All Screen articles in 30 October 2007 – Page 3
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Despite tricky timing, Antalya's Eurasia market spurs a few deals
The second edition of the Eurasia Film Market drew to a close yesterday, but participants said the market's timing proved difficult for some buyers. Despite a good mix of local and international sales companies and a bigger presence from Asia with Hong Kong's Media Asia, China's Huayi Brothers and Three ...
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Michelle Williams joins Bernal for Moodysson's Mammoth
Oscar nominee Michelle Williams has joined the cast of Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, opposite Gael Garcia Bernal.The Swedish auteur makes his English-language debut with the project, which starts shooting Nov 5 in Thailand before moving to the Phillipines, Sweden and New York. Lars Jonsson of Memfis Film will produce.'In Michelle Williams ...
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Home Song Stories wins top prize at Hawaii fest
The 27th Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) presented its awards today with the Golden Orchid for best narrative feature going to Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories. The film is about a Shanghai nightclub singer who emigrates to Australia with her son and daughter, and the hardships they go through ...
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Japan's Fuji TV unveils big-budget AFM slate
Japanese broadcaster and film financier Fuji TV has announced a slate of big-budget titles which are being handled by sales agents Gaga Communications and Pony Canyon at the AFM. Gaga is handling international sales on Shaolin Girl which is being executive produced by Fuji TV's Chihiro Kameyama and Hong Kong ...
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Disney India taps Samat, Star ups Shankar, Kumar
Walt Disney International president Andy Bird has announced that Mahesh Samat has been appointed as managing director of Mumbai-based Walt Disney Company India. Samat will join the company in January and manage all of Disney's businesses in India excluding the ESPN/Star Sports joint venture with News Corp's Star network. He ...
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Red Eagle set to soar for Thailand's Five Star
Thailand 's Five Star will unveil at AFM The Red Eagle, the latest film by acclaimed Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng and starring Ananda Everingham. The picture about the masked crime-fighter Red Eagle will mark the return of the greatest superhero of Thai cinema in 37 years. The character, taken from ...
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Eurasia film fest on schedule despite Turkish border war
Francis Ford Coppola attended the International Eurasia Film Festival for the gala screening of his Youth Without Youth amid escalating tension in Turkey. Coppola arrived at the Mediterranean coastal town Antalya with his family (wife Eleanor and son Roman) and executive producer Anahid Nazarian. He was presented with an honour ...
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TF1 adds Spike Lee's Miracle and David Morey's Mutants
TF1 International will be present at the upcoming AFM with two important new titles as well as a wolrd premiere and promo reels for several of its highly-anticipated projects. The sales outfit recently signed Spike Lee's Miracle At St. Anna, a film based on the novel by James McBride and ...
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Crossing joins Cineclick Asia's multinational slate
Seoul-based sales agent Cineclick Asia has picked up Crossing, a film from Volcano High director Kim Tae-kyun, for its multinational AFM slate. The film is about a North Korean ex-soccer player who crosses illegally into China, where he desperately tries to find a way to get his son and pregnant ...
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Animation Picture Co gives Spyro The Dragon the 3D treatment
The Animation Picture Company has optioned feature film rights from Vivendi Games division Sierra Entertainment to the hit franchise video game Spyro The Dragon.The Animation Picture Company's principals Dan Chuba, John Davis, Mark Dippe, Brian Manis and Ash Shah will produce the 3D CGI feature.Daniel and Steven Altiere will adapt ...
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Palm Springs honours Into The Wild duo
Sean Penn will receive the Director of the Year Award for his acclaimed latest film Into The Wild at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala on Jan 5.Past director honourees at this Oscar bellweather include Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Anthony Minghella for Cold Mountain, Alexander ...
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Start-ups - The Newcomers
Although notoriously one of the most risky sectors of the global film industry, it is easy to see why so many want to be in North American distribution. Choose the right personnel, secure financial backing, build a strong pipeline, commit a sensible amount to p&a, get the marketing right - ...
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United States - Ehud Resurrected
Changes are afoot at Bleiberg Entertainment, where effervescent company founder Ehud Bleiberg is already plotting his next big move as a hugely successful year draws to a close.A familiar face on the foreign sales circuit for many years, Bleiberg knew it was time to make a bold move two years ...
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United Kingdom - Early light
When asked about her taste in films, Tanya Seghatchian points to the wall behind her desk, and two very different posters for her past productions: one for Pawel Pawlikowski's low-budget award-winner My Summer Of Love and another for megahit franchise Harry Potter.Seghatchian - previously best known as the development executive ...
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Editorial - Screen says - The ideas business
The fear that one day the money might just dry up is a permanent fact of life even for established film-makers. This year's Screen International UK Film Finance Summit was a fine opportunity to take the temperature of a major international business and that underlying concern was tangible.There's a general ...
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Asian tigers show their claws
Two very different Korean openers hit the international chart this week: Ra Hee-chan's comedy Going By The Book, and Kim Mi-jung's historical murder mystery Shadows In The Palace. Going By The Book is a broad comedy about a traffic cop and a bank robbery gone wrong, while Shadows In The ...
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The Critical view - The art of war
The autumn epidemic of films dealing with the US's entanglement in Iraq and Afghanistan has launched dozens of features and op-ed pieces but predictably, most of these were written before many of the films had surfaced. So pundits were limited to commenting on the fact that, whereas most of 1970s ...
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Germany - All's fair
The topic on most people's lips at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair (October 15-19) was not the latest literary sensation, but rumours about the extraordinary saga at London talent agency Peters Fraser Dunlop (PFD).Caroline Michel, the company's beleaguered chief executive, cancelled her visit to Frankfurt at the last minute, still ...
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AFM- Buyers go global in search of spice
Fuelled by fears of an industry-wide strike and financed by Wall Street's billions, Hollywood's production schedules are in overdrive to get projects in front of the cameras before next April. North American and international distributor schedules are already packed with US projects to see them through 2008. Following a sluggish ...
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Buzz Projects - The ABC of the AFM
Lakeshore Entertainment is hoping to entice buyers at this year's AFM with Game, an action thriller from Crank directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Now in production, it stars Gerard Butler as a death-row inmate who becomes the cult hero of an online game. Lakeshore will also introduce United Artists' ...