All Screen articles in 3 April 2009 – Page 4
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Rachel McAdams named Female Star of the Year at ShoWest
Rachel McAdams has been named the 2009 ShoWest Female Star Of The Year and will be honoured at a ceremony in Las Vegas on April 2.McAdams broke through with star turns in The Notebook and Mean Girls and will next be seen in Universal's thriller and BBC series adaptation State ...
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Breitman's Someone I Loved will open COL-COA in Los Angeles
The world premiere of Zabou Breitman's Someone I Loved (Je L'Aimais) starring Daniel Auteuil and Marie-Josee Croze will open the 13th Annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COL-COA) film festival to run from April 20-26.Backed by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the festival will present 50 films, including 30 features ...
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Jose Martinez Jr promoted to executive VP at Maya Entertainment
Jose Martinez Jr has been promoted to executive vice president of Maya Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based vertically integrated company targeting the growing US Latino market.Since joining Maya Entertainment a year ago as general counsel andhead of acquisitions, Martinez has led company efforts to acquire suchnotable films as How The Garcia ...
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Cast lines up for wolf pack in Summit's New Moon
Native American/First Nation actors Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman have signed on to star as the members of the wolf pack in Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: New Moon.Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner reprise theirroles from Twilight. The sequel finds Bella, played ...
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E1 Entertainment ships 1m DVD units of Twilight
E1 Entertainment has shipped 1m DVD units of the vampire love story Twilight for its March 21 release. According to the company, the film is setting records for fastest sell-through at most major retailers. Twilight fans have taken part in late-night parties at locations across Canada, queuing to be among ...
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Jon Hamm joins Howl cast for Werc Werk Works
Golden Globe winner and star of TV's Mad Men Jon Hamm has signed on to Werc Werk Works' Allen Ginsberg project Howl currently shooting in New York City.Hamm will star as the Beat Gernation poet's celebrated defenceattorney Jake Ehrlich in the story about the obscenity trial thatsurrounded Ginsberg's eponymous poem.James ...
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Saint John Of Las Vegas to open CineVegas on June 10
The world premiere of Hue Rhodes' insurance fraud comedy Saint John Of Las Vegas starring Steve Buscemi, Sarah Silverman, Peter Dinklage and Tim Blake Nelson will open the 11th annual CineVegas Film Festival on June 10.Eight other films in competition get world premiere berths at the LasVegas event that runs ...
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Locations trade show slated for April 16-18 in Santa Monica
The Association Of Film Commissioners International’s annual locations trade show will take place in Santa Monica from April 16-18.More than 3,000 industry professionals and 240 exhibitors representingmore than 30 countries are expected to attend the event.Seminars will cover Candid Conversations, in which studio executivesdiscuss their film-making experiences, as well as ...
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Relativity extends Tucker Tooley's contract through 2011
Relativity Media has extended president of production Tucker Tooley’s contract through 2011.Along with CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, Tooley has helped to grow the company and played a critical role in developing the single pictures filmsdivision into an entity that fully finances and produces eight to tentitles a year. Tooley also oversees ...
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NewsFortissimo seals deals on Food, Mishima, Face
Fortissimo Films has sealed a slew of deals on food industry documentary Food, Inc following its screening at the Berlinale and during Filmart, including a sale to A-Films for Benelux and Cafe Groove for Japan.The film, which world premiered at Toronto before it screened in Berlin, has also gone to ...
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CJ scores Singapore, Malaysia presales on Haeundae
Seoul-based distributor CJ Entertainment has pre-sold JK Youn’s tsunami-attacks-Busan filmHaeundaeto VSG for Singapore and Malaysia.’Haeundae is a concept film with high production values - Hans Ulrich who worked on A Perfect Storm, Star Wars 4 and 5, and The Day After Tomorrow is supervising the CGI, and so far it ...
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HanWay Films seals a number of deals ahead of MIP-TV
HanWay Films has closed a number of deals on a wide variety of titles from its library of 600 films in advance of MIP-TV.The UK’s Optimum Releasing has re-licensed the Recorded Picture Company collection which includes The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence by Nagisa Oshima.Meanwhile ...
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Hot Docs unveils 36 world premieres
New films from Kevin McMahon, Larry Weinstein and John Greyson were among the 36 world premieres unveiled as the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival announced its full line-up today. The festival runs in Toronto from April 30 to May 10.McMahon’s Waterlife explores the complex ecology of and environmental damage wrought ...
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Hong Kong Filmart news digest
March 25Filmart takes on regional flavourYoung’s Christmas Rosereceives full financing at HAFMarch 24Fortissimo seals deals on Food, Mishima, FaceCJ scores Singapore, Malaysia presales on HaeundaeSalon’s pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2March 23Japanese cinema triumphs at Asian Film Awards in Hong KongFortissimo picks up rights outside ...
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Babelgum offers mobile video application to US users
Online content platform Babelgum has released a US version of its mobile video application. At the same time the babelgum.com website has been redesigned with a Flash-based player.Babelgum had previously launched its mobile services in the UK and Italy.In the US, the mobile appication is free and available for download ...
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Simon Crowe flies solo with launch of SC Films International
Simon Crowe, managing director of Velvet Octopus has launched his new production, sales and distribution outfit SC Films International.SC Films will be financed by Matthew Joynes of Aurelius Investments and Crowe’s new company will handle some foreign sales for the LA-based Aurelius Investments.Crowe’s main focus will be on commercial action, ...
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German producers fear $135m worth of production at risk
Work on more than 30 German feature film projects could be ‘at acute risk’ in 2009 because of the uncertainty surrounding the finances of the German Federal Film Fund (FFA), according to the German Producers Alliance.The figures come from a survey of its members by the Alliance. Three quarters of ...
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ReviewsDragonball Evolution
Dir: James Wong. US. 2009. 85 mins.A Hollywood film version of the Japanese manga phenomenon, Dragonball Evolution is puerile childrens’ sci-fi of a strictly B-movie standard.Produced by Hong Kong film-maker Stephen Chow Sing-chi but entirely missing his inventive stamp, the film is essentially a bland Hollywood dumbing-down of the books ...
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Salon's pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2
Companies under Hong Kong’s Salon Films’ pan-Asia alliance have announced new production projects including three projects from Taipei-based Zoom Hunt International.Producer Hsu Li-kong and his Zoom Hunt International is preparing the sequel to Ang Lee’s 1994 classic Eat Drink Man Woman, tentatively titled Eat Drink Man Woman II, a project ...
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Michael Bay to receive ShoWest Vanguard Award
Michael Bay will receive the ShoWest 2009 Vanguard Award forExcellence in Filmmaking at a ceremony in Las Vegas on April 2.Bay directed this summer’s tentpole release Transformers: Revenge OfThe Fallen, the sequel to his 2007 smash Transformers.His films have grossed more than $3bn worldwide and include PearlHarbor, Armageddon, The Rock, ...