All Screen articles in 28 November 2008 – Page 2

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    Awards countdown foreign-language films - Strong language

    2008-11-27T18:55:00Z

    In June this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) announced it would be making yet another tweak to its foreign-language film category.In 2007 the process underwent a major revamp, seeing a shortlist of nine films drawn up by the foreign-language committee at large and then the ...

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    Awards countdown crafts - The art of the crafts

    2008-11-27T18:55:00Z

    CinematographyWally PfisterDirector of photography, The Dark KnightDoP Wally Pfister calls The Dark Knight the 'artistic and technical' highlight of his career. He started discussing the look for the film with longtime collaborators director Christopher Nolan and production designer Nathan Crowley when it was still at script stage.'With Batman Begins, the ...

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    Croatian Audio-Visual Center awards $5m across 17 projects

    2008-11-27T17:59:00Z

    The Croatian Audio-Visual Center has selected 17 feature film projects for financing. In total, 71 film projects were submitted for consideration to the Croatian Audio-Visual Center (HAVC) which is Croatia's official film funding body.The HAVC was established in March this year and under Croatian law is completely independent from government ...

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    Spanish-German co-production The Anarchist's Wife to go to Sundance

    2008-11-27T17:49:00Z

    Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr's The Anarchist's Wife (Die Frau des Anarchisten) has been selected for Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Competition in January.Speaking at a two-day co-production meeting between Catalan and German producers in Berlin, the film's Barcelona-based co-producer Jordi Rediu of Zip Films said that this would be ...

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    UPI Italy pulls out of the distributor's section of ANICA

    2008-11-27T15:32:00Z

    Universal Pictures International Italy has pulled out of the distributor's section of ANICA, the Italian motion pictures organization.The decision was taken by Richard Borg, Universal Studio's chief in Italy, after rules calculating the year's top distributor award were changed at the last moment moving Universal from first to second place.The ...

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    Indian producers sayslowdown could lead to healthier industry

    2008-11-27T14:23:00Z

    The global economic slowdown has begun to impact the Indian film business, but producers and filmmakers attending the Film Bazaar projects market in Goa (Nov 26-29), say they expect this to have positive as well as obvious negative effects. Panellists at a session entitled 'Financing and Distribution of Specialty Films ...

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    The Dust Of Time

    2008-11-27T07:00:00Z

    Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece /Germany/ Italy/ Russia, 2008. 125 min.

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    Sundance Documentary Film Program banks on 20 projects

    2008-11-27T01:25:00Z

    The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program has announced the 20 projects awarded financial and creative support from the Sundance Documentary Fund.Nearly 800 film-makers working in more than 70 countries submitted projects in what amounted to twice as many entries as there were last year.The grant recipients include six first-time feature ...

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    Adolfo Aristarain to adapt La Muerte Lenta De Luciana B for the big screen

    2008-11-26T18:28:00Z

    Award-winning Argentinean director Adolfo Aristarain will shoot the thriller La Muerte Lenta De Luciana B in Argentina and Spain next March.Based on the novel by Guillermo Martinez (writer of The Oxford Murders), La Muerte Lenta De Luciana B tells the story of an assassin who methodically kills off everyone close ...

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    Europa Distribution highlights challenge of digital switchover

    2008-11-26T17:45:00Z

    European distributors called for a collective approach to the common challenges presented by digitisation at Europa Distribution's 2nd Annual Conference.70 European distributors, including 50 independents, met in Estoril Portugal, where the conference was held as a part of the Estoril film festival.Europa Distribution also held its General Assembly and elected ...

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    TFI International generates strong sales for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs

    2008-11-26T15:34:00Z

    TFI International has generated strong sales on Jean-Pierre Jeunet's upcoming Micmacs following the recent American Film Market. Micmacs went to Entertainment One for the UK and Canada; Odeon for Greece, Cyprus and Romania; Scanbox in Scandinavia and Hollywood Classic in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.The film , which began shooting ...

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    Cadillac Records

    2008-11-26T07:00:00Z

    Dir Darnell Martin. US. 2008. 104 mins

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    CP Global signs first-look deak with Japan's Formula Entertainment

    2008-11-26T06:00:00Z

    CP Global, the parent company of Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters' Cerenzie-Peters Productions, has signed a first-look deal with Japan's Formula Entertainment.CP Global and Formula chief Daisuke 'Dais' Miyachi and CP are preparing to adapt John Woo's 1986 crime drama A Better Tomorrow and are in talks on developing two ...

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    Canada's Sook-Yin Lee starts shoot of Year Of The Carnivore

    2008-11-25T23:40:00Z

    Canadian actress Sook-Yin Lee has begun principal photography on her directorial debut Year Of The Carnivore. The film, which is shooting outside of Vancouver, is co-produced by Vancouver-based Screen Siren Pictures and Toronto-based The Film Farm, producers of Atom Egoyan's Adoration. Screen Siren's Trish Dolman is producer with Kryssta Mills ...

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    Paul Gross in the saddle for William Phillips' Gunless

    2008-11-25T23:38:00Z

    Fresh from the success of his WWI epic Passchendaele, Canadian actor Paul Gross has signed for the lead in writer-director William Phillips' Gunless, a fish-out-of-water tale of a US gunslinger in the distinctly unwild Canadian West. The project will be coproduced by Toronto's Rhombus Media and Vancouver's Brightlight Pictures. Rhombus ...

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    Rich Raddon resigns as director of LA Film Festival

    2008-11-25T23:26:00Z

    Rich Raddon has resigned his post as director of the Los Angeles Film Festival in the wake of his much publicised $1,500 donation to the Yes On 8 campaign in support of the ban on same-sex marriages in California.Raddon, a devout Mormon who has served as director since 2000, issued ...

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    Mamma Mia! - The Movie is fastest selling UK DVD ever

    2008-11-25T18:07:00Z

    Day one sales of Mamma Mia! - The Movie have beaten Titanic's record, to become the fastest selling DVD of all time in the UK.Sales reached 1.669 million units, following its launch on November 24.The previous record for day one DVD sales was held for 10 years by James Cameron's ...

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    Japan's Fuji TV celebrates 50th year with film by Hiroshi Nishitani

    2008-11-25T17:56:00Z

    Japanese broadcaster Fuji Television is to mark its 50th anniversary with a special feature film production Amalfi: Megami No 50-Byou (Amalfi: 50 Seconds of a Goddess), starring Yuji Oda, which will be shot entirely on location in Italy.The film is directed by Hiroshi Nishitani and stars Yuji Oda, Yuki Amami, ...

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    Marshallmade deputymdat Warner Brothers Pictures International UK

    2008-11-25T17:46:00Z

    Neil Marshall, previously sales director at Warner Brothers Pictures International UK (WB), has been promoted to the role of deputy managing director. He will report to Josh Berger, president & managing director of Warner Bros. UK.In his new role, Marshall will be increasingly involved in the day-to-day running of the ...