All Screen articles in 6 August 2008 – Page 5
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Disney takes New Zealand rights to Under The Mountain
Walt Disney has signed on with sales agent NZ Film to distribute Black Sheep director Jonathan King's scary teen adventure Under The Mountain in New Zealand. Sam Neill has been cast in the film, an adaptation of a 1979 Maurice Gee novel about teenage twins who battle the dark forces ...
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The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
Dir: Rob Cohen . US. 2008. 107 mins.Nine years have passed since The Mummy, a moderately-charming period action-adventure yarn starring Brendan Fraser, but it seems even longer after viewing Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, a dispiritingly witless sequel with very little personality but a lot of frenetic comic banter and ...
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Russian box-office sales boom in first half of 2008
Cinemas in Russia and the CIS saw a 3.7% year-on-year increase in admissions in the first half of 2008 while sales in the first six months of the year ballooned 38.2% over the same period in 2007. According to Russian Film Business Today, more than 56m tickets were sold in ...
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Match Factory handles Venice competitors Jerichow, Teza
Cologne-based The Match Factory will handle international sales on two Venice competition titles - Christian Petzold's Jerichow and Haile Gerima's Teza - screening as world premieres at the festival.Jerichow marks The Match Factory's second collaboration with Petzold after his Berlinale 2007 competition film Yella which won lead actress and Petzold ...
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Colin Brown steps down as Editor-in-Chief of Screen International
Colin Brown is stepping down as the longstanding Editor-in-Chief of Screen International to pursue new entrepreneurial ambitions in the global media and entertainment sphere.Announcing the amicable departure, Natasha Christie-Miller, Managing Director, Retail & Media at Emap Inform, Screen's parent company, paid tribute to Brown's long and profitable association with the ...
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Xingu partners with comic kingpin Pat Millsfor American Reaper film
Repeat Offenders, a new UK company developing graphic novels with cinema potential, is at work on its first two projects, both based on the work of lauded comics duo Pat Mills and Clint Langley.Trudie Styler's Xingu Films has acquired big-screen rights to upcoming graphic novel American Reaper created by writer ...
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Tran to adapt Norwegian Wood for Asmik Ace, Fuji TV
Acclaimed French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung will direct an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's famed Japanese novel Norwegian Wood, to be co-produced by Asmik Ace and Fuji TV. Norwegian Wood tells the story of a businessman reminiscing about the intense romances of his university days, set against the turbulent student riots ...
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HFPA gives $0.76m in grants to film schools and non-profits
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented $759,865 in financial grants to film schools and non-profit organizations at its annual installation luncheon in Los Angeles today (Wednesday).
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UKFC backs 56 independent cinemas with $940,000
The UK Film Council's Capital and Access Fund for cinemas has awarded $939,400 (£475,000) to 56 independent cinemas across the UK. Grants ranged from $1,008 (£510) to $69,221 (£35,000) per cinema.Some of the largest awards went to Aberystwyth Arts Centre Cinema, Cardiff's Chapter Cinema, the Glasgow Film Theatre, the RBS ...
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Chew takes Singapore-based role for Global Networks
Christopher Chew has been appointed Affiliate Sales Director Asia Pacific Global Networks, an international division of NBC Universal.He takes the newly created role effective immediately.The announcement was made by Raymund Miranda, Managing Director Asia Pacific Global Networks to whom Chew will report.Chew will be based in Singapore. He previously was ...
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Happy-Go-Lucky, Stardust up for Conch soundtrack awards
Industry group UK Screen has announced the shortlisted nominees for its sound prizes, The Conch Awards.The awards are now in their third year, honouring audio post-production in film, TV and commercials.The industry nominated the shortlisted candidates, and now those contenders will submkit material for judging. Winners will be announced at ...
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John Goodman, David Wenham confirmed for Pope Joan
US actor John Goodman and Australian-born David Wenham have joined the cast of Soenke Wortmann's adaptation of Donna W. Cross' bestselling novel Pope Joan, which begins principal photography in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt next week.Goodman will play the part of Pope Sergius - the role he had also been expected to play ...
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NewsSan Sebastian adds The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas to Selection
San Sebastian has announced that Buena Vista/Disney’s The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas will be presented as an international premiere in official selection at this year’s festival.
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Locarno to honour Chahine with Destiny screening
The Locarno International Film Festival will pay tribute to the Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, who died last weekend at the age of 82,with a special screening of his film Destiny (Al Massir) on the Piazza Grande on August 7.This film had also been shown eleven years ago at the festival ...
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Harry Potter bewitches for 2008 Royal Film Performance
The 2008 Royal Film Performance will be a screening of Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince on Monday, Nov 17.The film selection was today confirmed by organising charity Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF).CTBF said it wouldn't be known until closer to November which members of the ...
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Jack White, Alicia Keys team for new Bond song
The 22nd James Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, will feature a theme song duet for the first time in the franchise's history.Jack White (of the White Stripes and Raconteurs) and Alicia Keys will record Another Way To Die.As rumoured, troubled British chanteuse Amy Winehouse had been in talks to record ...
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Swing Vote
Dir. Joshua Michael Stern, US, 2008, 120 minutes.Swing Vote is a motivational effort whichlurches between homespun sentimentality and topical satire, with the moral that echoes the American mythology that one vote can make a difference, even if it is cast by a beer-drinking boob who has just been laid off ...
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Juraj Jakubisko strikes back with empire story 200 Years Of Solitude
Juraj Jakubisko is preparing a film from the time of Great Moravian Empire, which dominated Central Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries.The Slovak director said he might release 200 Years Of Solitude (working title) in two or three parts.Jakubisko describes the project as an epic look at the time ...
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Tourism Australia to help market Luhrmann's new film
Tourism Australia is to invest $47.4m (A$50m) to be part of and to help generate the marketing hype around Baz Luhrmann's sweeping period romance Australia, which is in cinemas from November 13. The government authority has signed a promotional partnership agreement with Twentieth Century Fox and will leap into the ...
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Bank of Beijing grants loans to Polybona, Enlight
China's Bank of Beijing has made loans of $14.64m (RMB100m) each to two mainland film companies - Polybona Film Distribution and Enlight Media Group - to fund their production and distribution operations in the coming year. The bank announced the loans yesterday as part of its 'cultural and creative industry ...