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All Features articles – Page 509
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UK - The Importance Of Being Ealing
If you think you know Ealing Studios from the glory days of The Lavender Hill Mob, it is time to fast forward. The new Ealing Studios, launched in 2000, has worked on films including The Importance of Being Earnest and Valiant and is quietly ramping up its future business.Having a ...
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Editorial - Screen says - All franchised out'
The nightmare for everyone involved in any creative industry is that one day the ideas will dry up. More particularly for the international market, it is what happens when all the remakes have been remade, the original books and plays adapted, the sequels drifting off into painful repetition.It's a niggling ...
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Comment - Discovering the actual new cinema
Imagine a world in which our knowledge of US cinema came exclusively from the films that play the major festivals. In this strange parallel universe directors such as Gus Van Sant, David Lynch and Harmony Korine would spring to mind at the free-association prompt "American movies!".They do not, of course ...
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Cannes at 60 - Short order
For the 60th edition of Cannes the festival called on 35 directors to make 33 short films in honour of the event, themed around the movie theatre.Says festival president Gilles Jacob: "I wanted to see if it would be possible to gather a big number of very short films and ...
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Cannes at 60 - By The Numbers: The Palme D'or*
26 - Palme d'Or-winning directors who have won other Cannes awards in the same year35 - Palme d'Or-winning directors who have won awards at Cannes in other years17 - Palme d'Or winners who have also won best director Oscars1 - Films that have won both the top Cannes prize and ...
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Cannes at 60 - Director Profiles
CHEN KAIGE (winner, 1993, Farewell My Concubine)Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine shared the 1993 Palm d'Or with Jane Campion's The Piano and he is so far the only Chinese director with the honour. He was in Competition twice before his win, and twice since. He is now preparing a biopic ...
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A worldwide web
Spider-Man 3 broke records this weekend, taking a staggering $176.8m over the three-day period for a total $230.8m in its first six days. Sony's blockbuster played on 16,711 screens across 75 territories and was the highest debut ever in Japan, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, China and Brazil. It grossed $26.5m ...
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Sales - Once more unto the Beach
FRANCEFrench sales companies are offering some big names at Cannes this year.Rezo Films will be on hand with official selection title Ulzhan from director Volker Schlondorff, making his return 28 years after winning the Palme d'Or with The Tin Drum, and returning master Alexander Sokurov's Competition title Alexandra. It will ...
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Industry moves
Den Hamer leaves Rotterdam film festivalSandra Den Hamer is to step down as director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival. She will start work as director of Amsterdam's Filmmuseum from September 1. A new director is now being sought for next year's festival which runs January 23 to February 3.Ng ...
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United Kingdom - Hints of Wales
Pauline Burt is in the enviable position of running a national film agency that does not have to beg producers to shoot in the region.Burt is the chief executive of the new Film Agency for Wales, which was launched in July 2006 and effectively replaced Sgrin, which had also been ...
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United States - Found in transition
Newly ensconced as head of worldwide marketing and distribution at Los Angeles-based Lakeshore Entertainment, former Paramount Classics co-head David Dinerstein is quietly ushering in a revolution.The quality of projects produced and sold by Lakeshore will stay the same of course, but Dinerstein is plotting an expanded production slate typically falling ...
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Market focus - Talk of the virtual town
Distributors are finding ways to capitalise on and measure the internet buzz of a film before its release with the help of digital marketing specialists.Historically, word of mouth has been nearly impossible to measure or track, offering marketers only limited anecdotal information. But the advent of blogs and viral online ...
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Kosovo/Macedonia - Dogme learns new tricks
In late April, Aneta Lesnikovska screened her debut feature Does It Hurt' - The First Balkan Dogma in Skopje, Macedonia. The screening in her homeland followed various festival outings, starting with the world premiere in the Tiger Competition in Rotterdam and also including the Bermuda International Film Festival where the ...
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In focus - Specialty divisions - Niche labels reveal new look
These are changing times for the specialised divisions of the Hollywood studios. Over the past two years, Fox Searchlight and Universal's Focus Features have restructured their management teams, Warner Independent Pictures has replaced its president, Disney's Miramax Films has started a new life without Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and Paramount ...
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Editorial - Screen says - dividing the spoils
Multi-award winning screenwriter William Nicholson this week related a fundamental truth he has learned about the film industry. "If you want power over your work, be prepared to take the risks and pay the money." His advice to screenwriters demanding greater financial, moral and creative power over their work is ...
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Distribution - Making a splash
Expectations are high for the Australia and New Zealand box office this year - and not just because of the number of high-profile studio sequels scheduled to open over the summer months.Admissions have been rising steadily in recent years - from 76 million in 1997 to 83.6 million in 2006 ...
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Digital Rights - Territory report - Was this the opening salvo'
Earlier this year Canada's performers' union, the Alliance of Canadian Television, Cinema and Radio Artists (Actra), held its first-ever strike. The six-week stoppage may come to be seen as one of the initial skirmishes in the North America digital rights war.Actra, representing 21,000 performers across the country, is the most ...
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Digital Rights - Territory report - France
France's union system differs greatly from the US. While there are lobby groups and associations, there are no guilds per se which resemble the Hollywood heavies such as the WGA, DGA and SAG. The closest thing to those organisations is the Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (Sacd) which represents ...
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Digital Rights - Territory report - The UK
The UK's film unions regard the digital revolution with a mix of excitement and trepidation. In the short term, there is the threat of job losses. Lab technicians and cinema projectionists are among those already affected by moves away from celluloid. Production crews are also experiencing change as new technology ...
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United Kingdom - Crime Pays
If the film world has not heard from producer Peter James in a while, it is because he is revelling in his new incarnation as a bestselling crime author.James, who has long juggled film producing with writing novels, has moved up to the international literary premier league. New instalments in ...