All Screen articles in 9 March 2008 – Page 3
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Pfeiffer leaves Hong Kong'sCelestial Pictures
William Pfeiffer has resigned from Celestial Pictures after heading for seven years the Hong Kong-based company that owns the Shaw Brothers film library. Citing personal reasons for his departure, he is expected to pursue new business ventures reportedly with backing from Hollywood. March 9 is his last day of service.More ...
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Fine Cut seals The Chaser remake deal with Warner Bros
Korea's Fine Cut has announced the $1m sale of remake rights for Na Hong-jin's thriller The Chaser to Warner Brothers. The no. 1 film, released Feb 14,has grossed over$20m (KW19bn) with 2.8 million admissions, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s database as of March 6.In the film, a man ...
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ContentFilm calls off plans for acquisition by Peace Arch
ContentFilm has called off a possible deal with Peace Arch Entertainment.Peace Arch Entertainment Group had entered into a letter of intent to acquire ContentFilm in late December in a deal to be worth 19,500,000 Peace Arch shares plus cash of $35m.Content said that since December 'there have been several circumstances ...
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Fifth Sofia Meetingsselects 22 second features for fifth edition
New feature films by Serbia's Dusan Milic, Estonia's Ilmar Raag and Germany's Marc Meyer are among 22 projects being presented at the fifth edition of the Sofia Meetings pitching forum for second feature films from March 13-16.For the first time this year, three of the projects selected for pitching at ...
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MPAA claims record domestic, international numbers for 2007
The Motion Picture Association of America announced a record box office of $9.63bn for the calendar year 2007 in the domestic marketplace. Additionally it cited international box office of $17.09bn for a global revenue tally of $26.72bn that represented a 4.7% increase from 2006.MPAA president Daniel Glickman presided over a ...
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UK's fourth Birds Eye View opens tonight with Maureen Lipman
The fourth Birds Eye View Film Festival kicks off in London tonight with a special focus on comedy. Maureen Lipman will open the festival at the BFI by presenting a range of short films and a performance by Imogen Heap to accompany silent comedy.BEV is a celebaration of women film-makers ...
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Universal comedy Baby Mama to open Tribeca on April 23
Universal's comedy Baby Mama starring Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Sigourney Weaver will open the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on Apr 23.Michael McCullers' feature directorial debut stars Fey as a career woman who enlists the support of a surrogate (Poehler) in order to start a family, only for ...
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IFC signs two-year exclusive rental deal with Blockbuster
IFC Entertainment has signed a two-year deal with Blockbuster granting the video rental giant limited exclusive US rental rights for IFC titles.The agreement will make IFC titles available via Blockbuster's stores, mail subscription services and its digital downloading service Movielink.com.Blockbuster will get an exclusive 60-day rental window covering physical and ...
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Marketing veteran Geoff Ammer lands at Marvel Studios
Geoff Ammer, the former head of worldwide marketing at Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, has landed at Marvel Studios as president of worldwide marketing and home entertainment.Ammer reports to Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel and will get to work immediately on campaigns for two of this summer's more anticipated releases, ...
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International sales pioneer Bill Moraskie dies at 82
William J Moraskie, a long-time sales executive and one of the founding members of the American Film Market, died on Mar 2 at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida, following a brief illness. He was 82.Moraskie was born on Jan 11 1926 in Mt Carmel, Pennsylvania, and following service ...
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Then She Found Me to open second AFI Dallas Film Festival
Helen Hunt's feature directorial debut Then She Found me and Stuart Townsend's activism drama Battle In Seattle bookend the AFI Dallas International Film Festival, set to run from Mar 27-Apr 6.The centerpiece screenings are David Gordon Green's drama Snow Angels and Barry Levinson's comedy What Just Happened'The 11-day festival will ...
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India's UFO Moviez digitalises more than 1,000 cinemas
India's UFO Moviez has announcedit hassuccessfully completed the installation of digital technology in more than 1,000 cinemas across India. The company has a strong foothold in India, releasing over 600 movies in 17 languages within the last two years.Sister company UFO International has also completed installing digitalon 21 screens across ...
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Jeremy Pelzer tapped to head UK's Elstree Studios
Jeremy Pelzer has been appointed to head Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, UK.He will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Studio business, developing new initiatives, extending partnerships, and raising the profile of Elstree.Pelzer wasformerly studio director of Ealing Studios from 2002 to 2007 also managed the renewal of 3 ...
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Canada's Cineplex promotes Jason Fulsom
Canadian exhibitor Cineplex Entertainment has promoted Jason Fulsom to vice president, film. The promotion, effective immediately, increases Fulsom's responsibilities to include the negotiation and programming of films for the Toronto market, working with the US majors and independent distributors as well as liaising with the exhibitor's corporate sales and alternative ...
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Jason Neff starts production on female jockey documentary
Los Angeles-based film-maker Jason Neff has started production for his new documentary Jock for Innerview Entertainment and Ellman Entertainment.The feature-length documentary about female horse racing jockeys will be directed by Neff and produced by Neff and Linda Ellman (On Native Soil).Jock is planned for a 2009 release to celebrate the ...
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Managing director Stephan Schesch takes over Animation X
Managing director Stephan Schesch has taken over control of the Berlin-based production house Animation X Gesellschaft zur Produktion von Animationsfilmen following the exit of the shareholders X-Filme creative pool and David Groenewold's Promedium from the joint venture.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com on the eve of this year's Cartoon Movie co-production market ...
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Eurimages backs new projects from Danis Tanovic, Marco Bellocchio
The Council of Europe's Eurimages co-production fund has backed 10 new features for a total of $5.4m (Euros 3.57m).The supported projects are:3 Sezony V Pekle by Tomas Masin (Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia) EEP by Rita Horst (Netherlands, Belgium) Europolis, The Town of the Delta by Kostadin Bonev (Bulgaria, Austria) Forgotten ...
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French films, led by Ch'Tis, lead the international box office
French films accounted for nearly a quarter of the international top 40 revenue this weekend, spearheaded by a whopping $32.5m opening from top film Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis.The top 40 films generated $188.5m from 45,384 screens for the period of February 29-March 2. For the full international chart, compiled by ...
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Alex Hamilton appointed director of UK's Contender Films
Alex Hamilton, the former president of Icon Film Distribution, has joined growing UK distributor Contender Entertainment Group.He has been appointed director of Contender Films, the company's feature film theatrical distribution and operations division for the UK and Ireland.He takes the post as of April 1 and will report to CEG ...
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Reviews
10,000 BC
Directed by Roland Emmerich. US. 2007. 108 mins. Closer in spirit to the kitschy fantasy of One Million Years BC than the grungy realism of Quest For Fire, Roland Emmerich's 10,000 BC is a lumbering and mostly unconvincing prehistoric adventure partially redeemed by some eye-catching effects and cinematography. Interest from ...