All Screen articles in 21 November 2007
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Warner Bros takes worldwide rights to Jeunet's Micmacs A Tire-Larigot
Warner Bros France will distribute Tapioca Films and Epithete Films' Micmacs A Tire-Larigot to be directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.The film will take a satirical look at the world of arms dealers and will be co-written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, with whom Jeunet collaborated on Amelie and A Very Long ...
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Montreal's Delphis picks up sales rights to Christmas Story
Montreal-based sales company Deplhis Films has picked up world rights on Juha Wuolijoki's recent Finnish hit Christmas Story. The film opened in Finland November 16 through Sandrew Metronome with nearly 22,000 admissions on 60 prints to knock Ratatouille from the top position at the local box office. Delphis will introduce ...
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Italy's Mediaset launches new free cinema channel
Italy's Mediaset, the nation's most powerful private network owned by Silvio Berlusconi, is launching Iris: a new, free, digital terrestrial channel to be devoted tofilms and cultural programming.The new channel will go on air November 30 will be under the direction of Miriam Pisani who acted previously as vice director ...
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Rotterdam reveals first competitors from Japan, Malaysia,Thailand
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 23-Feb 3) has selected the first three films for its VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. They are genre-bending autobiographical family project Waltz In Starlight by Shingo Wakagi (Japan); Pusan award winner Flower In The Pocket by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia) about two motherless brothers; and ...
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Medusa makes strides with Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi
Italian distributor Medusa Film made a solid imprint on the international top 40 this weekend with two films - Matrimonio Alle Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi - generating more than $7m and accounting for 5.2% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, ...
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MEDIA increases EFP funding to $1.73m for 2008
The EU's MEDIA Programme has increased its funding for multi-country promotional group European Film Promotion (EFP). MEDIA will contribute $813,810 (Euros 550,000) for EFP activities in Europe and $924,304 (Euros 624,000) for activities outside of Europe. The total of $1.73m (Euros 1.17m) is greater than 2007's $1.6m (Euros 1.08m). The ...
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UTV's Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal lines up Reebok deal
UTV Motion Pictures has struck a deal for Reebok to retail products related to its film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal across 535 stores in India. The film is about a struggling Asian football team in England. UTV noted that it had already recouped the film's $4m production costs ahead of ...
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Eros strikes joint venture with Mukta/Red Carpet
Indian media company Eros International has entered into a joint venture with Red Carpet Films to co-produce three to four films per year. Manish Goswami's Red Carpet Films is a Mukta Arts company. In a separate deal, Eros has taken global distribution rights to three Mukta Arts releases: Nagesh Kukunoor's ...
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Sony Classics to distribute Menzel's King Of England in North America
Sony Pictures Classics will distribute Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England in North America. The deal was signed at AFM, according to the film's Czech producer AQS. The film is the Czech Republic's submission for foreign-language Oscar consideration. 'We are very proud to have as our American distributors ...
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Robin Hardy plans March 2008 shoot for Cowboys For Christ
Los Angeles-based Fantastic Films International has come on board for worldwide sales for Cowboys For Christ, written and directed by Robin Hardy. Hardy, known for directing 1973's The Wicker Man, also wrote the book of the same name. Cowboys For Christ will start shooting in March 2008 around Dumfries, Scotland. ...
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Corsan starts Canadian shoot for Breuls' directorial debut
Director Paul Breuls has started production on The Hessen Affair, a WWII-era thriller starring Billy Zane, Lyne Renee, Michael Bowen and Noah Segan.Corsan, the Belgian company Breuls runs, is producing with Phyllis Laing's Buffalo Gal Pictures co-producing. Corsan is also handling international sales.Nicholas Meyer and Ronald Roose wrote the screenplay, ...
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Berlin's WCF backs films from Armenia, Indonesia, Iran and Israel
Four film projects from Armenia, Indonesia, Iran and Israel have been backed by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) with a total of $325,680 (Euros 220,000) at its latest funding session chaired by festival director Dieter Kosslick. The four were selected from 108 submissions from 40 countries.The selected projects include ...
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Ireland facing majordrop in film production
The annual Audiovisual Federation of the Irish Business & Employers Confederation annual report estimates a big drop in film production in Ireland this year.Irishfeature filmsproduction was worth $44m (Euros 29.8m) in 2006,well up on the lull of $26m (Euros 17.5m) in 2005. But the reviewestimates that the Irish spend will ...
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Swedish Film Institute plans to double specific grants
In a response to 'the rapid technological development, new audience patterns, and the concentration of power in the cinema market,' the Swedish Film Institute has devised a new plan of action to support the promotion and distribution of quality films in the newlandscape. The recent bankruptcies of quality film ...
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Focus Features International scores big in Japan at AFM
Focus Features International chief Alison Thompson hailed a resurgent Japanese buying contingent at AFM as she announced key sales following the market earlier this month.'As far as we're concerned Japan is back in action,' Thompson said. 'We really did have an extremely good AFM. It was substantially better than last ...
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Santa Fe Film Festival bookended by Juno, Grace Is Gone
The 8th Santa Fe Film Festival will open with Fox Searchlight's Juno on November 28 and close on December 2 with The Weinstein Company's (TWC) Grace Is Gone.Screenings include Paramount Vantage's Margot At The Wedding with Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, TWC's Control starring Sam Riley, and SPC's Stefan ...
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Warner launches global VOD channel service Warner TV
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) has launched the global video-on-demand channel service Warner TV.Warner TV will comprise features and TV shows and will be available in the UK via Virgin Media's digital cable service and on BT's IPTV platform and in Japan on USEN Corporation's broadband broadcasting service GyaO.The ...
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Lionsgate UK to release horror thriller Babysitter Wanted
Lionsgate UK will release Big Screen Entertainment Group's (BSEG) horror-thriller Babysitter Wanted in 2008.Jonas Barnes and Michael Manasseri directed the story of a girl who is terrorised one night while babysitting on a farm.'Lionsgate UK is one of the premiere marketing machines in the horror genre,' BSEG CEO Kimberley Kates ...
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Brick Lane opens at number 10 as Gangster tops UK box office
Ridley Scott's American Gangster beat CGI epic Beowulf to thetop slot in the UK this weekend, taking $5.3m (£2.6m) from 410 sites. See the full chart here.The 1970s crime story, which stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, boasted the highest site average over the three-day period at $12,818 (£6,249) per ...