All Screen articles in 3 June 2008 – Page 2
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Astro Boy creator Tezuka's MW gets live action treatment
Legendary manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka's MW is being adapted into a live-action film starring Hiroshi Tamaki.Based on a manga serialised in Big Comic between 1976 and 1978, MW stars Tamaki as a high level banker leading a double life as a calculating serial killer. He takes revenge on ...
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Bavaria takes on new Gronenborn, Haussmann films
Bavaria Film International has picked up worldwide distribution rights to new films by Esther Gronenborn and Leander Haussmann.Gronenborn's Kaifeck Murder, which is headlined by Benno Fuermann and Cannes competition jury member Alexandra Maria Lara, is a fictional story based on a real murder case from the small Bavaria village of ...
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The Works plans September UK release for Jar City
The Works UK Distribution is taking on the UK release of Baltasar Kormakur's Oscar submission and local box-office hit Jar City.The thriller is based on award-winning Icelandic novel Tainted Blood (Myrin). It stars Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson as a police inspector who has to investigate a murder that might be tied ...
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Kang to head KOFIC
South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has appointed Kang Han-sup as the new chairman of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). A well-known critic, Kang has been a professor of film at Seoul Institute of Arts since 1994. His experience also includes serving on the Media Ratings Board in ...
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Sex defies predictions with $56m US opening
New Line's long awaited TV adaptation Sex And The City defied low-ball predictions and elbowed Indiana Jones off the top perch to launch at number one through Warner Bros on an estimated $55.7m.If the nay-sayers had been concerned about the breadth of the demographic that would turn out to support ...
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Europe goes Sex mad, but Indy still on top overseas
Knocked off its domestic perch, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull stayed on top overseas despite hot weather across Germany and central Europe as a muscular $71.5m haul from 8,439 sites in 60 territories boosted the score to $266m.This weekend's domestic champion Sex And The City came ...
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Mike Leigh joins speakers at the International Screenwriters Festival
Mike Leigh joins some of the best-known names in the UK film industry for this year's International Screenwriters' Festival in Cheltenham.The event (July 1-3) has established itself in the last three years as one of the key events in the industry calendar, bringing together business and screenwriters.Leigh is enjoying another ...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan to lead Sarajevo Competition jury
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced the feature film competition jury for its August event.Turkish writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, fresh from his Best Director win in Cannes for Three Monkeys, will serve as president of the jury.The other jury members are UK director Hugh Hudson, Croatian actress Marija Skaricic, German ...
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The Match Factory announces further sales for Cannes slate
Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory has unveiled another raft of deals for this year's Cannes slate in addition to the previously annonuced sales.By the end of the market, the animated documentary and competition film Waltz With Bashir by Ari Folman had been sold to over 40 territories, the latest ...
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Films Distribution picks up Heisenberg's The Robber
Paris-based sales agent Films Distribution will handle international sales on Benjamin Heisenberg's second feature The Robber (Der Räuber) which completed a first block of shooting last week in Lower Austria and Vienna, including scenes during the 25th Vienna City Marathon.The film is based on the novel of the same name ...
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Pathe sees strong Cannes Market; including a dozen Cheri deals
Pathe International has announced a slew of deals after a successful Cannes Market.Stephen Frears' Cheri, making its market premiere, sold to Italy (Rai), Latin America (California Filmes), CIS (Maywin Media), South Korea (Mars Film), Portugal (Castello Lopes), the Middle East (Teleview), Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Vizion), Greece (Audiovisual), ...
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Reviews
The Strangers
Dir: Bryan Bertino. US. 2008. 85 mins.Bryan Bertino's debut feature The Strangers is an effectively grim, exceedingly well-made horror thriller. Wringing atmospheric tension out of the familiar set-up of a besieged young couple, the movie mixes pulse-pounding scenes of explicit menace with stalking scenarios more rooted in sustained dread. Opening ...
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Preview: International Screenwriters Festival
In three years, the International Screenwriters Festival has claimed an important place in the industry calendar.Interview with festival head David Pearson The speakers Pitching events Sponsors Official siteFounder and festival head David Pearson, of Arturi Films,took the initiative to start the event in 2006, convinced that there needed to be ...
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Europe joins Sex craze as Paramount pair cross $200m
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull will continue to dominate overseas this weekend and should soar past $200m.The adventure currently stands at more than $188.7m through Paramount Pictures International (PPI) and opens in India and several other key markets.Stablemate Iron Man will bring more good news for ...
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Kielbasa steps down from Sarasota Film Festival
Jody Kielbasa is leaving his post as executive director of the Sarasota Film Festival after ten years in charge to pursue other artistic challenges.Mark Famiglio, executive board member and one of the founding members of the festival, has been unanimously elected president and succeeds Ian Black.Famiglio paid tribute to Kielbasa, ...
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3D Journey to premiere at LA Film Festival
Walden Media and New Line's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 3D will receive its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Family Day on June 29.Eric Brevig directed the classic tale of adventure that stars Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, and Anita Briem.The occasion marks the first ...
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Interview:Oliver Stone
'America has defined itself in the early 21st century as a cowboy state. George W Bush has hyperbolically expressed all the cowboy mentality the world holds of America.'So says Oliver Stone from Louisiana, three days before he starts shooting W, his serio-comic look at the 43rd president of the USA ...
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Interview: Walter Salles
Brazilians Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas have an agreement to co-direct films every few years which take a close look at life in Brazil.They have two films to their joint credit - Foreign Land in 1996 and Midnight in 1998 (as well as the Loin Du 16eme short from the ...
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Interview:Matteo Garrone, director of Gomorrah
Matteo Garrone's coruscating portrait of life in two of Naples' Mafia-controlled suburbs was the talk of this year's Cannes, stirring critics into talk of a return to Italian cinema's neo-realism heyday.The director shot the film in Camorra territory such as Scampia, a neighbourhood where someone dies every three days at ...
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Features
The Critical View - Power corrupts
Like many critics, I tend to mean something good when I describe a film as 'powerful'. But like many people, if you asked me if power was always a good thing, I'd answer that it all depends on how it's used.This semantic contradiction was brought home to me at the ...