All Screen articles in 9 February 2007 – Page 9
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Warner Bros to release The Red Baron in Germany
The German arm of US major Warner Bros has picked up Niki Muellerschoen's $23.3m (Euros 18m) English-language production The Red Baron for release in Germany this autumn. Billed as Germany's most expensive new production in 2006 and one of the most lavish in German history, The Red Baron stars up-and-coming ...
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US studios set to do battle over Chinese New Year
Five US films will be slugging it out at the Chinese box office during the upcoming Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) holiday season, a lucrative box office period that until a few years ago was reserved for local productions. The five foreign contenders are Sony's Casino Royale, which opened last ...
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Controversial Black Friday finally cleared for release in India
After being banned for 20 months, controversial docu-drama Black Friday, based on the 1993 bombings in Mumbai, is being released in India and overseas this Friday. Adlabs Films acquired the worldwide distribution rights and is releasing it on 100 screens in India, 10 in the USA and 3 in South ...
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Weiss to head MGM direct-to-video division
In a move designed to leverage its much coveted library, MGM has hired Jason Weiss to head a new division dedicated to creating direct-to-video content. As vice president of the new group Weiss will oversee an annual slate of 12 or more films. He will report to Charlie Cohen, MGM's ...
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SXSW announces complete feature line-up
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced its complete lineup of features, for the 14th edition to be held in Austin, Texas on March 9-17, 2007. The newly announced additions to the 'Spotlight Premieres' section of the festival, include: Judd Apatow's Knocked UpKaty Chevigny's Election DayJonathan ...
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Odeon and Sky Filmworks strike first deal for UK rights to Kenny
Odeon and Sky Filmworks, the new joint venture between broadcaster Sky and UK exhibitor Odeon, has announced details of its first acquisition. The company's debut release in UK theatres will be Australian hit comedy Kenny, a mockumentary about an employee in a company that rents toilets for big events. 'It ...
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Chic gears up to shoot Laffargue's Dakar-set Black
French production outfit Chic Films has given a green light to a new film from director Pierre Laffargue set in present day Dakar and starring French rapper MC Jean Gab'1, Carole Karemera, Francois Levantal and Anton Yakovlev.The $4.1m (Euros 3.2m) Black is set to start shooting in Paris in late ...
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Sony closes third co-financing deal with Relativity
Sony Pictures has been revealed as the beneficiary of the recent co-financing facility structured by Relativity Media.The new independent co-financing package, which is separate from the previously announced Gun Hill 1 and Gun Hill 2 deals, will be a five-year revolving credit facility. The new venture, called Beverly Blvd LLC, ...
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Antena 3 on board for Woody Allen's Spanish project
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has boarded the new Woody Allen film to shoot in Barcelona this summer with star Penelope Cruz.The network announced its participation in the film just days after Allen unveiled that Cruz would have a role.Through its production department Ensueno Films, Antena 3 will co-produce with Mediapro ...
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InFrame on board for The Riddle starring Vinnie Jones
UK and US sales company InFrame, a division of Hollywood Classics, has picked up worldwide rights to the $5m thriller The Riddle and will start sales at Berlin's European Film Market. Brendan Foley wrote and directed the story of a journalist, a police press officer and a tramp who who ...
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The Messengers
Dirs: Oxide and Danny Pang. US. 2007. 91mins. The studio debut of the gifted horror specialists Oxide and Danny Pang (The Eye , Bangkok Dangerous), The Messengers is a visually assured though dramatically flat ghost story about an endangered American family unaware their just purchased North Dakota farmhouse harbors a ...
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Santa Barbara gives top international prize to Beauty In Trouble
Jan Hrebejk's Czech ensemble drama Beauty In Trouble won the Best International Feature Film Award at the 22nd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Jan 25-Feb 4). The American Spirit Award went to Michael Schroeder's Man In The Chair starring Christopher Plummer and Michael Angarano. The Gold Vision Award for ...
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Because I Said So
Dir: Michael Lehmann US. 2007. 100mins. Diane Keaton leads a multi-generational female ensemble in Because I Said So, a mostly frothy and predictable romantic comedy that occasionally gets serious on subjects including mother-daughter relationships and even female sexuality. The cast and viewpoint could be enough to pull in a fairly ...
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Chinese censors approve Lost In Beijing with major cuts
Li Yu's Berlin competition title Lost In Beijing was finally passed by China's Film Reviewing Committee this afternoon. However the approved film is 15 minutes shorter than the original version according to the film's producer Fang Li. Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the Film Bureau under the State Administration of ...
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Lights In The Dusk and Frozen City top Finland 's Jussis
Concluding his losers' trilogy, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Lights In The Dusk turned up as a winner, cashing in on three out of six nominations for the Jussis - Finland's national film prizes - winning Best Film, Best Cinematography (Timo Salminen) and Best Set Design (Markku Patila). The previous instalments ...
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Berlin to host first conference of Mediterranean Euromed Programme
Producers, directors and institutions from the Mediterranean countries will be meeting with representatives from Eurimages, CNC, the World Cinema Fund and Europa Cinemas, among others, at the first regional conference of the Euromed Audiovisual II Programme being staged during the Berlinale from Feb 10-11. The conference will take stock of ...
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Red Road takes new Bergman prize at Goteborg
UK director Andrea Arnold's Red Road won the first Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award - which comes with a week's stay at the Bergman Week 2007 at Fårö, an engraved stone from Bergman's own beach, and a DVD set with 30 Bergman films - at the 30th Goteborg International Film ...
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Cruz to star in Woody Allen film
Confirming months of rumours, Penelope Cruz looks set to star in the Woody Allen film scheduled to shoot this summer in Spain.The untitled $18m (Euros 15m) comedy-drama will film all summer in Barcelona with Cruz speaking both Spanish and English in the film, which will be a co-production between Barcelona's ...
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Lost In Beijing producer awaits final decision from censors
Fang Li, the producer of Berlin competition title Lost In Beijing, is having a final meeting with Chinese film censors today (Feb 5) in a last-ditch attempt to win approval for the film to participate in the festival. The Film Reviewing Committee under the State Administration of Radio, Film and ...
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Fog City, Caviar roll cameras on San Francisco romance
Principal photography has begun on Around June, a romance being jointly produced by San Francisco-based Fog City Pictures and Los Angeles-based Caviar Films.Samaire Armstrong, Brad William Henke, Jon Gries and Puerto Rican newcomer Oscar Guerrero star in the story of a downtrodden young woman who falls for a penniless immigrant.The ...