All Screen articles in 29 April 2010
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NewsDate Night earns Fox another number one in the UK
Fox International’s Date Night adds a UK number one to its overseas run, while local production It’s A Wonderful Afterlife debuts in top 10.
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FeaturesScreen's Global Top 10 - April 23-25
Screen International’s top 10 films worldwide this weekend.
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FeaturesWeekly International Box Office - April 23-25
ScreenDaily brings you the weekly international box-office news.
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NewsClive Owen, Jason Statham set to shoot The Killer Elite starting May 13
Omnilab Media has released details of Irish director Gary McKendry’s The Killer Elite, the next chapter in the company’s plan to produce studio-style movies in Australia.
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NewsEaling plans film about Fisherman's Friends
Ealing Studios is planning a feature film about the story of Fisherman’s Friends, a group of Cornish sea shanty singers making it big on the pop charts.
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CommentThe romance of remakes
It’s easy to scoff at remakes but only if you don’t understand that a US remake will be seen by millions more around the globe than a non- English language original, Mike Goodridge argues.
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FeaturesNo summer at the beach
After years of struggling to book high-profile releases during summer months, Italy finally offers a complete roster of films including blockbusters, family, horror, comedies, local and auteur-driven films between May and August. Sheri Jennings reports on distributors’ high hopes riding on this Italian summer.
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CommentWhy we need PMDs (Producers of Marketing and Distribution)
Digital distribution guru Jon Reiss says film-makers need this key crew position from the inception of the project.
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NewsFortissimo takes on Cannes Competition title My Joy
Sergei Loznitsa’s debut feature is a parable of contemporary life in Russia, telling the story of a truck driver who loses his way in the Russian wilderness .
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NewsDie Like A Man in France, Welcome in Spain
ScreenDaily’s weekly round-up of the local and independent openings in key European markets this week.
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Organisers plan UK's first 3D short film festival for July
Organisers are planning the UK’s first 3D short film festival – Short and Sweet 3D – to run at London’s Barbican on July 16.Organisers Julia Stephenson and Jordan Crute of Short and Sweet hope to make the festival an annual event and give further exposure to 3D shorts by subsequently ...
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Cinemoi plans Cannes coverage on UK Sky channel
The free-to-air programming is on Sky channel 343.
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NewsBertucelli's The Tree to close Cannes
English-language family drama stars Charlotte Gainsbourg with Marton Csokas and Aden Young.
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NewsJosh Lucas joins Australian shoot for Red Dog
Rachael Taylor, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Noah Taylor and Luke Ford are also among the cast.
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NewsTransilvania announces 12 competition titles
Founded in 2002, Transilvania is synonymous with the Romanian new wave and its international competition focuses on first and second features.
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NewsPeter O’Toole and Geraldine Chaplin to star in Paris ballet drama
The $6.6m (€5M) French-UK production Jennifer And The Swan Boat will be directed by feature first timer Michael Beyer and produced by David Amory Lown and Patricia Twohill Lown of Palancar Productions.
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Naomi Wright tries for online investors for short Join My Band
The film stars UK musical theatre actress Jessie Buckley, who was a runner up on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reality TV show I’d Do Anything in 2008.
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China, France sign film co-production treaty
China-French co-productions will be able to enter the Chinese market outside of China’s import quota.
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NewsConspiracy of Silence producers launch online release
Producers buy back rights to the film about a Catholic Church scandal, starring Brenda Fricker, Sean McGinley, John Lynch and Hugh Bonneville.
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Apollo Cinemas launches first all-digital, all-3D multiplex in Europe
The new multiplex in Wales will house six Sony 4K digital screens, 3D enabled systems from RealD.