All Screen articles in 4 September 2007 – Page 6
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Lions For Lambs to open AFI FEST
Lions For Lambs, the inaugural release under Paula Wagner and TomCruise's revamped United Artists, will get its North American premierewhen it opens the AFI FEST in Los Angeles on Nov 1.The announcement suggests the film is likely to receive its worldpremiere at the 51st BFI London Film Festival that runs ...
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Ellis wins Palm Springs award
Simon Ellis' UK film Soft won the 2007 Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films & Short Film Market's Best Of Festival Awardand a cash prize of $2,000.The Future Filmmaker Award and a $2,000 cash prize went to Dee Reesfor the US entry Pariah, while Pop Foul's US title Moon Molson ...
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Red Envelope and New Line take rights to childbirth doc
Red Envelope Entertainment and New Line Home Entertainment havejointly acquired North American rights to the childbirth documentaryThe Business Of Being Born.Ricki Lake produced the film, in which director Abby Epstein capturesfootages of women giving birth and speaks to mothers, obstetriciansand experts about whether childbirth is a natural process or a ...
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Relativity on board for Contractors
Relativity Media has swooped on film rights to Bob Fisher'sspeculative script Contractors and will finance, develop and producethe project with Landscape Entertainment.Fisher, who co-wrote the 2005 hit Wedding Crashers with Steve Faber,co-wrote Contractors with David Hemingson.The story centres on two contractors who land a big assignment in theHamptons, only for ...
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Sugarhouse
Dir: Gary Love, UK 2007, 92mins A claustrophobic psychodrama that never quite shakes off its stage origins, Sugarhouse is performed with ferocious intensity by its three leads. First-time director Love creates a genuine sense of menace. He also effectively cranks up the tension even if the plotting ultimately seems contrived ...
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Universal and Studio Canal create French DVD joint venture
Universal Pictures International Entertainment and Studio Canal are creating a joint venture to handle home entertainment titles in France.From January 2008, the joint venture will combine the sales, marketing and distribution (via ODS) businesses of all titles for Studio Canal and Universal Pictures France. The new entity will be named ...
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Soenke Wortmann comes to the rescue of Constantin's Pope Joan
German director Soenke Wortmann has come to the rescue of Constantin Film's planned adaptation of the Donna Cross bestseller Pope Joan after the previously attached director Volker Schloendorff was fired amidst much controversy last month.Franka Potente is still expected to take the title lead role in the international project which ...
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Sholay rights owners strike $100m deal with Pritish Nandy
After Sholay Media and Entertainment won its court case against Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, restricting him from using the title or names of characters in his alleged remake of the cult classic, the owner of the rights to Sholay has now entered into a deal with Pritish Nandy Communications ...
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Kinowelt takes on sales, distribution and co-production of animated title
Kinowelt International has picked up international rights (except for France and Italy) on Tony Loeser and Jesper Moeller's animated feature film A Case For Friends...How It All Began which has now begun production at Loeser's MotionWorks' studio in Halle. Kinowelt's theatrical and home entertainment divisions will release the film in ...
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Jean-Claude Carriere to take center stage at Copenhagen
French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, who has worked on Belle Du Jour, The Tin Drum, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, will receive the Copenhagen International Film Festival's Life Achievement Award in September. 'Screenwriters always end up in the shadow of the director, but we would like to do our bit ...
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Easternlight picks up Tan's box office hit 881
Easternlight Films, the Asian label of Gary Hamilton's international sales outfit Arclight Films, has acquired worldwide rights to Royston Tan's 881. The deal was concluded by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures' Daniel Yun and Scorpio East Pictures' Lim Teck with Hamilton and Ying Ye, director of Easternlight, who were in Singapore to ...
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Sogepaq takes on international sales of Bernal's Deficit
Spain 's Sogepaq has taken on international sales, outside Mexico and North America, for actor Gael Garcia Bernal's directorial debut Deficit. Bernal's Mexico-based production outfit Canana Films produced Deficit, which had its world premiere during Cannes Critics Week. The film will also screen in Toronto's Vanguard section, where Sogepaq will ...
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Venice sellers say market is healthy
As the 64th Venice Film Fest opens tonight with Joe Wright's Atonement, thoughts are on expansion and stability. While the Italian industry will have to wait to see if artistic director Marco Mueller and Biennale President Davide Croff will be reinstated for a second mandate - all festivalgoers are wondering ...
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Optimum, TWC set October UK launch for Sicko
Optimum Releasing and The Weinstein Company are teaming to release Michael Moore's Sicko in the UK on Oct 26. Optimum previously released Moore's hit Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore 's exploration of the US health care system, Sicko has already grossed about $24m at the US box office. Danny Perkins, managing director ...
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Pusan to open with Assembly, close with Evangelion
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced that the world premiere of mainland Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's Assembly will open this year's edition. The closing film will be Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone, directed by Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki and Masayuki. Feng's filmography includes Chinese hit The Banquet, ...
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First Tropfest@Tribeca competition set for Sept 23
Sixteen short films from four countries have been selected to compete in the inaugural Tropfest@Tribeca competition in New York City on Sept 23.Finalists, chosen from a pool of 161 submissions, were each asked to interpret the word 'slice' in their film.The winner will be chosen by a jury of Rose ...
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NBC Universal acquires Hallmark global pay-TV channels
NBC Universal has acquired Sparrowhawk Holdings and its global portfolio of pay TV channels from Providence Equity Partners, 3i and management shareholders.The move represents a major step forward in NBC Universal's strategy to more than double the size of its international cable channels in the next two to three years.Terms ...
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ASC dedicates Heritage Award to memory of Kovacs
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has dedicated the 2008 Heritage Award competition for film school seniors and recent graduates in the US to the memory of the Laszlo Kovacs, who died on Jul 22.The organisation simultaneously issued a call for entries in the annual competition. The deadline for submissions ...
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Lantos unveils new Canadian distribution, international sales outfit
Canadian producer Robert Lantos has officially unveiled his new international and domestic film distribution enterpriese, Maximum Films International and Maximum Film Distribution. As previously tipped on Screendaily, former Celluloid Dreams managing director Charlotte Mickie will head the former while veteran Canadian industry executive Tony Cianciotta will head the latter. Both ...