All Screen articles in 30 April 2009 – Page 4
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News
Sweden launches summer campaign for local releases
The Swedish Film Institute is backing local films with a $310,000 (SEK 2.5m) support campaign this summer.
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Features
Wild Paddy
Set in the Tang Dynasty, Wild Paddy tells the story of two robbers’ adventures in a seemingly peaceful Bitter Bamboo Village, where they encounter a beautiful woman, a group of soldiers and a village chief who scheme to kill the duo. They have to escape from the murder scheme, ...
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Confucius
A biopic of sage and philosopher Confucius. In the chaotic era at the end of Zhou, lords divided the kingdom into small states, each vying for the leading spot through battles. Confucius travelled through the states trying to change the situation trying to influence people through his philosophies.
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South Solitary
A dramatic, windswept romance about the great need for companionship and hope.
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The Last Dragon
A son goes to visit his archaeologist father in China. Together with a young local girl, they discover an ancient dragon and with it, a mystery that stems back for thousands of years, as legend and reality become intertwined.
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Guardians Of Ga’Hoole
Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St Aggie’s who brainwash owlets into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga’Hoole, where they assist its noble, wise owls to fight the army created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie’s.
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NewsTribeca claims attendance increase
The Tribeca Film Festival attracted about 348,000 people this year, according to organisers.
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Features
King Of Bastøy
In the winter of 1915, a riot among the 8-18-year-old inmates of the boys’ detention centre of Bastøy, in the Oslo fjord, is crushed by Norwegian troops
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NewsAmerican World Pictures picks up Just Peck
Los Angeles-based sales company American World Pictures has picked up international rights to Michael A Nickles’s high school comedy Just Peck ahead of Cannes.
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Features
Burke And Hare
Based on a true story, a black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school
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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
Based on a video game, which follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess tostop an angry ruler unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world
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Cemetery Junction
In 1970’s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking and chasing girls. When one of them gets a new job as a door to door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forces to make choices that will change their lives forever.
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NewsWolverine storms US box office
The summer season arrived with a bang over the weekend as Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine roared to the top of the charts on an estimated $87m three-day gross.
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NewsWolverine dominates global box office
Fox International’s genre prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine kicked off the 2009 summer blockbuster season with a suitably dominant display, grossing an estimated $73m from 9,234 screens in 101 markets.
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NewsFirst Ticino Film Prize to be presented at Locarno
The Swiss canton of Ticino is presenting its Film Prize (Premio Cinema Ticino) during this year’s Locarno Film Festival (August 5-15).
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NewsUK director Mike Newell eyes The Lone Ranger
British director Mike Newell is understood be in talks with Walt Disney Pictures to direct The Lone Ranger.
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NewsVue to expand with two London’s multiplexes
Cinema chain Vue is expanding its portfolio with new cinemas at new shopping centres, Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City.