All Screen articles in 1 July 2005
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PRE-PRODUCTION Las Vidas De Celia(Oberon Cinematografia, TAU [Mex], Altavista [Mex]) A woman trying to makesense of her life finds her own unsuccessful suicide attempt interweaves withthe investigation of a young girl's murder on the same night. Dir: AntonioChavarrias. Main cast: Najwa Nimri, Luis Tosar, Daniel Gimenez Castro, AlexCasanovas, Aida Folch, ...
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Statham leads charge in Boll's Dungeon Siege
Jason Statham, LeeleeSobieski, Ron Pearlman, John Rhys-Davies, Matthew Lillard, Kristanna Loken andBurt Reynolds have all signed on to star in Uwe Boll's latest video gameadaptation Dungeon Siege.The film, which startsshooting next week in Vancouver, Canada, is again produced by Shawn Williamsonof Brightlight Pictures, the Vancouver production outfit which produced Boll'sBloodRayne.Boll ...
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Sleeper (Schlafer)
Dir/scr: BenjaminHeisenberg. Austr-Ger. 2005.100mins.The latest co-productioninvolving dynamic Austrian/German directors' collective Coop99 (Darwin'sNightmare, The Edukators), Sleeper is an austere,thought-provoking post-9/11 drama about a German scientist who allows himselfto be talked into spying on a North African colleague.Perhaps a little too dourand drabbly-shot to reach much of an international audience outside offestivals, ...
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The King
Dir: James Marsh. US.2005. 105mins.Last year Gael GarciaBernal was the face of Cannes, with his contrasting performances in BadEducation and The Motorcycle Diaries. This year, he extends hisrange even further, smouldering with bad boy sex appeal as a prodigal son in TheKing, an English-language Gothic drama set in the American ...
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Working Title hops on board Australian thriller
Working Title is to come inon British commercials director Ringan Ledwidge's directorial debut, MiddleOf Nowhere. Co-produced by Sydney-based Deborah Balderstone WBP outfit and London-based Nira Park, it will start shooting in September in Australia.Middle of Nowhere is a psychological thriller about young Britishtravellers who encounter a charismatic American with ulterior ...
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Almodovar leads Spanish production boom
Pedro Almodovar cranks up filming July 18 on his new movieVolver, a black comedy starring Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura, just one of aslew of new projects in the works from Spain's leading international talents.The $11m Volver, has not yet closed adistributor in Spain but has been pre-sold to several ...
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Billionaire businessman snaps up India's Adlabs
Anil Dhirubhai AmbaniEnterprises has bought an $80.2m controlling stakein India's largest filmcompany Adlabs through subsidary companyReliance Capital.The publicly-listed Adlabsis a leading player in film production,post-production,distribution and exhibition with several multiplexesand 52 digital exhibitioncinemas. The deal is one of thebiggest in Indian entertainment history.Adlabs also owns productioncompany Entertainment One (India) Ltd, ...
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Billionaire businessman snaps up India's Adlabs
Anil Dhirubhai AmbaniEnterprises has bought an $80.2m controlling stake in India's largest filmcompany Adlabs through subsidary company Reliance Capital.The publicly-listed Adlabsis a leading player in film production, post-production, distribution andexhibition with several multiplexes and 52 digital exhibition cinemas. The deal is one of thebiggest in Indian entertainment history.Adlabs also owns ...
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Tom Tykwer leads Eurimages Euros 3.9m grant share out
New feature films by TomTykwer (Perfume), Roy Andersson (Du Levande) and Alain Berliner (GeneAstaire) are among 12 projects awarded a total of Euros 3.9m by the Councilof Europe's pan-European co-production fund Eurimages.The largest amount - Euros600,000 - went to Tykwer's adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's bestseller Perfume- The Story Of A ...
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Cine-Expo: Exhibitors waiting for Christmas punch
Cinema Expo should have been a celebration with recordnumber of international films topping $100m international takings and a packedtrade show promising a host of new technology innovations.But as the Amsterdam event closes today, there was adistinctly glass half-empty atmosphere among many exhibitors that contrastedwith the enthusiasm of the studio executives ...
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Cine-Expo: Exhibitors waiting for Christmas punch
Cinema Expo should have been a big celebration, with a recordnumber of films topping $100m in international takings and a packedtrade show promising a host of new technology innovations.But as the Amsterdam event closed there was a distinctly glasshalf-empty atmosphere among many exhibitors that contrasted with the enthusiasmof the studio ...
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Cine-Expo: Top industry figures honoured at closing ceremony
'This is the film that is going to turn around the summer boxoffice,' UIP president and COO Andrew Cripps told guests at a screening of WarOf The Worlds, at this year's Cinema Expo in Amsterdam.As if to underline the importance to exhibitors, the showingwas delayed as delegates were made to ...
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Cine-Expo: Top industry figures honoured at closing ceremony
UIP chairman and chief executiveStewart Till was named distributor of the year as Cinema Expo in Amsterdam drewto a close today.The honour concluded a successfulweek for the company, which earlier picked up a record nine Gold Reel awardsfor films earning more than $100m outside the US. The company topped the ...
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War of the Worlds invades international marketplace
War of the Worlds takes its turn invading the globalmarketplace this weekend, with UIP giving the Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruisesci-fi adventure a 78-territory, 8,200-print international launch. Expectations are high that the Paramount/DreamWorksco-production, which opened in North America on Wednesday (June 29) to get ajump on the July 4 holiday weekend, will ...
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Splendid's Klein teams up with Doc Hollywood Studios
Splendid Film CEO AndreasKlein has teamed up with LA-based production outfit Doc Hollywood Studios toassist in the development and production of two films over the next two years.As part of the arrangement,Klein will advise Doc Hollywood Studios CEO Steven Saxton in the developmentand management of a $50m film finance gap ...
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Da Vinci Code kicks off in Paris
Shooting hasbegun in Paris on Ron Howard'sadaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel The DaVinci Code.On Wednesdaynight, a crew worked at the Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendomewhere the lead character played by Tom Hanks is awoken by a phone call from thepolice, kicking off the action.On Thursdaynight, cast and crew ...
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Picturehouse boards Genghis Khan epic
Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema has announced that Picturehouse - HBO and New Line Cinema's newly-formeddistribution venture - has picked up the North American rights for Sergei Bodrov's forthcomingfeature film Mongol - TheEarly Years Of Genghis Khan. This follows sales to the Benelux, Brazil and Australia & New Zealand.The news ...
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National Lampoon family brand begins first film in LA
National Lampoon Clubhouse,a new family brand created by National Lampoon Inc and Lorenzo Doumani'sMajestic Entertainment, has started production in Los Angeles on its firstproduction National Lampoon Clubhouse's Trick Or Treat.The film is a familyHalloween comedy about a 15 year-old boy spending the fateful night at homebabysitting his younger siblings who ...
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Hong Kong's Pang Brothers begin Ghost House horror pic in Canada
Kristen Stewart, the teenageactress who played Jodie Foster's daughter in Panic Room, is heading the cast of Ghost House Pictures'upcoming, untitled horror movie directed by Oxide and Danny Pang. The filmstarted shooting this week in Saskatchewan, Canada.Dylan McDermott, PenelopeAnn Miller and John Corbett co-star in the film which is written ...
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Griffin Dunne signs on for Auster feature
Griffin Dunne has joined the cast of Paul Auster's upcoming directorial effort The Inner Life Of Martin Frost while renownedcomposer Philip Glass has also signed on to score.The film, produced by Paolo Branco, Auster and Peter Newman, is being handled by Branco's Gemini Films for international sales. Rounding out the ...