All Screen articles in 6 March 2009
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Film Movement takes North American rights to Munyurangabo
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to first-time American film-maker Lee Isaac Chung's Rwandan genocide tale Munyurangabo.The feature was shot entirely in the native Kinyarwanda dialect usinga non-professional cast and crew that included genocide orphans.Munyurangabo premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2007 andwill open in May. ...
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Telefilm backs seven feature projects from Quebec
Telefilm Canada has announced it will invest in seven Quebecois feature projects, including the true-life story of airline pilot Robert Piche, who glided his powerless jetliner to a safe landing across hundreds of miles of open ocean. Piche will be directed by Erik Canuel from a screenplay by Chantal Cadieux ...
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Alexander promoted to senior executive VP at Sony International
Ralph Alexander has been promoted to senior executive vice president of international operations and distribution at Sony Pictures Releasing International.Alexander will oversee 23 managing directors as well as the generaloperational and administrative issues of the territory offices. Hewill also work on a wide range of issues arising out of the ...
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NewsTribeca to open with Woody Allen's Whatever Works
The world premiere of Woody Allen’s Whatever Works starring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr will open the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival on April 22.The picture’s North American distributor Sony Pictures Classics plans a summer release and said the opening night ...
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Polish Film Institute awards $17m in funding
The Polish Film institute has announced more than $17m in new funding for film projects and productions, including $14.5m for feature production. The results of the first funding session in 2009 also include $8.2m in direct support for international co-productions, including Polish-minority co-productions. The single largest grant was $2.2m (PLN ...
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Terribly Happy comes out on top at 2009 Bodil Awards
Terribly Happy directed by Henrik Ruben Genz was the main winner at the 61st edition of the Bodil Awards in Copenhagen on March 1, taking five awards including best Danish film. Terribly Happy also won best actor, actress, and actor in a supporting role while Jørgen Johansson won best director ...
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ReviewsStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Dir Andrzej Bartkowiak. US. 2009. 96 minsEven avid fans of the classic video game on which it is based are likely to give a thumbs down to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Coming 15 years after the first big-screen Street Fighter -1994’s $99m-grossing Jean-Claude Van Damme outing - this ...
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Cannes announces participants for upcoming Cinefondation Residence
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the six participants participating in the 18th session of the Cinefondation Residence.The filmmakers are from Israel, Poland, Slovenia, Germany, Guatemala and Chile. There are four first-time and two sophomore directors in the bunch.The six filmmakers will spend four and a half months honing their ...
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Japan's Usen divests stake in ShowTime VoD portal
Japanese media and communications conglomerate Usen has divested its stake in broadband VoD portal ShowTime Inc. Usen sold its 50% stake in ShowTime to online shopping giant Rakuten Inc for $18.38m (Y1.784bn), making the company a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rakuten. The shares will be delivered on March 25. The two ...
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Yubari awards SR: Saitama's Rapper, premieres Slumdog
Yu Irie’s 79-minute comedy drama SR: Saitama’s Rapper was awarded the grand prix at the19th editionof Japan’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (Feb 26-Mar 2), which wrappedtonight.
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NewsElephant Eye sells Sundance winner to France, Spain and Greece
Elephant Eye Films has sold distribution rights to France (ARP), Spain (Filmax) and Greece(Videorama)for Lee Daniels’ Sundance winner Push
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Road movie and black comedy among winners at Belgrade
The 2009 Belgrade co-production market chose Georgian director Tamara Sulamanidze's feature debut and second features from Kazakhstan's Nariman Turebayev and Macedonia's Igor Panov as best in group at this year's B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings. Projects from three areas, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Euro-Asia were pitched in a public session ...
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The Web TodayMarch Archive - International film news on the web
March 2A fine pickle- The GuardianHollywood loves foreigners, so long as...- The GuardianIn Downturn, Americans Flock to the Movies - New York TimesIs this a new golden age for British cinema' - The GuardianFeature film woes to have happy ending- The AustralianIndian movies hit a low, post-Dog- The AustralianMarch 3A ...
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Samson and Delilah and Treeless Mountain toast ofAdelaide
The Adelaide Film Festival may only be in its fourth year but the event has developed a reputation far beyond its age by being the first Australian film festival to seriously launch an international feature film competition and the first to invest in films. Following its lead, Sydney now also ...
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Folman, Cantet join Taormina jury in 55th anniversary year
Oscar nominees Ari Folman and Laurent Cantet have joined the international jury of the Taormina Film Fest. The announcement came along with other initiatives aimed at celebrating the festival's 55th anniversary.France will be this year's 'guest of Honour,' as part of Taormina's focus on Mediterranean cinema. For the event, eight ...
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Georgia planning tax incentives for film production
Georgia is planning to introduce its own programme of tax incentives for film production in the second halfof 2009.Speaking at this year's B2B Belgrade Industry Meeting, KonstantinChlaidze, director of the Georgian National Film Center, revealed thatresearch was currently being carried out with the UK-based consultingcompany BOP on the feasibility of ...
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Benjamin Button crosses $175m but Watchmen looms
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button continued a magnificent overseas run through Warner Bros Pictures International to remain top of the Hollywood pack as it soared past the $175m mark. Its domination looks likely to end next weekend, however, when Paramount Pictures International launches the graphic novel adaptation Watchmen day-and-date ...
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Slumdog Millionaire bounces 45% after Oscar wins
The Tyler Perry phenomenon - with Madea Goes To Jail - rolled on at the weekend and eclipsed The Jonas Brothers to hold on to its number one berth for the second consecutive weekend on an estimated $16.5m for $64.9m through Lionsgate.Revenues for the top 12 releases climbed for the ...
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Indian Film Company to co-produce Chadha's Afterlife
London and Mumbai-based The Indian Film Company (TIFC) has announced that it will co-produce Gurinder Chadha's upcoming project, It's A Wonderful Afterlife, with the director's Bend It Films. Hanway Films is handling international sales on the film which is scheduled to start shooting March 28 in London. The cast includes ...