All Screen articles in 30 Sept 2010 – Page 15
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Switzerland, Austria select Academy Award submissions
Switzerland and Austria have announced their entries for the best foreign language film category at the Academy Awards, selecting fiction feature debuts by directing duos.
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IFCO bans DVD re-release of I Spit On Your Grave
The Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) has banned the DVD re-release of controversial 1978 horror I Spit On Your Grave.The IFCO refused to grant a supply certificate to the film on the grounds that it “depicts acts of gross violence and cruelty towards humans”, and contravenes of Ireland’s Video Recordings ...
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NewsBeginners leads final rush of deals at Toronto
As a remarkably productive Toronto wound down [19] Focus Features closed a deal for worldwide rights excluding several territories to Mike Mills’ drama Beginners.
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NewsAffleck's The Town opens top in North America on $24m
Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures’ crime drama The Town directed by and starring Ben Affleck opened top on an estimated $23.8m.
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NewsKing's Speech, Incendies big winners as Toronto ends
The curtain closed on TIFF’s 35th edition with eight awards and $60,000 in prizes handed out during an awards brunch on Sunday [19].
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NewsEvil stays top overseas with $39m weekend haul
Resident Evil: Afterlife has become the biggest film in the horror franchise overseas as it plundered a further $38.7m to boost the tally to $103.2m
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NewsSoda Pictures takes Norwegian Wood
The UK distributor has also confirmed a number of other recent acquisitions.
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NewsBelgium picks Illegal as foreign Oscar contender
Oliver Masset-Depasse’s film premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
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NewsActress Molly Parker set for directorial debut
The Canadian actress’s first feature, The Ballad Of Maura MacKenzie, will shoot in Newfoundland and Toronto late summer 2011.
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NewsIndia’s Sahara joins bidding for MGM
India’s Sahara India Pariwar Group is believed to be making a power play for MGM and has offered “north of $2bn” for the beleaguered studio, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
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SGR and IFCIC likely to share EC guarantee fund
Spain’s mutual guarantee funding body Audiovisual SGR and France’s lending institute IFCIC are expected to split 50-50 the new European Commission (EC) film fund worth $10.5m (€8m), which guarantees bank loans to producers.
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Slovakia selects The Border as Oscar submission
Jaro Vajtek’s documentary has been chosen as Slovakia’s foreign oscar selection.
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Finland selects Steam Of Life as foreign Oscar submission
It is the first time the country has selected a documentary as its foreign Oscar contender
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NewsNational Geographic takes US rights to The First Grader
National Geographic Entertainment (NGE) has acquired US theatrical rights to Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader following its recent world premiere in Toronto.
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Bonham Carter, Garfield among Hollywood Film Festival honorees
Helena Bonham Carter and Sam Rockwell will receive the 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival’s supporting actress and actor awards at a gala in Beverly Hills on October 25.
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SPHE appoints Claude Borna to key European strategy role
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has promoted Claude Borna to the newly created position of senior vice-president of business planning and commercial strategy, Europe.
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Imax Corp announces latest deals in South Korea, US
Imax Corporation has closed a deal with South Korea exhibitor CJ CGV Holdings to instal 15 digital Imax theatre systems in China.
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NewsCMG seals multi-territory deal with Universal on Blood Out
Edward Noeltner’s Beverly Hills-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG) has returned from a successful Toronto led by sales on the upcoming action thriller Blood Out.
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NewsThe Other Guys tops UK box office
Sony’s cop-buddy comedy The Other Guys topped the UK box office over the weekend, taking $3.1m (£2m) from 441 screens at a per-print average of $6,965 (£4,491).