All Screen articles in 30 March 2008 – Page 5
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World premiere of Mamet's Redbelt set for April 25 at Tribeca
David Mamet's martial arts drama Redbelt will have its world premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and also serve as the gala premiere of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival on April 25. Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) is releasing the film in North America.Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in the film as ...
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Fliegauf, Puiu and Carrito serve onLocarno juries
Film directors Benedek Fliegauf (Hungary), Cristi Puiu (Romania) and Albertina Carri (Argentina) are have been recruited as members of two official juries at this year's Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16).Fliegauf, who won the Filmmakers of the Present competition Leopard last year for Milky Way and will be the subject ...
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Ellis promoted to president of MPA Asia Pacific
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has announced the promotion of Michael Ellis to president and managing director of its Asia Pacific operations. Ellis is a former litigator and law enforcement veteran and has served as an MPA executive in the region since 1999.'With so many Asian countries emerging as pivotal ...
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Frames kicks off with calls for globalisation
The ninth edition of the FICCI-Frames conference got underway in Mumbai this morning with tub-thumping talk of India's rapid growth and a challenge to the local entertainment industry to go global. India's film industry grew by 13% in 2007 to around $2.7bn, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) unveiled ...
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Martin Price joins UK post-production house Concrete
Martin Price has joined post-production house Concrete.Price will be responsible for the research and development of new markets and will also help to further build the Concrete brand to grow and expand the business.Price is co-founder of non-linear editing facility P3 Post, and also served as head of post production ...
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UTV lines up two films for Pakistan release
After securing a Pakistan release for Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal in November 2007, Indian production house UTV Motion Pictures has managed to get Race a Pakistan censor certificate.Aamir Khan's directorial venture Taare Zameen Par has also got censorship clearance 'on exceptional grounds' in Pakistan and is scheduled for a March-end ...
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Marcich promoted to president, MD for MPA's EMEA branch
The Motion Pictures Association (MPA) has promoted Christopher Marcich to president and managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).Marcich is a 13-year-veteran of MPA's EMEA arm, most recently serving as senior vice president and managing director.He assumes the new title immediately and reports directly to MPA president ...
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Transsiberian co-producer Universum boards Lippel's Dream
Universum Film, co-producer/distrubutor of Brad Anderson's thriller Transsiberian, has boarded its first German-language project, Lars Buechel's Lippel's Dream (Lippels Traum) which begins shooting in Morocco's Ouarzazate today.The co-production between Ulrich Limmer's Collina Film, Universum Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, B.A. Produktion, and Buechel's own production outfit element e, is based on Paul ...
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Tom Stern teams up with Russian director Pavel Lungin
Director Pavel Lungin is in the midst of filming on Ivan The Terrible And The Metropolitan Philip (working title) about Russia's first czar, Ivan IV.Russian Film Business Today reports that American cinematographer Tom Stern is DOP of the film. Stern is known for his work on American Beauty, Mystic River ...
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Three Chinese films withdrawn from Hong Kong festival
Three Chinese films have been pulled out of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Mar 17 - Apr 6) amid increasing fears that Chinais tightening censorship following the recent Lust, Caution controversy.Han Yan's Winds of September - The Chinese Mainland Chapter, Zhang Yibai's Chongqing-set Lost, Indulgence and A Decade of ...
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Three Chinese films withdrawn from Hong Kong festival
Three Chinese films have been pulled out of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Mar 17 - Apr 6) increasing fears that Chinais tightening censorship following the recent Lust, Caution controversy.Han Yan's Winds of September - The Chinese Mainland Chapter, Zhang Yibai's Chongqing-set Lost, Indulgence and A Decade of Love, ...
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US exhibitor Regal adds 30 IMAX digital screens
Regal Entertainment Group and IMAX Corp. have signed a joint venture agreement that will see an addition 30 digital projection systems to the Regal Cinemas circuit.The deal, which covers 20 major US markets, greatly expands a previously announced joint venture of eight screens and will raise Regal's IMAX screen count ...
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TWC to release two different versions of Fanboys
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has announced the home video release of two separat versions of its comedy Fanboys - about a bunch of Star Wars fans who travel cross country in 1998 to raid George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch and watch the then unreleased Episode I. The company also says it ...
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THE DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION CHAPTER 4: MARKETING
It is impossible to separate the issues of digital distribution from marketing; the two have a symbiotic relationship. In fact there is a strong argument that marketing will pave the way for distribution rather than the other way around as one might imagine.That is largely because marketing is the one ...
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THE DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION CHAPTER 3: THE NEW MEDIA
It is more than possible to be blinded by science - or business jargon - when discussing new media trends. Everyone will remember the hype that surrounded the rise of the dot coms and perhaps share some of the schadenfreude that accompanied their collapse.Let's not forget that digital distribution was ...
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Malaysia's Golden Screen Cinemaspicks up Filmart trio
Malaysia's Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) has acquired three films from Hong Kong's Universe Films Distribution at Hong Kong Filmart.They are the Pang Brothers' The Storm Riders II, Oxide Pang's So What and On The Edge 2 by Herman Yau.It also acquired Ip Man which features Donnie Yen and Simon Yam ...
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Yubari makes strong return to Japanese festival scene
The resurrected Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (YIFFF) ended its first successful run yesterday since the cancellation of the event in 2006 due to financial problems.The festival said 8,868 customers attended 58 films over the five-day event (March 19-23).Director Toki Inoue's 21-minute The Woman Who Is Beating The Earth (Daichi ...
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THE DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION CHAPTER 6:PIRACY
Film piracy exercises a profound psychological as well as financial effect on the development of digital platforms. It is the elephant in the room in all discussions. A frequently quoted MPAA study of the 2005 market, suggests US studios are losing about $6.1bn to piracy - and $2.3bn from online ...
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Tribeca All Access announces 2008 programme, expansion
The Tribeca Film Institute has announced the 37 projects selected for Tribeca All Access, a programme designed to help foster relationships between film industry executives and filmmakers from traditionally under-represented communities.The programme takes place April 21-26 during the Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place April 23 to May 4. Participating ...
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