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All Features articles – Page 497
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France - Drivers follow positive signs
Along with the crop of new films at this year's Unifrance Paris Rendez-Vous, there will also be a debut sales company in town.Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur have taken up residence at Stephane Celerier's Mars Distribution and, with an outside investment fund, are launching international sales outfit Elle Driver.The ...
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United Kingdom - A very long disengagement
In the 11 years since he was fired from the directing chair of New Line's The Island Of Dr Moreau, Richard Stanley has kept a low profile. The UK film-maker had made a big splash with his first feature, Hardware, in 1990 but his subsequent career proved troubled to say ...
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Paris Screenings - 'the grande fete of french cinema'
The tenth anniversary of the Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris will give international buyers the first chance of the year to see the French films on offer from the country's sales companies.This year, more than 350 buyers and 120 journalists from two dozen countries will make the trip ...
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International - Leading the charge
German film Keinohrhasen was this weekend's highest non-US performer in the international top 40, generating a robust $7.6m over the three-day period.The romantic comedy was up 65% in the weekend after Christmas, playing across 569 screens for the second-highest screen average at $13,489 per screen. Directed by and starring Til ...
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United Kingdom - Coming up for chair
It is almost a decade since Colin MacCabe left his position as head of research and education at the British Film Institute (BFI). He is still an active producer - his latest project, Isaac Julien's Derek Jarman documentary, Derek, premieres in Sundance. Yet MacCabe cannot hide his dismay at what ...
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FeaturesBest picture: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
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2008 Preview - The future is rewritten
A Hollywood producer takes a shine to an up-and-coming European screenwriter. "I'm going to set you to work on the rewrite of my next film," the producer tells the writer. "Who wrote the first version'" the writer asks. "We haven't hired anyone yet," the producer replies.This story may be apocryphal ...
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2008 Preview - Hitting the high notes
The reverberations of the US writers' strike are being felt around the world as a trio of international shoots - Sony's Angels And Demons, Warner Bros' Vietnam drama Pinkville, to be directed by Oliver Stone, and Warner Bros- backed Shantaram, set to star Johnny Depp - have been put on ...
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United States - Water Works
Director Jay Russell has already brought two well-loved books to the big screen, in his 2000 family film My Dog Skip and in his 2002 fantasy Tuck Everlasting. But it took a leap forward in special-effects technology for him to pull off The Water Horse: Legend Of The Deep, based ...
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Turkey - Road movies
For the last 13 years Basak Emre and Ahmet Boyacioglu have been bringing world cinema to the farthest corners of Turkey. Their European Film Festival on Wheels, running since 1995, starts in late autumn in Ankara, then, for the following month, stages repeat performances of the programme in at least ...
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International - Warlords on the rise
Chinese heavy-hitter The Warlords was this weekend's highest non-US entry to the international chart, helping boost the top 40 revenue by 17.3% week-on-week.The period epic, directed by Peter Ho-sun Chan (Perhaps Love, Three), opened at number five at the weekend with a $12.5m take, for a $14.4m total including previews. ...
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The International view - The wheel: re-invented
From the beginning, the film industry has revelled in reheating its past and serving it up again and again and again. Great film-makers from John Ford to Kon Ichikawa have remade their own films and sometimes that exercise has expanded or embellished on an original.There are literal remakes and sequels, ...
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International - UPI builds up a global village
David Kosse is now celebrating a full year as president of Universal Pictures International (UPI), and he will tell you it has been a challenging ride.While he is no stranger to the company - Kosse has been head of UPI's London operation since 2003 - this is the company's first ...
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Botswana - Production Number One
It is fitting that when he started filming, Anthony Minghella did not know if The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency would end up as a feature or a TV film. After all, this is a director who made his international name as an Oscar winner for such sweeping cinematic epics ...
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Awards Countdown - Best Documentary - Rewriting the doc rule book
Michael Apted knew he was in for some flak when he went to meet the documentary film-making communities of Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco late last year.But the chairman of the documentary branch executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) thought the meetings ...
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Awards Countdown - People - Awards People
SARAH POLLEYThe Away From Her director talks to Peter Bowen about the film's long journey from story to screen.While making films seems second nature for Sarah Polley - she started acting at age six and making short films in her teens - she took more than six years to write ...
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United Kingdom - Off The Record
EMI has a long history as a record label - everyone from the Beatles to Coldplay - but its burgeoning film business owes much to two men and their motorcycles."Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to meet with us about a soundtrack, and we ended up doing the DVD release ...