All Screen articles in 7 November 2008 – Page 8
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Shooting starts on Stephen Poliakoff's Second World War thriller 1939
Principal photography started today on Second World War thriller 1939 starring Romola Garai and Bill Nighy. 1939 is writer/director Stephen Poliakoff's return to the cinema after a ten year absence. Previous feature films included Close My Eyes starring Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves and Alan Rickman.The film will shoot on location ...
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Leipzig's top prize for Rene, FIPRESCI Award for Oblivion
Czech filmmaker Helena Trestikova's Rene has received the International Jury's Golden Dove at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.The story of an outsider of society observed by Trestikova over the course of almost 20 years was also awarded the MDR Film Prize for an outstanding East European ...
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Amazonas announces competition titles and jury, led by Alan Parker
The 5th annual Amazonas Film Festival has announced its line up, with filmmaker Alan Parker presiding over the jury. The festival, which runs from November 7-13, focuses on films with a relationship to the environment. A competition comprising nine films runs during the festival.Other jury members include French actor Tcheky ...
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Marrakech Film Festival to show 15 films from 14 countries in competition
The 8th annual Marrakech Film Festival will showcase 15 films in competition, with Barry Levinson presiding over the jury. The competition titles hail from 14 countries including Poland, China, Denmark and the U.S. The jury will comprise actors Sebastian Koch, Joaquim de Almeida, Caterina Murino and Natacha Regnier alongside filmmakers ...
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Metrodome acquires UK & Irish rights to Three Miles North Of Molkom
Metrodome has taken UK and Irish rights to International Audience Award winning, Edinburgh Film Festival hit and BIFA nominated documentary Three Miles North of Molkom. The documentary was written, produced and directed by Robert Cannan and Corinna Villari-McFarlane for Third Eye Film.Three Miles North Of Molkom follows a middle aged ...
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Berlinale expands eastwards with new venue for 2009
The Berlinale will include Europe's largest revue theatre, the Friedrichstadtpalast, as one of its screening venues at the 2009 festival.The Berlinale plans to programme four to six screenings each day at the venue, from the Competition or Berlinale Special sections.The venue will be known as the FriedrichstadtFilmpalast during the festival ...
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Critic'sfavourite Snow to have UK premiere at Bird's Eye View Festival
The UK's Bird's Eye View Festival, devoted to women's film-making, will feature the UK premiere of Aida Begic's Snow, which won theCannes 2008 Critics' Week Grand Prize for Best Film.The event will run from March 5 to March 13 2009 at London film venues including the Institute of Contemporary Arts ...
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The Man Who Loved Yngve wins best feature at the Nordic Film Days
Norwegian director Stian Kristiansen's debut, The Man Who Loved Yngve, won the NDR-Prize for best feature at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, Germany. The event is the festival circuit's largest showcase for Nordic and Baltic films.Kristiansen and his lead actors, Rolf Kristian Larsen and Ole Christoffer Ertvag, received the ...
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Cavina and Gossetti to leave theRome International Film Festival
Teresa Cavina and Giorgio Gossetti, co-curators of theRome International Film Festival's Cinema 2008 section will not renew their mandate for next year's festival. Both have cited uncertainty about the direction of future editions following changes in the local government's political hierarchy, which may impact the festival.Their roles in developing the ...
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Rome InternationalFilm Festival confirms future dates and market ambitions
As the third edition of theRome International Film Festival wrapped, Rome's President Gian Luigi Rondi outlined some of his plans for future editions. Those plans included dates for Rome's next three editions: October 15-25 2009; October 25-November 4 2010; and 2011 is likely to be October 26-November 6. Citing Venice ...
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Opium War and Resolution 819 win best film awards at Rome International Film Festival
Siddiq Barmak's Afghanistan set Opium War has won The Golden Marco Aurelio Critics' award for Best Film, while Giacomo Battiato's Resolution 819 earned the festival's Golden Marco Aurelio Audience award for Best Film. Both of these prizes are accompanied by $96,400 (Euros 75,000) in prize money from BNL - Gruppo ...
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Two of a Kind Productions signs on Frances Fisher and Dominique Swain
Frances Fisher (Titanic, The Kingdom) and Dominique Swain (Lolita) have signed on to Two of a Kind Productions' paranormal thriller Dead Whisper, set to begin production in November in Louisiana. New Orleans native Oley Sassone will direct and John Kersey will produce. Showcase Entertainment will distribute Dead Whisper.Written by Jennifer ...
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Wild Bunch AFM slate mixes major buzz titles and new film-makers
Wild Bunch is heading into the AFM with a series of new projects from young film-makers; the first images from Woody Allen's latest; and at least one film that could spark a bidding war among US distributors. The company will screen Largo Winch, its $35.6m (Euros 28m) comic book adaptation ...
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Imagenation Abu Dhabi strikes $250m financing deal with Hyde Park
Ambitious Middle Eastern producer Imagenation Abu Dhabi has closed a $250m financing deal with Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment to develop, produce and distribute up to 20 films over seven years.The deal will cover broad Hollywood entertainment and the parties expect to announce the first titles within the next several ...
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High School Musical 3 leads lacklustre weekend at domestic box office
High School Musical 3: Senior Year stayed top of the class for Buena Vista in its second weekend as an estimated $15m raised the running total to $61.8m.The family musical was one of the few highlights of a muted weekend that saw overall box office take $75.2m and drop approximately ...
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MSNBC takes North American TV on documentary Witch Hunt
MSNBC Films has acquired North American television rights from Submarine Entertainment to Dana Nachman and Don Hardy's documentary Witch Hunt, which gets its US premiere at AFI FEST on November 2.Witch Hunt chronicles the story of eight parents in Bakersfield, California, who were falsely accused and convicted of child molestation ...
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Hemdale's John Daly dies at 71 after long battle with cancer
The British-born producer John Daly who made 13 Oscar winning films including Platoon and The Last Emperor has died. He was 71.Daly, who was chairman of Film and Music Entertainment Inc, died on Friday morning [October 31] at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from cancer, said his daughter Jenny ...
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Bond smashes UK opening record, takes $38.6m from three markets
Sony Pictures Releasing International chiefs were toasting a weekend rich in rewards last night as the division crossed $1bn in receipts for the year-to-date and the new James Bond release Quantum Of Solace dominated the overseas chart with a whopping $38.6m estimated gross from 2,123 screens in the UK, France ...