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SCREEN REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2008: PART ONE
In the first of a three-part review of the year. Screen looks at some of the key issues for the international filmindustry in 2008. Click to see full story.CRUNCH TIME:harsh economic conditions push online distribution and D-cinema to centre stage, says Michael GubbinsREALITY BITES: A bleak year for the US ...
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Sieben's Distance to open Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino
Writer-director Thomas Sieben's feature debut Distance (Distanz) will open the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino - the sidebar dedicated to German films on February 6.Sieben describes the film as 'An existential story of violence and love which simultaneously disturbs and touches through its unconditional nature.'Distance was produced by Berlin-based GrandHotelPictures with ...
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European Film Market launches documentary initiative
The European Documentary Network (EDN) is collaborating with the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) to provide a new initiative for documentary sellers entitled Meet The Docs.Meet The Docs will serve as a connecting platform for all documentary sellers, buyers, and directors offering a meeting place and a general information service ...
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Stelios Ziannis to leave Germany's Kinowelt International
Stelios Ziannis, head of world sales at Germany's Kinowelt International for the past eight years, is leaving the company of his own accord at the end of December.Ziannis will be succeeded by Barbara Knabe, Kinowelt's head of TV sales.Kanbe will have responsibility for cooperation with the world sales and distribution ...
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China Film, Enlight launch new media shorts programme
China Film Group Corporation and private entertainment group Enlight Media launched the 'China Film New Media Production Project' today with 20 short films to be distributed across 12 digital platforms, starting from Saturday (Dec 20). The two groups plan to spend more than $7.3m (RMB50m) to produce 1,000 short films ...
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Coleman and Matthews get top jobs at Screen Australia
Martha Coleman, who recently returned to Australia after seven years working in the UK film industry, has been appointed head of development at Screen Australia and will work from the Sydney headquarters. A second senior appointment was also announced today: Melbourne-based Ross Matthews, an eight-year veteran of the now defunct ...
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Nigel Clark returns to Sony after stints at UIP, Eon
Nigel Clark has returned to Sony as senior executive vice president of international marketing following his role as executive vice president of international marketing at UIP and a recent consultancy stint for Eon Productions on Quantum Of Solace, which Sony released worldwide.Clark first joined Sony in London as European marketing ...
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Madagascar 2 continues rollout in Italy andAustralia
A subdued pre-Christmas weekend will should carry DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa over $200m and push Fox International's The Day The Earth Stood Still towards $60m in its second weekend.Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa has reached $182.8m and there are 14 launches on the cards through PPI. Significant debuts are ...
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Gary Yates' High Life from Shoreline gets Panorama slot in Berlin
Gary Yates' heist caper High Life starring Timothy Olyphant and Joe Anderson will get its world premiere in Panorama at the 59th Berlinale, set to run from February 5-15.Robert Cass is producing along with Yates through his Triptych Media. Triptych partner Anna Stratton serves as executive producer with Shoreline Entertainment's ...
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Luhrmann, Jackson to receive legend awards at Capri
Baz Luhrmann and Samuel L Jackson will join Quentin Tarantino to receive the Capri Legend Award at the 13th Capri, Hollywood - Honda International Film Festival.Festival chairman and producer Mark Canton and festival director Pascal Vicedomini made the announcement today [December 18].Luhrmann and Jackson will attend screenings of their latest ...
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2008 Review of the Year - Crunch time
This has been the year of the reality check. Over the last few years, there has been reason for confidence about strong growth. Globalisation was opening or reopening territories, with vast populations seemingly all demanding to be entertained. New technologies were promising to crash through the limitations of the physical ...
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2008 Review of the Year - Specialty crunch: Reality bites
The talk in the specialty and independent sector right now is all about the importance of discipline and modest scales of economy. The inflated budgets of previous high-profile awards contenders such as Cold Mountain and last year's There Will Be Blood may have raised eyebrows, but now the industry has ...
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2008 Review of the Year - 2008: The headlines
JANUARYHeath Ledger is found dead in New York; UK co-productions crash in the first year of the tax incentive; Golden Globes ceremony cancelled as writers' strike bites - Atonement and Sweeney Todd win best film honours; SPC buys The Wackness and Frozen River as Sundance ends; Trouble The Water and ...
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2008 Review of the Year - North America box office and international charts
The headline story of the 2008 box office can be summed up in three words - The Dark Knight. Warner Bros' triumphant follow-up to Batman Begins made history when it became only the second film to cross the half-billion dollar mark in North America and ended up as the second ...
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2008 Review of the Year - What they said in 2008 - Quotes of the Year
'Visual effects and animation dominate the movie-going experience like at no time in history.'Yair Landau, former president of Sony Pictures Digital, on the drive towards the cinema of spectacle (January)'A fundamental problem with film, from an investor's point of view, is the lack of visibility of both past and future ...
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2008 Review of the Year - Selected Festival prize-winners
Frozen RiverSUNDANCEGrand jury prize: dramatic awardFrozen River Dir: Courtney Hunt (w'wide gross: $2.3m)Grand Jury Prize documentary awardTrouble The Water Dirs: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal ($481,000)Audience award (dramatic)The Wackness Dir: Jonathan Levine ($2.8m)Audience award (documentary)Fields Of Fuel Dir: Josh TickellGOTHENBERGNordic film awardLet the Right One In Dir: Tomas Alfredson ($2.8m)Wonderful ...
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2008 Review of the Year - What they said in 2008 - Quotes of the Year
'We are facing a major phenomenon that could endanger the film and television industry.'Frederic Delacroix, the director of Alpa, on rising levels of online piracy (August)'They will be out of the film-finance business for a long time.'Stephen Prough, founder of Los Angeles-based investment bank Salem Partners, on the banks (August)'In ...
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Awards Countdown - Best Director
1. DANNY BOYLE - SLUMDOG MILLIONAIREBoyle’s dazzling command of his medium was never more apparent than in Slumdog, as it is now simply known. In applying his trademark visceral style famous from Trainspotting and 28 Days Later to a cheerfully preposterous Mumbai romantic saga, he is thrilling audiences everywhere the ...
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Awards Countdown - Best Screenplay
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY1. TOM McCARTHY - THE VISITOROne of the most admired screenplays of the year from McCarthy (who won the Bafta for his script for The Station Agent), The Visitor could be the one to beat for its sensitive combination of social and political issues and touching character arcs. If ...
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Profile:The VFX genius behind The Spirit
His title at San Francisco and Los Angeles-based visual effects and production company The Orphanage is chief technology officer. But Stu Maschwitz is no gadget-obsessed geek.'There are a lot of people who get off on the technical challenges; I'm not one of them,' asserts Maschwitz, who co-founded The Orphanage in ...