All Screen articles in 4 September 2007 – Page 4
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Film Sales Company takes on Argentinian drama
Andrew Herwitz' New York-based Film Sales Company is moving intoproduction with the remake of Jorge Gaggero's Argentinian dramaLive-In Maid.Herwitz picked up English-language remake rights to the portrait ofthe relationship between a grand dame and her live-in maid.Rodrigo Garcia is attached to write and direct the project, which isexpected to begin ...
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Shrek's staggered release keeps revenues rolling
Paramount Pictures International (PPI) bucked the summer trend by notreleasing DreamWorks/Paramount's Shrek The Third day-and-date with the US, and has enjoyed the consequences as the tentpole continues togenerate revenues throughout the summer.The animated hit has already done most of its business but PPIexecutives are anticipating a robust boost to the ...
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Master of Spices
Indian director Santosh Sivan based his new film Before The Rains, which has its world premiere as a Special Presentation in Toronto next week, on the Israeli short film Red Roofs, one of Dan Verete's Desert Trilogy (2001). But, Sivan says, it really only served as a stepping off point ...
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Japan - Production - Out with the new in with the old
After a phenomenally successful year - Japanese productions grossed an unprecedented $920m (Yen107.8bn) at the local box office in 2006 - the territory's film-makers and financiers are continuing their reliance on proven books, comics, manga and TV shows (known as 'gensaku').Of the top 20 local films in Japan last year, ...
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Japan - Hot projects in the pipeline
Aruitemo AruitemoDirector Hirokazu Kore-eda is no stranger to critical acclaim with films such as Nobody Knows and international arthouse hit After Life. His latest stars Hiroshi Abe (Bubble Fiction) as the good-for-nothing son of a doctor who returns home for the anniversary of his brother's death. With Kore-eda's talent for ...
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United Kingdom - Mountain High
Eight months in as president of Paramount Pictures International (PPI), Andrew Cripps is enjoying the change of pace from his last job as president and COO of UIP."What I've really thrived on are two things," he says. "Working with all divisions at Paramount and being part of the overall decision-making ...
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Festival Deauville - Opening French doors
The 33rd edition of the Deauville Festival of American Film will showcase 124 films, including 11 in competition. And for the first time, the festival has added a sidebar entitled American Nights, which will screen 60 films back to back, 24 hours a day, in the French seaside town's Morny ...
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Italy - The Dark master
Thirty years in the making, the launch of Dario Argento's The Mother Of Tears finally closes the door on The Three Mothers trilogy of cult horror films that began with Argento's Suspiria in 1977 and Inferno in 1982."I feel relief but also sadness," Argento says of the film, which has ...
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Comment- Long live the kings
Reworking the cliche that 'content is king' has been a favourite with analysts and conference speakers in recent years. In fact, it has already spawned its own cliche: 'The customer, not content, is king.'Familiarity with that concept has already bred contempt. And when you strip down the idea of audience ...
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United States - Collective thinking
Life just wasn't the same for Michael Green after the co-founder of top management company The Firm sold his stake to partner Jeff Kwatinetz in 2001. "I got bored of sitting on the beach," Green says from the Beverly Hills offices of The Collective, the full service production and management ...
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China - Onward and upward
Industry experts in China believe the country's 2007 box office could break the $400m (rmb3bn) milestone as the number of cinemas and admissions continues to grow.According to monthly statistics from the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (Sarft), total box office for the first half ...
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Festival buzz - Toronto International Film Festival
GALA PRESENTATIONSCleaner (US)Dir: Renny HarlinHarlin brings one of the more gung-ho US films to this year's festival. Samuel L Jackson stars as a former police officer who unwittingly covers up evidence of a murder. Ed Harris and Eva Mendes also star. Sony is releasing domestically.Int'l sales: Nu Image/Millennium Films, (1) ...
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Festival buzz - Special Presentations
Nothing Is Private (US)Dir: Alan BallEight years after American Beauty, writer Ball returns to features with his directorial debut. Aaron Eckhart and his Thank You For Smoking co-star Maria Bello headline alongside Toni Collette in a drama about a sexually obsessed Lebanese-American girl who moves next door to a bigoted ...
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Festival Buzz - Other World Premieres
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONSLove Comes Lately (Ger-Aus-US)Dir: Jan SchutteContact: Zero Fiction Film, (49) 30 390 663 0Shake Hands With The Devil (Can)Dir: Roger SpottiswoodeContact: White Pine Pictures, (226) 416 703 5580Real To ReelAlgerie, Unspoken Stories (Alg)Dir: Jean-Pierre LledoContact: Jean-Pierre Lledo, lledo.2007@yahoo.frAmazing Journey: The Story Of The Who (US)Dir: Paul Crowder, Murray LernerContact: ...
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International box office - Czech Republic - Recovery position
Admissions in the Czech Republic grew 13% year on year for the first half of 2007, with cinemas earning total revenues of nearly $31.3m (czk637m). If the trend continues, 2007 will outpace last year's 11.5 million admissions, continuing the recovery from 2005's 9.5 million.The Czech Republic, which has a population ...
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Bourne-again triumphs
Jason Bourne kicked the Simpsons out of the top spot as The Bourne Ultimatum took $15.2m in its third weekend - pushing it past the $50m mark. The third instalment of the franchise expanded into a further five territories, taking $2.5m in its first weekend in Russia and opening to ...
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Japan - Technology - Jumping between platforms
BroadbandThere are now around 26 million broadband connections in Japan, with some of the fastest and cheapest services among Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (Oecd) countries. Many consumers watch TV on computers with built in TiVo-like functions, increasing the audience for the dramas that are often made into movies.Unlike ...
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Belgium - Back in the habit
It is 15 years since Belgian director Stijn Coninx was Oscar-nominated for his feature Daens in 1992. Now, he is preparing a new feature likely to pique the curiosity of European buyers. La Vie Extraordinaire De Soeur Sourire - to star Cecile De France - will tell the story of ...
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In focus - The search for a new audience
The idea of a 'digital revolution' for film can sometimes seem ridiculously overblown. For all the talk of paradigm-shifting technologies and the long tail, the traditional box office has been happily breaking records around the globe.In the UK and France, the July box office reached new highs for the modern ...
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Japan - Adaptations - Tapping the sources
Books: While the manga TV animation-animated feature cycle has been a mainstay in Japan, Toho Studios' 2004 megahit Crying Out Love, In The Centre Of The World ($72.5m) sparked an increased dependence on novels as source material, with major publishers such as Kadokawa Publishing and Shueisha regularly joining production consortiums. ...