All Screen articles in 9 February 2007 – Page 3
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Sola Media takes on sales for $3m Turtle's Song
Germany-based sales company Sola Media has picked up rights to nature documentary The Turtle's Song, from UK producers Film & Music Entertainment and Big Wave Productions. Sola has world rights excluding Austria and Finland to the theatrical feature produced by F&ME's Mike Downey, Sam Taylor and Zorana Piggott and Big ...
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New Danish Screen to get new head at end of 2007
The Danish Film Institute's New Danish Screen department will see big changes in 2007. Vinca Wiedemann has announced that she will not reapply for her position as head of the division, and will leave when her contract expires on Sept 1, 2007.The department has more new challenges and new initiatives ...
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Scandal rocks UK box office
Notes On A Scandal has catapulted to number one at the UK box-office due to an impressive mid-week performance. The Oscar and BAFTA nominated drama - a collaboration between Fox Searchlight and DNA films - generated £1.89m ($3.68m) as of February 8 from 300 sites. The film, starring Cate Blanchett ...
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Whishaw and Goode take leads in HanWay's Brideshead Revisited
HanWay Films has announced that Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode have taken the lead roles as Sebastian and Charles, respectively, in the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Julian Jarrold is directing the project, and Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are producing through their Ecosse Films. HanWay is handling worldwide ...
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Whishaw and Goode take leads in HanWay's Brideshead Revisited
HanWay Films has announced that Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode have taken the lead roles as Sebastian and Charles, respectively, in the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Julian Jarrold is directing the project, and Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are producing through their Ecosse Films. HanWay is handling worldwide ...
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Italy soars, Japan and North America sour in global box office
Six of the nine major territories saw increases in box office takings this week but drops in the North American and Japanese markets accounted for a virtually static year-on-year comparison, according to the Screen International Screen Index. Collective global grosses were boosted by just 0.19% compared to the same week ...
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The Hospital launches 2007 Audi Channel Reel Talent Awards
Original screenplays are now being accepted for the Reel Talent short-film competition, which is the only incentive in the UK to finance and facilitate the production of its finalists' films.In conjunction with London-based creative community and member's club The Hospital, Audi's 24-hour digital television channel is hosting the awards in ...
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Germany's Culture Minister bangs local drum at Berlinale opening
Germany's State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann was in a bullish mood at the gala opening ceremony for this year's Berlinale, which opened with La Vie En Rose on Thursday evening. Speaking in front of a select first-night audience including the team of opening film La Vie En Rose, the ...
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ACTRA strike at impasse despite mediation
Canadian performers remain on strike as ACTRA and the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) failed to reach a compromise despite two days of talks with a government-appointed mediator. Today, each side blamed the other for the deadlock. The point of contention is new media rights. ACTRA says it ...
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Japanese baseball star to head promotions for Bruckheimer movies
Retired Japanese baseball star Tsuyoshi Shinjo has been tapped to head domestic promotions for three Jerry Bruckheimer productions slated for release in Japan in 2007. Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Buena Vista International (BVI) Japan chose the popular sports figure to lead promotions for three upcoming releases produced by hit-maker Bruckheimer. ...
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Bon Cop Canada 's top-grossing film for 2006
Berlin market title and bilingual buddy cop movie Bon Cop, Bad Cop was named the recipient of the 2007 Golden Reel Award, a token prize presented annually at the Genie Awards to the top-grossing Canadian film from the previous year. Nominated in ten categories including Best Picture, the film broke ...
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Israel's The Bubble picked up by Strand
Strand Releasing has snapped up US rights to Israeli director Eytan Fox's Panorama title, The Bubble, it was confirmed this week. The deal was negotiated between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing and Pierre Menahem of Scalpel Films. Strand Releasing plans an August opening for the film across the US. The ...
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I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK
Frustrating, whimsical, baffling and yet utterly original, Park Chan-Wook's new feature seems designed expressly to alienate those who were turned on to the Korean director by his revenge trilogy - Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Old Boy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. This tale of a psychologically fragile girl who thinks ...
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Mon Colonel opens Human Rights festival
Its 11th year Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in London is to screen 22 films, including three Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominations, The Lives of Others, Water and Days Of Glory. Mon Colonel, the directorial debut of Laurent Herbiet will open the event, split across cinemas in the ...
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The Escapist starts shoot with Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes
Rupert Wyatt's debut feature The Escapist has begun filming in Dublin with a sterling cast of British and Irish character actors and stars. The prison escape drama features, among others, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Stephen Macintosh and Damian Lewis. Goalpost Films is handling international ...
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Music and Lyrics
Dir: Marc Lawrence US. 2007. 102mins. After dipping his toe in the murky world of satire with last year's American Dreamz, Hugh Grant retreats to conventional romantic comedy with Music And Lyrics, a bland, undemanding reunion with his Two Weeks Notice (2002) director Marc Lawrence. Grant's blithe spirit and eternal ...
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Baker Street on road to US with Lionsgate
Lionsgate has taken US rights from Relativity Media and Mosaic MediaGroup to the heist thriller Baker Street, also known as The Bank Job.ArclightFilms is handling international rights on the film, which stars JasonStatham and Saffron Burrows and recounts events surrounding an unsolved1971 bank robbery in London. Roger Donaldson is directing. ...
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Senator's first US production Fireflies to star Julia Roberts
Senator Entertainment will finance and produce its first US production, Fireflies In The Garden, written and to be directed by Dennis Lee.Carrie Anne Moss and Emily Watson star on the project, which is set to begin shooting in March in Austin, Texas. Julia Roberts and Ryan Reynolds in negotiations to ...
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Dimension gets Buried Alive with Odd Lot
Dimension Films has acquired the horror film Buried Alive from Odd Lot Entertainment's genre division Dark Lot.Tobin Bell, who plays the nefarious jigsaw in the Saw franchise, stars alongside Terence Ray and Leah Rachel in the story of a sorority initiation that goes wrong when a college student awakens an ...