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fredag, oktober 26, 2012

Screen Daily
US NEWSLETTER
10/26/12
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NEWS
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The 23rd James Bond film Skyfall bursts on to the screen in the UK, Russia, France, South Korea, Brazil and Belgium this weekend through Sony Pictures Releasing International.
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Carey Mulligan and Robert Pattinson will star in James Marsh’s thriller in the vein of To Die For. CAA represents US rights.
Brian O’Shea and Nat McCormick will attend the AFM with the real-life Bonnie And Clyde thriller to star Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda.
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Cast includes Raffey Cassidy, Dominic Monaghan [pictured], Emily Watson, Lesley Manville and Joan Collins.
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Magnet Media Group, Forrest Equity Management and the Film Finance Awards are planning a top-level International Film Finance, Production and Distribution Conference to be held in Los Angeles on Nov 5, during the American Film Market.
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EXCLUSIVE: Newport State of Mind’s MJ Delaney will make her feature debut with adaptation of hit Edinburgh Fringe play.
Worldview Entertainment’s eco-horror film is on the runway for a Nov 5 start. Exclusive Media will commence sales at the AFM and Roth will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Aftershock co-writer Guillermo Amoedo.
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Co-CEOs Kearie Peak [pictured] and Christopher Taylor said the LA-based finance and production company has lined up Dark Corners, Jonestown, Jet Black and The Girl Who Knew Too Much for the first half of 2013.
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EXCLUSIVE: Warp and Crab Apple produce the emotional story surrounding warship HMS Coventry, which was sunk during The Falklands War; Transmission pre-buys Australia-New Zealand.
The digital distributor has announced its upcoming VoD horror acquisitions for October and November.
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Ewan McGregor will star in thriller Son Of A Gun, and Clio Barnard finished shooting The Selfish Giant.
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Eighty films including Pablo Larrain’s Chilean Oscar submission No and Peter Ramsay’s Rise Of The Guardians will screen from Nov 14-17 at the first Los Cabos event founded by Corona Beer heir and Mexican property developer Eduardo Sanchez Navarro.
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Bafta and Academy Award-winning directors Beeban Kidron and Errol Morris [pictured] have been commissioned to produce feature-length films for Sky Atlantic’s Footprint strand.
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Nick Taussig to oversee more co-productions for Gunslinger.
IN FOCUS
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Recent VoD releases in the US have underlined the potential of shrinking release windows for independent distributors. Geoffrey Macnab explores the UK market, where excitement about multiplatform releasing is tempered by a wariness of alienating exhibitors.
COMMENT
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Screen’s US editor Jeremy Kay also surveys where Lincoln, The Life of Pi and The Sessions stand in the awards race so far.
INTERVIEW
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As it moves into production, Screen talks to Sky Movies head Ian Lewis about the company’s varied innovations.
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Screen talks to Oscar-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney about new film Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, about paedophilia in the Catholic Church, which yesterday picked up the Best Documentary prize at the London Film Festival.
REVIEWS
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Dirs: Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted. US. 2012. 115mins
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Dir: Josh Schwartz. US. 2012. 87mins
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Dir/scr: Keita Amemiya. Japan. 2012. 96mins
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Dir: Elisa Fuksas. Italy. 2012. 78mins
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Dir: Rick Alverson. US. 2012. 95mins
LATEST BLOG TOPICS
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The bizarre experience of sitting in the cinema with royalty.
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Momentum and Evening Standard team up for unique Gambit-themed competition.
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BAFTA-winning screenwriter [pictured] spoke at the BFI Southbank last night as part of the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriter Lecture Series.

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