All Screen articles in 9 August 2006 – Page 2
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Japanese box office poised to beat 2005 numbers
When the list of the top tenreleases for the first half of 2006 was widely reported in the Japanese medialast month, it was clear that the trend toward homegrown hits was alive andwell, with seven of the slots occupied by Japanese films.A barrage of local andHollywood summer movies has altered ...
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Albert drops out of Locarno jury over Fraeulein involvement
Austrian filmmaker-producerBarbara Albert has stepped down from Locarno FilmFestival's International Jury "to prevent any discussion about theindependence of the jury" after a local newspaper suspected a cover-up bythe festival about Albert's involvement in the screenplay for Andrea Staka's Das Fraeulein, the only Swiss film in this year's OfficialCompetition.In an official ...
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Severance
Dir: Christopher Smith. UK. 2006. 95mins.The latest in a seemingly endless cycle of newBritish horror films, Christopher Smith's Severanceis slick, funny and determinedly superficial and derivative. The screenplay(co-written by Smith and James Moran) is leavened with sub-Viz humour, satirical asidesabout office politics and the arms trade, and self-parodicjokes. Smith, who ...
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San Sebastian plans Emigrants retrospective
The 54th SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) will offer a programmedevoted to films about emigrants.Theretrospective will screen about 30 films on the topic in a range of genres andstyles. The classictitles include Louis Malle's Alamo Bay;Elia Kazan's America, America; Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged; Goran Paskaljevic's SomeoneElse's America; Luchino Visconti's RoccoAnd ...
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Rushes Soho Shorts gives top prize to Tom Harper's Cubs
The eighth Rushes SohoShorts Film Festival wrapped in London on Aug 4. The festival's winners were the AscentMedia short film award for Tom Harper's Cubs;the Vue animation award for Run Wrake'sRabbit; the ARRI newcomer award toJonathan Hopkins for Goodbye Mr Snuggles;the Sony Media music video award for TheDenial Twist for ...
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Sarah Goodwin joins UK sales company Independent Film Sales
Sarah Goodwin has joinedLondon-based Independent Film Sales (IFS) as salesand marketing manager.Goodwin previously held a similarpost at Vine International Pictures, where she worked on projects fromdirectors such as Peter Greenaway, Alan Rudolph andTerry Jones. The sales company's slate includesPaul Andrew Williams' London To Brighton, David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe and Marc ...
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Toronto premieres hit another crescendo
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled anotherraft of world and international and North American premieres, with new filmsfrom Christopher Guest, Marc Forster, Roger Michell and Darren Aronofsky. Also in the mix is a joint world premiere with the VeniceFilm Festival of Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's opera The MagicFlute.Two ...
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Vue to launch Adventure Film Festival
Vue Cinemas is organizing a UK nationwidedigitally projected film festival. The Adventure Film Festival will run Sept11-23 with a five-night programme at 55 Vue Cinemas around the UK. The themed nights will be Endurance, Storm Force, Ocean Adventure, HighAltitude and On-The-Edge. Selected sites will hold a one-day festival combiningfilms from ...
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London's 50th festival to open with Last King Of Scotland
The Times BFI London FilmFestival will open its 50th edition on Oct 18 with the Europeanpremiere of Kevin Macdonald's The LastKing Of Scotland.Based onthe award-winning novel by Giles Foden adapted byPeter Morgan and Jeremy Brock, the film stars Forest Whitaker as UgandanPresident Idi Amin and JamesMcAvoy as a Scottish doctor ...
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Icon launches home entertainment division
UK distributor Icon has created a home entertainment division, which willbe headed by Ian Dawson. Dawsonhad been HMV's head of DVD & related products and he will start at Icon inOctober 2006, reporting to Icon CEO Martin Bigham. "This last year has seen thebuild up of a fantastic slate of ...
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Swiss grants go to projects from Indonesia and Malaysia
Two projects from Indonesia and one from Malaysia were selected from the 11 South-East Asian filmprojects presented at this year's Open Doors in Locarno to receive development and production grantssponsored by the Swiss Foreign Ministry's Agency for Development andCooperation (DEZA).The decision on the winnersof two grants of $40,874 (CHF 50,000) ...
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The Departed and La Sconosciuta could be headed for Rome
GiuseppeTornatore's La Sconosciuta and Martin Scorsese'sThe Departed could be among thetitles that will screen at the first edition of the Rome Film Festival (Oct13-21).Accordingto industry gossip - but without any confirmation from Rome organisers - titlesthat could be heading to Rome also include Ridley Scott's A Good Year and Mira ...
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The Lives Of Others director to host special screening for Attenborough
Florian Henckel von Donnsermarck is planning a private preview in London of his multiple award-winning debut feature The Lives Of Othersfor Richard Attenborough. "We're going to hold aspecial screening in England before the film premieres because I know that hedoesn't really like to go to premieres," von Donnersmarksaid. The young ...
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Shyama Friedenson promoted to SVP at Lionsgate Int'l
Shyama Friedenson has been promoted to senior vice president of internationalmarketing at Lionsgate.Friedenson joined the company in 2000 and is responsible for overseeingmarketing and publicity for Lionsgate's international film division includingfestivals, and also serves as the strategic corporate liaison for publicity andmarketing with Lionsgate UK."Shyama has been instrumental in the ...
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Montreal World Film Fest unveils complete line-up
The Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF) has unveiled thecomplete line-up for its 30th edition, including 13 world premieresand six international premieres in its key World Competition programme.In all, the festival will present 215features, 106 world or international premieres and 58 North American premieres.As in past years, the World Competition has ...
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Walden, Fox give birth to family film label
Walden Media has set up a joint venture with Fox FilmedEntertainment (FFE) to release family pictures that encompasses all of Walden'sfuture slate and current and new work from Fox.A dedicated marketing, publicity and promotions team at the as-yet-unnamedcompany will work on the titles, which initially include Mr Magorium'sWonder Emporium, TheDark ...
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Poitier to receive lifetime award from BAFTA/LA
Sidney Poitier will receive BAFTA/LA's Cunard Britannia Award forlifetime contributions to international film at the 15th annual BAFTA/LA CunardBritannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 2.Anthony Minghella will collect the John Schlesinger BritanniaAward for artistic excellence in directing, and Rachel Weisz will receive theBritannia Award for artist of the year.Poitier ...
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British Film Institute launches download service for archive
The British Film Institute (BFI) has launched a download-to-own service.BFI Online now includes paid-for access to features and shorts taken from the national archives that include 230,000 fiction and non-fiction films and 675,000 television programmes.The money is reinvested in the insititute's work."The BFI's archives have been revolutionised so that, for ...
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Dimension feasts on 3rd Project Greenlight film
Dimension Films will release the third Project Greenlight feature Feast in theatres on Sept 22 following theworld premiere at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on Sept 12.The Live Planet Production in association with Maloof MotionPictures and Neo Art & Logic is directed by first time filmmaker JohnGulager and ...
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IFTA top brass renew contracts until 2009
Jean Prewitt will continueas president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles-based IndependentFilm and Television Alliance (IFTA) and Jonathan Wolf will continue asexecutive vice president of IFTA and managing director of the AFM.Both executives have signed new three-year contracts that will run through 2009following a unanimous decision by the ...
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