All Screen articles in 9 February 2007 – Page 5
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Happy talk as Museum slips
Sony happily knocked Fox's Night At The Museum off the top spot this week, as The Pursuit Of Happyness opened in an additional nine territories and took $16.5m at the weekend. While Night At The Museum slipped marginally - largely due to UK exhibitors pulling the film over a DVD ...
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United States - Snake handler
Black Snake Moan is the latest release in the promising career of John Singleton, producer. John Hazelton spoke to the multi-hyphenate film-maker.
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Financing - Money in the pipeline
The newest funding source for film-makers is the Sound & Vision Fund, set up in 2005 by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI). Aimed at Irish film, TV and radio projects, it has an annual budget of $11.6m (EUR9m).In its first two rounds it has given sums up to $987,000 ...
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Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright goes with his gut for next films
Several weeks before Hot Fuzz's now-successful launch, Edgar Wright seemedremarkably relaxed for someone on the verge of unleashing the much-anticipated follow-up to 2004's Shaun Of The Dead. It is not only fans, but also the industry waiting to see if the new film can match the runaway success of the ...
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Stand and Deliver
Some industry expressions are like adhesive plasters. In that category the one that I find most nettlesome is the one that insists it is a product-driven marketplace. On the surface it implies simply that the films themselves determine the size of the audience; the better the choices, the larger the ...
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Hyphenate highlights: selected John Singleton credits
Four Brothers (2005): directorHustle & Flow (2005): producer2 Fast 2 Furious (2003): directorShaft (2000): writer-director-producerHigher Learning (1995): writer-director-producerBoyz N The Hood (1991): writer-directorJohn Singleton is best known, of course, as the writer-director of such films as Boyz N The Hood, his powerful 1991 debut about West Coast gang life, and ...
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US/Iraq - Her country, their country
The hoopla that accompanies the Academy Awards could not be further from the experience of making a documentary in today's Iraq. Nominated for best documentary award, Laura Poitras' My Country, My Country has stood out among the recent run of Iraqi-set material, in large part due to the director's determination ...
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Editorial - Screen says - Window of choice
In the middle of a debate on the impact of new technologies on cinema in Rotterdam recently, there was a beautiful intervention from the floor.Lia van Leer, founder of the Jerusalem Film Festival, recalled how in the 1950s she had driven a mobile cinema to kibbutzim in the young Israel ...
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Thinking outside the box office - the future of UK independents -
These are turbulent times for independent distribution in the UK. The British market may be the third most valuable in the world after the US and Japan, but with 450 films released every year, there is a fear the territory is beginning to suffer from over-supply.On top of that, takeover ...
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Germany - Majestic bow for a former Senator
When former Senator executive Benjamin Herrmann decided to join forces with film financing expert David Groenewold to launch a new producer-distributor Majestic Film into the German marketplace, he was not worried about an overcrowded landscape."I think if you filter out the completely undercapitalised companies which only release two to three ...
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Market focus - Boom time in Bollywoodland
Indian box office revenues increased by 40% last year but it is widely expected to be just the start of a period of radical change and rapid growth.The quality of local content in a region where Hollywood has barely made a dent remains a vital factor. But an increasingly important ...
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Market watch: Berlin - Hunting ground
Speak to a range of British independent distributors and it quickly becomes apparent that they have very different feelings about the Berlinale. For some, it is the place, as Swipe's Frank Mannion puts it, for "brave, innovative movies that can be marketed uniquely". Revolver's Justin Marciano agrees that "the European ...
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Shorts and documentaries - Awards countdown - Hard-hitting docs take centre stage
My Country, My CountryNew York-based director-producer Laura Poitras (Flag Wars) spent eight months working alone in Iraq on her film, produced with Jocelyn Glatzer, about the months leading up to Iraq's first post-Saddam election in 2005. Poitras focuses on a Sunni doctor running for office as difficulties mount in an ...
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IFTA Awards - Celebrating Irish cream
Pierce Brosnan (The Matador), Colin Farrell (Miami Vice), Cillian Murphy (Breakfast On Pluto, and The Wind That Shakes The Barley), and Neil Jordan (Breakfast On Pluto) are a few of the internationally recognised members of the Irish film-making community among the nominees for this year's Irish Film and Television Awards ...
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Adirondack slate
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens (American Masters/Thirteen/Wnet New York/Adirondack Pictures/Ranoah Productions). A documentary on photographer Annie Leibovitz. Directed by Barbara Leibovitz and featuring interviews with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mick Jagger and Yoko Ono. Int'l sales: Fortissimo.The Night Of The White Pants (Harrison Prods/Adirondack Pictures). Written and directed by Amy ...
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Analysis: International box-office Weekend February 2-4
(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(2)The Pursuit Of Happyness (US)$16,472,2873,177$72,496,684232(1)Night at the Museum (US)$14,534,7374,291$213,777,377393(3)Blood Diamond (US)$13,467,3063,127$45,237,141434NewVoice Of A Murderer (S Kor)$6,735,543530$8,903,32315(4)Rocky Balboa (US)$5,501,6382,392$48,825,020266(8)Babel (Mex-US)$5,157,5811,467$61,312,572357(23)Dreamgirls (US)$4,988,4681,136$9,353,219108(6)Apocalypto (US)$4,947,7681,924$55,230,580339NewDie Wilden Kerle 4 (Ger)$4,941,767844$4,941,767310(11)Casino Royale (Czech-Ger-UK-US)$4,743,4901,761$415,704,5873711(14)Arthur And The Invisibles (Fr)$4,492,8702,159$67,254,5512112(5)Salaam E Ishq: A Tribute To Love (Ind)$4,011,445723$14,504,6912113(49)Saw III (US)$3,883,797817$72,901,8192214(10)Dororo (Jap)$3,176,959296$10,475,434115(7)Manuale D'Amore 2 (It)$2,987,712494$23,132,938116NewNotes On A Scandal ...
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Promotional Feature - EFP AT 10 - European Union
The Berlinale has always been a rallying post for European cinema - but this year's event has more reason to celebrate than usual - 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of European Film Promotion (EFP).The Hamburg-based organisation was set up in 1997 to promote and market European cinema ...
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Jentsch cast as Girl In The Cafe
Silver Bear-winning actress Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl - The Final Days), who appears in Jiri Menzel's Competition film I Served The King Of England this year, has been cast opposite Jan Josef Liefers (Knocking On Heaven's Door) in the German version of Richard Curtis' The Girl In The Cafe.The Egoli ...
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Boyle, Byrne, Thomas, and McCaul first Dublin Festival award winners
Consolata Boyle, Gabriel Byrne, Jeremy Thomas and Brendan McCaul to receive first four Volta Awards. The inaugural Dublin International Film Festival Volta Awards for excellence in film were launched this evening by actor Stephen Rea. Oscar nominee Consolata Boyle (Costume Design - The Queen) became the first recipient of the ...