All Screen articles in 1 October 2004
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Sidney Kimmel ramps up movie plans with LA operation
Philanthropist SidneyKimmel, who produced Nine-And-A-Half Weeks and has notched upa rack of executive producer credits over the past two decades, is ramping uphis Hollywood ambitions with the launch of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment in LosAngeles.As company chairman andchief executive officer, Kimmel will head up the Beverly Hills offices whenthey open on ...
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Kidman eyes Wong Kar Wai's Lady From Shanghai
Hong Kong's hippestdirector has revealed that he's planning to work with Nicole Kidman on aproject with the working title The LadyFrom Shanghai.A spokesperson forWong Kar Wai's production company, Jet Tone Productions, confirmed that he hopes toshoot the film from early next year. His long-time collaborator, productiondesigner and editor William Chang ...
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Nordic filmmakers still speaking English
Recent years' lackof international and domestic success for Nordic films shot in English, haven'tdeterred filmmakers across the region from trying. Although Norwegianproduction outfit, Dinamo Story, dismantled its feature film department aftermaking Hans Petter Moland's A BeautifulCountry earlier this year, the film's two local producers, Petter Borgliand Thomas Backstroem, are going ...
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Echelon hires Moon as vp, international sales
Matthew Moon has joined LosAngeles-based production, distribution and sales company Echelon Entertainmentas vice president of international sales.Based in Los Angeles, Moonwill report to Echelon president and chief executive officer Eric Louzil. Priorto joining Echelon Moon worked as district sales manager at ABC/Amega inBuffalo, New York.Newmark/EchelonEntertainment Group will open Brian Austin ...
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Italy's first Tribeca fest to run during MIFED dates
Wong Kar-Wai will be inMilan next month for the first Italian edition of the Tribeca Film Festival(Oct 12-15), which will host the European premiere of his re-edited film, 2046, as well as a selection of titlesthat screened during this year's New York event.Robert De Niro willaccompany the festival he co-founded ...
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Ladder 49
Dir:Jay Russell. US. 2004. 115mins.America'spost-September 11 love affair with the figure of the heroic firefighter getsthe big screen treatment in Ladder 49, a character-driven action dramapairing a boyish Joaquin Phoenix with a fatherly John Travolta. The pairingworks well enough and the drama is sensitively handled by director Jay Russell(My Dog ...
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...as re-edited 2046 opens across China
There-edited version of Wong Kar Wai's 2046 opened thisweek in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan following a whistle-stop promotional touraround the region's major cities.Although the filmwas praised by critics when it screened in competition at this year's CannesFilm Festival, many felt it needed polishing. Wong has since worked on thetechnical ...
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Night Watch named as Russian Oscar entry
Russian blockbuster Night Watch has been selected to represent Russia at next year'sAcademy Awards ceremony. .Night Watch has rakedin some $16m, breaking all box-office records in Russia's post-Soviet historysince premiering on July 8.The action-packed fantasy thriller featuringstate-of-the-art special effects turns contemporary Moscow into a battlegroundfor a century-old fight between the ...
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Dog laps up ten Irish Film Award nominations
The full list of nomineeshas been announced for this year's jury-based Irish Film and Television Awards(IFTAs).Major nomination recipients include Treasure Entertainment'sMan About Dog with ten nominations,Porridge Pictures' Adam & Paulwith eight, and Octagon Films' Inside I'm Dancing and Timbuktu which scored seven nominations each.Only one of the four films, Lenny ...
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Amenabar beats Almodovar to Spanish Oscar nod
Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside will represent Spain in the race for aforeign-language Oscar nomination.Sea (Mar Adentro)beat out Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) and Jose Luis Garci's Tiovivo C.1950, the other two semi-finalists selectedby the Spanish Academy.Spain's most international director, Almodovar lostout on the 2002 nomination with his ...
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Bier's Brothers wins again
Susanne Bier's Brothershas won the Hamburg Film Critics' Prize, which was awarded at theFilmfest Hamburg for the first time this year. The win comes just days after Brothers won two best acting Golden Shells at the SanSebastian film festival.The critics' jury - which included representatives ofthe Der Spiegel and Stern ...
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Somersault smashes AFI nominations record
Somersault hassmashed the record for the number of nominations received in the AFI(Australian Film Institute) Awards, winning the thumbs up 15 times across all13 categories for which it qualified.These include best film for producer Anthony Anderson, bestdirector and best original screenplay for Cate Shortland, best actor for AbbieCornish and Sam ...
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Portman Film sold to UK radio magnate
Chris Wright, chairman ofradio group Chrysalis, has acquired a majority stake in UK sales agent andco-producer Portman Film and TV.The acquisition is apersonal investment by Wright, who remains chairman of Chrysalis, and alsobecomes executive chairman of Portman with immediate effect.The major property ofPortman is the current ITV television show Doc ...
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Nolan Pielak joins Dream from Mobius
Nolan Pielak hasjoined Los Angeles-based production and international sales company DreamEntertainment as senior vice president of international distribution.Pielak willoversee Dream's burgeoning international distribution department and willhandle sales in all territories worldwide.He most recentlyserved as director of international distribution for Mobius International,where he also consulted on worldwide sales projections and spearheaded ...
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Wellspring takes Desplechin's Rois Et Reine to US
Wellspring haspicked up all US rights to Arnaud Desplechin's drama Kings & Queen (Rois Et Reine), which received its world premiere atVenice earlier this month and is scheduled to play at the New York FilmFestival next week.The company plans2005 theatrical and DVD releases for the picture, which centres on the ...
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Cinemark to open seven-screen multiplex in Ecuador
Cinemark International continues to redraw the LatinAmerican exhibition map with the announcement that it will open theseven-screen Mall del Sur complex in Ecuador, on Oct 20.Cinemark's thirdmultiplex in the country is equipped with more than 1,400 stadium-style seatsand will be part of a larger shopping centre in the southern part ...
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Hawaii, Oslo named as Oscar candidate by Norway
The Norwegian Oscarcommittee has chosen Erik Poppe's Hawaii, Oslo as the country's official candidate for the Oscars'best foreign language film category.The film grossed a solidNOK1.2m upon release this weekend after rave reviews from the Norwegian InternationalFilm Festival in Haugesund, where it also picked up the critics' and ecumenicalprize.Written by Harald ...
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Hawaii, Oslo named as Oscar candidate by Norway
The Norwegian Oscarcommittee has chosen Erik Poppe's Hawaii, Oslo as the country's official candidate for the Oscars'best foreign language film category.The film grossed a solidNOK1.2m upon release this weekend after rave reviews from the Norwegian InternationalFilm Festival in Haugesund, where it also picked up the critics' and ecumenicalprize.Written by Harald ...
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Multiplex building spree in Malaysia, Singapore
Singapore's leadingexhibitor Golden Village is set to build the country's largest entertainmentmultiplex occupying 90,000 sq feet with 15 screens and about 2,500 seats.GV Harbourfront, which costs$590,000 (S$1m) per screen, is located in VivoCity shopping mall, previouslyknown as HarbourFront Mall, and due to open in late 2006. It will be GoldenVillage's ...
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Echo Bridge buys Green Communications library
LosAngeles-based Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquired Green Communications'library and associated distribution rights and will begin representing the newtitles at Mipcom next month.This is thethird library acquisition since the company's launch a year ago and raises itscatalogue to more than 250 titles.The 12-titleGreen Communications catalogue comprises mostly thrillers, sci-fi and horrorfilms ...