All Screen articles in 6 January 2008 – Page 2
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United Kingdom - A very long disengagement
In the 11 years since he was fired from the directing chair of New Line's The Island Of Dr Moreau, Richard Stanley has kept a low profile. The UK film-maker had made a big splash with his first feature, Hardware, in 1990 but his subsequent career proved troubled to say ...
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Paris Screenings - 'the grande fete of french cinema'
The tenth anniversary of the Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris will give international buyers the first chance of the year to see the French films on offer from the country's sales companies.This year, more than 350 buyers and 120 journalists from two dozen countries will make the trip ...
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International - Leading the charge
German film Keinohrhasen was this weekend's highest non-US performer in the international top 40, generating a robust $7.6m over the three-day period.The romantic comedy was up 65% in the weekend after Christmas, playing across 569 screens for the second-highest screen average at $13,489 per screen. Directed by and starring Til ...
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Olympic challenge for international film in China
As the finishing touches are being made to Beijing's sports venues, there is an air of nervous anticipation in the Chinese capital.The Beijing 2008 Olympics (August 8-24) will either be the biggest international coming-out party that China has ever seen, or a public-relations nightmare, with human-rights protesters spilling onto the ...
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United Kingdom - Coming up for chair
It is almost a decade since Colin MacCabe left his position as head of research and education at the British Film Institute (BFI). He is still an active producer - his latest project, Isaac Julien's Derek Jarman documentary, Derek, premieres in Sundance. Yet MacCabe cannot hide his dismay at what ...
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FeaturesBest picture: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
DreamWorks-Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros Pictures
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Screen opinion- the film industry must avoid the hype
Rudyard Kipling's exhortation that we should treat those 'impostors' triumph and disaster just the same ought to be nailed to the walls in film offices everywhere.January has started with a gloomy sense of introspection in some quarters. The mood of last summer, when the first blockbusters were defying the critics, ...
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Critical Mass- the art of the film trailers
Trailers have received scant attention from film critics; Lisa Kernan's peppy 2004 history of the genre, Coming Attractions, is one of the rare exceptions.This is probably because the trailer is not considered a 'pure' genre. Trailers exist for one reason only: to make us go see the film.But they differ ...
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2008 Preview - The future is rewritten
A Hollywood producer takes a shine to an up-and-coming European screenwriter. "I'm going to set you to work on the rewrite of my next film," the producer tells the writer. "Who wrote the first version'" the writer asks. "We haven't hired anyone yet," the producer replies.This story may be apocryphal ...
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2008 Preview - Hitting the high notes
The reverberations of the US writers' strike are being felt around the world as a trio of international shoots - Sony's Angels And Demons, Warner Bros' Vietnam drama Pinkville, to be directed by Oliver Stone, and Warner Bros- backed Shantaram, set to star Johnny Depp - have been put on ...
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2008 Preview - Marketing - Unchartered Territory
Pre-release audience tracking surveys, which have been honed into a precise science over decades, seem to be evolving into an inexact art, causing considerable consternation for Hollywood film marketers. Distributors use tracking surveys to decide how best to allocate the $3.5bn spent annually on paid media to advertise films in ...
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Chipmunks land in Australia, Brazil, six other territories
Warner Bros Pictures International top brass will expect robust holdover business to boost the $117m running total of last weekend's box office champion I Am Legend.There are no releases scheduled for the sci-fi horror this weekend however several major launches lies ahead in the coming weeks, the first of which ...
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Maycock appointed managing director of Technicolor (Thailand)
Ian Maycock has been appointed managing director of Technicolor (Thailand), the Bangkok-based facility film lab which provides servicing for films, commercials and documentary projects.Maycock moves into the position from his role as director, business development. He has been with Technicolor since May 2007.The facility was established in Bangkok in 1977 ...
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Sky, Curzon Artificial Eye work together on The Edge Of Heaven
As Screen International previously reported, Sky Television and Curzon Artificial Eye are working on a groundbreaking release for Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven.The film will be released in at least 14 Curzon and City Screen cinemas on Feb 22, the same day it will be available to Sky Anytime ...
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Keinohrhasen leads non-US films in Screen international chart
German film Keinohrhasen was this weekend's highest non-US performer in the international top 40, generating a robust $7.6m over the three-day period.The top 40 international films generated $269.1m from 49,546 screens for the period of December 28-30.For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.The romantic comedy was ...
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Norway's local market share holds steady as admissions fall 10%
In 2007 Norwegian cinemas registered a 10% decline in admissions, to reach 10.8m, according to statistics from the Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino. Local productions accounted for 1.7m admissions, to maintain last year's market share of 16.4% which (except for 2003) is the largest since 1975.'The big international blockbusters ...
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Spain's Dygra Films reveals five film slate until 2012
Galicia based animation studio Dygra plans a slate of digital 3D projects.Dygra Films will release one film per year starting with Spirit Of The Forest in 2008, a sequel to The Animal Forest (2001), the first European film to be made entirely using CGI, which achieved $2m at the box ...
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Western Australian mining boom helps funding for thriller Crush
Few feature films are made in Western Australia but producer Deidre Kitcher said that profits from the area's mining boom lead to the thriller Crush going into production yesterday.She and co-directors John V Soto and Jeff Gerritsen convinced six investors to put up the $1.76m (A$2m) budget with the help ...
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Sean Penn to head 61st Cannes Film Festival jury
Sean Penn will head the jury at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, organisers have announced.The 61st festival runs May 14-25.'In the last few years, it seems there has been a rejuvenation of cinema building worldwide; increasingly thoughtful, provocative, moving, and imaginative films by talented filmmakers: that a new generation of ...
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David A Grafton to receive Academy's Gordon E Sawyer Award
David A Grafton will receive this year's Gorden E Sawyer Award, an Oscar statuette for technological industry contributions, from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.Grafton is a pioneer in designing lenses for optical effects printers which, at the time of their development, were adopted by virtually every visual ...
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