All Screen articles in 30 March 2007 – Page 5

  • News

    First co-production between Israel and Australia gets underway

    2007-03-26T13:07:00Z

    Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn and Claudia Karvan have joined Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia as the voice cast for the animated film $9.99, the first co-production between Israel and Australia. The project has just started shooting in Sydney. New York-based director Tatia Rosenthal co-wrote the film with Israeli writer Etgar ...

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    AAM to offer digital VOD service to Cannes Market

    2007-03-26T12:40:00Z

    Cannes' Marche du Film and Arts Alliance Media have announced a new partnership that will enable international buyers and sellers to watch films and projects for sale via the Internet from anywhere in the world. The new business-to-business video-on-demand service, Vizumi Pro, can replace the traditional posting of screeners. 'It's ...

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    RGM to co-finance Winged Creatures starring Forest Whitaker

    2007-03-26T12:25:00Z

    Singapore-based media financing company RGM Entertainment is co-funding and executive producing Winged Creatures, its third international project under the Loan Guarantee Facility (LGF) in collaboration with the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA). Directed by Rowan Woods, the ensemble drama is about survivors of a random restaurant shooting. The cast ...

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    Metrodome plans theatrical run for 1986 Transformers movie

    2007-03-26T12:06:00Z

    Metrodome Distribution is planning a two-week UK theatrical run for the 1986 animated feature Transformers: The Movie. The theatrical release at London 's Apollo West End from May 4 will of course hope to cash in on Transformers interest stirred by Michael Bay 's blockbuster due out in July. Metrodome ...

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    Omnilab moves into distribution and sales for Australian features

    2007-03-26T11:36:00Z

    Two of the four features that have just received funding from Film Finance Corporation Australia now see the Omnilab Media Group take local distribution and international sales rights, in partnership with others. Omnilab is Australia 's largest privately owned group of service companies and has been promising to get into ...

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    Latin American locations: welcome to the jungle

    2007-03-26T11:27:00Z

    During the past decade Latin America has attracted more and more international production with its stunning and varied locations and cheap labour costs.Leading directors to have shot in the region include James Cameron (Titanic), Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol 2), Gus Van Sant (Gerry) and more recently Mel Gibson for ...

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    Sweet Mud, Cashback share top prize at Bermuda Fest

    2007-03-26T04:48:00Z

    The 10th Annual Bermuda Film Festival came to a close at the weekend, with the Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for Best Narrative Feature going to Dror Shaul's Israeli drama Sweet Mud and Sean Ellis' UK comedy Cashback.Linda Hattendorf's Cats Of Mirikitani won best documentary honours, with special mentions going to ...

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    WBPI's 300 has earth-shaking $48m international weekend

    2007-03-25T23:43:00Z

    The Spartan army continued to sweep all before it as 300 grossed an estimated $48m through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI), an exceptional result from 5,000 prints in 33 markets that raised the overseas tally to $79m.The epic opened at number one in 20 markets, led by $8.9m in the ...

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    Turtles take the lead from 300 at domestic box office

    2007-03-25T23:19:00Z

    Warriors continued to hold sway at the North American box office but this weekend the Spartan heroes of 300 were usurped by the might of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.The computer-animated stars from the 1980s claimed the number one post with a solid $25.4m estimated launch through Warner Bros.Kevin Munroe ...

  • Reviews

    Mr Bean's Holiday

    2007-03-25T23:03:00Z

    Dir: Steve Bendelack. UK-US. 2007. 85mins If Rocky Balboa and John McClane can hit the comeback trail after a lengthy absence then who would deny a similar opportunity to Rowan Atkinson's one man disaster area' Ten years have passed since Bean but the public's affection for the gurning, bug-eyed loon ...

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    Canana to release Francisco Vargas'El Violin in Mexico

    2007-03-25T21:50:00Z

    Canana, the Mexican production company founded by actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna with producer Pablo Cruz, has acquired Francisco Vargas' El Violin for distribution as its first theatrical release in Mexico.Despite winning 25 international awards and scoring sales in many foreign territories - including the US (Film Movement) ...

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    Anita Monga joins Seattle Film Festival programming team

    2007-03-25T21:37:00Z

    Anita Monga has been hired as senior programmer at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), reporting to festival director Carl Spence. She will work with Spence and his team on the annual 25-day festival in May and June but primarily focus on programming the new SIFF Cinema in Seattle.Monga comes ...

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    Brazilian winner of Fribourg top prize

    2007-03-25T20:56:00Z

    The last Fribourg International Film Festival(FIFF) under the tutelage of artistic director Martial Knaebel ended with the presentation of the Grand Prix toBrazilian Chico Teixeira's feature debut Alice's House The film was praised for its'intimacy, complexity, superb acting and precise point of view on auniversal story'. Teixeira's film also ...

  • Reviews

    The Hills Have Eyes 2

    2007-03-25T19:37:00Z

    Dir: Martin Weisz. US. 2007. 89mins. Hoping to wring more money from humans-vs-mutants battles to the death, The Hills Have Eyes 2 offers another round of dull gory fright scenes that neither push the horror envelope nor exhibit any noticeable ingenuity. Borrowing liberally from fear classics like Aliens and The ...

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    heile welt named best Austrian film

    2007-03-25T18:36:00Z

    Jakob M. Erwa's feature debut heile welt received the Diagonale Grand Prix for Best Austrian Feature Film at this year's showcase of Austrian film-making which was rounded off with an awards ceremony at Graz's Dom im Berg on Saturday evening. Produced by Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion, heile welt follows a ...