All Screen articles in 21 November 2007 – Page 5
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Critical Mass - Movie myths
You have probably received one of those witty circular e-mails about the ridiculous things that happen only in movies. They do the rounds of the internet on a regular basis, morphing as recipients add their own candidates.The best cliches from the one that dropped into my inbox last week were:- ...
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Portugal - 'Thirty years of contacts'
When details were first announced of the inaugural European Film Festival Estoril (November 8-17) in Portugal, predictably some on the festival circuit were unenthusiastic about another autumn date. Nonetheless, under the direction of Portugal's best-known producer, Paulo Branco, the new event looks set to attract plenty of big-names.Branco was first ...
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Awards Countdown Golden Globes - Category profile: Foreign language - Second life
The Golden Globes foreign-language category has become the subject of increased scrutiny of late. Take last year when US-made films Apocalypto and Letters From Iwo Jima were nominated alongside foreign-made foreign-language films. Letters, shot in California and backed by Warner Bros, went on to win the category over TheLives Of ...
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Awards Countdown Golden Globes - Category profile: Musical or comedy - Giving comedy a chance
Providing an extra 10 acting slots, and a chance for musicals and comedies to step out of drama’s shadow, the Golden Globes’ musical/comedy category is generally seen as a good thing.
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Awards Countdown People - Awards People
STEVEN KNIGHTThe writer of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises tells Edward Lawrenson about a 'painless' experience working with the Canadian masterAfter 2002's Dirty Pretty Things, which explored the twilight existence of London's illegal immigrants, and Eastern Promises, which portrays the Russian gangster underworld in the city, Steven Knight is well known ...
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The art of film-making
When UK writer-director Penny Woolcock decided to retell a biblical story in Exodus, set in a near-future version of the English town of Margate, she approached UK artist Antony Gormley through Artangel, who co-produced the film with Channel 4. Woolcock wanted Gormley to create a plague of frogs for the ...
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United kingdom - Going Ape
Ceri Levy was smart enough to recognise he was in the right place at the right time. He was a long-time friend of Damon Albarn of the band Blur (for which Levy produced the 1994 Starshaped documentary), and Levy was present at the kitchen table when Albarn and Jamie Hewlett ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend November 9-11
ANALYSIS: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE - WEEKEND NOVEMBER 9-11(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1NewOm Shanti Om (Ind)$18,174,6371048$18,174,637172NewSaawariya (Ind)$13,348,401899$13,348,401123NewLions For Lambs (US)$10,339,5612675$10,339,561444(1)Ratatouille (US)$9,291,2843680$388,577,782305(4)The Heartbreak Kid (US)$8,727,0801762$41,255,273236(3)Stardust (UK-US)$5,798,9932327$83,502,885487(2)Resident Evil: Extinction (Aus-Ger-UK-US)$5,436,3201726$79,517,214398(11)Lust, Caution (Ch-HK-Tai-US)$4,998,295782$27,894,056129(15)30 Days Of Night (US)$4,928,8971227$10,986,7921110(12)The Bourne Ultimatum (US)$4,805,582982$195,736,6062511(5)Saw IV (US)$4,056,8371506$32,823,1922412(13)Sky Of Love (Jap)$4,001,120287$11,875,709113(10)Always - Sunset On Third Street 2 (Jap)$4,000,922382$13,676,716114(9)Elizabeth: The Golden Age (UK-US-Fr)$3,983,481966$14,259,089815(17)Le ...
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Digital distribution - a new world order'
We are in the post-major studio and pre-internet era,' says Ira Deutchman, founder and CEO of New York-based Emerging Pictures. The supposed starting point and destination in his assertion are of course highly debatable. But there is now a clear consensus that this is an industry in transition. And as ...
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Rights options - Material world
In an industry where only the select few can afford to snap up the rights to the latest bestseller-to-be at galley stage or bid for the hottest spec screenplay doing the rounds, producers need to be shrewder, quicker off the mark and more esoteric in their thinking when they are ...
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Golden Globes - Power of the press
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Hfpa) is the little engine that could. Founded 65 years ago by a small group of foreign correspondents, the not-for-profit has gone from strength to strength.
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Indie India - Get set, Goa!
After struggling to find its feet in the past few years, the film market of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in Goa is undergoing a radical overhaul this year in partnership with government agency, the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc). This year, Film Bazaar (November 24-26) will ditch ...
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Sales of New Zealand films up 76% over last year
Sales of New Zealand films have shot up 76% in the past year and have generated a gross income of $5.43m, according to the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC).In its annual report, NZFC found that local films made commissions of $1.12m, up from $207,698 in 2005/06. NZFC-financed films saw international ...
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Pinewood hopes to expand with new live-work media community
Pinewood Shepperton plans to seek planning permission for an extension to Pinewood Studios, on land adjacent to the current Pinewood Studios site in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.The proposed Project Pinewood will include a variety of locations for film and TV, including permanent working sets of streetscapes and location recreations such as ...
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Estonia's Black Nights unveils full competition line-up
The Black Nights Film Festival has unveiled the program for its eleventh edition, to be held Nov 15-Dec 9 in Tallinn, Estonia.This year's event features 205 films from more than 60 countries. Among the 11 titles in the Estonian Feature Film Competition are 186 Kilometers, from Andres Maimik and Autumn ...
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Schuermann steps down as CEO of Intermedia USA
Martin Schuermann has now stepped from his post as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Los Angeles-based Intermedia Film Equities USA to return to 'hands-on' production. In July, Schuermann had cited 'personal reasons' for leaving his other post as CEO of the IM Internationalmedia Group which he had held ...
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Goa fest to open with 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days
Romanian director Christian Mungiu's Cannes Palmes d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days will be the opening film of this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, with Mungiu himself expected to attend. Shah Rukh Khan will inaugurate the festival which takes place Nov 23 - ...
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Korea's Studio2.0 scores sales on Epitaph, Lovers
Korean production and sales company Studio2.0 clinched a string of sales on new titles Epitaph and Lovers Of 6 Years at the recent AFM. Horror title Epitaph, directed by the Jung Brothers and starring Kim Tae-woo and Kim Bo-kyung, was sold to Taiwan 's Scholar Multimedia and Encore for Singapore, ...
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Stockholm kicks off tonight with Josef Fares' Leo
As the world première of Swedish director Josef Fares' Leo opens the 18th Stockholm International Film Festival tonight - the first time a Swedish feature launches the fest - local audiences are facing an 11-day programme of more than 170 features, adding seminars, lectures, Face2Face discussions and workshops, all dedicated ...
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Bill Grantham joins Greenberg Taurig practice in LA
Attorney Bill Grantham has joined Greenberg Traurig's burgeoning corporate and securities practice in Los Angeles.Grantham has extensive experience representing international investors, studios, producers and distributors across a range of entertainment platforms.'Continuing changes in the global entertainment content financing marketplace demand creativity and skill,' Tom Loo, co-managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig's ...