All Screen articles in 4 September 2008 – Page 3
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Raindance to open with Choke, close with Hush
The 16thRaindance Film Festival (Oct 1-12) in London will kick off with Clark Gregg's Choke starring Sam Rockwell and will close with the world premiere of Mark Tonderai's directorial debut, Warp X horror film Hush. Choke, adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel, also stars Anjelica Huston (set to attend the ...
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Momentum takes UK rights to Let The Right One In
Momentum Pictures has secured all rights for the UK and Ireland to Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire romance Let The Right One In from sales agent Bavaria Film International.Based on the bestselling novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, the crossover hit has been sold to all major territories including France ...
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Stockholm festival to close with Luhrmann's Australia
Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 20-30) has announced that Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia will close its 19thfestival.The romantic drama stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in the WWII-era story of an English artistocrat who inherits a cattle farm in northern Australia. The Stockholm festival will screen more than 170 ...
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Warp X, Birds Eye View team for women's comedy features
Warp X and Birds Eye View are working together on a new feature film development initiative, Last Laugh: Women Create Comedy.The programme will champion female comedy talent working in the UK and bring female-led comedy features to the big screen.Skillset is supporting the scheme through its Skillset Film Skills ...
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New Wave takes UK rights to Denis' 35 Shot Of Rum
New UK distributor New Wave Films has acquired Claire Denis' 35 Shots Of Rum (35 Rhums).The deal was struck with sales company Elle Driver.The film is in competition in Venice and will also screen here in Toronto.Bruno Pesery produced for Soudaine Compagnie.Denis wrote the screenplay with Jean-Pol Fargeau.Alex Descas, Mati ...
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Grbavica director Zbanic starts shoot for On The Path
Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic, winner of Berlin's Golden Bear in 2006 for her feature debut Grbavica, began shooting her second feature film On The Path in Bosnia-Herzegovina today.Featuring a cast including Leon Lucev, Zrinka Cvitesic, Sebastian Cavazza and Grbavica's lead actress Mirjana Karanovic, Zbanic's new film centres on a ...
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Venice eyes slightly later start for 2009 festival
The Venice film festival may start slightly later for its 2009edition. While not officially announced, Biennale president Paolo Baratta and artistic directorMarco Mueller told foreign journalists over lunch that next year's schedule might shift slightly.Venice could potentially kick off Weds., Sept 2, 2009.Venice traditionally opens the Wednesday after the last ...
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Metrodome, Rialto team for McKellan's King Lear
Metrodome Distribution has taken UK, Ireland and Australia/New Zealand rights to Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt's new adaptation of King Lear, starring Ian McKellen.The stage-to-screen Royal Shakespeare Company production was recorded in high definition at Pinewood Studios.The deal was negotiated between Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general manager distribution Sara Frain ...
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Richard Eyre's The Other Man to open San Sebastian
San Sebastian has announced that British director Richard Eyre's romantic drama The Other Man will open the festival in official selection, out of competition, and US director Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom will be the closing film.The Other Man is a romantic tale involving a love triangle between Antonio Banderas, ...
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ReviewsThe Sky Crawlers
Dir: Mamoru Oshii. Japan. 2008. 122mins.Mamoru Oshii’s most meditative feature-length animation to date tells the story of a group of genetically modified eternally-young fighter aces in a world where war has become a company-sponsored reality game. Like the Peter-Pan ‘Kildren’ that it depicts, The Sky Crawlers ...
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Abu Dhabi Media Company announces $1bn film investment
The Abu Dhabi Media Company has launched a $1bn investment in feature film and digital content.It has formed a subsidiary - imagenation Abu Dhabi - to develop, finance and produce content for both regional and international markets. Its intial aim is to make eight films a year.The company will look ...
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Bangkok Dangerous
Dir: Danny Pang and Oxide Pang. US-Thailand. 2008. 100mins.The remake by Danny and Oxide Pang of their own imaginative 1999 directorial debut sacrifices the grit and inventiveness of the original in favour of a Hollywood-style loner-assassin drama with a Hollywood star in an exotic location. This version of Bangkok Dangerous ...
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Intrusions
Dir: Emmanuel Bourdieu. 2008. Fr. 96mins.A moody psychological thriller deftly spun around blackmail and humiliation, Intrusions is taut and slyly entertaining for almost its entire running time. Co-screenwriter/director Emmanuel Bourdieu's follow-up to his delectable Poison Friends skewers the petty annoyances of maintaining appearances among the rich and powerful while exploring ...
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Lee Brazier to head distribution and acquisitions at Cinescope
Former FilmFour Creative Executive Lee Brazier has been appointed Head of Distribution and Acquisitions at new UK distribution outfit Cinescope Entertainment.He launches his wide-ranging plans with Chris Bell steroids documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster, picked up from Laird Adamson at Magnolia Pictures.Cinescope Entertainment will also release Auteur Giuseppe Tornatore's Donatello-winning The ...
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EFP and San Sebastian launch European distribution initiative
Hamburg-based European Film Promotion (EFP) and the San Sebastian International Film Festival have joined forces to launch a new initiative entitled European Distributors: Up Next! to promote the wider distribution of non-domestic European films.The first outing for this initiative will focus on 10 up-and-coming distributors from Central and Eastern Europe ...
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Erik Van Looy signs deal with Woestijnvis
Erik Van Looy, the Belgian TV personality and director of hit TheAlzheimer Case (also knownasThe Memory Of A Killer), has signed an exclusive seven-year deal with production outfit Woestijnvis.This is the company behind both his new feature Loft (being sold internationally by London-based The Works) and his highly successful TV ...
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Mazur, Mitchell Kaplan option Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society
Nim's Island writer-producer Paula Mazur (pictured) and Miami-based bookseller Mitchell Kaplan have launched The Mazur/Kaplan Company by optioning feature rights to Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' drama The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society.The story takes place in the island of Guernsey in 1946 after liberation from the Nazis ...