selection coincides with Norway's largest promotional effort on the Côte d'Azur, ...
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Bavaria Film International picks up Critics' Week title
Martin Blaney in Berlin Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Emily Atef's second feature film The Stranger In Me (Das Fremde In Ihr), which has been selected for this year's Critics' Week in Cannes.The drama of a young mother who is thrown into emotional turmoil after ...
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Video-on-demand in Europe sees surge in growth
The number of video-on-demand (VoD) services in Europe almost doubled in the 12 months to December 2007. A report published by the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) - Video On Demand In Europe - has found 258 VoD services in operation in the 24 European countries surveyed, compared with 142 at ...
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New Figgis feature to screen at Tribeca and Cannes
Danny Plunkett in LondonLove Live Long , the first feature from Mike Figgis since 2003's Cold Creek Manor, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28. It will launch internationally in the market at Cannes on May 18.Written and directed by Figgis, the film was shot over seven ...
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UK film-maker wins top prize at Nyon doc fest
Martin Blaney in NyonUK film-maker Molly Dineen has been awarded the Grand Prix for The Lie Of The Land about the hard daily routine of English farmers at Nyon's Visions du Reel documentary film festival which closed on April 23.In addition, the International Jury, which included US producer Claire Aguilar ...
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Cannes Critics' Week unveils selection
The line-up for the 47th running of Critics Week was announced at Paris Cinematheque Francaise on Thursday morning. In his opening remarks, the section's artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon noted that submissions this year had come from 69 countries, with 850 feature films being screened by the selection committee. Ultimately, with ...
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Europa Corps restructures sales team
EuropaCorp has restructured its sales team and brought in two new international sales directors, the company said in a statement Wednesday evening. Marie-Laure Montironi joined Europa this month while Pascal Degove will take up his new post as of May. Montironi is an industry veteran who was instrumental in the ...