All Screen articles in 10 February 2005
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NewsVue CEO Tim Richards joins Skillset Board
Vue Cinemas founder and CEO has joined Board of UK industry training body Skillset
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Fortissimo rolls with Pen-ek's Invisible Waves
Fortissimo Filmshas secured a slew of territories on Pen-ek Ratanaruang's follow-up to LastLife In The Universe, called Invisible Waves. The film, whichreunites Pen-ek with his Last Life cinematographer Christopher Doyle andstar Asano Tadanobu, has gone to PalmPictures for North America, France's Wildside, Triangel Films has come in forScandinavian territories, A-Films ...
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Skillset launches flagship film industry website
UKtraining body Skillset has launched a new film website for people working orwanting to work in the UK film industry. The siteis billed as a one-stop shop for all information on getting in and getting onin film careers.Coveringall aspects of film from development through to exhibition, the site includes: - ...
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X-Filme launches in-house world sales division
Berlinproduction house X-Filme creative pool has set up an in-house world salesdivision to handle the international distribution of Dani Levy's box office hitGo For Zucker - An Unorthodox Comedy (Alles auf Zucker!). PreviouslyX-Filme's titles have been handled on a deal-by-deal basis by Bavaria FilmInternational and Beta Cinema, amongst others.X-FilmeWorld Sales ...
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Goal kicks off without Diego Luna
Kuno Becker has replaced Diego Luna as the lead actor infootball drama Goal!, which started shooting in London on January 29. Buena Vista International have picked up Internationalrights to the film, while Latino targeted film label Arenas Entertainment hasUS rights.Mexican actor Becker, whose credits include ImaginingArgentina, stars in the rags ...
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Buyers look to take Nispel's Pathfinder
With English-language projects at a premium in Berlin, buyers arescrambling to get their hands on Marcus Nispel's Pathfinder, a $45maction movie being produced by Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messer's PhoenixPictures, and being represented for territorial sales by Endeavor.Nobody from the agency ispresent at the market, but Endeavor's Modi Wiczyk said ...
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Investors cool on UK film business
One year on from thegovernment's February 10 crackdown on tax financing, forecasts say the amountof money being offered by investors is down by as much as two thirds on lastyear's levels.The worst hit are theproduction equity schemes, which offer film-makers a larger chunk of theirbudgets but require investors to take ...
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Warner Bros: a very local engagement
The popular image ofHollywood as an American superpower steamrolling over the interests ofEurope's local filmmaking industry with one-size-fits-all global products wasgiven a sharp rebuke yesterday by Warner Bros. top international executive. Delivering the keynotespeech at Screen International's third annual European Film FinanceSummit in Berlin, Richard Fox, Warner's executive vice ...
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Berlusconi plans RAI privatisation
SilvioBerlusconi's government has announced that Italian state broadcaster RAI willbe partly privatised before the end of the year."RAI'sprivatisation is something positive. It will help propel forward therestructuring of the company, which is already underway," said ItalianTreasury minister Domenico Siniscalco. He added: "It is also a guaranteeagainst political interference." Siniscalcorecommended that ...
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UK set for Roundabout vs Spongebob battle
It will be Europe versus USin the children's market at the UK box office this weekend as French-UKco-production The Magic Roundabout takes on The SpongeBob SquarePantsMovie for the first weekend of the school half-term holiday.Both titles are based on hittelevision shows adored by legions of pre-teens and stoner students and ...
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Obituary: Humbert Balsan
TheBerlinale began under a cloud with the news of the sudden death yesterday ofFrench producer and European Film Academy chairman Humbert Balsan. "We have lost one of our dearest friends and we willl miss him terribly," said festival director Dieter Kosslick.In a long producing career, Balsan worked with directorsof the ...
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Ireland to appoint LA film ambassador
Ireland's Arts ministerJohn O'Donoghue has proposed the appointment of an Irish film ambassador.O'Donoghue made theproposal while on a trade mission to Los Angeles to meet with senior executivesat Warner Brothers, Sony, Universal, Paramount, Disney and 20th Century Fox.Speaking at a dinnerattended by Colin Farrell and other luminaries O'Donoghue said,"Attracting major ...
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Bafta compensates for hot air of awards ceremony
If you've ever suspectedthat awards ceremonies are a load of hot air, now there is proof.This Saturday's Orange BAFTAceremony will produce almost 50 tonnes of carbon dioxide accordingto climate change company Future Forests. Its calculations are based on theamount of energy, travel and waste used to put on the event ...
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Motley named UIP acquisitions vice-president
UIP has appointed EricaMotley as vice president of acquisitions.Aformer head of Film for Elisabeth Murdoch's production company Shine, Motley takes over fromNuala OHalloran, who is returning to Australia. TheUS-born andeducatedexecutive, whose was most recently managing director of Ice Productions, took up this post thismonth.HerCV includes stints at Home Box Office ...
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Spanish outfit launches Euros 30m fund at Berlinale
Spanish company Markab Creativos is using theBerlinale as a platform to present its landmark new Euros 30m fund offeringmyriad facilities to film and television producers.Under the banner Markab Finances, the company has set up thefund with backing from an as-yet unannounced global group of investors relatedto the film industry and ...
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Son Of The Mask
Dir: Lawrence Guterman.US. 2005. 86mins.A decade after the aggressively manic original helped make Jim Carrey astar, New Line's family-oriented sequel to The Mask tries to make up forCarrey's absence by adding warm and fuzzy elements to the cartoonish,CG-enhanced (and still pretty in-your-face) comedy.It's a logical approach to abelated sequel: plenty ...
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Man To Man
UK-Fr-S Afr. 2004. 125mins.An uninspiring Berlinopener, Man To Man offers audiences an efficient but ultimately rathertrite Technicolor workout for their European post-colonial guilt.Regis Wargnier, director ofIndochine, here returns to a different jungle and a different colonialera with a story of three nineteenth-century Scottish scientists who use twocaptured African pygmies to ...
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Smalltown, Italy (Provincia Meccanica)
LeeMarshall in RomeDir: Stefano Mordini. Italy. 2005. 107mins.The only Italian film in competition at Berlin this year, Smalltown,Italy depicts a bleak, post-industrial, dysfunctional Bel Paese that is along way from the tourist postcard cliches. Though the film is not without itsflaws, this is a promising debut for first-timer Mordini, a ...
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Hitch
Dir: Andy Tennant. US2005. 115minsWhile it may not be on apar with benchmark romantic comedies like Pretty Woman, Andy Tennant's Hitchproves that even the unlikeliest love story works if backed up by a solid freshscript and believable, ingratiating characters.Columbia can expect a solidreturn on its this perfect date flick, both ...
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Fox's Eucalyptus wilts under script rewrite
Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced that production onJocelyn Moorhouse’s Eucalyptus,which stars Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman, will not go ahead as scheduled”to allow time for further work on the script”.The news felt somehow prophetic to local film observers whohad been disturbed at the prospect of the considerably older Kidman playing ...