All Screen articles in 6 February 2009 – Page 5
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Profile: The International producer Chuck Roven
With a career spanning more than 25 years, producer Charles 'Chuck' Roven is not letting a huge hit like The Dark Knight sidetrack him from the kinds of films he has always enjoyed making.'After a hit like that, maybe there are more opportunities to select what I'll be doing next,' ...
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China - The pain of war
Raising the budget for a film is not easy for any film-maker. But few have had it as hard as Chinese director Lu Chuan. He made his name internationally with festival favourite Kekexili: Mountain Patrol in 2004, but his success did not help him back home in China when trying ...
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United States - South of the border
Like many Canadians in Los Angeles, Marc Hamou left his native land because the opportunities in the US entertainment industry were too rich to ignore. But in this case, Hamou is a talent manager, and many of his clients are Canadians, including actors Jay Baruchel and Michael Cera - that ...
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Berlin Buzz: the key films
It may be as much a question of lucky timing as one of programming genius, but at first glance the competition line-up of the 59th Berlinale, which was finalised this week, makes for an appetising buffet.The opening out-of-competition film, global finance thriller The International, stars Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. ...
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Interview: EFM director Beki Probst
As director of the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) for 20 years, Beki Probst has borne witness to seismic changes at both the festival and the international film business. One of the most striking changes she has observed is in the attitudes of people attending the market.'When they come to ...
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International box office - End of the affair
International box-office revenues rose 5.1% in 2008 to $16.1bn in contrast to a flat US domestic performance. But the international picture is more mixed than it first appears. The fourth quarter of last year saw an international box office decline of 2.3% with only the first quarter of the year ...
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Ready for action: EFM preview
It looks like rich pickings for international buyers at this year's European Film Market, with new projects from leading film-makers including Peter Weir, Julian Schnabel, Robert Redford, Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Bruce Robinson. PERIOD1939 (UK)Dir/scr: Stephen PoliakoffBBC Films' $6m thriller marks the return of writer-director Poliakoff (Close My Eyes) to film-making ...
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Summit arrives at EFM with Furry Vengeance, Next Day Air
Summit International arrives at EFM with the $50m family adventure Furry Vengeance starring Brendan Fraser and urban comedy caper Next Day Air starring Mos Def and Mike Epps.Summit Entertainment plans a 2010 North American release on Furry Vengeance, in which Fraser plays a conniving developer whose cruel intentions meet with ...
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Myriad takes on international rights to McGehee/Siegel drama
Kirk D'Amico's Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Myriad Pictures has acquired all international rights to the action drama Uncertainty starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins.Myriad will screen the film and commence sales at EFM next week after Myriad's Luiza Ricupero negotiated the deal with Christine Kim of Cinetic. ...
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Swank in Hammer's The Resident
Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined Hilary Swank in Hammer Films' thriller The Resident, which will be available at next week's EFM in Berlin.Hammer will produce for parent company Exclusive Media Group, the global company that combines Hammer and Los Angeles-based Spitfire Pictures and is backed by strategic investment ...
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UK government to legislate against piracy
The UK government has announced that it will legislate to tackle piracy resulting from peer to peer file sharing. The government's plans are set out in the report Digital Britain issued today, January 29, by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory ...
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Rossi, Mori hired by Paramount in acquisitions group
Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions Group (PWAG) has appointed Alexandra Rossi to vice president of the group in London and Mineko Mori to director of the group in Mexico City.The group was set up in July 2008 as Paramount's centralised acquisitions and local co-production division servicing Paramount Pictures International and its territories ...
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Warner Bros' Josh Berger joins UK Film Council board.
Minister for Culture Barbara Follett has announced today that Josh Berger, President and MD of Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Ltd (WBEUK) has been appointed to the UK Film Council's board of directors. Berger, who has been with Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. since 1989, has been WBEUK's President and MD since ...
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M-Appeal picks up international sales for Simon Chung's End Of Love
M-Appeal has picked up international distribution for Hong Kong filmmaker Simon Chung's drama End Of Love, which will have its world premiere in the Panorama Special at the Berlinale next month. End Of Love's cast includes Lee Chi Kin, Guthrie Yip and Clifton Kwan, Scripted by Chung, the film centres ...
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Russia and CIS box office up 46.9% year on year
Russia and CIS box office grossed $830m in 2008, a 46.9% year on year rise from 2007's $565m, according to Russian Film Business Today. The main reasons behind the increase are a significant rise in admissions combined with a considerable hike in ticket prices. Admissions for 2008 totalled a record ...
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UK lottery funding for the Film Agency for Wales drops 21%
The Film Agency for Wales is to receive $1.1 million (£750,000) of lottery money to invest in Welsh film production and development in 2009. The investment fund is significantly lower than the figure allocated for the previous year. Over the course of 2008 the agency invested almost $2.5 million (£1.7 ...
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Japanese box office down 1.8% in 2008
According to annual data published today by The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren), overall box office revenues for 2008 totalled $2.164bn (Y194.84bn), a 1.8% decrease from 2007's $2.204bn (Y198.44bn). The figure represents earnings on 160.49 million admissions, a 1.7% drop on the previous year's 163.19m cinemagoers. The average ...
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Samuel L. Jackson joins cast of Rodrigo Garcia's Mother And Child
Samuel L. Jackson has joined the cast of Rodrigo Garcia 's Mother and Child,he joinsNaomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, and Jimmy Smits.Prinicpal photography has now started with writer and director Rodrigo Garcia directing from his own screenplay. Mother And Child tells the intersecting story of three women - a ...
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Amanda Seyfried takes the lead in A Woman Of No Importance
Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has signed on for the leading role of Hester Worley in Myriad Pictures' Oscar Wilde adaptation A Woman Of No Importance.Bruce Beresford is directing and Donald Zuckerman producing, with Myriad president and CEO Kirk D'Amico serving as executive producer.Annette Bening and Sean Bean also star ...
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Suso D'Amico to receive first WGAW Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting
Italian screenwriter Suso D'Amico will receive the inaugural Writers Guild Of America West's Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting achievement.D'Amico is credited with writing more than 100 films including The Bicycle Thief, Rocco And His Brothers and Big Deal On Madonna Street.The lifetime achievement award will be given on an occasional ...