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Palme d'Or winner: Alan Bridges
British director Alan Bridges turns 80 this year, but is still writing scripts. During his career he has worked with some of the biggest names in cinema history, including Ingmar Bergman and Laurence Olivier, but insists that his Palme d'Or win for The Hireling in 1973 was one of his ...
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Universal launches ambitious international production division
Universal Pictures has formally announced its international production plans, confirming the appointment of Christian Grass as president, production for Universal Pictures International (UPI) and signing a local production and distribution deal with Russian director Timur Bekmambetov and his Bazelevs Productions.In addition, the studio has announced the first Brazilian title in ...
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De Niro, Pacino back together again in Righteous Kill
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will star together in the crime thriller Righteous Kill, a $60m production that signals Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films' most grandiose project to date.Jon Avnet will begin a two-month shoot in August in Connecticut on the story, which pairs the iconic stars as detectives ...
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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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Screenwriters playing against type
Arguments over the credit for a film are as old as the industry itself. Ironically, at first actors were insistent on not getting credits, embarrassed by their association with what was considered a fairground attraction. But as novelty grew into mass entertainment and art and - more importantly - into ...
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United States - Prairie Days
Jennifer Lynch's philosophy of film-making' When you're surrounded by fertiliser, "there's got to be a pony".The 39-year-old director knows something about dealing with adversity. Her new $5.5m feature Surveillance, produced by Lago Film and being sold by Arclight Films, is her first since the now-notorious Boxing Helena, which was greeted ...
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United States - The Next Chapter
As befits a public company with offices in Toronto, Los Angeles and Vancouver, there have been many cogs in Peace Arch Entertainment's machinery.For years, the company has operated successfully as a producer, buyer and distributor of feature, television and home entertainment programming, and now it is ramping up operations in ...
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India - Mother figure
Fresh from The Namesake, prolific Indian director Mira Nair is working on two very different projects. She is set to direct the epic $100m Shantaram on four continents for Warner Bros. An adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' autobiographical novel, it is being produced by Initial Entertainment Group's Graham King and ...
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United Kingdom - Good times
If I wasn't a Jew I'd be a Nazi," says UK producer Miriam Segal. It is a forthrightness designed to make you sit up and pay attention. Her debut film, Good, starts shooting in Budapest this week and Segal is determined it will have a shocking appeal - for all ...
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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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New Goals
Tristan Whalley and Nicki Parfitt first met while working for Portman Entertainment on the comedy Saving Grace in 2000. Both saw the potential of the film, originally made for TV, to go larger. Of course, it did.Whalley and Parfitt are now using that approach with their new company Goalpost Film. ...
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Industry moves
Dubinet to head myriad pictures financing armRevelations Entertainment partners Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary have hired former Myriad Pictures distribution chief Ann Dubinet to head their new financing arm, Global Revelations. The new venture will nurture a "talent-inspired" consortium of equity and hedge-fund personnel ranging from studios and financiers to ...
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Cannes at 60: a celebration
For six decades now the Cannes film festival has been at the epicentre of cinema. Screen's 60th celebration (below) looks at the enduring importance of Cannes and speaks to a range of Palme d'Or winners (see sidebar, right) about how it feels to pick up world cinema's greatest prize. Sun, ...
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The bucks start here
From the big bucks 1980s to the private equity boom, Cannes has been synonymous with the business of film. Nick Roddick, a former editor of Screen International, charts its development as an international deal-making hub. I remember standing outside the Petit Carlton with a British producer some time in the ...
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'Without the auteurs there wouldn't be a festival'
Festival president Gilles Jacob (pictured right) and artistic director Thierry Fremaux talk about stars and auteurs, resisting pressure and staying relevant in the digital age. It is mid-April and with the 60th edition of the Cannes film festival less than a month away, festival president Gilles Jacob and artistic director ...
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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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Jury service: the acclaim game
What's it like to sit on the Competition jury at Cannes' Lee Marshall goes behind the scenes. When he was president of the Cannes jury in 1953 - a year marked by a row over Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages Of Fear, a political thriller accused of being 'anti-American' - Jean ...
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Taking a critical angle
Evaluating Cannes' wealth of films is an exhilarating - and exhausting - experience for critics. Long may it continue, says Derek Malcolm. Time was when you could walk down the Croisette at Cannes, spy a famous director sipping his coffee and sit down and chat without interference. Now you have ...
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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 ...