All Screen articles in 6 August 2008 – Page 4
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Features
United Kingdom - Taking The Chair
The UK film industry can breathe a sigh of relief - it is not losing one of its most experienced producers and financiers, but gaining a friend. As of July, David Parfitt, a producer at Trademark Films and co-founder of the Limelight Fund, has taken over as chairman of the ...
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Canada - Fantastic Forum
It's sure not your Uncle Walt's Fantasia. Swedish vampires, contagious Spanish cannibals, feudal female Korean crime-solvers and general Japanese insanity have never been a big part of the Disney world, but they are the meat and potatoes (mostly meat) of Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, the 12th edition of which ...
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Locarno's Buzz Films
North Face (Nordwand) (Ger)Piazza GrandeDir: Philipp StolzlThe story: An all-star German cast of Benno Furmann, Florian Lukas and Ulrich Tukur play climbers attempting to scale the Eiger in the 1930s. The plot touches on love, political conflict during the Nazi era and the mountaineers' obsession.The buzz: Such an epic narrative ...
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Postcard from Britdoc
It is only in its third edition, but the UK's Britdoc festival (July 23-25) is a major draw for the international documentary community.Last week's instalment attracted more than 950 delegates, including film-makers Larry Charles, Nick Broomfield, and Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, otherwise known as anti-capitalist activists The Yes Men, ...
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Scotland's Black Camel rides a full slate
Black Camel Pictures has come a long way in a short time. Producers Arabella Page Croft and Kieran Parker formed the company in 2004 in Glasgow, and by Cannes 2007 their debut feature, Outpost, was sold across the world, with Sony Pictures taking all English-language territories - a unique achievement ...
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Send in the big guns
The success of The Dark Knight has raised hopes of a Bat-powered box-office surge across the world.Some markets struggled in the first half of the year to match a strong 2007: Japan's box-office revenues, for example, fell 13.7% between January and the end of June, while Brazil dropped 8.8%. But ...
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Alex Cox on Repo Chick
Alex Cox clearly relishes his reputation as UK cinema's 'oldest enfant terrible'. The now Oregon-based film-maker is plotting a sequel to his 1980s cult hit Repo Man. He has already completed the screenplay for Repo Chick, which comes billed as 'a 21st century look at the issues of Repo Man'. ...
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The lowdown - How does 3D work'
The 3D projection formats introduced in the 1950s were cumbersome, labour-intensive and required two cameras projecting onto the same screen, making synchronisation difficult. Today, there are three far more sophisticated 3D digital projection technologies in the theatrical market: RealD, Dolby Digital Cinema and Imax 3D.All of them exploit the way ...
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Feature - The Open Doors Projects 2008
Faith (Guatemala)Dir/co-scr: Alejo CrisostomoProds: Alejo Crisostomo, Elias JimenezSet in the seething, violent atmosphere of Guatemala City, this project tells the story of an evangelist pastor who is invited to conduct a service at the local prison. There he meets a young fisherman accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl. ...
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The Mummy goes up against Batman in 28 territories
The Dark Knight would appear to be the one to beat yet again as the film enters its third weekend, although Warner Bros Pictures International can look for some spirited competition from Universal's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor which opens in 28 territories.The crime epic has amassed $159m ...
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Di Pierro, Cirillo team up for revenue sharing online distributor
Former Warner Brothers executive Vince Di Pierro and marketing veteran Joe Cirillo have launched the revenue sharing online distributor Indie RoadThe founders will canvas a panel of experts to select material that visitors to the site will be able to download or stream for prices starting at less than a ...
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Reviews
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Dir: Sanaa Hamri. US. 2008. 118 mins.A sequel to the 2005 big-screen adaptation of Ann Brashares' novel about a quartet of young girls who discover a pair of jeans that mysteriously fits each of them perfectly, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is a painted-within-the-lines drama that skates by ...
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Lucasfilm wins copyright case against Shepperton Design Studios
The High Court in London has ruled that Shepperton Design Studios and its principal Andrew Ainsworth violated Lucasfilm's US copyrights by manufacturing and selling Stormtrooper helmets and other costume replicas from the Star Wars franchise.The decision handed down from the High Court's Chancery Division today [July 31] affirmed that Lucasfilm ...
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Luke Ryan joins MGM as vp of theatrical production
Former vice president of MTV Films Luke Ryan has joined the MGM motion picture group as vice president of theatrical production.Ryan will oversee the production and development of new MGM projects and reports to chairman of the worldwide motion picture group Mary Parent.He will immediately get to work on priority ...
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Tribeca Film Festival sets 2009 dates as April 22 to May 3
The Tribeca Film Festival's 2009 edition will take place in New York from April 22 to May 3, organisers announced today [July 31].The Tribeca Film Institute's Tribeca All Access (TAA) programme will run from April 20 to April 25.For further information about Tribeca visit the official website at www.tribecafilm.com.
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Grande ambitions: Locarno preview
On the eve of this year's 61st Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16), the organisers are in bullish mood. Festival director Frederic Maire is clearly delighted to secure Julian Jarrold's Evelyn Waugh adaptation Brideshead Revisited as the festival's opening film.'It's a very strong film, which looks really classical but is ...
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China Film, Enlight team to produce new media shorts
Chinese state-owned China Film Group Corporation and private media group Enlight Media are teaming up to produce short films for new media platforms. The two groups aim to produce 100 short films in the coming year. According to Wang Changtian, president of Enlight Media Group, the films will be three ...
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Korea's constitutional court rules against restricted rating
South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled against the Korea Media Rating Board's 'Restricted' classification, effectively compelling the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to create a revised law proposal for the legislative body. Local importer World Cinema filed suit in February of this year after its Cannes 2005 pick-up Battle ...
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Adlabs commissions studyof Indian cinema audiences
Mumbai-based Adlabs Cinemas has commissioned India's leading research agency, IMRB International, to carry out research that will probe the Indian cinema audience on parameters such as advertising exposure, cinema habits and exposure to media. Adlabs Cinemas is a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, while IMRB International is ...
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Projects by Fliegauf, Alvart, Sax receive backing from German funds
New productions by Benedek Fliegauf, Christian Alvart, and Geoffrey Sax are among 35 projects receiving over $12m in support from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and Leipzig-based Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM).At its latest sitting the Berlin-based FFA supported such projects as Hungarian director Fliegauf's first English language production, Womb, produced ...