All Features articles – Page 355
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FeaturesVincent Grimond, Wild Bunch
Wild Bunch CEO Vincent Grimond talks Melanie Goodfellow through the company’s impending merger with Germany’s Senator Entertainment.
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FeaturesLiza Marshall & Kris Thykier, Archery Pictures
Liza Marshall and Kris Thykier talk to Andreas Wiseman about teaming up for their fledgling film and TV company, Archery Pictures.
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FeaturesEhud Bleiberg, Bleiberg Entertainment
Ehud Bleiberg looks back on his 30-year career, telling Jeremy Kay about his AFM slate and how he is adapting to new distribution models.
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FeaturesSet report: Race
From the Berlin set of Jesse Owens story Race, Martin Blaney talks to the producers about their approach to the defining story of the 1936 Olympics.
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FeaturesSet report: Shaun the Sheep the Movie
On the set of Shaun The Sheep The Movie, Aardman Animations veterans are taking inspiration from silent comedy to guide the flock to the big screen. Wendy Mitchell reports.
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FeaturesChina: The next big things
From stories of modern romance in Beijing to a Chinese-language rom-com scripted by Justin Lin and the controversial Crouching Tiger sequel, Liz Shackleton previews some of the hottest films coming out of China.
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FeaturesChina: A territory transformed
The Chinese market once again proved its might with Transformers 4’s record-setting box office; but beyond the tentpoles are changing trends in finance, audiences and production. Liz Shackleton assesses the state of the industry in 2014.
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FeaturesChina: Revolutionising content
The three internet companies known collectively as BAT are having a major impact on the Chinese film industry. Liz Shackleton reports on what the major players are producing and why they want to sit across the entire value chain.
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FeaturesLA Stars of Tomorrow 2014
This year’s LA Stars feature boasts nine individuals whose names emerged from a diligent trawl of agents, managers and publicists on both sides of the Atlantic.
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FeaturesThe perfect Paddington
Expectations don’t come much higher than bringing family favourite Paddington to life. Director Paul King and the Framestore creatives tell Neal Romanek how they made the loveable bear fit for the big screen.
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FeaturesJavier Fuentes-Léon, The Vanished Elephant
The LA-based writer-director came to attention outside his native Peru in 2010 when Undertow (Contracorriente) scooped an audience award at Sundance. Now he’s back with another meditation on reality, albeit one that inhabits the noir milieu.
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FeaturesAlessandra Priante on Emirati cinema scene
Former Italian cultural attaché says cinema scene has evolved considerably in the last five years.
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FeaturesNujoom Alghanem, Sounds of the Sea
Emirati filmmaker and poet Nujoom Alghanem talks about her feature-length documentary Sounds of the Sea capturing a way of Emirati life that is dying out.
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FeaturesJacqueline Lyanga, AFI FEST
The festival director talks about a few of the anticipated highlights at this year’s feast of global film, including a certain picture that is finally coming home after it was originally set to play the festival in 2013.
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FeaturesNicolas Villarreal, Nieta
Nicolas Villarreal is on track for Oscar qualification with his second animated short Nieta, which has screened at multiple festivals including Cannes and Facets, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.
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GALLERY: UK Film & TV Week in LA
The British Film Commission hosted its inaugural week-long session (October 20-24) as reps from the UK’s national and regional screen agencies met Hollywood industry. All photos: Getty Images.
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FeaturesAmr Waked, El Ott
Mystical revenge thriller premiered in competition at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
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FeaturesHip-hop's Narcicyst on short film Rise
Iraqi-Canadian hip-hop and musician Yassin Alsalman, better known as The Narcicyst, is at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival with the short film Rise.