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Europa Cinemas plays to youth audience
Taking a leaf out of the well thumbed book written by Hollywood Stock Exchange, European exhibition support organisation Europa Cinemas has launched an on-line film game.The Great Game (Le Grand Jeu) went live on Monday (Nov 20) - at www.europa-cinemas.org - as part of the organisation's annual Netd@ys initiative, which ...
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Max Mayer's Adam wins Alfred P Sloan Prize at Sundance
Max Mayer's Sundance romance Adam is the recipient of this year's Alfred P Sloan Prize and $20,000 cash award honouring 'an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.'Fox Searchlight acquired worldwide rights earlier in the ...
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David Mackenzie's Spread sold to Anchor Bay in $3.5m deal
Anchor Bay has paid in the region of $3.5m for US and Australian rights to Spread, David Mackenzie's LA hustler tale starring Ashton Kutcher.The distributor, which is ramping up its theatrical operations, closed the deal with CAA and Endeavor Independent late on Friday afternoon [January 23] following several days of ...
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Sundance sensation Push wins both jury and audience prizes
Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire, Lee Daniels' universally acclaimed redemptive tale starring Gabourey Sidibe as a troubled young girl in Harlem, has won the 2009 Sundance US Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize and the audience award. Heading into Saturday night's awards ceremony [January 24] a number of buyers ...
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A Quiet Little Marriage wins narrative jury award at Slamdance
Mo Perkins' A Quiet Little Marriage won the grand jury award for best narrative feature and the grand jury award for best documentary feature went to Strongman by Zachary Levy as the 15th annual Slamdance Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.Best narrative short went to Kazik Radwanski's ...
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GK Films sets Knightley, Farrell for London Boulevard
Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell have boarded GK Films' crime drama London Boulevard, set to begin shooting in and around London in early summer.William Monahan, who won the 2007 adapted screenwriting Oscar for The Departed that also earned GK Films chief Graham King the best picture award, wrote the screenplay ...
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Slumdog takes PGA Award, inches closer to Oscar glory
Slumdog Millionaire produced by Christian Colson maintained its remarkable awards season momentum by taking the Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award for a theatrical feature in the 2009 Producers Guild Of America awards on Saturday night [January 24].Wall-E won the award for animated feature of the year and ...
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Arthouse Films picks up worldwide on Doug Pray's Art & Copy
Arthouse Films announced last night [January 24] that it had picked up worldwide rights to Doug Pray's Sundance documentary Art & Copy as the festival came to a close.David Koh and Lilly Bright negotiated the deal on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment with Josh Braun of Submarine ...
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Screen opinion:Time to get real
Could 2009 be the year we all get real' The thought springs to mind in contemplating the Alice In Wonderland aspects of the last few months. There has, of course, always been a surreal aspect to the industry but rarely has so much of the business seemed to be out ...
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In Focus - European film finance unveiling this season's model
A year ago, Screen's European Film Summit in Berlin was already focused on the dark clouds on the horizon - the terms 'credit crunch' and 'sub-prime' permeated almost all the discussions. Few, however, were predicting the abrupt ending of a credit boom would lead to the kind of downturn we ...
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United States - New York giant
Mark Lipsky, the former Miramax, New Yorker Films and Lot 47 executive, had been happily self-exiled in Arizona for five years working with technology companies when his old friend Brian Devine of Gigantic Pictures called."I was thrilled to be away from both New York and the film business. But I ...
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Into The Arms Of Strangers
Dir: Mark Jonathan Harris. US. 2000. 122 mins.Prod co: Sabine Films, with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Domestic dist: Warner Bros. Prod: Deborah Oppenheimer. Scr: Harris. DoP: Don Lenzer. Ed: Kate Amend. Music: Lee Holdridge. Narrator: Judi Dench.Into the Arms Of Strangers tells the remarkable story of the ...
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United States - Atlantic crossing
Overlook, as any self-respecting horror fan should know, is the name of the hotel in The Shining. It is also now the name of the sales outfit set up by Verane Frediani and Franck Ribiere.The company aims to have a presence on both sides of the Atlantic, and is an ...
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United Kingdom - Fresh blood
Is Hammer really "rising from the dead" again' The UK company that made Dracula, Prince Of Darkness, the Quatermass movies and The Devil Rides Out has often seemed on the verge of resurrection. As 2009 begins, it is clear the long-predicted revamp is happening for real. And in its new ...
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Serbia - Saving grace
"Serbia is currently the most competitive filming location in Europe," says Spanish-born producer Antoni Sole. "Crews are skilled and experienced, with an excellent knowledge of English and are much cheaper than those in Bulgaria or Romania. The facilities are also of high quality."Sole is an experienced producer who has set ...
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Hungary - The week shall inherit
International festival programmers are some of the strongest supporters of Hungarian Film Week. Cristiana Giaccardi, head of programming for Locarno, where Hungarian films have enjoyed a strong presence in recent years, will attend this year's in the expectation of finding at least one title for Locarno's next edition. "We really ...
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Interview: Oliver Hirschbiegel
The Northern Ireland 'Troubles' of the 1970s are a long way from Oliver Hirschbiegel's hugely successful drama Downfall about the last days of Adolf Hitler, but the German director sees many similarities.'I've always been interested in the human condition and how this brings forth extreme confrontation,' he explains.Hirschbiegel came to ...
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India - Alone in the dark
Indian writer-director Anurag Kashyap prefers the dark and dysfunctional to the frothy effervescence of Bollywood. “I try to show an India not seen before in a Bollywood film, its underbelly. The story should be rooted in India because that’s where I’m from,” he says.As a result, the non-conformist film-maker has ...
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NewsSlumdog marches on but BAFTA nominations did have surprises
Danny Boyle must be savouring the 11 Bafta nominations for Slumdog Millionaire but Mike Leigh is nodoubt wondering why his Happy-Go-Lucky was so resoundingly ignored.
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TheIndian film industry and the global economic crisis
How well is the Indian film industry positioned to ride out the global economic crisis' Screen takes a look at the impact of the crunch on production and multiplex expansion as well as the country's high-profile international financing deals. The Indian film industry may have made headlines last year with ...