All Screen articles in 28 April 2008 – Page 6
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Cannes Un Certain Regard line-up includes Tokyo! triptych
The 2008 Cannes Un Certain Regard line up includes films from such directors as Michel Gondry, James Toback and Abel Ferrara. It also includes a film by American indie director Kelly Reichardt, who previously made Old Joy, which made its way to Cannes general manager Thierry Fremaux unsolicited and via ...
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Cannes unveils competition line-up of 19 titles
CompetitionLaurent Cantet - Entre Les Murs (France)Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Three Monkeys (Turkey-France-Italy)Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Le Silence De Lorna (Belgium-France-Italy-Germany)Arnaud Desplechin - A Christmas Story (France)Clint Eastwood - Changeling (US)Atom Egoyan - Adoration (Canada)Ari Folman - Waltz With Bashir ( Israel-France-Germany )Philippe Garrel - La Frontiere De L'Aube ...
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Darjeeling Limited gets greenlight for India release
Wes Anderson's India-set Darjeeling Limited, initially scheduled to be released in India in January, is finally being released on April 25. The film hit a road-block when the Indian Censor Board denied a certification of the film citing inadequate permissions to shoot animal life. While the shots of animals in ...
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Danielak's Arsenal to pre-sell Gooding comedy Harold at Cannes
Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures has boarded the Cuba Gooding Jr comedy Harold and will commence pre-sales at Cannes.The City Lights, M.E.G.A. Films and Blue Star Pictures production is in the $3.5m-4m range and will go before the cameras shortly.The story centres on a friendship between a prematurely bald 13-year-old and ...
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Warner Bros signs multi-picture deal with India's Ocher Studios
Warner Bros Pictures India is following its foray into the production of Hindi-language films with an exclusive multi-picture deal with South Indian-language film company Ocher Studios. Chennai-based Ocher Studios is headed by superstar actor Rajnikanth's daughter Soundarya. Warner Bros Pictures India and Ocher will produce and distribute live-action South Indian-language ...
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Revitalised MGM Studios picks up comedy spec script The Zookeeper
MGM has acquired Jay Scherick and David Ronn's comedy spec script The Zookeeper with Walt Becker attached to direct.Becker directed the 2007 comedy hit Wild Hogs as well as the upcoming comedy Old Dogs and will produce The Zookeeper with Jennifer Eatz for The Walt Becker Company. The story tracks ...
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Ang Lee to take on Taking Woodstock for Focus Features
Ang Lee's next film will be the true story Taking Woodstock, based on events surrounding the legendary 1969 music festival. As always with Lee's films, it is being produced at Focus Features.The comedy will follow Tiber, a Greenwich Village interior designer, as he steps in at the eleventh hour to ...
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Noeltner's CMG brings Under Still Waters to Cannes
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has acquired international rights to Carolyn Miller's noir Under Still Waters and will commence pre-sales in Cannes next month.The film will receive its market premiere on the Croisette on May 15. It stars Lake Bell, who appears with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher in ...
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Secret Of The Grain lands in the US through IFC Films
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar winner The Secret Of The Grain, which will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28.The French-language drama centres on a man from the French port town of Sete whose plans to set up a restaurant heal deep wounds ...
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Golden Globes set awards schedule for 2009
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 11, 2009, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) president Jorge Camara announced today [April 22].
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UK's Warp, Australia's Madman pact for at least two low-budget films
Mark Herbert, managing director of Warp Films in the UK, said he wanted to get involved with Australian filmmakers when he visited in October last year; he has turned out to be a man of his word. Warp, which is based in Sheffield in Yorkshire, plans to work with ...
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MGM buys domestic rights to How To Lose Friends...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has acquired domestic rights to How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, Robert B Weide's film of Toby Young's bestselling memoir, and set a US release date of Oct 3 this year.Simon Pegg, currently shooting Star Trek in which he plays Scotty, stars in the film as Sidney ...
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Canadian Film Centre, NFB launched theatrical doc programme
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will launch Canada's first programme to develop theatrical documentaries. Announced today at Toronto's Hot Docs festival, the CFC NFB Feature Documentary Program will begin in January 2009 with the goal of developing feature documentaries for international cinema ...
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Hays and Mullen join TIFF Canadian programming team
The Toronto International Film Festival has added two new faces to its Canadian programming team. Montreal-based academic and film journalist Matthew Hays joins Jesse Wente and Steve Gravestock on the feature film selection committee.Programming veteran Kathleen Mullen will handle the Short Cuts Canada selection for TIFF 2008 along with programmers ...
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Telepool takes on sales for German box-office hit Summer
Telepool will handle world sales for Mike Marzuk's Summer (Sommer) which has gone straight to the top of the German box-office chart on its first four days of release with over 230,000 admissions from 407 screens.The Walt Disney release of the SamFilm production had the weekend's best screen average of ...
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Carlos Acosta to star in $3m feature for Rosa Bosch
Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta is set to star in a dramatic feature inspired by his own life story. The film, based on the Acosta biography No Way Home, will shoot in Cuba and the UK. Acosta's nephews will play him as a younger man.The $3m project is being produced ...
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Morales steps down as Miromar CEO, Heizmann to take over
Michel Morales has stepped down from his post as CEO of the Ludwigsburg-based production house Miromar Entertainment to concentrate on the creative aspects of filmmaking and will be succeeded by Peter Heizmann.Morales, who co-produced the Heather Graham romantic comedy Buy Borrow Steal (known as Miss Conception in the US), has ...
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Andre Van Heerden named CEO of Cloud Ten Pictures
Andre Van Heerden has been promoted to CEO at Cloud Ten Pictures, the Canadian producers of the Left Behind series of Christian films.Katherine Kunberger has been brought in as president and Michael Walker as vice president of marketing and operations as the company prepares it upcoming release Saving God starring ...
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Rose and Ravid named to vice presidents at Senator US
Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment has promoted Rachel Rose to vice president of production and finance and hired Orly Ravid as vice president of acquisitions and domestic distribution.Rose has been with Senator for two years and most recently served as executive director of production and finance.Ravid, a former Maxmedia executive, will ...
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Mendes starts production on Big Beach/Focus romantic comedy
Production is set to get underway in Connecticut this week on Sam Mendes' untitled contemporary comedy starring Leatherheads lead John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Toni Collette and Cheryl Hines.Novelist Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida wrote the screenplay and Focus Features is co-financing with producers Big Beach and ...