All Screen articles in 6 April 2007 – Page 5

  • News

    Overture teams with Echo Lake on 105 Degrees And Rising

    2007-04-02T05:00:00Z

    Fledgling studio Overture Films is partnering with Echo Lake Productions on its first in-house title 105 Degrees And Rising, a drama about the fall of Saigon drama.Jon Amiel will direct the project, named after the code used by Armed Forces Radio in 1975 to alert citizens to evacuate the former ...

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    Soda works with festival to launch Spanish film DVD label

    2007-04-02T04:00:00Z

    UK independent distributor Soda Pictures has joined forces with Viva Spanish and Latin American Film Festival to create a DVD distribution label specialising in Spanish and Latin American films.The label, dubbed the Soda Viva Collection, comes after the film festival's launch (March 15-25) and before its theatrical tour in the ...

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    UK Film Council looks for certification manager for new tax test

    2007-04-02T04:00:00Z

    As of today, the certification unit for the new Cultural Test for British Film introduced as part of the UK 's new film tax relief will be based at the UK Film Council, moving from its previous home at the Department of Culture, Media & Sport. The UKFC is currently ...

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    Ken Kwapis to direct He's Just Not That Into You

    2007-04-02T01:58:00Z

    New Line Cinema and Flower Films have hired Ken Kwapis to direct the comedy He's Just Not That Into You.Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's bestselling novel of the same name serves as the inspiration for the project about cross-gender misunderstandings in love.Flower Films principals Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore are ...

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    Shut Up And Shoot Me, New Year Baby win AFI Dallas

    2007-04-02T01:56:00Z

    Steen Agro's Shut Up And Shoot Me won the AFI Dallas International Film Festival's Target narrative feature award while Socheata Poeuv's New Year Baby took corresponding documentary honours.The HDNet Award for the best feature shot in HD went to Rob Stewart's documentary Sharkwater.Additional Awards went to Eric Chaikin's A Lawyer ...

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    Mr Bean's Holiday basks in $33.3m international weekend

    2007-04-02T01:43:00Z

    Rowan Atkinson's bumbling Brit overthrew Warner Bros' Spartan army as Universal/UPI's Mr Bean's Holiday reaped the benefits of a wide launch and grossed an estimated $33.3m from 3,061 sites in 26 territories.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) won't be unduly bothered however, as 300 crossed $100m overseas and has amassed more ...

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    Blades gets top marks at top North American box office

    2007-04-01T20:43:00Z

    Will Ferrell enjoyed the second best opening of his career as Paramount's ice skating comedy Blades Of Glory launched at number one on an estimated $33m.Ferrell and co-star Jon Heder play banned rival skaters who learn the only way to get back into the sport is to compete as a ...

  • Reviews

    Grindhouse

    2007-04-01T17:30:00Z

    Dirs: Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino. US. 2007. 192mins. Intended as an enthusiastically grimy, collagist tribute piece to low-budget, ultra-violent and offbeat exploitation flicks of yore, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse delivers an uneven mixture of patchwork, sugar-rush thrills.Consisting of two discrete features strung together by a series of fake trailers ...

  • Reviews

    The Reaping

    2007-04-01T16:48:36Z

    Dir: Stephen Hopkins. US. 2007. 99mins. After a recent sojourn working in television and cable, action director Stephen Hopkins pulls out all the stops with The Reaping. The result is a frenzied and unrestrained supernatural horror thriller, starring two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as a debunker of religious phenomena enlisted ...

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    Singapore's Scorpio East to distribute Shaw Bros titles

    2007-04-01T10:53:00Z

    Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has licensed Singapore video distribution rights to over 500 titles from its Shaw Brothers' film library to Singapore 's Scorpio East under a long-term agreement. Scorpio East will distribute titles ranging from comedies and martial arts to period dramas and action movies. Key titles include films ...