All Screen articles in 30 March 2006 – Page 2
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Film London launches trainee programme
Film London has now opened traineeapplications for its new Company Placement Scheme, which is offering six-monthpaid posts at film and TV production companies. Film London already has thescheme's six companies on board: Karen Hamilton Productions, TwofourProductions, Diverse Productions, Number 9 Films, Tigerlily Films, andAdventure Pictures."It is often incrediblyhard for people ...
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Russian and Polish films are the focus of goEast festival
Filmmakingfrom Russia and Poland will be the focus of this year's goEast- Festival of Central and East European Cinema in Wiesbaden (April 5-11).Apart from athree-day symposium on mainstream Russian cinema and a roundtable on new trendsin the Russian film industry, the festival will include a homage to Polishactor-director Jerzy Stuhrand ...
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Volver
Dir: Pedro Almodovar.Spain. 2006. 111 mins.The literal Englishtranslation of Volver is "To Return" and Pedro Almodovar's newfilm represents several 'returns' for the iconic director. He returns to hispersonal roots in La Mancha, where he was born. He also returns to his roots asa filmmaker, working mainly with women and, after ...
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Lassally leaves LA management firm Kustom, Meisinger & Kolbrenner take the reins.
Robyn Meisinger and Adam Kolbrenner have been appointed to head upLos Angeles-based management and production outfit Kustom Entertainment followinga management transition.Tom Lassally, who along with CSI Capital Management founded Kustomin 2002, is moving to 3 Arts Entertainment and will take his client roster withhim effective immediately.'Tom has played a most ...
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Pinewood profits slump due to UK tax uncertainty
Film studio Pinewood Shepperton reported disappointing financial results on Tuesday, blaming the UK film tax uncertainty of the past year and the overall downturn in UK film production. Pinewood Shepperton said that operating profits were down 70% last year, from £6.4m in 2004 to £571,000 last year. Profits fell from ...
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Pike, Dillane cast in Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces
UKactors Rosamund Pike and Stephen Dillane will take key roles in Canadianfilmmaker Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces, the long-gestating project to be produced by Robert Lantos'Serendipity Point Films with Athens-based Cinegram SA. Croatianstalwart Rade Serbedzija is also cast in a lead role.Basedon the Orange Prize-winning 1997 novel by Anne Michaels, the ...
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Rare Fellini doc to open Beverly Hills Film Festival
Organisers at the 6th AnnualInternational Beverly Hills Film Festival have lined up the world premiere ofEugenio Cappuccio's documentary Verso La Luna Con Fellini (Towards The Moon With Fellini) as the opening night film.Verso La Luna Con Fellini, which will screen on Apr 5, offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse ofFederico Fellini at ...
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Beijing Rosat lines up three-picture slate
Beijing-based Rosat Film andTV Productions is lining up a slate of three films including period martialarts drama Green Dragon Scimitarwhich is scheduled to start shooting in September. Budgeted at $12.5m, the filmis about the life of Guan Yu, a general in China's Three Kingdoms period. Rosat founder Li Shaohong is ...
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Beecroft promoted to vice president at First Look International
Amy Beecroft has been promoted to vice president of international theatricaldistribution at Los Angeles-based First Look Studios.Beecroft reports directly to executive vice president of worldwidesales Ken DuBow and will oversee an expansion of the international salesoperation and play a key role in development and acquisitions. DuBow's First Look International team ...
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Ford, Hopper, Kingsley join awards roll call at LA's Russian Nights
Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper, Ben Kingsley, filmmaker Roger Cormanand cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak will receive the fourth annual RussianNights Festival's Tower Awards during the Los Angeles event, which runs fromApr 2 to 8.Previous Tower Award recipients include Ray Bradbury, Francis FordCoppola, William Friedkin, Dustin Hoffman, Nastassja Kinski, Milla Jovovich andOliver Stone.The ...
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Railroad All Stars to open Hot Docs in Toronto
Chema Rodriguez's TheRailroad All Stars will open the13th Hot Docs Toronto International Documentary Film Festival on April 28. The Spanish title, whichpremiered at the Berlinale, tells of the efforts of Guatemalan prostitutes whoform a football team in an effort to raise awareness and support. It's one of 99 titlesannounced today, ...
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Greengrass-directed United 93 to open Tribeca
In a distinctly personal selection that reflects the origins ofthe Tribeca Film Festival, organisers have chosen the world premiere of PaulGreengrass' United 93to open next month's annual event.Greengrass' homage to the passengers and crew of United AirlinesFlight 93 that crashed outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11 2001was filmed in real ...
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Korea's Nabi Pictures moves into Chinese production
Korea's Nabi Pictures is establishing a branch in China, Beijing Nabi Pictures, to produce aChinese-language film. Speaking to reporters at China's Hengdian World Studios, Nabi Pictures co-CEOs JoMin-hwan and Kim Sung-soo claim this marks the first time that a Korean filmcompany has set up a local corporation in China to ...
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Canada's Seville swoops on Seven Swords
Fortissimo Films has soldTsui Hark's martial arts epic SevenSwords to Canada's Seville Pictures, one of several deals that the Dutch/HK-based salesagent concluded at last week's Filmart in Hong Kong. Seville, a Montreal-based distributor, is planning a theatricalrelease for the film in late summer or early autumn this year. The dealcontinues ...
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LoveFilm strikes download deal with Momentum Pictures
LoveFilm has struck a deal with UK distributor Momentum Pictures to add Momentum titlesto its film download service.Momentum will initially supply 100 titles fordownload at LoveFilm, including films such as Bowling for Columbine, The Mother, The Centre ofthe World, Stander, and People I Know."We're thrilled to embrace this new emerging ...
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First Danish-Austrian co-productions unveiled
ZentropaEntertainments and DOR-Film are to be partners on the first ever Danish-Austrianco-production with Jacob Thuesen's Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years. Thisalso marks the first collaboration between national public funds the DanishFilm Institute (DFI) and the Austrian Film Institute who are backing theproject that previously had Lone Scherfig attached asdirector. ...
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Uruguayan project wins $300,000 award at Guadalajara
Uruguayan film Eighteen Cigarettes and a Half (18 cigarillos y medio)was the first winner of the Tornasol award at the Guadalajara FIlm Festival.The prize guarantees co-production services worth $301,449 (Euros 250,000).Twenty projects participated for the top prize in thesecond Iberoamerican Co-production Meeting which came to a close today. Thewinning project ...
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Fortissimo buys world rights for Mexican feature
Fortissimo`s Wouter Barendrecht has secured world sales outside the US for the Mexican feature Broken Sky (El cielodividido) at theGuadalajara International Film Festival. The deal was concluded after the Fortissimoco-chairman saw the film during its Mexican premiere in the event's officialsection.This is the second time the HongKong/Amsterdam sales company has ...
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Richard Attenborough starts Belfast shoot for Closing The Ring
Director Richard Attenborough started production Monday in Belfast on Closing The Ring,an epic love story that stars Shirley MacLaine,Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Brenda Fricker, and Pete Postlethwaite. Jo Gilbert is producing with Attenborough, with Martin Katzco-producing. Closing the Ring is apresentation of the UK Film Council, Scion Films, the Northern ...
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UK Film Council announces investment in three new films
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund has announcedsupport of three new films in production, Pawel Pawlikowski's TheRestraint of Beasts, Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger'sSparkle, and Sarah Gavron's Seven Seas.The New Cinema Fund's investment in The Restraint of Beasts is $1.1m(£650,000). As reported by ScreenDaily in February, Pawlikowski's black comedy ...
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