All Screen articles in 12 December 2006
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Best in show: best actor contenders
Ifthe winner of the best actor Oscar was hardly a surprise last year whenPhilip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote or 2004 when Jamie Foxx won forRay, 2006 is anything but a one-horse race. No single performance hasleapt out so far, a far cry from the best actress category which is,unusually, ...
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Nordisk on board for White Night
Nordisk has taken on salesfor drama White Night by JannikJohansen.The project is shooting nowwith a cast including Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Anne Sophie Byder, RikkeLouise Andersson, and Morten Grunwald.Birgitte Skov and Morten Kaufmann are producing for NimbusFilm in collaboration with Fine & Mellow. Backers for the $3.2m (Euros 2.4m)film include ...
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Cage and Connery pledge support for Bahamas festival
The third BahamasInternational Film Festival (BIFF) wrapped on Dec 10 with local residentsNicolas Cage and Sean Connery lending very vocal support to expanding theevent. Cage, who recently joined Connery as a Bahamian homeowner, was thesubject of the festival's Chopard career achievement award. "I want to bring in people I know ...
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Lionsgate strikes deal for Filmax's The Backwoods
Lionsgate has acquired NorthAmerican rights to Gary Oldman-starring thriller The Backwoods from Spanish mini-studio Filmax Entertainment. First-time feature directorKoldo Serra premiered the film at the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival in September. The mostly English-language film stars Oldman, VirginieLedoyen, Paddy Considine, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon and Lluis Homar in the story oftwo vacationing ...
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Ferrara halfway through Cinecitta shoot for Go Go Tales
Two dozen principal castmembers including Willem Dafoe, Matthew Modine, Bob Hoskins, Roy Dotrice andSylvia Miles are at Cinecitta's Studio 14 now half way through four weeks ofthe principal shooting of Go Go Tales, director Abel Ferrara's first foray into comedy which began shootingNov 27. The set - a three-floor NewYork ...
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Vitus, Grounding and Fraulein up for Swiss awards
Two of this year's localbox-office hits, Michael Steiner and Tobias Fueter's Grounding - The LastDays Of Swissair and Fredi M. Murer'sVitus, and Andrea Staka's GoldenLeopard-winning Das Fraulein areamong the films nominated for the 2007 Swiss Film Prize. A nine-person nominationcommission including Federal Office of Culture's Film Section head NicolasBideau, Locarno ...
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The Good Shepherd
Dir: Robert De Niro. US. 2006. 165mins.Robert De Niro's secondfeature The Good Shepherd is afrequently absorbing, fascinating work that achieves its power through itsdeliberate sense of contradiction. Traversing 20th-century American foreignpolicy and Cold War politics, it refracts historical tensions through a singleperspective; the complex, emotionally harsh life of spymaster Edward ...
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Dimension picks up multiple rights to Storm Warning
Dimension Films has pickedup all North American, Australian and New Zealand rights from Darclight Filmsto the horror-thriller Storm Warning.Jamie Blanks directed from ascreenplay by Everett De Roche. Darclight general manager Gary Hamilton andPeter Ford produced and Martin Fabinyi, Michael Gudinski, Greg Sitch and MarkPennell served as executive producers.Nadia Feres, Robert ...
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Penguins DP seeks shared director's credit
Controversy is brewing overdirector credit on 2005 French blockbuster March Of The Penguins. Director of photography Laurent Chalet has filed acomplaint in a Paris court demanding shared director's credit on the Oscar-winningnature documentary. Along with Jerome Maison, asecond DP on the film, Chalet spent 13 months shooting the film in ...
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Clickstar signs distribution deals with Sony, Universal, Warner
ClickStar, the US broadband entertainment company founded byMorgan Freeman and Lori McCreary's Revelations Entertainment along with IntelCorporation, has announced digital distribution agreements with several leadingstudios.Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios HomeEntertainment and Warner Bros Home Entertainment have agredd to provide contentahead of ClickStar's launch this week as a purveyor of ...
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Iwo Jima takes top spot at Japanese box office
Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima beat strongcompetition to become the number one film at the local box office over theweekend, earning $4.28m (Y500m) on 400 screens for a screen average of $10,700.Distributor Warner BrothersJapan estimates a final gross of $42.8m (Y5bn), far surpassing companion film Flags Of Our Fathers. ...
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Babylon, Caspian booked into new Barrandov stage
StudioCanal'ssci-fi thriller Babylon A.D. willbe the first feature film to shoot at a new 4,000-square-meter soundstage atBarrandov Studios in Prague. Mathieu Kassovitz will direct the film, which willstar Vin Diesel and Vincent Cassel.APeugeot automobile commercial will inaugurate the new soundstage before year'send. Kassovitz's crew are scheduled to begin work on ...
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Sunshine to receive Vanguard award at Palm Springs
Little Miss Sunshine will receive the Chairman's Vanguard Award at the 18th Annual PalmSprings International Film Festival (PSIFF) awards gala on Jan 6, 2007.Cast members will attend along with screenwriter MichaelArndt and directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris to collect the honour.Previously announced honorees at Palm Springs this year includethe ...
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Benton to receive Screen Laurel Award from Writers Guild Of America
Robert Benton will receive the Writers Guild of America, West's(WGAW) Screen Laurel Award at the 2007 Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Feb 11,2007.'What an impressive and varied screenwriting career RobertBenton has had,' WGAW president Patric M Verrone said. 'Yet whathasn't varied is the quality of his work and audiences' appreciation ...
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Venice sets 2007 dates Aug 29-Sept 8
The 64th Venice FilmFestival will take place Aug 29-Sept 8, 2007 the board of directors of theBiennale announced on Wednesday; the dates were released along with guidelinesto govern the fest's next edition which takes place 75 years after itsinception. Main competition films willbe limited to 20 titles - the 2006 ...
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Iwo Jima voted best picture of 2006 by LA Critics
Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, already named best picture of the year by the National Board Of Review on Wednesday, was names best picture of 2006 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) yesterday (Sunday). The runner-up was The Queen. The 32nd annual LAFCA achievement awards ceremony will ...
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New Barrandov facilities open with Babylon
Canal+ sci-fi thriller Babylon A.D. will be the first feature film to shoot at a new 4,000-square-meter soundstage at Barrandov Studios in Prague. Mathieu Kassovitz will direct the film, which will star Vin Diesel and Vincent Cassel.A Peugeot automobile commercial will inaugurate the new soundstage before year's end. Kassovitz's crew ...
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German film fund invests $9.3m in co-productions
New feature films by Michael Glawogger, Ludi Boeken, Benoit Jacquot, Samuel Maoz and Tom Schreiber are among a raft of international co-productions supported in the latest round of funding by the German regional public fund Filmstiftung NRW, which distributed over $9.3m (Euros 7m) to 29 projects.The largest single sum - ...
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DarkBlueAlmostBlack takes top prize at Tallinn
The top prizes at this year's Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia went to Spanish and Turkish film-makers. Spanish director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo won the Grand Prix for Best Eurasian Film and $13,000 (Euros 10,000) for his tragi-comedy DarkBlueAlmostBlack.Best Director went to Nuri Bilge Ceylan for his Turkish-French co-production ...
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Micosoft's Broes hired at Paramount Digital Entertainment
Derek Broes has been hired as senior vice president of worldwidebusiness development at Paramount Digital Entertainment. In the newly created position Broes will be responsible foridentifying new business opportunities across broadband and mobile platforms.He reports directly to Paramount Digital Entertainment presidentThomas Lesinski.Broes arrives from Microsoft Corporation where he served as ...