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All Features articles – Page 495
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FeaturesViggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
A first-time Oscar nominee for best actor, Viggo Mortensen tells Mike Goodridge how he put himself in David Cronenberg’s hands to play a Russian hoodlum in Eastern Promises.
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International - The very best figures
Russian comedy The Very Best Film (Samiy Luchshiy Film) claimed the international crown this weekend with a mammoth $17.8m opening weekend in two territories, accounting for 9% of the international top 40 revenue.The parody, distributed through Caroprokat, enjoyed a $16.5m opening in Russia, the biggest ever in the country. It ...
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Awards Countdown - The Oscars - By the numbers: oscar nominations
2008 nominees with the most previous nods20 nominations Kevin O'Connell, sound mixing on TransformersO'Connell was nominated previously for Terms Of Endearment (1983), Dune (1984), Silverado (1985), Top Gun (1986), Black Rain (1989), Days Of Thunder (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), Crimson Tide (1995), Twister (1996), The Rock (1996), Con ...
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France-Spain - Coach's driving ambition
As it heads to the European Film Market in Berlin, Franco-Spanish sales company Coach 14 is also celebrating its first birthday.Founded by former Funny Balloons partner Pape Boye and Jaume Domenech, the company has offices in Paris and Barcelona, with backing from Spanish production outfit Iris Star, which was founded ...
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The Critical view - Acts to grind
When writing a film review, I have a checklist in the back of my head. Did I mention the editing’ What kind of look are the director and DoP going for - handheld cine-realism, washed-out widescreen nostalgia, garish techno-futurism’ How about the sound design, the soundtrack, the miking of dialogue: ...
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United Kingdom - Moxie Mania
Since she founded Newcastle-based production company Ipso Facto Films 15 years ago, Christine Alderson has had a successful track record producing 11 independent features and more than 50 shorts and documentaries, including recent European Film Award nominee Irina Palm and Sue Heel's School For Seduction. Now, Alderson is creating a ...
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United Kingdom - Planet Holywood
It is no coincidence producer Jo Gilbert is sitting in a new, swish Belfast hotel as she speaks to Screen - the setting is just one part of the radical redevelopment of the city centre."People don't know what to think about Belfast but it's incredibly stylish since the Good Friday ...
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The international view - Going for Oscar gold
Predicting the Oscar nominations is not an exact science, not least because the arcane voting system tends to throw up left-field candidates.The window of opportunity for distributors to cash in on a nomination is also very limited. But over the years, it has been possible to see a big picture. ...
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Production - Hungary - Feast or Famine'
Before the new facilities at Budapest's Korda Studios opened for business in 2007, Hungary was attracting more international footloose productions than the country's crews could handle. Thanks largely to its lauded 20% tax rebate on productions shooting in the country, the annual spend by film productions in Hungary has multiplied ...
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Production - Germany - Deutsche courage
The German film industry may never have looked so good. Last year, Germany hosted a record number of international and US productions and boasted a stunning array of local talent, including Oscar-winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives Of Others), Fatih Akin (The Edge Of Heaven) and Marc Rothemund (Sophie ...
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In focus - Video-on-demand - Big films on a moving screen
It is called the halo effect. Last year when Apple unveiled its iPhone, the technology and business press fell to its knees in supplication. If Apple does it, it has to be good. Last week, the company announced a deal with all the Hollywood studios that will, from February, see ...
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Awards Countdown - BAFTA nominations - BAFTAs strike a serious tone
The blizzard of nominations for Atonement, There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men suggests a year in which the Orange British Academy Film Awards were devoid of surprises.Atonement for one always seemed destined for BAFTA glory. It has the literary pedigree that BAFTA voters like in a ...
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Awards Countdown - People - Awards people
JAVIER BARDEMThe actor tells Mike Goodridge about the challenges of playing a man with a black heart in No Country For Old MenAs Anton Chigurh, a lethal assassin with no conscience or humour who kills his way through the south-east US in the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men, ...
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United States - Animal attraction
It's day six on the set of Green Porno and star Isabella Rossellini is having sex with a snail. Which is OK, because she is a snail too. After all, this whole bizarre set-up was her idea.Commissioned by Christopher Barry, vice-president, digital media and business strategy for US cable network ...
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All quiet on the Eastern front
With the exception of Davis Films' comic-book adaptation Solomon Kane, which began filming on location in Prague in early January, the streets and sound stages of Eastern Europe are mostly silent right now. The US writers' strike is damaging the production business at all levels, from major facilities such as ...
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International - A Slice of the action
While Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street was the highest entrant in this week's international box-office chart, there were a number of new European entries that catch the eye.The Warner Bros film, directed by Tim Burton, took $8,111,368 over the weekend, playing on 1,092 screens in five territories. ...
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In focus - Digital rights in Europe - 'It's an absolute minefield'
The US has been the leader in digital technologies - from downloads to digital cinema - because it has a large homogenous market where cultural, technical and legal differences are minimal.Contrast that to Europe, which is a complex jumble of states, each with their own laws and traditions. Apple will ...
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United States - Niche operator
Perhaps the biggest challenge Lisa Nishimura-Seese has faced, since relocating from New York to Los Angeles last October on joining Netflix, is that there are not enough hours in the day.In her newly created role of vice-president of independent content acquisition in a new department, she is charged with acquiring ...
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United Kingdom - Next top model
It is looking like a good year ahead for the Bristol-based animation powerhouse Aardman. The company, formed back in 1976, had a notable 2007 after ending its relationship with DreamWorks and signing a first-look deal with Sony Pictures. Now the company behind Wallace and Gromit, Flushed Away and Chicken Run ...
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United States - Original intent
This week, Original Media, the New York-headquartered independent film and TV production company headed by former internet entrepreneur Charlie Corwin, is attending Sundance with what it hopes will be another buzz-generating festival film.In 2005, the then two-year-old company went to Park City as the primary backer of The Squid And ...