All Screen articles in 30 January 2009 – Page 3
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Slumdog takes PGA Award, inches closer to Oscar glory
Slumdog Millionaire produced by Christian Colson maintained its remarkable awards season momentum by taking the Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award for a theatrical feature in the 2009 Producers Guild Of America awards on Saturday night [January 24].Wall-E won the award for animated feature of the year and ...
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Sundance sensation Push wins both jury and audience prizes
Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire, Lee Daniels' universally acclaimed redemptive tale starring Gabourey Sidibe as a troubled young girl in Harlem, has won the 2009 Sundance US Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize and the audience award. Heading into Saturday night's awards ceremony [January 24] a number of buyers ...
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GK Films sets Knightley, Farrell for London Boulevard
Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell have boarded GK Films' crime drama London Boulevard, set to begin shooting in and around London in early summer.William Monahan, who won the 2007 adapted screenwriting Oscar for The Departed that also earned GK Films chief Graham King the best picture award, wrote the screenplay ...
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A Quiet Little Marriage wins narrative jury award at Slamdance
Mo Perkins' A Quiet Little Marriage won the grand jury award for best narrative feature and the grand jury award for best documentary feature went to Strongman by Zachary Levy as the 15th annual Slamdance Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.Best narrative short went to Kazik Radwanski's ...
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David Mackenzie's Spread sold to Anchor Bay in $3.5m deal
Anchor Bay has paid in the region of $3.5m for US and Australian rights to Spread, David Mackenzie's LA hustler tale starring Ashton Kutcher.The distributor, which is ramping up its theatrical operations, closed the deal with CAA and Endeavor Independent late on Friday afternoon [January 23] following several days of ...
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Max Mayer's Adam wins Alfred P Sloan Prize at Sundance
Max Mayer's Sundance romance Adam is the recipient of this year's Alfred P Sloan Prize and $20,000 cash award honouring 'an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.'Fox Searchlight acquired worldwide rights earlier in the ...
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Nordic Film Market lines up 200 delegates as Gothenburg film festival kicks off
200 international film professionals have registered for the 10th Nordic Film Market - the business arm of Sweden's Gothenburg International Film Festival. Project manager Cia Edström has prepared a showcase of 19 fresh Nordic productions open to foreign distributors, sales agents and festival programmers. Among the most recent are Nils ...
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Film Europe picks up five films for EFM
SPI International’s new sales arm, Film Europe, has picked up five completed films premiering atBerlin next month.
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New distributor enters Russian film market despite credit crunch
Eugene Beginin, UIP Russia's former general director, has set up the new distribution company, Profit Cinema International, a title he might find hard to live up to in today's economic climate. Beginin's initial plan was to create a holding with the classic structure of a troika, combining a production company ...
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French Cesar nominations announced
Nominations for France's equivalent to the Oscars were announced Friday morning in Paris with Public Enemy Number One(Mesrine)at the top of the heap, and Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale (Un Conte De Noel)and Remi Bezancon's Le Premier Jour Du Reste De Ta Vie tying with nine nods each. Cannes Palme ...
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Sweden's TV 4 takes first steps into theatrical distribution
Sweden's leading commercial broadcaster, TV4, will enter theatrical distribution with its production of Karin Svärd's drama-documentary, The Way Home-A Film About The Sin, The Guilt And The Shots In Knutby (Vägen Hem - En Film Om Synden, Skulden Och SkottenI Knutby). The film will be premièred on 35 digital screens ...
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Japan's NTV acquires 34% stake in Nikkatsu film studios
Major Japanese broadcast network Nippon Television Network Corp (NTV) has acquired a 34% stake in Nikkatsu film studios. NTV cited the value of Nikkatsu's complete production cycle and its distribution-exhibition businesses as the main reason for its acquisition. Established in 1912, Nikkatsu also previously served as a production partner on ...
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Katharine Kim appointed CEO ofCJ Entertainment
Katharine Kim has been appointed CEO of leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment. She replaces Kim Joo-sung, who was appointed to head cable company CJ Media in a slew of executive movements announced by conglomerate parentCJ Group yesterday. Having joined CJ Entertainment in 2005, Katharine Kim has become the first woman ...
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Nominees react to their Oscar nods from Mumbai to Hollywood
Nominees were celebrating from Los Angeles to Mumbai to London on Thursday as news of the Academy Awards nominations flashed around the world. Speaking from the Indian premiere of Slumdog Millionaire in Mumbai, producer Christian Colson said local celebrations over the ten nominations earned by the film - which was ...
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Williams, Cattrall, Wilkinson, Belushi join Polanski's The Ghost
Roman Polanski will commence shooting his French-German-UK contemporary thriller The Ghost starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan and new cast members Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson and Jim Belushi in Berlin on February 4.Filming will take place mainly in Studio Babelsberg as well as additional locations in Berlin. Summit International ...
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Valkyrie gets big international launch through Fox in eight territories
Seven Pounds ruled the roost last weekend as the Sony Pictures Releasing International drama edged past $40m with a $19m haul.Providing strong competition to the Will Smith movie this weekend will be Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's Bedtime Stories, which has reached $70m. The family release launches this weekend ...
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Lerman, Hadzihalilovic among Sundance/NHK award winners
Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have announced the four winners of the 2009 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards.The winners were selected from 12 finalists chosen from the regions of Europe, Latin America, the US and Japan by members of an international jury.Winners will be honoured at the Sundance awards ...
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Paramount unveils direct-to-cinema digital support plan
As Hollywood continues to thrash out industry-wide digital cinema strategy and requirements, Paramount Pictures has gone ahead and unveiled a direct-to-cinema support plan.The initiative works in tandem with previously announced agreements with Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, Cinedigm (formerly Access IT), Kodak and Sony, but allows theatre owners to seek financing ...
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IFC Films takes UK comedy In The Loop for US distribution
IFC Films has bought US distribution rights to Armando Iannucci's comedy farce In The Loop, set to get its world premiere here tonight [January 22], and will release on its IFC In Theaters platform later this year.The film will also get channelled through IFC Entertainment's exclusive deal with Blockbuster. IFC's ...
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United Kingdom - Mamma Mia! The numbers!
UK box-office revenues for 2008 saw a 5% increase on the previous year, according to figures released by the UK Film Council (Ukfc). The figures, collated by Nielsen EDI, show box-office takings in the UK and Ireland totalled $1.3bn (£949.5m) in 2008, compared with $1.2bn (£907m) in 2007, making it ...