All Screen articles in 7 November 2008 – Page 9
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Locarno's Finzi named director of Miami International Film Festival
Tiziana Finzi, who has spent the last nine years at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, serving as deputy director for the last three years, has been named director of the Miami International Film Festival in Florida, US. She will officially begin at the festival, which is held under the ...
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Emily Atef's The Stranger In Me wins top prize at Sao Paulo
Emily Atef's The Stranger in Me, a drama about a mother who suffers from post-natal depression and becomes a threat to her child, won the best film award at the 32nd Sao Paulo International Film Festival. The jury presided by UK director Hugh Hudson made an exception at the festival ...
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Slumdog, Striped Pyjamas win Audience Choice Awards at Chicago
Danny Boyle's UK-US adventure romance Slumdog Millionaire and Mark Herman's UK-US Holocaust tale The Boy In The Striped Pajamas were awarded the 44th Chicago International Film Festival's Audience Choice AwardsAudiences chose the winners after more than 170 films from more than 45 countries screened at the festival.The festival ran from ...
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Wysocki to receive 2008 Sundance screenwriting fellowship
Sundance Institute Feature Film Programme has announced that Jonathan Wysocki will receive the 2008 Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship with his project All Fall Down.Wysocki developed All Fall Down in June at Sundance Institute's 2008 Screenwriters Lab. The story takes a satirical look at the post-9/11 zeitgeist and explores the fallout ...
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Rousselet launches Vendome Pictures with $115m credit facility
Longtime French producer Philippe Rousselet has formed Vendome Pictures to develop, produce and finance roughly 15 features over the next five years in the $10-40m range.Vendome is backed by a $115m revolving credit facility funded by a consortium of banks led by CIT and RBS Greenwich Capital, a mezzanine facility ...
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The Rainmakers
High School Musical's (HSM) third instalment lived up to its billing as the right film for the right time: pure escapism in a global recession.High School Musical 3: Senior Year set a new opening record for a musical in the US with a three-day debut of $42m. Internationally, it opened ...
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Icon takes UK and Australian rights to Karl Golden's Pelican Blood
Icon has acquired UK and Australian rights to Karl Golden's second feature film Pelican Blood. The Honeymooners (2003) was his first feature.The film is based on the cult novel by Cris Freddi with the screenplay by Cris Cole. The film is a collaboration between Magna Films, P&C Arcade Film Fund, ...
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ReviewsTelstar (2007)
Dir. Nick Moran. UK, 2008. 114 mins.There’s a lot in the Telstar credits to attract the viewer - or at least the UK viewer. Nick Moran’s directorial debut (an adaptation of his stage play with Hicks); Kevin Spacey in a small but substantial role; its setting ...
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Cinemavault takes on sales for Where God Left His Shoes
Toronto-based Cinemavault has picked up from Paul Allen's Vulcan Productions the drama Where God Left His Shoes starring John Leguizamo.Salvatore Stabile directed the take of a down-and-out boxer who takes his young son on a journey around New York City to look for a home on Christmas Eve.The film premiered ...
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Shoreline takes on worldwide rights to Tom Cool
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights ahead of AFM to director Ron Carlson's comedy Tom Cool.Mila Kunis, Clifton Collins Jr, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Michael Rapaport, Jason Mewes and Tony Todd star in the story of a young man who lands his dream job as a driver for an escort ...
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Berlin to showcase German film industry to Bollywood
The German film industry will showcase its services and funding opportunities to Bollywood in a special presentation to the Indian film industry in Mumbai.The event will be organised by Berlin-Brandenburg Film Commission (BFFC) and inward investment agency Berlin Partner on November 2.India 's burgeoning film industry has recently been building ...
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Rotterdam International film festival unveils new forward looking logo
The Rotterdam International film festival has unveiled a new logo to support its recently announced changes to programming. A reworking of the Rotterdam festival's famous tiger, the festival has introduced the logo to support the proactive and forward looking approach it wishes to promote.The logo comes a few months after ...
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Gomes receives FIPRESCI at Viennale for Aquele Querido Mes De Agosto
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes received the FIPRESCI Critics Award at this year's Viennale for Aquele Querido Mes De Agosto. In a statement, the critics' jury said that Gomes' film 'brings to life a world of music, passion, romanticism and tragedy.' Miguel Gomes was also the subject of a special homage ...
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The Other End of The Line
Dir James Dodson. US. 2008. 106 mins Indian-American joint venture The Other End Of The Line demonstrates the pitfalls of creative globalisation even as it makes globalisation a backdrop for its frothy romantic comedy. Produced by Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park and Bollywood giant Adlabs, this piece of cross-cultural cuteness will ...
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Summit International takes on Tornatore's $30m Baaria
Summit International has boarded worldwide rights excluding Italy ahead of AFM to Giuseppe Tornatore's $30m epic Italian drama Baaria.Italy's Medusa Film and Tarak Ben Ammar's France-based Quinta Communications produced the story and Quinta had previously handled sales.Medusa holds Italian rights to the Sicilian-set comdy spanning three generations from the 1930s ...
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SPRI looking for big numbers from Quantum in three territories
Bond is back. Sony Pictures Releasing International unleashes Quantum Of Solace in its first three territories this weekend in what is expected to be a boisterous launch for the fresh 007 adventure.The follow-up to the hugely successful 2006 release Casino Royale sees Daniel Craig reprise his role as the British ...
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NewsMarket preview: American Film Market
Across the US, the buzzwords in store windows and nightly newscasts are slashed prices, bargains andcost-cutting. Yet the rallying cry ahead of this year’s American Film Market (AFM), which runs November5-12, is ‘bigger is better’.
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NewsReview: Power To The Pixel
Power To The Pixel, the UK-based outfit which helps independent film-makers make the most of the opportunities offered by the new-media world, last week hosted a digital distribution and film innovation forum as part of TheTimes BFI London Film Festival.
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Features
International - Saw V shows its teeth
The big international story this weekend may have been Walt Disney Smpi's High School Musical 3: Senior Year (see review, p24, and box office, p31) but a number of diverse openers also managed to scare up big business at the box office. Mandate International's fifth instalment in the Saw franchise ...
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Profile: Film Movement
With many old-school distributors worrying how new technologies could eat into their theatrical models, it is safe to say a company like Film Movement has all its bases covered.The New York-based firm launched in early 2003 with the unique proposition of distributing one arthouse film per month on DVD to ...