All Screen articles in 4 January 2007 – Page 3

  • News

    CJ Entertainment appoints Shin as head of international

    2007-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Leading Koreaninvestor/distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE) has appointed David Shin asexecutive vice president and head of international business, replacing MarkShaw, who recently left for a job in the US financial sector. Most recently senior vice presidentin charge of commercial development at ESPN Star Sports in Singapore, Shin comes with a master's ...

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    PGA announces annual awards nominees

    2007-01-03T00:00:00Z

    The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced the film nominees and eligible producers for the 18th Annual PGA Awards to take place on Jan 20 in Los Angeles.The nominees for the Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Picturesare:BabelAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Steve Golin, Jon KilikThe ...

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    Writers Guild of America, West to honour Larry Gelbart

    2007-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Tootsie screenwriter Larry Gelbart will receive the Writers Guild of America, West's (WGAW) Valentine Davies Award at the 2007 Writers Guild Awards on Feb 11 in Los Angeles.'The Valentine Davies Award recognises service to the entertainment industry and to the community at large,' WGAW president Patric M Verrone said.'We are ...

  • Reviews

    Happily N'Ever After

    2007-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Paul J. Bolger. US-Ger. 2006. 87mins.The animated subversion of fairytale conventions kick-started by Shrek continues in Happily N'Ever After, a thinly imagined, satirical retelling of the classic story of Cinderella that runs aground on the shoals of cheekiness courtesy mainly of an awkwardly forced irreverence.A wide release and some ...

  • News

    SBIFF lines up world premiere of The Number 23

    2007-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Joel Schumacher's psychological thriller The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey gets its world premiere at the 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), which runs from Jan 25-Feb 4.The festival will open with George Hickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl starring Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce and closes with Sue ...

  • News

    Hong Kong box office remains flat in 2006

    2007-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Hong Kong's box officeremained flat in 2006 with overall takings of $116.5m (HK$907m), a marginalincrease of 0.22% compared to the $116.3m (HK$905m) taken the previous year. At the same time, localproduction continued its steady decline although the decreases in box officeand production volumes were not as great as some in ...

  • News

    Danielle Arbid starts shoot for A Lost Man

    2007-01-02T14:48:00Z

    France's MK2 has announced the start of production on Danielle Arbid's second feature A Lost Man. The UK's Alexander Siddig and France's Melvil Poupaud star in the road movie set in the Middle East.Filming will start early this year in Beirut, Amman and Paris. MK2 is producing and will handle ...

  • News

    Curse continues to be blessed in Asian rollout

    2007-01-02T00:00:00Z

    Zhang Yimou's $45m Curse Of The Golden Flower topped the box office in China, Hong Kong and Malaysia over the Christmas holidays.Following its record-breaking opening in China over the weekend of Dec 14-17, the lavish costume drama had grossed $25m (RMB200m) in its home territory by Dec 26, according to ...

  • News

    Museum rules the waves with superb $47.3m haul

    2007-01-02T00:00:00Z

    The family film Night At The Museum kicks off 2007 as the international champion after a formidable $47.3m three-day estimated haul raised the overseas tally to $58.1m after two weekends.The Fox International release has grossed close to $51m in a week following last weekend's limited launch in Asia and is ...

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    Museum stays top in North America to cross $100m

    2007-01-02T00:00:00Z

    Ben Stiller's cast iron holiday season credentials held firm as Fox's family film Night At The Museum stayed top and crossed $100m in its second weekend.The film added an estimated $46.7m for $125.8m and dominates the world stage following this weekend's superb $47.3m overseas haul.Sony's The Pursuit Of Happyness stayed ...

  • News

    Chinese fine Sohu and Shanghai store for copyright infringement

    2007-01-01T20:00:00Z

    Chinese courts madetwo separate judgements against copyright infringers over the Christmasholidays, reflecting the increasing pressure that the country is under tocombat its high levels of piracy. On December 27, aBeijing court ruled that Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Co, asubsidiary of NASDAQ-listed web portal Sohu.com, was guilty of copyrightinfringement when ...

  • News

    Moretti steps down as Turin artistic director after two days

    2007-01-01T20:00:00Z

    Italian film-maker Nanni Moretti has renounced his appointment asartistic director of the Turin Film Festival just two days after hisnomination was made public.Moretti's nomination to top the Turin fest - which is dedicated tocutting edge fare and young directors - was hailed as a positivereaction to pressures created by the ...

  • News

    Moretti steps down as Turin artistic director after two days

    2007-01-01T20:00:00Z

    Italian film-maker Nanni Moretti has renounced his appointment asartistic director of the Turin Film Festival just two days after hisnomination was made public.Moretti's nomination to top the Turin event- which is dedicated tocutting-edge fare and young directors - was hailed as a positivereaction to pressures created by the splash of ...

  • News

    Sohu and Shanghai store fined for copyright infringement

    2007-01-01T19:00:00Z

    Chinese courts have made two separate judgements against copyright infringers over the holiday period, reflecting the increasing pressure that the country is under to combat its high levels of piracy. On December 27, a Beijing court ruled that Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Co, a subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed web portal ...

  • Reviews

    Freedom Writers

    2007-01-01T10:00:00Z

    Dir/scr: Richard LaGravenese. US. 2006. 122 minutes.Set against a backdrop of interracial, mutually destructive gang warfare, Freedom Writers is a passionately pitched if decidedly formulaic story of idealistic uplift, inspired by a true story in which Long Beach teenagers put their angst to paper in the charged years following the ...

  • News

    Focus duo leave company to form production outfit

    2007-01-01T10:00:00Z

    Daniel Yu, chiefoperating officer of Andy Lau's Hong Kong-based Focus Films, and marketing anddistribution chief Lorna Tee, have left the company to form their ownproduction outfit. From Jan 1, 2007their roles are being filled by Simon Li, a director of Focus Films Limited,and marketing executive Sharon Cheng. Details of Yu ...

  • Reviews

    Wolfhound (Volkodav)

    2007-01-01T00:02:00Z

    Dir/scr: Nikolai Lebedev. Russ. 2006. 136mins.Russia's first proper foray into Tolkien-style fantasy film-making, Nikolai Lebedev's Wolfhound proves to be something of a mixed bag. On the one hand this holiday release feels formulaic, derivative and uneven in terms of acting and pacing; on the other it has enough novelty in ...

  • Reviews

    4 Elements

    2007-01-01T00:01:00Z

    Dir/scr: Jiska Rickels. Neth. 2006. 89mins.Jiska Rickels' makes an impressive debut with feature-documentary 4 Elements, a self-consciously poetic film essay that has limited narration and little in the way of dialogue. Consisting of four self-contained segments, each representing one of the four elements - fire, water, earth and air - ...

  • Reviews

    Factory Girl

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Dir: George Hickenlooper. US. 2006. 90mins.Sienna Miller does more than effectively capture doomed but beautiful 1960s pop art icon Edie Sedgwick with Factory Girl, George Hickenlooper's portrait of the Andy Warhol-anointed superstar that also conveys the elegant grunginess of the era.In the US, where Factory Girl enjoys a one-week Oscar-qualifying ...

  • News

    Artificial Eye founder Andi Engel dies

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Andi Engel, founder of UK distribution company Artificial Eye, died in Lubeck, Germany on Dec 26.Engel was born in Berlin in 1942. He and wife Pam Engel set up Artificial Eye in London in the mid-1970s and the company became the UK's leading distributor of arthouse and foreign-language films. Act ...