All Screen articles in 7 November 2007 – Page 2
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TLA picks up Living And The Dead, Socket at AFM
TLA Releasing has picked up US non-theatrical and home video rights to Simon Rumley's UK thriller The Living And The Dead and North American and UK non-theatrical, home video and VOD rights to Sean Abley's US genre film Socket.TLA plans a March 25 2008 release through sister company Danger After ...
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Spottiswoode's Devil crosses C$1m at Canadian box office
Powered by strong audiences in Quebec, Roger Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil has passed the C$1m ($1.07m) at the Canadian box office, according to distributor Seville Pictures. Starring Roy Dupuis as the Canadian general rendered powerless to prevent the Rwandan genocide, the C$15m production opened on September 28 on ...
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Summit signs three-year output deal with Concorde/Tele-Muenchen
Summit International has slotted into place the German piece of its output deal jigsaw with a three-year deal with Tele-Muenchen Group (TMG).The agreement will kick off with Twilight and Sex Drive and covers all rights in Germany and Austria as well as television rights in German-speaking Switzerland through 2010.Going forward ...
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Damon Bryant heads new Arclight Films UK office
Los Angeles-based Arclight Films has launched a UK office and put former ICM agent and Natural Nylon founding partner Damon Bryant in charge.Bryant will head UK production and acquisitions for the company and its two divisions, Darclight and Easternlight.'It is important for Arclight's development to have a European base since ...
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Thessaloniki reveals 230 film line-up
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 16-25)programmeis to feature230 plus films representing 40 nations accompanied by a major push in Film Market and co-production activities. Among the 14 titles in competition - reserved to first and second films - is the world premiere ofGerman production Elli Makra by Athanasios Karanikolas.Two ...
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Three-way battle in $16.68m Japanese box office weekend
Resident Evil: Extinction, distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, triumphed in a threeway battle at the Japanese box office at the weekend.The horror action-fest earned $5.21m, shooting down Toho-distributed nostalgic drama Always: Sunset On Third Street 2, which earned $4.77m. Released on 331 and 330 screens respectively, per screen averages were ...
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Paramount on board for local distribution of Fraser's Dean Spanley
Paramount Pictures will distribute Toa Fraser's Dean Spanley in Australia and New Zealand.As previously reported, Toa Fraser will direct the whimsical father and son tale to star Peter O'Toole and Jeremy Northam.The film will start shooting Nov 12 on location in the east of England. Delivery is set for mid-2008.The ...
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Screen East contributes $1.58m to three new features
UK regional screen agency Screen East has announced more than $1.58m in investment in three new feature films to shoot in the East of England. Screen East's new Content Investment Fund is backed by the European Regional Development Fund.The three films backed are Toa Fraser's Dean Spanley starring Peter O'Toole, ...
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Tigerlily starts shooting Jeanie Finlay's Goth Cruise
UK-based Tigerlily Films has started production on Goth Cruise, its feature length documentary backed by the Independent Film Channel and EM Media (via European Regional Development Funds).Jeanie Finlay, a Screen International 2007 Star of Tomorrow, is directing. Natasha Dack and Nikki Parrott of Tigerlily are producing, with New York-based Cactus ...
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Spare
Dir: Lee Seong Han. S Korea. 2007. 105min.Intermittently funny but always energetic, this spoof action film displays the kind of flair and attitude that will win fans at home and attract the interest of many film festivals especially for midnight screenings. Lee Seong Han, a fan of the Hong Kong ...
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Singapore's digital TV service signs studio deals
SingTel's new digital pay-TV service, mio TV, has formed strategic partnerships with four major movie studios.The agreements with NBC Universal,Twentieth Century Fox, Disney-ABC International Television and Eros International will 'bring almost 80% of all major Hollywood output into Singapore homes', said Low Ka Hoe, director of mio TV and Content. ...
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The Red Awn (Hongse Kangbaiyin)
Dir.Cai Shangjun. China. 2007. 108minsAlready established as a highly successful screenwriter whose work with Zhang Yang on Shower and Sunflower won international kudos, Cai Shangjun steps behind the camera for the first time with a film whose theme - a father-son relationship - has informed his previous work. A simple, ...
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Hollywood writers' strike begins
Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA)are now on strike after the failure of last-minute negotiations.The union met for 10 hours with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)on Sunday but there were still major sticking points, particularly onpayments forDVD releases.The current contract between the WGA's 12,000 ...
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Sony expected to take District 9 rights from QED
Sony was poised last night [Sunday] to strike the biggest deal of AFM and take North America and other territories to Peter Jackson's upcoming sci-fi action film District 9.QED Intl is fully financing District 9 and handles worldwide sales on the project, which Jackson will produce through his Wingnut Films.Neill ...
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Korea's Megabox snaps up Penelope, Ramen Girl
Continuing the Korean buying spree at the AFM, Seoul-based exhibitor Megabox has snapped up two titles - romantic comedy Penelope, starring Reese Witherspoon, from Hyde Park International, and The Ramen Girl, starring Brittany Murphy, from Media 8 Entertainment. Megabox entered acquisitionsat this year's European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin andwas ...
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Stone, Peet find Five Dollars with THINKFilm
Sharon Stone and Amanda Peet have joined the cast of Nigel Cole's Five Dollars A Day, also starring Christopher Walken and Alessandra Nivola.The film is financed by Capitol Films and is being sold by sister company THINKFilm International.The comedy is about a father and son road trip. Stone plays the ...
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Film Library picks up Chinese dramaBefore The Sunrise
Hong Kong-based sales outfit The Film Library has picked up international rights to Derek Chiu's historical drama Before The Sunrise (previously known as Road To Dawn). The film follows the story of the 'founder of modern China' Sun Yat-sen - whose Republican revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty - during his ...
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NonStop deals CG-animated Gnomes & Trolls to CIS
Scandinavia's NonStop Sales has sold Gnomes And Trolls, the 3D-animated comedy fairy tale executive produced by Toy Story writers Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolo, to Ukranian Rights Management in Kiev for the CIS and is in advanced negotiations with China and Turkey.As soon as Gnomes And Trolls is delivered in ...
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Da Silva launches boutique consultancy Novo Films
EuropaCorp artistic advisor Francois Da Silva has left the company to establish his own boutique consultancy, Novo Films. The Paris-based outfit will advise on international co-production projects and acquisitions, with a focus on emerging territories, for a range of clients including EuropaCorp. Among the projects that Da Silva is advising ...
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Ondamax takes on sales for prison doc White Bear
Ambitious new Latin American outfit Ondamax has taken on sales for documentary White Bear chronicles the story of one of the world's most notorious jails, the 'White Bear' in Puerto Rico. The film, now in post-production, was co-financed by Buena Onda Americas and the Puerto Rican Film Commission. Directed by ...