All Features articles – Page 427
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FeaturesFunny Business
A string of French comedies, led by Dany Boon’s Welcome To The Sticks, have scored recent hits overseas bucking the widely accepted trend that local comedies don’t travel. Geoffrey MacNab reports.
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FeaturesGreg Strause and Liam O’Donnell
The co-director and the co-writer of Skyline talk to Jeremy Kay about working outside the studio system on the upcoming thriller.
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FeaturesStephen Kijak, director
The director of Directors’ Fortnight entry Stones In Exile talks to Wendy Mitchell about working with the band and taking viewers back to the ‘70s
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FeaturesAfrica United
Pathé’s $6m Africa United is an ambitious UK-South Africa-Rwanda co-production which filmed across three countries. Sarah Cooper reports from Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, where it was the first international project to shoot.
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FeaturesWeekly International Box Office - May 7-9
ScreenDaily brings you the weekly international box-office news.
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FeaturesGentlemen Broncos rides into Spain, UK welcomes American
ScreenDaily’s weekly round-up of the local and independent openings in key European markets this week.
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Screen's Global Top 10 - May 07-09
Screen International’s top 10 films worldwide this weekend.
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FeaturesCannes Film Festival Competition Line-up
The opening and closing films plus the competition line for the Cannes Film Festival 2010.
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FeaturesBuying movies today
The buyer-seller relationship is a delicate one of mutual dependency, rather like the buyers’ own subsequent bond with the exhibitor. Each has their own agenda, yet each needs the other to survive. The seller needs the buyer’s financial commitment to get a film made, the buyer needs the product to ...
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FeaturesDoors of perception
Locarno’s Open Doors co-production lab (Aug 7-10) is focusing on Central Asia in 2010, a region that remains something of an unknown quantity internationally despite a diverse production sector.
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FeaturesThe foreign fallout
A decade after Crouching Tiger rewrote the rules for foreign-language films in the US, the situation is looking more difficult than ever for sellers and producers trying to infiltrate the domestic market. Anthony D’Alessandro takes the temperature in the US foreign-language distribution arena
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FeaturesWeekly International Box Office - April 30-May 2
ScreenDaily brings you the weekly international box-office news.
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FeaturesGoldcrest’s Adam Kulick and Penny Wolf
Goldcrest Capital’s Adam Kulick talks about the company’s success with US slate deals and its new focus on backing UK indies; new head of sales Penny Wolf talks about why producers can benefit from Goldcrest’s one-stop shop.
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FeaturesScreen's Global Top 10 - April 30-May 02
Screen International’s top 10 films worldwide this weekend.
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FeaturesWays To Live Forever
UK-Spain production Ways To Live Forever, aims to be a life-affirming and funny story…about two kids with leukemia. The film is now in post with an eye on Toronto.
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FeaturesInternational Box Office: Boom Times
The global box office experienced an impressive 28% spike for the first quarter from the comparable period in 2009. International proved to be the driving force in terms of growth, helped in part by 3D screen expansion. Len Klady analyses the numbers and reveals studio market share.
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FeaturesPaul Fraser, director of My Brothers
Shane Meadows’ longtime screenwriter Paul Fraser talks to Jeremy Kay about his feature directorial debut on My Brothers.
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FeaturesGeorgina Lowe, producer
The producer of Mike Leigh’s Cannes competition title Another Year talks to Geoffrey Macnab about her long collaboration with the British director.
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FeaturesNicole Holofcener
The director of Please Give talks to Jeremy Kay about writing real characters and ad-libbing.
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FeaturesJohn Carney & Kieran Carney
The brothers behind alien comedy Zonad talk to Jeremy Kay about following the success of Once and sharing directing duties.