All Screen articles in 30 October 2008 – Page 7
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Features
United Kingdom - Dodge the doom-mongers
In a credit crunch, necessity must be the mother of invention. That is the view of a growing number of industry players, including Mark Herbert and Barnaby Spurrier, who called on film-makers to innovate their way out of the present economic difficulties, at Screen International's UK Film Finance Summit last ...
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Worldwide - Here comes the crunch
Cinema may still prove to be recession-proof but the third-quarter figures for international markets do not suggest people are rushing to the multiplex for escapist entertainment.Global box office for Q3 generated approximately $7.28bn in ticket sales. Compared with 2007, that translates to a drop of roughly 0.5% and a decline ...
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In focus - Reasons to be cheerful
A nagging question underpinned this year's UK Film Finance Summit - why wasn't everyone more miserable' Goodness knows there was plenty to worry about: a crashing economy, collapsing pre-sales and a depressingly complicated digital switch which threatens the future of exhibition.The packed audience at London's Waldorf Hotel did not lack ...
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USAID helps put Serbia back on map
The news that River Road Entertainment had selected Serbia as the location for shooting Coriolanus, a $10m project to star and be directed by Ralph Fiennes, surprised many in Serbia. While this is perhaps the most tangible indication that Serbia is re-emerging as a cost-effective destination for international production, it ...
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On Set: Christian Alvart's Pandorum
German director Christian Alvart could not believe his eyes when he was given an early draft of Pandorum to read by UK producers Jeremy Bolt and Paul WS Anderson of Impact Pictures and Robert Kulzer of Germany's Constantin Film: Travis Milloy's spec script was similar to a project Alvart had ...
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Richard Jobson reignites the spirit of '77
The notion of punk cinema has been kicking around for a few years, based on the idea that a new generation of film-makers pick up a camera and take distribution into their own hands.Scottish film-maker Richard Jobson is an undisguised champion of the 'spirit of 1977' for film and he ...