All Screen articles in 9 August 2006 – Page 3
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Craft winners announced for 2006 Hollywood Film Awards
Organisers at the 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival haveannounced the line-up of crafts winners set to receive awards at the Hollywood AwardsGala on Oct 23.Vilmos Zsigmond will receive the Hollywood Cinematographer of theYear Award, Joel Cox will collect the Hollywood Editor of the Year Award, andGustavo Santaolalla will get the ...
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Sony crosses $1bn at domestic box office
Powered by the successesof The Da Vinci Code, Click, and the current number one picture TalladegaNights, Sony Pictures Entertainmenthas crossed $1bn at the domestic box office for the fifth consecutive year.The result gives thestudio unique distinction of being the only one in Hollywood to gross more than$6bn since 2002.Sony is ...
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UK's Uli Meyer starts production on $30m MonsterMania!
London-based Uli Meyer Animation has started production on MonsterMania!, a $30m computer-animatedfeature. MichaelMarshall Smith and Stephen Jones wrote the script for the monster comedy/adventure,which is based on an idea by Uli Meyer, Jones andSmith. MonsterMania! has beenin active development for three years. Uli Meyer Animation will co-produce withIndia's Ittina Animation ...
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Swiss cinema market share grows to 18%
A current wave of local box-office successes provided a welcome stimulantfor Locarno Film Festival's first Day of SwissCinema, which is being held today. Accompanied by Jean-Frederic Jauslin,the head of the Federal Office for Culture (BAK), and the Film Section chiefNicolas Bideau,Switzerland's Interior Minister Pascal Couchepinrevealed that the Swiss cinema's market ...
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Kazakh epic Nomad racks up sales in Locarno
It may have had threedifferent directors and an immensely complex birth, but bloodcurdling Kazakhepic Nomad has caught buyers' hearts.The $35m epic, which received its international premiere in Locarno's Piazza Grande at the weekend, has been bought in anumber of international territories. In France, Nomadwill be co-distributed by Rezo and Wild ...
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Wysiwyg plans Oct UK release for Hall's The Plague
UKdistributor Wysiwyg Films, formed by Tom Swanston and Cauri Jaye, has announced several films in its forthcomingrelease slate. The filmsinclude Greg Hall's The Plague, duefor a Digital Screen Network release on Oct 6. The London-set urban drama hasbeen praised by Mike Leigh. Neil Oseman's SoulSearcher, a sci-fi adventure, will be ...
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Spanish film wins Europa Cinemas Label
Daniel Sánchez Arevalo's Dark Blue Almost Black (Azul Oscuro Casi Negro) has won the Europa Cinemas Label at Venice Film Festival.The award, judged by a jury of exhibitors, will be handed out at the closing ceremony tomorrow.The film is a Producciones Cinematográficas production, sold internationally by Sogepaq, which has already ...
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Online pirate DVD seller busted in London
A pirate DVD seller in Hackney, London,has had her house raided and will be summonsed to appear in court. The raid wasconducted by Hackney Trading Standards and the UK's Federation AgainstCopyright Theft (FACT).The woman, age 55, had beenselling pirate DVDs online. Officers found more than 3500 discs at her house, ...
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Giamatti eyes lead role in Philip K Dick biopic
Paul Giamatti is lining up a possible lead role as Philip K Dick in a biopic of the influential sci-fi writer whose novels havespawned such adaptations as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and thecurrent release A Scanner Darkly.Giamatti will produce through his newly formed Touchy Feely Films incollaboration with Anonymous Content's ...
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Focus, AOL partner up for The Ground Truth
Focus Features hasentered into a strategic online marketing partnership with AOL for PatriciaFoulkrod's Iraq War documentary The Ground Truth.As part of the initiative AOL willcreate a customised profile of the film on its new AIM social networking service.Featured soldiers in the documentary will write blogs and war testimonies, andusers will ...
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Amazon offers movie download service in US
Online retailer Amazon has launched a download-to-own service in the US. Amazon Unbox is to offer films, TV and other video entertainment from more than 30 studios and networks.Paramount, Fox, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros., Lionsgate and MGM have signed up.Disney, whose chief shareholder is Apple CEO Steve Jobs, is not ...
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Bon Cop Bad Cop makes Alliance Atlantis' day
Quebecois action comedy Bon CopBad Cop became the first Quebec-made filmto break into the North American box office Top 20, all of it garnered withinthe province's exhibition circuits in Eastern Canada. Released by Alliance AtlantisVivafilm in the Quebec province August 4, the film pulled in over $1.27m(C$1.43m), the largest ever ...
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Marcus Alexander joins CFX digital intermediates division
Marcus Alexander has been named senior digital intermediate producerfor UKpost-production house Capital FX. He had been working at FramestoreCFC and will take the new post as of mid-September.Alexander will be working closely with CFX'sAdam Inglis, who also joined from Framestore.Alexander previously worked on films including The Queen, The LastKing of ...
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Pusan adds Midnight Passion section
The PusanInternational Film Festival has added a new section called Midnight Passion. Thesection will present a programme of 12 features from variousgenres including horror and comedy.Midnight screenings were held unofficially in 2004 but this year's programme launches officially.The screenings will be held from Oct 13-16 atMegabox Theater in Haewoondae.Three movies ...
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Toronto festival 'ratchets up acquisition frenzy'
Seeking to stoke up even more potential acquisitionactivity this September, the Toronto International Film Festival has announced15 world premieres and five international premieres it has identified asbuyer-friendly - that is, with major rights available -- including newfilms from Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Hal Hartley, Tarsem Singh,Alek Keshishian, Scott Caan, ...
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European partners start new initiative for minority film-makers
The Locarno Film Festival has joined France's CNC, theUK's British Council, bfm International Film Festival, Screen East andGermany's Goethe Institut among the initial partners for a new European film developmentinitiative, Babylon. Fiona Howe and Gareth Jones of the UK production houseScenario Films and Thierry Lenouvel of France's Cine-Sud Promotion unveiled ...
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Im Kwon-taek recruited for Asian Film Academy
The Asian FilmAcademy (AFA) has announced master Korean cineaste ImKwon-taek as this year's dean for the TalentCampus-style intensive program for young filmmakers from Asia. In its secondyear, AFA is co-hosted by the Pusan InternationalFilm Festival, the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), and Dongseo University. The event, aimed at creating ...
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Mikado takes Italian rights for Hottest State and Retribution
Arthouse distributor Mikado Film has taken Italiandistribution rights to Venice titles The Hottest State and Retribution (Sakebi).Directedby Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State,which is screening in the Horizons competition, is about a young actor from Texas who tries to make it in Manhattan while struggling with arelationship with a singer-songwriter.StarringMark Webber, ...
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Parker's I Really Hate My Job starts London shoot
DirectorOliver Parker has started shooting comedy I Really Hate My Job in London. Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson,Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin and Oana Pellea star. Thefilm is shooting on location and at Three Mills Studios. Producers are 3DDProductions' Andrew Higgie and Dominic Saville with Matthew Justice and AlanGreenspan. The ...
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Locarno pays tribute to late Daniel Schmid
TheSwiss filmmaking community is in mourning after the news at the weekend of thedeath of one of its internationally best-known filmmakers Daniel Schmid at theage of 64 from cancer. TheLocarno Film Festival, which awarded Schmid an Honorary Leopard in 1999 inrecognition of his work, reacted to the news by programming ...
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