All Screen articles in 21 November 2007 – Page 2
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Balkan Fund selects four projects for $59,000 funding
The Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has handed out its latest grants to four new projects. The projects that received $14,789 (Euros 10,000) each are: Mother from writer/director Juraj Lertic and producer Dana Budisavljevic (Croatia) Rio from writers Nicolas ...
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After strike, Hellstedt's Land Under Water gets Finnish backing
The Finnish Film Foundation has backed the first local feature film project after the producers' strike, chipping in $739,000 (Euros 500,000) production funding for Finnish director Lenka Hellstedt's Land Under Water (Maata meren alla). Current box-office figures suggest the importance of domestic product in the cinemas: last weekend, three Finnish ...
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The Hat Factory to host digital workflow seminar
The Hat Factory, Codex Digital, and Sohonet are hosting a digital event, Production 2.0, on Dec 6, to show producers technologies including digital links between Pinewood Studios and post-production companies in Soho. The free demonstrations will be held at 3 pm and 6 pm. The Production Guild is also supporting ...
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Labadie to kick start new distribution company with Le Cahier
After being unexpectedly ousted last month from Bac Films, a company he founded 21 years ago, Jean Labadie is back with a new independent distribution company. Le Pacte will release its first film in February - Hana Makhmalbaf's Le Cahier - and carry on through the year with a total ...
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Beart and Lieifers to host 20th EFAs on Dec 1
The 20th European Film Awards, to be held Dec 1 in Berlin, will be hosted by French actress Emmanuelle Beart and German actor Jan Josef Liefers. EFA president Wim Wenders will deliver opening remarks to the 1,400 guests at Berlin 's Arena. Other guests will include Jeanne Moreau and Liv ...
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Angelopoulos dusts off first English film with Willem Dafoe
Theo Angelopoulos starts shooting today in the northern Russian city of Nizni Novgorod his new film, The Dust of Time, the second part of the trilogy undertaken three years ago with The Weeping Meadow. The impressive international cast includes Irene Jacob taking the role as Eleni, played in The Weeping ...
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BFS moves into theatrical with US deal for Tom Collins' Kings
North American distributor BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited will move into theatrical distribution with its acquisition of Tom Collins' Kings. The film, partly in the Irish language and the Irish submission for Foreign-Language Oscar consideration. The big-screen adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings Of The Kilburn High Road stars ...
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China's Enlight Media to merge with Hurray Holding
Beijing-based film and TV producer Enlight Media is set to merge with NASDAQ-listed Chinese ring tone provider Hurray! Holding, to form a new company called Hurray Enlight Media Group. The merger is a share exchange deal, valued at around $160m, after which Enlight Media will hold 42% of the initial ...
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Hairspray to receive ensemble award from Palm Springs
Hairspray will be honoured with the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) ensemble performance award on January 5 2008.The New Line musical will also become the festival's first ever public screening at a special event presented by Netflix the day before when lyric subtitles will encourage the audience ...
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Participant, State Street partner up for Bobby Martinez
Participant Productions and State Street Pictures producers Bob Teitel and George Tillman are developing Bobby Martinez, a biopic about the first Mexican-American professional surfer on the world tour.Robert Munic, who wrote Summit Entertainment and Mandalay Pictures' upcoming teen fight club drama Get Some, has been hired to write the screenplay.The ...
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Andrew Marcus promoted to COO at Relativity Media
Andrew Marcus has been named Relativity Media's COO following his appointment as executive vice president earlier this year.Marcus, who joined the company in summer 2005, will oversee operations and continue to manage the structured finance division. He will continue to report directly to Ryan Kavanaugh.'I believe that having Andrew on ...
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Andrew Marcus promoted to COO at Relativity Media
Andrew Marcus (pictured) has been named COO at Relativity Media following his appointment as executive vice president earlier this year.Marcus, who joined the company in summer 2005, will oversee operations and continue to manage the structured finance division. He will continue to report directly to Ryan Kavanaugh.'I believe that having ...
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Tribeca teams with Gucci for documentary finishing fund
The Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci announced today the launch of the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund for independent film-makers.The initiative will offer finishing funds and post-production guidance to independent film-makers whose films 'promote social change and illuminate issues in need of comprehensive coverage currently missing from mainstream media'.The Tribeca Film ...
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Hannah to receive career achievement award at Bahamas
Daryl Hannah will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Career Achievement Tribute Award on December 8.Nicolas Cage received the honours last year, which recognises an actor or actress whose work has had 'a major impact and has advanced the frontiers of cinematic artistry around the world'.Festival patron Sean Connery ...
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McDonagh's In Bruges to open Sundance Film Festival
Martin McDonagh's feature directorial debut In Bruges will open the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 17.Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the film, which stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as London hitmen ordered by their boss Ralph Fiennes to go on an event-filled holiday in the Belgian city ...
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Academy names 15 documentary features on Oscar shortlist
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced its shortlist of 15 films that will contest the documentary feature category for the 80th Academy Awards.The 15 films in alphabetical order are: Autism: The Musical; Body Of War; For The Bible Tells Me So; Lake Of Fire; Nanking; No ...
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Intandem books strong AFM sales on How To Lose Friends
UK-based sales company Intandem Films has reported a strong level of sales done at the recent AFM. Robert B Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, starring Kirsten Dunst and Simon Pegg, was sold to Germany (Concorde/Telemunchen), Italy (Mikado), Portugal (Lusomundo), Turkey (Sanat Ozen), Korea (MFI), Poland (Hagi) and ...
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There Will Be Blood
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson US, 2007. 158minsThere Will Be Blood is a vivid, sprawling parable about greed and moral corrosion. Set in the majestic American Southwest circa 1900, Paul Thomas Anderson's film will ride to the box-office largely on Daniel Day Lewis's volcanic performance as Daniel Plainview, the monstrous rags-to-riches ...
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NonStop sells Gnomes and Trolls to Turkey and China
NonStop Sales has sold further territories on its animated family feature Gnomes and Trolls. The project has gone to China (HGC Entertainment) and Turkey (A Arti). NonStop previously did a deal for CIS (Ukranian Rights Management). White Shark's 3D animated project is in production now, with executive producers Joel Cohen ...
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AAM strikes virtual print fee deal for entire CGR chain in France
Arts Alliance Media has signed a digital cinema virtual print fee agreement for 400 screens in France. The deal with Circuit George Raymond (CGR), one of France's largest chains, is an exclusive deal for AAM to deploy digital distribution services on all of the chain's 400 screens throughout France. The ...