All Screen articles in 4 February 2008 – Page 6
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Caroline Stern leaves Horizon for Cinemavault
Former Horizon Motion Pictures vice president of sales and acquisitions Caroline Stern has joined Toronto-based Cinemavault as head of sales.Stern relocates from Vancouver and will travel with the Cinemavault team to the EFM in Berlin next week to commence sales on Stephanie Black's new Bob Marley documentary Africa Unite, among ...
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A Very British Gangster finds US home at Anywhere Road
San Francisco-based distributor Anywhere Road has acquired all North American rights to Donal MacIntyre's hit Sundance 2007 documentary A Very British Gangster.Anywhere Road president Robert Ogden Barnum plans a summer release for the edgy profile of Dominic Noonan, head of a celebrated Manchester family who balances a reputation as a ...
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Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona lands with the Weinsteins
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired North American rights to Woody Allen's upcoming comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona starring Javier Bardem, Patricia Clarkson, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall.Johansson and Hall play two Americans on holiday in Barcelona who become romantically involved with a flamboyant artist and his crazy ex-wife. ...
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CineMart prizes go to new projects from Sophie Fiennes, Liew Seng Tat
At tonight's CineMart 2008 closing night party in Rotterdam, the Arte France Cinema Award for best project this year's co-production market went to The Pervert's Guide To Ideology, to be directed by UK film-maker Sophie Fiennes.The honour also comes with $14,856 (Euros 10,000) in cash. The film will continue Fiennes' ...
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Canning, Sherman launch Aus/UK production outfit See-Saw
UK-based acquisitions executive Iain Canning and Australian producer Emile Sherman have launched Australia/UK-based production outfit See-Saw Films. One of the first credits for the new company will be as producer of an English-language remake of writer/director Guillem Morale's 2004 Spanish mystery thriller The Uninvited Guests (El Habitante Incierto).Canning and Sherman ...
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Paramount Australia pacts with start-up Transmission
Dendy Films' executives Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten are leaving the company to establish a new Australian/New Zealand distributor, Transmission, that will conduct most of its business through a joint venture with Paramount's local theatrical and home entertainment divisions. The deal was negotiated with Paramount in the US and is ...
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Salvatores gears up for 10-week shoot for As God Commands
Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores will begin principal photography February 11 on the thriller As God Commands (Come Dio Comanda), based on the eponymous best-selling book by Niccolo Ammaniti.Maurizio Totti's Colorado Film co-produces with Rai Cinema who will distribute nationally via 01 Distribution. Totti confirmed the film's budget has risen ...
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NonStop picks up Sundance winner King Of Ping Pong
Swedish director Jens Jonsson's Sundance winner, The King Of Ping Pong, has been picked up for international distribution by Sweden 's NonStop Sales. Jonsson's feature debut, which took first prize in Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic Competition and was also awarded for Best Cinematography (Askild Vik Edvardsen), opened Sweden 's Göteborg ...
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Bottle Shock
Dir. Randall Miller. US, 2008,112minsBottle Shock is a dramatization of a California winery's rise from obscurity to victory over French wines in a blind-tasting competition in France in 1973. It is based on a true story, and produced by friendly souls from the winemaking region North of San Francisco. ...
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Korean admissions up by 3.5% according to KOFIC
Korean admissions increased by 3.5% to 158.8 million in 2007, according toa year-end report by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), contradicting earlier figures released by exhibitor CJ CGV which estimated a 5.5% dip in admissions. However, KOFIC agreed with CJ CGV that the market share of local films was down ...
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Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)
Dir: Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath, US, 2008, 87mins.Even by the standards of independent documentaries, Ellen Kuras's Nerakhoon is the ne plus ultra of ultra-marathons. For her directorial debut, the cinematographer spent 23 years with the family of her co-director, Thavisook Phrasavath (Tavi), as Laotions settled in New York ...
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EU ruling hits fight against online piracy
The battle against the illegal downloading was dealt a major blow as the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that internet service providers (ISPs)cannot be obliged to release customers' personal data during civil legal claims raised by copyright owners.The point was settled in a legal action taken by Promusicae, a ...
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Russia's Very Best Film dominates international chart
Russian comedy The Very Best Film (Samiy Luchshiy Film) claimed the international crown this weekend with a mammoth $17.8m opening weekend in two territories, accounting for 9% of the international top 40 revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, go to Global Box Office.The parody, distributed through ...
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Edgerton debut to feature in AFC's IndiVision Lab
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) has unveiled the eight low-budget projects that will take part its IndiVision Project Lab, one of which will be the directorial debut of Kinky Boots star Joel Edgerton. Edgerton's film The Professor is a thriller about a top forensic scientist investigating a family murder-suicide, who ...
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Swedish box office flat but local films increase market share
Swedish cinema attendance fell by 1% to 15.2 million admissions in 2007, although local productions managed to increase market share. Local films pulled in 3.2 million spectators last year, for a market share of 21.1%, compared to admissions of 2.9 million for a 18.8% market share in 2006. However, the ...
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Japan's Sun Music unveils details of debut film production
Japanese talent management company Sun Music has announced details of its first feature film production, a drama entitled Yesterdays. The main character will be played by 25-year-old Takashi Tsukamoto in his first leading role. The story follows Tsukamoto's mission to find his estranged dying father's ex-lover, when he slips back ...
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Momma's Man
Dir: Azazel Jacobs. US. 2008. 94 mins.Azazel Jacobs' highly personal Momma's Man was a major discovery at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Artfully tracking the internal breakdown of a thirtysomething man, the film is both lyrical in its near wordless storytelling and humorous in its warm observation of human ...
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The Wackness
Dir: Jonathan Levine. US. 2008. 110 mins.Having shown that he is a dab hand at teen horror in Toronto 2006 hit All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, Jonathan Levine proves that he can handle character-driven drama, albeit still of the teen variety, in his second film The Wackness. The audience ...
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Unified Pictures to debut international sales arm at EFM
California-based production, financing and distribution company Unified Pictures has launched an international sales division and retained Ann Dubinet to oversee the debut slate at next week's EFM in Berlin.Unified will commence sales on the revenge noir The Perfect Sleep starring Roselyn Sanchez, drama Bob Funk starring Oscar nominee Amy Ryan ...
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Amy Beecroft named head of GreeneStreet Films International
Amy Beecroft has been named head of GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) in the wake of Ariel Veneziano's departure last autumn to head up Icon Entertainment International.Beecroft previously served as director of international theatrical distribution for HBO and vice president of international theatrical distribution at First Look Studios.Based in Los Angeles, ...