All Screen articles in 29 July 2007 – Page 4
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Edith Kramer named guest director at Telluride 2007
Edith R Kramer will be the guest director at the Telluride Film Festival, which runs in Colorado from Aug 31-Sept 3.Kramer is renowned for her work in film preservation and collection development, and previously served as senior film curator and director of the Pacific Film Archive at the University of ...
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ICM, MGlobal Trust team on LA-based Indian Splendor
Prominent Indian film-makers, performers, and business and spiritual leaders will descend on Southern California next month to attend a celebration to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Indian independence.India Splendor will take place from Aug 10-15 and is being hosted by MGlobal Trust in association with ICM and the UCLA School ...
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The Independent becomes sponsor of Sheffield Doc/Fest
The UK 's Sheffield Doc/Fest has recruited The Independent newspaper as the festival's presenting media sponsor. The festival will now be known as Sheffield Doc/Fest in association with The Independent, and the sponsorship deal also includes editorial, advertising and marketing initiatives. Heather Croall, festival director of Doc/Fest, said: 'With The ...
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Sad Vacation by Aoyama Shinji to open Venice Horizons
The Venice Film Festival's Horizons side bar dedicated to new trends in filmmaking has announced its opening and closing film in both the feature and documentary categories.Sad Vacation by Aoyama Shinji starring Japanese super star Tadanobu Asano will be Horizons' opening film.Sad Vacation is the story of a boy who ...
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Nadine Labaki: beauty without cruelty
It might not be about war or politics but the debut project from a young Lebanese director says much about the peace that can be achieved. Antonia Carver reportsNadine Labaki (pictured) shot Caramel in Beirut in late spring 2006, when the troubled city was in a buoyant mood following the ...
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Ratatouille's Remy recruited for UK anti-piracy campaign
The UK's Industry Trust for IP Awareness is working with Disney and Pixar for an anti-piracy campaign starring Ratatouille's Remy the Rat. The new anti-copyright theft spots will launch in cinemas Friday. Remy is seen dismissing pirated films for their poor quality and lack of taste. The initiative is also ...
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BANGKOK: GMM's Kung Fu Tootsie tops Thai box office
GMM Tai Hub's Kung Fu Tootsie has become the first Thai film to top the box office chart in July which is overwhelmed with Hollywood blockbusters. Opening last Thursday on 129 prints, the action comedy grossed $1.3m (40m baht) over its first four days and knocked last week's number one ...
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BANGKOK: Right Beyond launches first Taiwanese-Thai co-production
At the Bangkok Film Market, Right Beyond Films has launched international sales of The Fatality, billed as the first ever co-production between Thailand and Taiwan. In the horror film, an unsuccessful man in Taipei attempts suicide only to wake up in the body of a coma victim in Bangkok with ...
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BANGKOK: Thailand's Mono Film set to double production
Up-and-coming Thai producer Mono Film is set to double its production output next year to eight films from last year's four. 'We now have more confidence after spending the last three years to learn the local and international markets,' says CEO Soraj Asavaprapha who founded the company with Pete Bodharamik ...
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Japan's Avex signs on for Korean comedy Highway Star
Korea 's Studio2.0 has sold musical comedy Highway Star to Avex Entertainment for Japan. A remake of Japanese film Enka No Hanamichi, the film tells the story of a wanna-be rocker who ends up singing Trot (Korean country-style music) behind a mask and becoming a star. Launched into pan-Asian popularity ...
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Legendary Hungarian DP Laszlo Kovacs dies at 74
Laszlo Kovacs, the Hungarian-born cinematographer who fled his country during the 1956 revolution and went on to become one of the most influential DPs in Hollywood, died at his Beverly Hills home on Jul 22, aged 74.Kovacs amassed a sterling body of work during the late 1960s and early 1970s ...
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Film Independent names ten projects in first Screenwriters Lab
Film Independent has announced the 10 projects and fellows in the annual Screenwriters Lab, which runs in Los Angeles from Jul 30-Sept 12.Jeff Kleeman will teach the Lab, which is sponsored by the Writers Guild of America, West. Guest speakers include The Good Shepherd writer Eric Roth and The Dead ...
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Veteran PR executive Gardner dies in New York, aged 88
Public Relations executive Margaret Gardner died at her Park Avenue apartment in New York City on Jul 19 following a battle against cancer. She was 88.Gardner was born in Marinette, Wisconsin, and moved to Los Angeles after finishing high school to join her brother, the producer Arthur Gardner, who at ...
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Bromstad to head international TV production at NBC Universal
Angela Bromstad has been named president of international television production at NBC Universal International.Based in London to head the new division, Bromstad will spearhead television content partnerships and oversee an increase in local production across all territories.She previously served as president of the Los Angeles-based NBC Universal Television Studios, now ...
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Romero's Diary Of The Dead heads TIFF Midnight Madness
George Romero's Diary Of The Dead was one of the titles announced in the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness sidebar today. The festival also announced titles in its child-oriented Sprockets Family Zone programme and the experimental strand Wavelengths. Diary follows a group of student filmmakers whose amateur horror production ...
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Malaysia's James Lee lines up Waiting, Hysteria
Malaysian pioneering independent filmmaker James Lee will shoot two new projects back-to-back - digital film Waiting For Love and his first 35mm mainstream feature film Hysteria. A six-day shoot has just begun on the digital film, the last installment of a love trilogy which also includes Before We Fall In ...
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Fortissimo seduced by Lee's Help Me Eros
Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide sales rights outside Taiwan and Malaysia to Help Me Eros, directed by Taiwanese actor-turned-filmmaker Lee Kang-sheng. The film tells the story of a stock-broker who finds comfort in marijuana, suicide hotline counsellor Chyi and local betelnut seller Shin after a market crash leaves him ...
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Arndt promoted at NBC Universal TV Distribution
Haydn Arndt has been promoted to senior vice president, sales liaison at NBC Universal International Television Distribution.Arndt, who most recently served as vice president, sales liaison, overseeing Australia and New Zealand, will continue to be based in NBC Universal's Sydney office.Since joining NBC Universal in 2005, he has overseen the ...
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Indian Film Company backs six new projects including Loot
The Indian Film Company, the Bollywood producer which recently started trading on the UK's Alternative Investment Market in June, has invested $24m (£12m) in six new film projects to be produced over the next year. The new projects bring Indian Film Company's slate of productions to a total of 20 ...
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Korea's Sidus FNH to move into distribution
Major Korean production house Sidus FNH has announced it will start distributing its own films late this year. The company's first self-distributed film looks likely to be romantic comedy Yong-eui-judo Miss Shin (original title) about a rich and accomplished young woman who goes about selecting a husband the same way ...