All Screen articles in 6 August 2008 – Page 3
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Dragon Emperor reigns over international box office for UPI
Launching across 3,559 sites in 28 territories, Universal's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor was Hollywood's runaway champion of the international arena this weekend and grossed an estimated $59.5m for asuperb $16,700 per-screen average. Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) The Dark Knight crossed $200m and remains a potent force ...
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Italian executive Gianandrea Mutti dies after motorcycle accident
Gianandrea Mutti, a ten-year employee of the marketing department for Italian distributor BIM has died while recovering from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.Bim's founder and President Valerio De Paolis told Screen Daily in an emotional conversation, 'I felt an affection for him that went beyond work.'The forty-one year old ...
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Kaltman named to vp corporate communications post at MPAA
Elizabeth Kaltman has been named vice president of corporate communications at The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) in the wake of Kori Bernards' departure to become senior vice president of media relations at Universal Pictures.Kaltman has served as director of corporate communications for more than two years and will ...
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Arthouse acquires worldwide rights to documentary Milton Glaser
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Wendy Keys' documentary Milton Glaser: To Inform And Delight and plans a 2009 theatrical release.Arthouse Films will also distribute the portrait of the iconic American graphic designer through its output deals with Mongrel Media in Canada, Revolver Entertainment in the UK, Madman Entertainment ...
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Cannes opener Blindness to open Atlantic Film Festival
Fernando Meirelles' Cannes competitor Blindness will open the 28th Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax on September 11. Based on the novel by Jose Saramago and starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal and Alice Braga, the Canada-Brazil-Japan coproduction was adapted for the screen by Don McKellar, who ...
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Rome to honour Al Pacino with Gold Marco Aurelio
Al Pacino will receive career honours at the International Film Festival of Rome when the third edition unspools this October.Career honourees at the festival's first two editions include Sean Connery and Sophia Loren.The Gold Marco Aurelio honorary award will be given to Pacino, who will be on hand to take ...
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UK Film Council launches new funding initiative for UK producers
The UK Film Council has launched the Production Company Vision Awards, a new funding initiative designed to help producers develop projects that will broaden the quality, range and ambition of films and talent in the UK.The initiative, which is part of the UKFC's Development Fund, will offer up to £150,000 ...
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UK Film Council launches $3m production fund
The UK Film Council has launched the Production Company Vision Awards, whichwill offer up to $300,000 (£150,000) over two years to as many as10 production companiesdeveloping feature films.The initiative - part of the UKFC's Development Fund -is designed to help producers develop projects which will 'broaden the quality, range and ...
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Celestial pacts with Netmovie for cyber cafe distribution
Celestial Pictures has signed a deal with Beijing Netmovie Co which will see 662 Shaw Brothers films distributed through chains of internet cafes in mainland China. Netmovie has licensed internet, IPTV and mobile platform rights to the titles which include classics such as The Kingdom And The Beauty, The 36th ...
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Swiss cinema continues decline in first half of 2008
Swiss cinema's market share has continued its downward trend, according to provisional figures for the first half of 2008, with local films only clinching a 2.3% slice of the box-office compared to last year's 7% and 2006's record 11.6%.Statistics collated by the industry body Procinema showed that the ambitious animation ...
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China opens up talent industry to foreign investment
China's State Council has amended its regulations to allow investors from Hong Kong and Macau to launch their own artist management companies in mainland China. Hong Kong and Macau artist management companies are also allowed to set up mainland branches under the new policy.In addition, foreign investors not from Hong ...
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Joshua Michael Stern pushes political buttons
Joshua Michael Stern's broad political satire Swing Vote, which opened through Disney's Touchstone label on Aug 1, is about as timely as it gets.With Barack Obama and John McCain both campaigning to take control of the White House in November, Stern's tale of a hapless single father who through a ...
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Genz is Terribly Happy working outside the biz
'Don't ask me what genre Terribly Happy is, I wouldn't know,' says Henrik Ruben Genz cheerfully. It is a typical reaction from the Danish director of the Crystal Globe winner at last month's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. After all, this is a man who prides himself on his lack ...
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Postcard from Karlovy Vary
Karlovy Vary is known as a relaxed setting, ideal for renewing contacts. A little business was done in the pine-fringed Czech spa town during the festival (July 4-12), four films picked up local distribution, and the Eastern European line-up went down well with enthusiastic audiences, many of whom were backpacking ...
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International - Sunny shines at home
Showbox's big-budget war epic Sunny enjoyed a strong $3.8m opening weekend at home, to become the second highest opener in the international market last weekend after Twentieth Century Fox's The X-Files: I Want To Believe, which grossed $9m from 22 territories.Hot on the heels of local blockbuster The Good, The ...
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Venice Film Festival: Italian squad takes on rest of world
The Italian flag will fly high over the Lido this year. Following a strong showing at Cannes, four local titles will screen in competition at the 65th Venice film festival, with the Italian industry out in force with 20 films.Artistic director Marco Mueller reportedly had to make an official request ...
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Feature - Locarno's Latin passion
Celebrating its sixth year, the Locarno International Film Festival's annual Open Doors Factory (August 9-13) has become established as an important co-production event.Backed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SOC), each year Open Doors targets a key region and 2008 is the turn of the lesser-known Latin American ...
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Screen opinion:A double take on piracy
The UK government took its swig from the poisoned chalice of film and music piracy this week. The result, of course, was a fudge. Most attempts to take on counterfeiting have proved either incoherent or unworkable. Sometimes both.Like the 'war on drugs' the prospects for a knock-out blow are limited ...
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Journey to the Third Dimension
In 1953, studio chief Jack Warner implored Alfred Hitchcock to work in the new format of 3D for his film Dial M For Murder. Hollywood had just introduced the colour stereoscopic photographic technology to fend off the pervasive reach of television. But by the time of the release, the 3D ...
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New Projects - Strength in depth
AvatarUS dist: Twentieth Century FoxUS release date: December 18, 2009James Cameron's first narrative theatrical feature since Titanic stars Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington and Giovanni Ribisi in a story about the conflicts between humans and the inhabitants of a distant planet.Cameron shot Avatar on the new 3D Fusion System ...