All Screen articles in 11 September 2006
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Berlinale plans shorts, childrens changes in 2007
The Berlinale has announced two structural innovations for itsnext edition which will be held from Feb 8-18, 2007.Thefestival's Kinderfilmfest/14plus section will held in future under the name ofGeneration, with the two competitions renamed as Generation Kplusand Generation 14plus. 'Renaming the section in this way enables us tocommunicate and define our ...
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Australian Film Commission's script lab chooses eight projects
Director Fred Schepisi will be one of the mentors at SP*RK, theAustralian Film Commission's script lab, and eight projects have been chosen toparticipate.They include An Imaginary Life, an adaptation ofDavid Malouf's novel of the same name being producedby Penny Chapman, a former head of drama at national broadcaster the ABC, ...
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European Film Awards picks longlist of 49 films
The European Film Academy has announced the 49 European films on the selectionlist for the 2006 European Film Awards. EFA members in 20countries have voted one national film into the selection list, and then theEFA board and experts add further films to the list. The Academy's 1700members will select films ...
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Arts Council, Film Council launch Single Shot programme
The Arts Council England and the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund have launched Single Shot, a multi-platform touringprogramme of moving image projects. Single Shot will commission film and video projects - based on theconcept of a single unedited shot - by established artists and new talents.Also the Arts Council ...
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Luc Besson says he will stop directing after Arthur
Unveiling the names of the French actors who willvoice the lead roles in his upcoming Arthur And TheMinimoys, Luc Bessonconfirmed Monday morning that the film will be his last as director.Arguably one of the best known and most successfulfilm-makers to come from Francein the past 20 years, Besson made the ...
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Memento signs up Jia's Venice winner
Paris-basedsales agent Memento Films has moved to sign up Venice Golden Lion winner StillLife, directed byChina's Jia Zhangke.Mementohas also come on board Jia's documentary East (Dong), which played in Venice's Horizonssection.It hasalso emerged that Jia's next film will be a period costime drama, set to startshooting next Spring. Office Kitano ...
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Cirrus jumpstarts racer drama Nitro
CirrusCommunications, the Montreal-based production company behind last year's smash C.R.A.Z.Y., has begun production on its nextfilm, the $6.4m action romance Nitro.Directedby hot Quebec TV director Alain Desrochers from a screenplay by BenoitGuichard, the film takes its lead from the high-octane adrenalin rush of TheFast And The Furious,according to C.R.A.Z.Y. producer ...
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Vesper soars at Sundance Channel
ChristianVesper has been promoted to senior vice president, acquisitions, programplanning and scheduling at Sundance Channel. He continues to report to LauraMichalchyshyn, executive vice president, programming and marketing at thechannel.In hisexpanded role, Vesper will manage the channel's international sales activityand work closely with the digital media team, licensing content for the ...
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Asif Kapadia to start True North shoot in Denmark
Shootingis set to commence in Norway next week on Asif Kapadia's new feature TrueNorth. StarringMichelle Yeoh, Sean Bean and newcomer Michelle Crusiec,True North will be sold internationally byFrench label Celluloid Dreams.Based ona script by Kapadia and Tim Miller from a story by Sara Maitland, True North is produced by Film4, ...
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A Good Year
Dir: Ridley Scott. U.S. 2006. 118mins.Ridley Scott's A Good Year, whichre-teams the director with Russell Crowe, should have been an easily likeableand amiable romantic comedy, adapted from the same-name novel by Peter Mayle, who has had a huge following since his 1989 memoir A Year In Provence.But this tale of ...
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TWC to handle international sales on two Mayhem Projects films
The Weinstein Company (TWC) hassigned a deal to handle international sales on LA-based production andfinancing company The Mayhem Project's first two pictures, Clock Tower and Make It Happen.TWC's president of international Glen Basner is keen to build upthe sales agency side of the company, and concluded a raft of deals ...
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Tokyo Filmex to open with Venice winner Still Life
Tokyo Filmex has announcedJia Zhangke's Venice Gold Lion winner StillLife as the opening film at this year's edition. Jia's fifth feature focuseson the lives of couples and families set against the backdrop of the massiveThree Gorges Dam project in China. The film, which was not tipped to win but walkedaway ...
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Transmedia gets UK rights to Our Fathers and The Run
New UK distributor Transmedia hasadded two more films to its slate: OurFathers and The Run. Dan Curtis' Our Fathers, about sex abuse scandals inthe Catholic Church, stars Ted Danson, ChristopherPlummer, Daniel Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn and Brian Dennehy.Tania Meneguzzi's The Run, abouta young London couple drawn into the world of drug ...
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Golden Door (Nuovomondo)
Dir/scr: Emanuele Crialese. Fr-It. 2006. 118mins.A moving but unsentimental film of mythic resonance aboutthe early years of mass Italian immigration to the United States, The Golden Door consecrates Sicilian directorEmanuele Crialese as a film-makerof global significance after his promising earlier features, Once We Were Strangers (1997) and Respiro (2002). Turningthe ...
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Former Disney executive Jongmans joins PHEI as vp of EMEA licensing
Former Buena Vista Home Entertainment International executive OnnoJongmans has joined Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) as vicepresident of Europe, Middle East and Africa Licensing.He previously served as emerging markets director for Europe, theMiddle East and Africa at Buena Vista Home Entertainment International.Prior to that he held several roles in sales ...
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For Your Consideration
Dir: Christopher Guest. US.2006. 86mins.The finest comedy stems from painfully truthful,accurate reflections of real life. That may explain why Christopher Guest'ssharply observed ensemble comedies have become such surefire guarantees ofhilarity. For Your Consideration isno exception as it captures all the inanity and indignity of the Hollywood Oscar season.Filled with quotable ...
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IMAX, Cinearte sign for IMAX cinema in Sao Paolo multiplex
IMAX Corp and Brazilian exhibitor Circuito Cinearte have signed anagreement that will see an IMAX cinema as part of a 10-screen mulitplex in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new facility is scheduled to open in 2007. The deal is IMAX'ssecond in Brazil. In all there will be 29 IMAX theatres in ...
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Catch A Fire
Dir: Phillip Noyce. UK-S Afr-US. 2006. 98minsThe desperate struggles against the apartheid regimein South Africa have inspired a distinguished body of cinema that stretches from Cry Freedom (1987) to Red Dust (2004). Phillip Noyce's Catch A Fire tells of Patrick Chamussoand his journey from acquiescent model citizen to radicalisedfreedom fighter ...
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Rich promoted senior vp at Warner Bros Pictures International
Blair Rich (pictured) has beenpromoted to senior vice president of marketing and creative advertising atWarner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).The new appointment will expand Rich's strategic role at thecompany. She will continue to direct and oversee creative campaigns fornumerous studio releases, including the upcoming Blood Diamond, 300, HarryPotter And The Order ...
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The Covenant leads new releases at US box office
Three new releases divided the spoils at the NorthAmerican box office this weekend, and in the end it was Sony's teen horrorouting The Covenant that managed to top the chart with a relativelymodest $9m gross.Focus Features' Hollywoodland opened in secondplace with an estimated $6m and The Weinstein Company's The Protectorcame ...