All Screen articles in 30 October 2008 – Page 4
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Troubled Water
Dir: Erik Poppe. Norway-Sweden. 2008. 90 mins.A sensitive, slow-build script, original directorial vision and bravura performances turn what might have been just another high-concept melodrama centring on the death of a child into a highly-charged ride that is both gritty and poetic. Eric Poppe's third film is by no means ...
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Nominations for British Independent Film Awards announced
The nominations and jury members for the 11th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) were announced today at Soho House in London. Hunger and In Bruges received the most nominations. They tied with seven nominations each. Slumdog Millionaire followed with six, Shifty one of the first from the Film London ...
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Revolver takes UK rights for Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York is British-bound. On the eve of the film's London Film Festival screening, UK distributor Revolver has taken rights for UK and Eire. The deal was negotiated between Joel Kennedy of Revolver and Mark Lindsay of Kimmel International, the international sales agent.Kaufman, who scripted ...
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Halcyon Pictures to be re-launched as Unanimous Pictures.
Halcyon Pictures, founded in 2001 by Funny Games producer, Chris Coen, is to be re-launched from today, October 28, as Unanimous Pictures.Halycon Pictures' theatrical releases to date include Tom McCarthy's Oscar-contender, The Visitor , starring Richard Jenkins and Hiam Abbass, Michael Haneke's all-star US remake of his own provocative thriller, ...
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Queens of Langkasuka tops Thai box office
Nonzee Nimibutr's fantasy action epic Queens of Langkasuka topped the box office charts in Thailand this weekend. The action-packed film has grossed 34.2m baht ($980,000) over five days in Bangkok, boosted by a public holiday on Thursday. The film has a chance to become the first local feature to break ...
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When A Man Comes Home (En Mand Kommer Hjem)
Dir. Thomas Vinterberg. Denmark-Sweden. 2007. 96mins.Thomas Vinterberg's artsy, bittersweet comedy, repped by Celluloid Dreams, is only now making its international bow after a disappointing Danish run a year ago. With Teodora Film set to open Italy in December, this funny Festen bowed to a warm audience at the Rome Film ...
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Tiger Gate gears up to launch two channels across Asia
Lionsgate's new Asian venture, Tiger Gate, is gearing up to launch two 24-hour genre channels across Asia - action channel KIX, and Thrill which is themed around suspense films and thrillers. The two channels were being promoted at the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) conference which kicked ...
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Natalie Portman steps onto Don Roos film for Incentive
Natalie Portman has replaced Jennifer Lopez in Don Roos' upcoming drama Love And Other Impossible Pursuits, the first film from the $100m Incentive Filmed Entertainment fund launched by Screen Capital International and William Morris Agency at Cannes.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment will commence international pre-sales at AFM on the under-$15m film ...
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Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival launched in LA in Jan 2009
The first Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival and market will take place from January 28-31, 2009 at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.The event has been established with the support of the Brazilian Consulate in LA and Brazilian film support agency Ancine to bridge the gap between Hollywood, Brazil and the ...
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Intrepid's Cold Light Of Day gets AFM launch from Essential
Essential Entertainment has boarded international rights to the thriller Cold Light Of Day from Intrepid Pictures, riding high following the success of the Rogue Pictures summer release The Strangers.Jere Hausfater will commence pre-sales at AFM next week on the story of a young man thrown into an international conspiracy when ...
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Adrien Brody cast as The Courier for Arclight Films
Gary Hamilton's ambitious Arclight Films has announced Adrien Brody as the lead in thriller The Courier based on a script by red hot writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas.Arclight sales chief Pascal Borno will commence worldwide sales at AFM next week on the story of a daredevil carrier who is ...
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Screen Australia issues its inaugural guidelines
The four-month-old government film agency Screen Australia today issued guidelines on how it is going to spend its $60.5m (A$100m) per year. As expected, very experienced producers will most benefit under the new regime and large amounts of money will be directed into a small number of projects and businesses, ...
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Arsenal takes German rights to Argentinian music doc El Ultimo Aplauso
Arsenal has bought German rights to German Kral's Argentinian music documentary El Ultimo Aplauso, following its world premiere at the Hof Film Festival. The deal was closed on Sunday night with Beatrix Wesle's Atrix Films.The company plans an early 2009 release.The film follows a group of forgotten Tango singers, who ...
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Sola Media takes on international rights to Long Shadows
Stuttgart-based Sola Media has picked up international rights to terrorist drama Long Shadows which had its world premiere in competition in Rome this week.Directed by Connie Walther and starring Franziska Petri and Ulrich Noethen, the film follows a former German RAF terrorist released after two decades in prison who falls ...
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Arcand, Leconte receive France-Canada cultural accolades
Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand and French filmmaker Patrice Leconte have been awarded the Samuel de Champlain cultural prize, an annual accolade presented by the Paris-based France-Canada Institute. The prize acknowledges contributions to the understanding of the cultures of the two nations through letters, the moving image and theatre. The prizes ...
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Universal teams with Top Up TV for UK VOD service TVBox
Universal Pictures and Top Up TV have launched the UK VOD service TVBox offering current and library TV shows from the NBC Universal stable.The service will run within Top Up TV's Anytime package of services and marks the first brand extension of NBC Universal's PictureBox VOD service for features.The TVBox ...
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Passchendaele passes $1m mark in Canada after a week
TIFF 2008 opener Passchendaele has grossed $1m (C$1.38m) after its opening week in Canada on release through Alliance Films. Written and directed by and starring Paul Gross, the WWI-set epic opened on 202 screens across the country. The film was a distant second at the national box office behind 20th ...
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Kristin Scott Thomas to be feted at Santa Barbara festival
Kristin Scott Thomas will receive the 24th Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Cinema Vanguard Award on January 27, 2009.Scott-Thomas stars in Philippe Claudel's French drama I've Loved You So Long and currently appears on Broadway in Chekhov's The Seagull.'A masterful performance by a British actress in a French film and ...
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Aramid backs first German P&A fund for independents
Aramid Capital Partners (ACP) is behind the launch of PA CO, the first fund in Germany specialised in P&A financing for independent films.The Munich-based $ 12.5m (Euros 10m) fund will be headed by PA CO director and distribution veteran Manfred Wenzel who previously held senior positions at Kinowelt and VCL ...
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Goldcrest Independent picks up international on Portugal's Amalia
Goldcrest Independent has acquired international rights to VC Filmes' Amalia, a biopic about the celebrated Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues that it claims is the largest Portuguese production to date.Senior vice president of sales Pierre Weisbein will introduce the film at AFM next week. Carlos Coelho Da Silva directed from a ...