All articles by Screen staff – Page 80
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FeaturesHarry Potter's box-office effect
Screen looks at Harry Potter’s past box-office success, film by film, territory by territory, for the past decade.
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NewsChina's box office up 13.6% in the first half of 2011
The box office revenue in China reached $850m (RMB5.5bn) in the first six months of 2011, a 13.6% increase from the figure of the same period in 2010.
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NewsImagi strikes deals with Disney on Pleasant Goat
Hong Kong’s animation studio Imagi International and its strategic partner Guangdong Creative Power Entertaining (CPE) have reached a distribution deal with The Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture to distribute the fourth movie of popular Chinese animation series Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf.
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NewsScreen unveils 2011 Stars of Tomorrow
Talents chosen this year include Julian Fellowes’ new Romeo and an actor handpicked by Steven Spielberg; plus filmmakers shooting features with Idris Elba and Tom Hardy. Full list revealed here.
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NewsChina's Youku signs distribution deal with Warner Bros covering 450 titles
Youku Premium titles will cost $0.77 per view per film online.
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NewsStephen Moore to chair jury for Screen's UK Marketing & Distribution Awards
Other jurors include Jane Barclay, Sandra Hebron, Adrian Wootton, Nik Powell and Julia Short, among others.
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NewsChina Film Group teams with Sohu and Nokia on film production
Top Chinese actors involved include Huang Bo [pictured].
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Young Chinese directors dominate Shanghai's Golden Goblets
Turkey’s Orhan Oguz wins best feature for Hayde Bre.
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NewsThe Flying Guillotine gets new director and start date
The Flying Guillotine, a film produced by Peter Ho-sun Chan and handled by his We Distribution, has changed director from Teddy Chen (Bodyguards and Assassin) to Andrew Lau Wai-keung (Infernal Affairs).
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NewsKaasan Mom’s Life wins Shanghai’s Asian New Talent Award
Syoutarou Kobayasi’s Japanese film tells the story of a cartoonist’s wife; other winners include Return Ticket and Birth Right
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NewsTim Cagney appointed deputy chief executive of the BFI
Cagney joins in newly-created role; was previously managing director of the UK Film Council
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NewsDebra Hayward to launch Monumental Pictures
Working Title’s President of UK Production will officially step down in September; new outfit will have first-look deal with the company
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NewsScreen Directors Guild of Ireland, Irish Film Institute launch Directors in Dialogue
Participants include director Costa Gavras
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NewsLoveFilm expands digital service in Germany with PlayStation 3 deal
Titles available include Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
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Le Havre to open Sarajevo Film Festival
Kaurismaki’s The Man Without A Past screened at Sarajevo in 2002
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Eros International announces $25m first week for Ready
Film is released worldwide by Eros in association with Waves Cinemas’ Ponty Chadha
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul to head Orizzonti jury at Venice
Thai director competed at Venice in 2006
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NewsSPWA picks up world rights to Detention
Apocalyptic fantasy-horror-sci-fi-teen-rom-com directed by Joseph Kahn
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China’s Shimao strikes deals with Dolby and Christie on digital and 3D cinemas
China’s first 4K projectors to be installed.
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NewsMike Medavoy and SFG team for WWII feature
Producer Mike Medavoy and Shanghai Film Group are teaming on a feature and a related six-hour miniseries set in China