All Screen articles in 28 November 2008 – Page 3
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UK London mayor Boris Johnson puts focus on film
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has set out his plans to make film a key part of Londoners' experience of arts and culture in the capital. The publication of Cultural Metropolis yesterday highlights cultural initiatives to be taken and focuses on film amongst the creative industries.Planned initiatives include:- the London ...
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Neil Marshall promoted to deputy managing director at Warner Brothers UK
Neil Marshall, previously sales director at Warner Brothers Pictures International UK (WB), has been promoted to the role of deputy managing director at the company. He will report to Josh Berger, president & managing director of Warner Brothers International UK.In his new role, Marshall will be increasingly involved in the ...
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Dubai International Film Festival to feature 11 world premieres.
The Dubai International film festival will feature eleven world premieres across its programme.The premieres comprise narrative and documentary films, feature length and shorts and works from established feature directors as well as feature debuts.The festival's mandate to present diverse and engaging cinema while highlighting film of Arab origin is strongly ...
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XME teams with US-Chinese talent on five-picture slate
Xinhua Media Entertainment (XME), a subsidiary of Chinese media group XFMedia, has announced a slate of five China-US co-productions to be made over the next three years. The slate, which aims to showcase Chinese culture and top talents through collaboration with US directors, writers and producers, includes the previously announced ...
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La Graine Et Le Mulet wins European Film Academy Critics' Award 2008
The European Film Academy Critics' Award 2008 - Prix Fipresci has been awarded to Abdellatif Kechiche for La Graine Et Le Mulet (The Secret of the Grain) The announcement was made by the European Film Academy, EFA Productions, and the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI.FIPRESCI's director of the department ...
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Warner Brothers content to go on KTF mobiles in Korea
Korean mobile internet provider KTF will be offering latest Warner Brothersmovies and TV series in a specialscreening section starting tomorrow (Nov 26). KTF's Warner Brothers special section will feature 150items including hit movies such as Speed Racer and the Harry Potter and Matrix series, as well as popular TV shows ...
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Alan Zhang opens US offices in LA for his Red Maiden Entertainment
Alan Zhang, the film-maker and CEO and founder of Beijing-based Red Maiden Entertainment, has opened the company's Los Angeles offices in Beverly Hills.The move coincides with the theatrical release in China of Zhang's directorial debut Waiting In Beijing, a romance that will open in the US on December 12 through ...
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Lea Pool begins shooting Une Belle Mort in Luxembourg
Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Lea Pool has begun principal photography on Une Belle Mort for Montreal-based Equinoxe Pictures and Luxembourg's Iris Productions. At a budget of $4.3m (C$5.4m), it is the first-ever official Canada-Luxembourg coproduction.The screenplay is co-written by Pool and Quebecois novelist Gil Courtemanche, based on his 2005 novel of the ...
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du Toit named director of programming at Palm Springs
Helen du Toit will serve as director of programming at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF), set to run from January 8-19.Du Toit recently served as co-director with Carl Spence, who has segued into the role of lead programmer.She served in the festival's programming department in 1991 for ...
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Twilight's international numbers bigger than first thought
Twilight grossed $9.6m from 1,275 venues in five international territories in a significant rise from initial estimates released by Summit International over the weekend.The vampire romance stormed to number one in Italy in the sixth biggest launch of the year on $5.8m from 601 prints and topped the charts in ...
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Production - Attracting a partner
Back in 2002 when Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas screened at Cannes, the Indian film industry was still regarded as an exotic item - fun to have at the party but the international industry did not really know how to talk to her. Fast forward through six years of a booming ...
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Four Christmases
Dir: Seth Gordon. US. 2008. 88 mins Four rounds of family festivities produce very little merriment for either its protagonists or audiences as holiday season romantic comedy Four Christmases slogs its way through a sub-90 minute running time. The pairing of Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon and the presence of ...
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UK and Denmark claim top prizes at Encounters Short Film Festival
The 14th Encounters Short Film Festival drew to a close last night as Danish film-maker Mads Matthiesen took the International Jury Award, for his short film Dennis, while Danish film Office Noise won the Children's Jury Award.UK and Danish short films dominated the awards at the festival, which took place ...
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Kalatozishvili's Wild Field takes top prize at Marrakech
Mikhail Kalatozishvili's Wild Field won the top prize, l'Etoile d'Or, at the 8th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival. The Shaft , from China's Zhang Chi, earned the Jury Prize.Melissa Leo, the star of Courtney Hunt's Sundance grand jury prize winner Frozen River, took the Best Actress prize: and ...
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Norway opens first all-digital multiplex in the Nordic countries
The first all-digital multiplex in the Nordic countries has been opened in Norway by Oslo Municipal Cinemas.The multiplex is called the Ringen, and is situated in the Grunerlokka borough of Oslo.'The new theatre is a milestone on the way into a new technological era, and a considerable addition to the ...
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UK -based Illuminated Films to produce Not The End Of The World
The Illuminated Film Company (Illuminated Films) is to produce adventure story Not The End Of The World. Piet Kroon (Shrek 2, Christmas Carol - The Movie) will direct the film which he adapted from Geraldine McCaughrean's novel of the same name. Currently at the pre-production stage, the film is set ...
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Mikhail Kalatozishvili's Wild Field wins best film at Estoril film festival
Russian director Mikhail Kalatozishvili's drama Wild Field has taken the best film award at the Estoril film festival in Portugal. The Studio Barmalei production Wild Field focuses on the life of a doctor struggling to care for a small farming community, which is trying to fight off some outlaws, set ...
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Aan Ja (Over There) receives the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki
Aan Ja (Over There) by Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani received the Golden Alexander and $47,000 (Euros 37,000) at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.Romanian production Pescuit Sportiv (Hooked) by Adrian Sitaru was awarded the Special Jury Prize, the Silver Alexander and $28,000 (Euros 22,000).Argentinian Celina Murga was named best director ...
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Shooting of Serge Gainsbourg (Vie Heroique) to start in France in January
Principal photography of Serge Gainsbourg (Vie Heroique) is due to start on January 19, 2009 and will continue for 13 weeks on location in Paris. The film will be the directorial feature debut of Joann Sfar, the award-winning French graphic artist. Sfar also wrote the screenplay.Serge Gainbourg (Vie Heroique) is ...
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Tribeca Film Festival Doha to be launched November 2009
Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) and New York's Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) are to launch a new international film festival, Tribeca Film Festival Doha. The first festival will take place November 10 - 14, 2009 and be presented at Doha's Museum of Islamic Art and in cinemas across Doha.The announcement was ...
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