All Screen articles in 5 December 2008 – Page 2
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Syria: Postcard from Damascus
With the recent emergence of film festivals in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the Middle East's festival calendar is getting busy. But one of the oldest in the region - the Damascus International Film Festival - is determined to raise its international profile, despite operating on budgets that are a fraction ...
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Profile: Dubai Film Market and Film Connection
‘We want to give people good business opportunities as well as supporting film-makers,’ says Jane Williams, head of the Diff’s industry office, of Dubai Film Connection (DFC), which was established during last year’s festival as the Middle East’s first feature and documentary film co-production market.
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In Focus: International box office
Buoyed by a wet summer and the songs of Abba set on a sun-drenched Greek island, UK cinema admissions and ticket sales both rose in the year to October 31 compared to the same period in 2007. Universal Pictures International's Mamma Mia! The Movie also spelt 'money money money' in ...
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Special feature - Beyond the festival - 'Every new mall has a multiplex'
The multiplex at Dubai's vast Festival City shopping mall is offering cinema-goers a choice of 14 movies this month. The majority are Hollywood blockbusters such as Ridley Scott's Body Of Lies, and High School Musical 3: Senior Year, screened in English with Arabic subtitles. The city's sizeable Indian community might ...
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Profile: Sundance Institute Arthouse Project
Everyone, of course, knows about the festival. And pretty much everyone in the independent-film world is familiar with the other long-standing programmes - from the film-makers labs to the producers conference - that Robert Redford's Sundance Institute runs alongside its annual Park City get-together.The Sundance Institute Arthouse Project is a ...
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Special Feature - Competition - The Arabic films in contention for this year's Muhr Awards
ADHEN-DERNIER MAQUIS (ALG-FR)Dir: Rabah Ameur-ZaimecheAmeur-Zaimeche directs and stars in this drama about the owner of a factory in an industrial area outside Paris, who builds a mosque for his workers. The film premiered at Cannes in Directors' Fortnight before screening at Toronto. It has also been shortlisted for France's Louis ...
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Arabian Nights - Stars in their eyes
The embodiment of Diff's mandate to promote Arab film-making on the world stage is the festival's out-of-competition Arabian Nights selection: a line-up of Arab films from the last 12 months. This year's pick includes the kind of powerful documentaries one might expect to come out of the Middle East at ...
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Interview: Festival director Masoud Amralla Al Ali
Festival director Masoud Amralla Al Ali reveals his hopes for this year's festival.What is the blueprint for a good festival'The most important thing is to have an identity and a vision to shape the path the festival takes. As we all know, there are thousands of film festivals around the ...
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Awards Countdown - Best actor/Best supporting actor - Command performances
BEST ACTOR: THE TOP 10 CONTENDERS1. SEAN PENNMILKThe performance (according to Screen's review): "Penn gives one of the most likeable star turns of his career as Harvey Milk, a performance filled with passion, humanity and humour which should lodge him firmly in contention for best actor awards." (Mike Goodridge)The politics: ...
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In Focus: 3D cinema faces big international challenges
At the 3D Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles this week, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg again made the case for the enormous potential that 3D cinema offers the industry.Already 2009 is shaping up to be the key year for the technology; a total of 15 3D presentations are scheduled, including ...
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Madagascar 2 set to land across western Europe for PPI
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa on $78.3m opens in 13 territories through PPI this weekend and will pose the mightiest challenge to Sony Pictures Releasing International's Quantum Of Solace.Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa arrives in France, French-speaking Switzerland, Switzerland and Belgium on December 4, followed by Germany, German-speaking Switzerland and ...
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Justin Chadwick to direct Tenderness Of Wolves for Film4, Target.
Justin Chadwick will direct a feature adaptation of by Stef Penney's Costa Prize-winning novel The Tenderness Of Wolves.Chadwick is writing the script and will direct the film for Film4 and Target Entertainment Group. Production is set to begin next year on the project, which was developed by Film4's Katherine Butler. ...
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Amy Adams to receive Spotlight Award at Palm Springs
Amy Adams will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Spotlight Award for her performance in Doubt.Adams, whose credits include Enchanted and Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day, will collect the honour at the awards gala on January 6.She recently wrapped production on Night At The Museum ...
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Sundance unveils high-profile films in Premieres, Spectrum
World premieres of Carlos Cuaron's comedy Rudo Y Cursi starring Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal as rival football brothers, David Mackenzie's sex comedy Spread starring Ashton Kutcher and the comedy Adventureland from Superbad director Greg Mottola starring Twilight's Kristen Stewart are among the non-competition line-up at Sundance, set to ...
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Slumdog Millionaire named year's best film by National Board Of Review
In its centenary year the National Board Of Review has named Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire the 2008 Best Film of the Year and Sergei Bodrov's Mongol best foreign film of the year.James Marsh's Man On Wire is best documentary and Wall-E is best animated feature. Clint Eastwood is named best ...
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Senator Entertainment to reduce number of international titles
Germany 's financially beleaguered Senator Entertainment has said that it will reduce the number of international titles it acquires for distribution in future. The company is refocusing on its traditional core activity of producing and distributing German language feature films.In addition it has rescinded the contract to acquire a 51% ...
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Co-production report reopens debate over UK tax credit
A report prepared by Oxford Economics and commissioned by the UK Film Council (UKFC) has warned that the tax credit system makes co-productions unattractive to film-makers. The report's completion coincided with an event run by the Festival of German Film earlier this week. The event focussed on strategies and business ...
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St. Pierre named svp of distribution services at Lionsgate
Danny St Pierre has been named senior vice president of distribution services at Lionsgate and will oversee day-to-day international distribution logistics and roll-out for Mandate International's titles as well as continued servicing of select films from Lionsgate's 12,000-plus library.St Pierre continues to report to executive vice president of post-production and ...
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PGA Vanguard Award goes to MySpace co-founders DeWolfe, Anderson
The Producers Guild Of America's 2009 Vanguard Award will go to MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe and president and co-founder Tom Anderson.The award, which recognises outstanding achievements in new media and technology, will be presented at the 2009 Producers Guild Awards in Hollywood on January 24. DeWolfe and Anderson ...
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Hilary Swank to star in Antti J. Jokinen's The Resident
Academy Award winner, Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby), is to star in Antti J. Jokinen's psychological thriller The Resident which will be produced by Hammer. Antti J. Jokinen is directing The Resident from a script he co-wrote with Robert Orr (Savior), re-written by Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary, ...