All Screen articles in 1 September 2004
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They Came Back (Les Revenants)
Dir: Robin Campillo.France 2004. 105 mins.A thinking man's "horror"film, Les Revenants is an intriguing if dramatically muted Gallic"zombie" movie, in which terror, gore and SFX are replaced by an existentialconsideration of a "what if'" situation: what if the dead rose from theirgraves to cohabit - at first peacefully - with ...
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Godard goes to US with Wellspring
Wellspring haspicked up all US rights to Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique (Our Music) and plans to release the picture on Dec22 in New York followed by a nationwide roll-out.TheToronto-bound title premiered at Cannes earlier this year and is styled as ano-holds barred meditation on 20th century Europe, war, Middle Eastern ...
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Spooked scores NZ distribution
Arkles Entertainment has acquired New Zealand distributionrights for director Geoff Murphy's local conspiracy thriller Spooked.Cliff Curtis (Whale Rider) plays the lead role of ajournalist who becomes obsessive about investigating a mysterious fatal carcrash on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The starting point for Murphy's scriptwas the true events depicted in Ian ...
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Celluloid Dreams goes on The Take
Paris-based Celluloid Dreamshas picked up international sales rights on the feature documentary The Take, written and narrated by Canadian journalist NaomiKlein, author of the best-selling corporate critique "No Logo", and directed bypartner Avi Lewis.The film, which screens inVenice's new Digital Section and premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs DocumentaryFilm Festival in ...
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Celluloid Dreams on The Take at Toronto
Paris-based Celluloid Dreamshas picked up international sales rights on the feature documentary The Take, written and narrated by Canadian journalist NaomiKlein, author of the best-selling corporate critique "No Logo", and directed bypartner Avi Lewis.The film, which screens inVenice's new Digital Section and premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs DocumentaryFilm Festival in ...
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Broderick launches website of political cinema
Peter Broderick,the head of Paradigm Consulting and former president of Next Wave Films, haslaunched the political cinema resource website Films To See Before You Vote.The siteprovides information on current and previous documentary and narrative releasesand advice on arranging screening parties."It's impossibleto claim any longer that politics is box office poison ...
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King Kong goes before the cameras
Director Peter Jackson and actors Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody,and Jack Black faced the media yesterday at Jackson's Wellington studio complexto mark the beginning of principal photography on King Kong.Camerasofficially roll on Monday on the remake of the 1933 classic, which is beingfinanced by Universal Pictures and will be released on ...
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Bacon's Loverboy drops out of Deauville competition
The Deauville Festival ofAmerican Film, which kicks off on Friday, has substituted one of itscompetition films.Rather than screening KevinBacon's directorial debut Loverboy, Omar Naim debut feature The FinalCut, will be shown instead.Reasons for the last minutechange were not given. The Final Cut stars Robin Williams, JamesCaviezel and Mira Sorvino. Bacon ...
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Cannes' Jacob awarded top Italian honour
The Italian government has awarded Cannes Film Festivalpresident Gilles Jacob one of the country's highest honours, to thank himfor "everything that he has done over the years" for Italy andItalian cinema.Jacob received the prestigious Gran Ufficiale dellaRepubblica Italiana award on the Lido, during a solemn ceremony which wasattended by Biennale ...
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Italian sleeper hit After Midnight wins US sale
As dealson the Lido get underway, Italian sales house Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE)has sold Davide Ferrario's sleeper hit, After Midnight, to USdistributor Avatar Films.Writtenand directed by local indie stalwart Ferrario, After Midnight tells the storyof a night watchman who guards Turin's National Cinema Museum.Actor-of-the-moment Giorgio Pasotti stars in the film, ...
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Sleeper hit After Midnight secures US sale
As dealson the Lido get underway, Italian sales house Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE)has sold Davide Ferrario's sleeper hit, After Midnight, to USdistributor Avatar Films.Writtenand directed by local indie stalwart Ferrario, After Midnight tells the storyof a night watchman who guards Turin's National Cinema Museum.Actor-of-the-moment Giorgio Pasotti stars in the film, ...
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Hall named programming head at Sarasota Film Fest
Tom Hall has been nameddirector of programming for the 7th Annual Sarasota Film Festival (SFF), whichruns from Jan 28-Feb 6 2005.Hall, who remains programmedirector at the Nantucket Film Festival held annually in June, will travel toToronto to scout for material for the SFF."We were determined to bringin a new programmer ...
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McInnis named festival director at Slamdance
Kathleen McInnishas been named as the new festival director at Slamdance and will also overseeand initiate new year-round programmes.The appointmentends a four-month global trawl by the festival's co-founders."Kathleen'sreputation in general and her filmmaking experience specifically makes her anatural choice for Slamdance," Peter Baxter, president and one of the fouroriginal co-founders ...
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Jayanti to direct Ellroy's Killer On The Road
Award-winning filmmaker Vikram Jayanti (Deep Blue, WhenWe Were Kings) is to direct a movie version of one of James Ellroy's mostgruesome novels, the gay serial killer/buddy novel, Killer On The Road.The film, scripted by former critic Chris Peachment, is dueto shoot next spring. It is being co-produced by Tartan Films ...
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Cruise stirs up French industry with finance minister talks
Tom Cruise was the talk of Paris on Monday. Not just becausehe was in town for the gala premiere of Michael Mann's Collateral, butbecause of a meeting he took earlier in the day.To the slight bemusement of many in the industry, Cruisedrew up on a riverboat and spent an hour ...
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Revamp for Export-Union of German Cinema
The international representation of German filmsreceived a boost this week with the Export-Union of German Cinema opening itsdoors to six new shareholders in a revamped agency called German Films Service+ Marketing.The existing shareholders of the Association ofGerman Feature Film Producers, the Association of New German Feature FilmProducers, the Association of ...
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Village cheer for Buena Vista
Over a weekend whenonly one film, The Village, couldmanage to gross over $10m at the international box office, it was still alandmark period for Buena Vista International.BVI achieved $1bnin international ticket sales for the 10th year in a row. It also saw King Arthur cross the $100m mark, while The ...
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Passion DVD breaks records on first day of US release
The DVD and VHSversions of The Passion Of The Christ sold 4.1million units on first day of release (Aug 31) inthe US, setting a string of records for Fox Home Entertainment.The distributorclaimed first-day sales have made Passion the number one selling independent release of all time, thenumber one selling drama, ...
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MGM hits back at imminent takeover talk
MGM hit backover press reports concerning a possible take-over deal yesterday (sept 1),issuing a statement saying it was continuing to consider strategicalternatives.The statement,which also dismissed as inaccurate speculation that the studio was worth $5bn,follows a Reuters report last week that implied an announcement was about tobreak after employees were temporarily ...
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The Village opens its doors in Australia, Brazil
Buena VistaInternational's (BVI) The Village has been quietly gathering momentum in recent weeks and shouldboost its $30.8m running total with launches this weekend in Australia on Sept2 and Brazil on Sept 3.Strong debutsare expected bearing in mind that M Night Shyamalan's previous mystery Signs opened top in both markets, grossing$2.7m ...