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Sundance 2008: full list of reviews
Click on a film title to see Screen's review Assassination of a High School PresidentAugustBagheadBallastBe Kind RewindBlind DateThe BrokenChokeThe DealDeath In LoveDerekDonkey PunchThe EscapistFunny Games USGood DickHenry Poole Is HereIn BrugesIncendiaryKing Of Ping PongThe Merry GentlemenMomma's ManThe Mysteries Of PittsburghNerakhoon (The Betrayal)Phoebe In WonderlandRoman Polanski: Wanted And DesiredSmart PeopleSugarSunshine CleaningTranssiberianTrouble ...
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Control Room director Noujaim heads Pangea Day film project
Jehane Noujaim, director of acclaimed 2004 documentary Control Room, is heading a unique project offering a global day of film.Pangea Day, which is scheduled for May 10, 2008, will be held in eight different cities: Cairo, Dharamsala, Jerusalem, Kigali, London, New York, Ramallah and Rio de Janeiro. The venues will ...
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Shoreline picks up international on Ozzie comedy On Broadway
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired international rights to Dave McLaughlin's Australian comedy On Broadway.The story centres on a Boston playwright who stages a production of his work in the back of an Irish pub.Eliza Dushku, Will Arnet, Amy Poehler and Robert Wahlberg play supporting roles. Kris Meyer, Lance Green, Henry Bertolon ...
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Digital distributor FilmCatcher.com launches with two deals
Digital distributor and online magazine FilmCatcher.com has launched at Sundance [Jan 20] with the aim of spotlighting quality films that slip through the traditional distribution net.The Filmcatcher.com website contains editorial and community oriented content and was co-founded by Trumbo producer Alan Klingenstein and Talking Pictures Company co-founders Alan Hruska and ...
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US Humane Society announces increase in annual doc grant
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) announced at Sundance [Jan 20] that it will increase its annual ACE/SilverDocs documentary grant to $25,000.The grant, which is part of The HSUS's Animal Content in Entertainment (ACE) programme, is designed to encourage the inclusion of animal issues in documentary film-making.The grant ...
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Mulroney, Davis to star in Driving Lessons
Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis have signed on to star in the independent feature Driving Lessons that is scheduled to shoot in Los Angeles in March.Finland's Vivi Friedman will direct from a screenplay by Mark Lisson about an unhappy wife and mother who gets a second chance to save her ...
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Sundance: Documentaries overshadow dramatic entries
Documentaries continued to overshadow early Sundance business as HBO Documentary Films took all US rights to Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired. Click here to see review.The high six-figure deal closed on Sunday a little over a day after The Weinstein Company pounced on international rights to the film, ...
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Warner continues to lead international box office with Legend
I Am Legend stayed on top of the international rankings for the fourth consecutive weekend and the fifth overall in its six-week run as an estimated $28.7m from 6,200 prints in 54 territories propelled the running total to $262.4m.The highlight of the new launches was a $4.1m (Ps 44.2m) number ...
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Cloverfield tears into January box office for Paramount
Paramount's monster movie Cloverfield delivered the first domestic hit launch of 2008 as it smashed through the competition to open top on an estimated $41m.The film, a Blair Witch-style first-person POV account of a monster attack on New York that was produced by JJ Abrams and directed by Matt Reeves, ...
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Sundance Institute launches Creative Producing Initiative
Sundance Institute today [Jan 20] announced the Sundance Creative Producing Initiative fellowship programme to nurture the next generation of film-makers.The Initiative, unveiled during the Producers Lunch, will be a year-long fellowship that includes a five-day Creative Producing Lab, attendance and industry meetings at the festival and the Sundance Institute 's ...
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American Teen generates early sales buzz at Sundance
While Sundance buyers circled hyped early picks like Sunshine Cleaning and The Wackness, the Saturday nightfocus was on Nanette Burstein's high school documentary American Teen.Fox Searchlight were believed to be among interested parties following the world premiere earlier in the day.Carlos Moreno's Colombian crime saga Perro Como Perro was also ...
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Roman Polanski doc gets international deal at Sundance with TWC
When Harvey Weinstein flies in to Sundance things usually happen and so it proved to be as The Weinstein Comapny (TWC) made the first play of the festival, paying low six figures for all international rights to Marina Zenovich's documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired.The deal excludes North American rights ...
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IMDb buys Withoutabox
Amazon-owned The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has bought global film-maker and film festival resource Withoutabox.Withoutabox was founded in 2000 by David Straus and Joe Neulight and enables film-makers to submit their work online to festivals and provides festival organisers with tools to manage and promote their events online.'For eight years, ...
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Intandem, Radical pitch slate including John Woo's Caliber
Intandem Films and its graphic novel publishing company partner Radical Publishing will be meeting with investors in the UK starting Jan 21 to present their shared business model and preview future projects. UK-based financing and sales company Intandem took an equity stake in 2007 in Los Angeles-based Radical, which is ...
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Cloverfield
Dir: Matt Reeves. US. 2008. 84 mins.An exercise in guerrilla-style genre filmmaking that reframes a classic monster movie conceit as a post-September 11 allegory of big city trepidation, new Internet sensation Cloverfield emerges from the cocoon of its pre-release hype as thrilling piece of terror tailor-made for our times. Skilfully ...
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Greg Mason named vp of marketing for Disney Canada
Greg Mason has been named vice president of marketing for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada.Mason will handle marketing duties for all films released under the Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures labels in Canada and reports directly to Brett Dicker, executive vice president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.Mason ...
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Lionsgate UK acquires Conan, Mad Money and Righteous Kill
Distributor Lionsgate UK has struck a three-picture acquisition deal with Nu Image/Millennium Films. Lionsgate UK has taken UK and Ireland rights to Jon Avnet's crime thriller Righteous Kill; Callie Khouri's comedy Mad Money; and the Conan The Barbarian revived franchise set for a new film release in 2009.Righteous Kill stars ...
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HBO Documentary Films buys Sundance doc The Black List
HBO Documentary Films has acquired domestic broadcast rights to portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders documentary The Black List: Volume One, which gets its world premiere here on Jan 22.Film critic Elvis Mitchell interviews 20 high-profile African-Americans about their views on personal identity. Talking heads include Chris Rock, Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, ...
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Lakeshore pacts with Maximum for Canadian distribution
Maximum Films Distribution has signed a sub-distribution deal with Lakeshore Entertainment that will see the Toronto-based distributor release Lakeshore product across Canada. The all-rights deal was negotiated by Mark Musselman for Maximum and by David Dinerstein and Eric Reid for Lakeshore. Maximum has sub-distribution deals with Cinetic Media, IFC, Magnolia ...