All Screen articles in 7 November 2008 – Page 7
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Red Cliff opens at peak of Japanese box office
John Woo's Red Cliff Part 1 opened at the top of the Japanese box office the weekend of November 1st-3rd, dethroning Suspect X's four-week run in the number one position.Red Cliff opened November 1 on 549 screens, earning $9.64m (Y961.79m) on 825,000 admissions. The screen count represents the highest ever ...
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Repo! The Genetic Opera
Dir: Darren Lynn Bousman . US. 2008. 97 mins.Kinky, sexy, gory and campy, Repo! The Genetic Opera may be an unwieldy mess, but it's a fun unwieldy mess. Based on a Los Angeles theatrical piece, this futuristic rock opera will annoy those unwilling to meet it halfway, as its shamelessly ...
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Secrets of State (Secret Defense)
Dir: Philippe Haim. France. 2008. 100 mins.If French political thriller Secrets of State were any more topical, it would be about what you ate for breakfast. This fast-paced and meticulously-researched tale shows the recruitment and training of a young female Secret Service operative alongside a parallel story about how an ...
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Oliver Stone to attend 49th Thessaloniki film festival
Oliver Stone has confirmed his presence at the 49th Thessaloniki film festival. The confirmation came as the festival unveiled its line up, which features more than 230 films from 55 countries. This year's festival will also be accompanied by a major push in f ilm m arket and co-production activities.Stone ...
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Fortissimo picks up world-wide sales rights to Miao Miao
Fortissimo Films picked up world-wide sales rights outside China, Taiwan and Hong Kong for Miao Miao, a Jet Tone Films Ltd and J.A. Movies (H.K.) production.Miao Miao is the feature debut from director Cheng Hsiao Tse. Warner Bros will release the film in November in Taiwan, while Golden Scene will ...
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Focus announces five film-makers selected for Africa First
Focus Features announced the first five film-makers to benefit from the company's Africa First initiative announced earlier this year.The five film-makers of African nationality and residence arrived in New York last weekend to take part in workshops with the likes of Focus CEO James Schamus and production chief John Lyons.The ...
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Hurd to receive first career award at new LA Women's Showcase
Producer Gale Anne Hurd will receive the first career achievement award from the Women's International Film & Television Showcase (The WIFTS) which is holding its first event in Los Angeles from Dec 4-7.The award will be presented on the final night of the four-day showcase which will present ten films ...
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AFM: Artist View embraces Brothers War
Artist View Entertainment has taken on international rights heading into AFM to the action thriller Brothers War from producer Tino Struckmann.Jerry Buteyn directed the story set in the closing days of the Second World War as a German and a British officer join forces to save Europe from a new ...
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Cinemavault acquires international to The Hammer
Cinemavault has acquired international rights to the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival comedy The Hammer starring Adam Carolla and will introduce to buyers at AFM.Charles Herman-Wurmfeld directed the story of a 40-year-old underachiever who works on a construction site and lands a chance to try out for the US Olympic team.Heather ...
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HS Media launches sales arm Exclusive with Peter Weir film
HS Media, the parent company of Spitfire Pictures and Hammer Films formed by Dutch investment group Cyrte Investments that was announced in Cannes, has unveiled Exclusive Film Distribution as its in-house sales and distribution arm.The London-based division led by head of sales Peter Naish will be tempting buyers at AFM ...
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Basner's back with FilmNation, deals with MRC, Samuels, Endgame
Several months after leaving his post as head of international at The Weinstein Company, Glen Basner returns to the fray with his new sales and distribution company FilmNation Entertainment and will commence pre-sales at AFM on M Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller Devil.Backed by equity investors including Steve Samuels, New York-based ...
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AFM: Spanish sales companies look beyond horror
The last few years have all been about horror films from Spain but 2009 promises a more diverse slate of projects. One of the few scary movies in the works is Filmax's [Rec 2] which will be offered to buyers for the first time at the AFM. Jamie Balauguero is ...
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Expansion for Agora market at Thessaloniki
The Agora film market at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival-TIFF (November 14-23) is expanding.The growth of the four-year-old market, run by Margarita Eliopoulou, follows a successful 2007 in which 36 films from South Eastern Europe obtained distribution in 18 different world territories.According to TIFF's director Despina Mouzaki '2007 saw an ...
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American Film Market: Asia-Pacific buzz films
Screen looks at the Asia-Pacific buzz projects at this year's American Film Market (November 5-12).Click on a territory to see moreJapanSouth KoreaThailandHong Kong/China/TaiwanAustralia and New Zealand
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Not By Chance to open Brazilian Film Festival Of Toronto
Philippe Barcinski's first feature film Not By Chance a story of two control-obsessed men, opens the 2nd BRAFFT - Brazilian Film Festival of Toronto this week at the Bloor Cinema. Fifteen films will be screened during the four-day event (Nov 6-9), launched last year to increase the visibility of Brazilian ...
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AFM: Williams, Bonard launch ScreenOpus with US/French backing
Fledgling international film and television sales agency ScreenOpus, a joint venture between US-based Severance Pictures and Paris-based MK2 SA, arrives at AFM with launch titles The Hide and The Golden Age.Former MGM vice president of international sales and marketing Courtney Williams and former MTV International vice president of sales and ...
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Miramax to take slew of rights on Knightley-starrer Last Night
Miramax is believed to be closing a deal for North American, UK, Australian, New Zealand, South African and Latin American including Brazilian rights to the drama Last Night starring Keira Knightley.The story follows a married couple who are separated for one night while the husband goes on a business trip ...
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Arthouse Films acquires worldwide to Herb & Dorothy
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Megumi Sasaki's documentary film Herb & Dorothy.The distributor plans a theatrical release in early 2009 followed by a DVD release on the Arthouse Films label.The film premiered at AFI SilverDocs Festival where it won the Audience Award and was recently awarded the Golden ...
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Lightning takes international on Trailer Park Of Terror
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights to the comic book adaptation Trailer Park Of Terror heading into AFM this week.The Bogner Entertainment title is based on the Imperium Comics series about a group of students and their chaperone who are stranded in the mountains and left to ...
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Edko lines up stellar cast for Yuen Wo-ping's True Legend
Renowned action choreographer Yuen Wo-ping (The Forbidden Kingdom, Kill Bill) is directing a martial arts biopic, True Legend, starring Chiu Man-cheuk, Taiwanese pop singer Jay Chou, Michelle Yeoh and Chinese actors Zhou Xun and Guo Xiaodong. Edko (Beijing) Management and Consulting Ltd, the Beijing-based subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Edko Films, ...