All Screen articles in 6 March 2009 – Page 3
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Awards - Oscar winners - Millionaire's playground
When we started out we had no stars, no power or muscle to do what we wanted. But what we had was a script that had mad love and a genius director ... and we had partners in Film4, Pathe and Fox Searchlight."Celador chief Christian Colson's words after hoisting aloft ...
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Minority report: training in Australia
Minority training in AustraliaIndigenous Australians now comprise just 3% of the country's population and until the Australian Film Commission (AFC) stepped in to create a dedicated indigenous branch in 1993, they had virtually never had the chance to tell their own stories on screen.This year, the focus on indigenous film-makers ...
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Andrew Bujalski: 'Mumblecore doesn't mean much for me'
If Andrew Bujalski never heard the word 'mumblecore' again, he'd be quite happy. 'I'm tired of hearing about it,' he explains from Austin, Texas, days after his latest film, Beeswax, had its world premiere in Berlin. 'I'm tired of the reduction inherent in it. It's designed to take a lot ...
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Liew Seng Tat aims higher with second feature
Malaysian writer/director Liew Seng Tat enjoyed a festival hit with his debut feature, Flower In The Pocket, which won the New Currents award and audience award at Pusan 2007 and a Tiger award at Rotterdam 2008.With his second feature, In What City Does It Live', he wants to make sure ...
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International - Change hits the top 10
Four new entries debuted in Screen's international chart this week, the highest of which was StudioCanal's Change Of Plans, from director Daniele Thompson, at number eight. Starring Welcome To The Sticks' Dany Boon, the comedy opened in France, Belgium and French-speaking Switzerland, taking $5.9m from 550 screens for the week's ...
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Content Republicto handleonline release of The Republic Of Love
Digital distribution company Content Republichas struck a dealwith The Works International to distribute Deepa Mehta's The Republic Of Love online in European territories including Benelux, Germany, Italy and France.Content Republic will release The Republic Of Love this spring as part of its recently announced deal with Babelgum as well as ...
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Boon's Welcome To TheSticksmakes him highest paid actor in Europe
Welcome To The Sticks director and star Dany Boon has become the highest paid actor in the history of European cinema, according to French daily Le Figaro.The film, which sold nearly 21 million tickets in France alone, has already earned Boon $33m (Euros 26m). Boon directed, starred in and co-wrote ...
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Finalists for the Cartoon Movie Tributes 2009 announced
Irish animator Tomm Moore who directed Berlinale offering Brendan and The Secret Of Kells, French distributor Bac Films and the production team behind Niko & The Way To The Stars are among the finalists nominated for this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes. Cartoon Movie Tributes rewards companies and personalities who have ...
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Meszáros wraps production on historical drama The Hope
Hungarian auteur Márta Meszáros has concluded production on historical drama The Hope. The film's protagonists are two pioneering politicians, Anna Kethly and Golda Meir, whose lives intersected in 1956. Eniko Eszenyi plays Kethly while Polish actress Beata Fudalej portrays Meir. Other cast include Erno Fekete, Zsuzsa Czinkoczi, and Gyorgi Cserhalmi). ...
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Zentropa gives birth to new animation outfit
Denmark's Zentropa has launched a new animation company, Rambuk, to be headed by director Stefan Fjeldmark.Most recently Fjeldmark has been working with Denmark's Fine and Mellow Productions in a non-animation role. Commenting on the appointment, Zentropa CEO, Peter Aalbaek Jensen described Fjeldmark as having 'a rare ability to combine his ...
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Public funding for cinema in Italy cut by 23% for 2009
Arts funding in Italy for 2009 has been drastically reduced, with cinema hit by a reduction of $26.7m (Euros 20.9m), sparking a move by the arts community to change Italy's laws governing funding for cinema and the arts. The budget for Italy's single arts fund, the FUS, has been reduced ...
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Belgrade Fest hosts fourth co-production market
The 37th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST has opened its fourth East-West co-production market, the B2B Industry Meetings.B2B spotlights countries that are geographically in Europe, but not fully integrated in European film networks and markets, as well as countries outside Europe with strong European influence and heritage.The co-production market gives ...
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SWF's Scriptmarket opens for submissions
Scriptmarket, a scheme to help up-and-coming screenwriters get their films made and on screen, opens for submissions tomorrow (February 27). 'Emerging screenwriters may have written or even optioned a great spec script, but getting it noticed, getting feedback on it and getting meetings to progress it can be an uphill ...
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Ning Hao gears up to shoot Chinese road movie
Chinese filmmaker Ning Hao will start shooting road movie Wu Ren Qu in China's north-west Xinjiang province on March 10, Ning's Stoneman Films has confirmed. China Film Group Corporation and Beijing Guoli Changsheng Film and TV Productions - which backed Ning's last film Crazy Racer - are both investing in ...
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HKIFF to open with Shinjuku Incident, Night And Fog
Derek Yee's Shinjuku Incident, starring Jackie Chan, and Ann Hui's Night And Fog will open this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival (March 22-April 13) which announced its line-up today. The world premiere of both films will take place on March 22, one night before the opening of Hong Kong ...
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Dutch DP Anton Van Munster dies at the age of 74
Anton Van Munster, the award-winning cinematographer and brother of producer-director Bertram van Munster, died on February 11 in Holland after a brief illness. He was 74.After studying cinematography in Rome at the Centro Spirimentale Di Cinematografia, Van Munster worked for many years with Dutch director Bert Haanstra. Their work on ...
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Zac Efron to be honoured at ShoWest as Breakthrough Performer
Zac Efron is the latest name to be added to the honouree roster at ShoWest and will collect the 2009 Breakthrough Performer Of The Year Award on April 2.Efron appeared on stage in a musical number at the 81st Annual Academy Awards last weekend and his credits include the High ...
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Oscilloscope takes domestic rights to Oscar-nominated Garden
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired all North American distribution rights to Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Oscar-nominated documentary The Garden.The New York-based company plans a theatrical release this spring and DVD release in early summer on the story of a political wrangle over the fate of a community garden.David Fenkel negotiated the deal ...
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