All Screen articles in 7 November 2006 – Page 10
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Marmot appointed as Skillset director of film
Janine Marmot has been named as the new director of film of UK training organisation Skillset.Marmot will oversee the body's five-year strategy for film, A Bigger Future, a joint initiative with the UK Film Council.The plans includes a UK-wide network of Skillset Screen Academies and the mentoring scheme Guiding Lights. ...
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TF1 AFM slate includes Paquet-Brenner double
Heading into the AmericanFilm Market, French sales outfit TF1 International will be featuring an eclecticslate of new films including a one-two punch in very different styles fromdirector Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The first, a follow up to2003's successful action-comedy Gomez&Tavares, is Payoff 2, directed byPaquet-Brenner and Cyril Sebaswith a cast that includes ...
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Eva Dahr to direct Gaarder adaptation The Orange Girl
Norwegiandirector Eva Dahr - currently in post with her new film, Mars andVenus - has been signed to directThe Orange Girl, a $3.8m (Euros 3m) feature from Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder's latest novel. His Sophie'sWorld was published in 45 languages to become the world's bestsellingfiction book in 1995.Norwegianproducer Axel Helgeland, ...
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The Waiting Room starts London shoot
Roger Goldby's debut feature The Waiting Room has begun shooting in South London.The film, whose stars include Anne-Marie Duff and Rupert Graves, has been funded entirely by private investors including Sir Tim Rice with the cast and crew receiving a stake in the final film.The film will shoot for five ...
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Hildebrand named MD of Future's UK office
FutureFilms has tapped Qwerty Films veteran Andrew Hildebrand as managing director ofFuture's UK operations.Hildebrandhad been head of commercial and business affairs at Michael Kuhn's QwertyFilms, working on films including Kinsey and I Heart Huckabees. He previously served as director of business affairs at Film4,head of business affairs at Channel 4 ...
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Silverman's Reveille signs movie deal with Universal
Reveille,the TV production company behind US remake hits The Office and Ugly Betty, haslaunched Reveille Motion Pictures (RMP) and entered into a first-look deal withUniversal Pictures.RMPwill create, acquire and develop a broad slate of diverse films and has alreadypurchased and put together a slate of unannounced projects.ProducerGraham Larson, who serves ...
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Film Sales Company picks up Somebody Like You
AndrewHerwitz's New York-based Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights tothe romantic comedy Somebody Like Youstarring Vanessa Williams.RichardSchenkman makes his feature directorial debut on the story of a successfulcareer woman who unknowingly falls in love with the man who donated the spermto father her son. Eartha Kitt, newcomer Kevin ...
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Cinemanila festival gains government support
The 8th Cinemanila film festival(Nov 3-15), which is the Philippines' only international film festival, has forthe first time gained the support of two national government agencies. Both the Film DevelopmentCouncil and the National Commission for Culture and Arts, along with theIndependent Cinema Association, are major partners of this year's event. ...
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Dublin-set tale wins Final Draft's Big Break contest
TomCosgrove's The Sea Devils beat off3,000 competitors to win Final Draft's seventh annual Big Break InternationalScreenwriting Competition in Hollywood.Cosgrove'sDublin-set tale centres on the world-weary crew of an Atlantic trawler thatbecomes locked in a fight for survival after the fisherman winch a monster fromthe ship's hold into the ocean's dark zone.YehudiMercado's ...
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Kramer's Rive Gauche picks up Cuban Oscar submission El Benny
Jon Kramer's Rive Gauche Films has acquired worldwide rightsto Cuban smash and foreign-language Oscar submission El Benny and will bring the picture to AFM.Jorge Luis Sanchez's picture recounts the life of Cubanmusic legend Benny More, whose Afro-Cuban jazz big band sound took the nationby storm in the pre-Castro 1950s and ...
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Northern Lights sets industry summit attendees
The Northern Lights Film FestivalIndustry Summit is firming up plans for its Nov 17-18 event in Newcastle uponTyne. The summit will includepanel discussions, case studies, lectures, pitching sessions, speed meetings andnetworking opportunities. The festival will alsoannounce a winner of the Orange North Star Short Film Award 2006, which comeswith a ...
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Welsh student festival Ffresh gets backing from new Film Agency for Wales
The Ffresh Student MovingImage Festival, held annually in Aberystwyth, Wales, has received backing fromthe newly established Film Agency for Wales.The agency has set up an $85,840(£45,000) funding package for the festival, which will be held Feb 15-16 at AberystwythArts Centre. The event is now in its sixth year, and it ...
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CMG sells Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures in US
EdNoeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has sold domestic rights to MoriahFilms' anti-semitism documentary Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures.EverAgain is the eighth documentary featureproduced by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, andexplores the resurgence of violent anti-semitism across Europe.Thedistributor plans a Dec 8 limited release in Los ...
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Rogue picks up the world on Cameron's 3-D caving thriller
RoguePictures has picked up worldwide rights to James Cameron's upcoming andas-yet-untitled 3-D cave diving thriller.Thestudio is producing with Cameron's Earthship Productions, which the filmmakerset up to advancing his underwater expeditions and documentary work.GaryJohnstone will direct from a script by John Garvin. Cameron and Rogue willdevelop the script and the project ...
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Sex And Death 101 tops Arclight AFM lineup
ArclightFilms has boarded the black comedy Sex And Death 101 starring Simon Baker and Winona Rider and comedy How ToRob A Bank starring Nick Stahl and ErikaChristensen.Theprojects join Rawson Marshall Thurber's previously announced drama TheMysteries Of Pittsburgh starring SiennaMiller and Peter Sarsgaard as general manager Gary Hamilton ramps up his ...