All Screen articles in 12 May 2005
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Woody's next match will be on screen with Scarlett
WoodyAllen revealed that he will star alongside Scarlett Johansson in his next film,which is set to shoot in London this summer."It so happens that in thisnext film there is a very good part for me to play and I'm going to play it,"said the veteran director. He described it as ...
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Verhoeven readies Winter Queen
Paul Verhoeven is preparing a$35m adaptation of The Winter Queen, based on Boris Akunin'sfin-de-siecle Russian mystery about a global conspiracy headed up by a pair offemme fatales.Peter Hoffman's LosAngeles-based Seven Arts Pictures is financing the project with Future Film anda Russian partner to be announced, with production set to begin ...
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O'Toole, Morton run with Sturridge's Lassie
Peter O'Toole and SamanthaMorton have signed up to head the all-star cast for Charles Sturridge's new Lassie movie, due to shoot later this month in Ireland andthe Isle of Man.Also helping revive thelegendary franchise are Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent), John Lynch, Jemma Redgrave, Steve Pembridge andGregor Fisher.Entertainment FilmDistributors will ...
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Tequila Gang, Media ready first-time trio
Mexican production companyTequila Gang has joined with Spain's Media Films, the new production divisionof distributor Manga Films, to co-produce three feature films from first-timewomen directors.First up is CosasInsignificantes (Insignificant Things)by director Andrea Martinez, set to shoot next January in Mexico with probableleads Federico Luppi, Daniel Gimenez Cacho and Dolores Heredia. ...
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Tax financier Scope widens Euro goals
Aggressive new Belgiantax-based financier Scope Invest has boarded a new slate of French-languageBelgian films led by Benoit Mariage's new untitled comedy starring BenoitPoolevoorde, set for an October shoot, and Philppe Le Guay's Du Jours AuLendemain, also featuringPoolevoorde.Meanwhile, Scope is readyto board Jan Verheyen's Gilles, a remake of Dutch family film ...
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Fortissimo Mob-ilises triad drama
Fortissimo Films has pickedup international rights (excluding Southeast Asia) to triad thriller MobSister, directed by one of HongKong's hottest new directors, Wong Ching Po. Produced by Hong Kong'sFilmko Entertainment, the film tells the story of an innocent 16-year-old girlwho gets sucked into the world of gang wars and power struggles. ...
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New Regency set to Shutter Thai remake deal
Arnon Milchan's Fox-based NewRegency is expected to secure remake rights in Cannes for Thai blockbuster Shutter.The deal was brokered by RoyLee of Vertigo Entertainment who approached studio GMM Tai Hub last Octoberwhen Shutter, the top grossing Thai film of the year, was stillplaying locally. Lee is a matchmaker between Asia ...
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Japan's Toshiba snaps up Lady Chatterley
French sales company FilmsDistribution has sold its Lady Chatterley to Japan's Toshiba on day one of the Cannes Market.The Pascal Ferran-directedfilm is an adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic, racy novel. Marina Hands stars in the eponymousrole with Jean-Louis Coulloc'h and Hippolyte Girardot.Films Distribution ishandling a pedigree slate which includes ...
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...as Weinsteins ride with Capitol Films' Stormbreaker
Bob and Harvey Weinstein are back in the spy kids business, with TheWeinstein Company taking North American rights to Stormbreaker, based on Anthony Horowitz's popular novels about reluctant14-year-old superspy Alex Rider.Capitol Films is sellinginternational rights to the $40m film, which has received hefty (£2.3 million)backing from the UK Film Council's ...
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Shoreline bulks up Cannes slate with seven new titles
Morris Ruskin's LosAngeles-based sales company Shoreline Entertainment has bulked up its Cannesslate with seven new titles.Heading up the roster isJacob Gentry's adventure-romance Last Goodbye starring Faye Dunaway, anadaptation of Patrick Kaye's novel that also stars David Carradine and will bereleased through Warner Brothers Home Video in North America.Other titles include ...
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Weinsteins descend on Cannes with Brothers
Harvey and Bob Weinsteinarrive in Cannes with typical razzmatazz this week, juggling pictures from theexisting Miramax slate as well as a raft of titles under the tentatively titledThe Weinstein Company.On May 13 Harvey will host a star-studded cocktail reception at theOlympia featuring 20 minutes of unseen footage from The Brothers ...
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Renaissance Living And Breathing with Huston, Suvari
The UK's Renaissance Filmshas acquired worldwide rights to Living And Breathing, a black comedy tobe directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (Lost In La Mancha, Brothers OfThe Head). Tom Wilkinson, Anjelica Huston, Mena Suvari and Justin Theroux are setto star. Written by Vincent Villanueva, the desert-set film is setover ...
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Gladiator producer to remake Korean blockbuster
The Los Angelesarm of Korean production powerhouse MK Pictures has struck a deal withOscar-winning writer and producer David Franzoni to remake Korean blockbuster JointSecurity Area (JSA). The project isset to mark the directorial debut of Franzoni who wrote and produced RidleyScott's Gladiator andalso wrote King Arthurand Steven Spielberg's Amistad. He's ...
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Momentum ventures into Bassett's Wilderness
UKdistributor Momentum Pictures has acquired gritty British horror Wilderness, managing director Xavier Marchandhas announced.The company picked up all UKand Spanish rights to the film, which is director Michael J Bassett's follow-upto Deathwatch.Lara Thompson, head ofacquisitions at Momentum, and Robert Bernstein, of UK production company EcosseFilms, negotiated the deal. AV Pictures ...
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Latido bangs Cuba drum
Sales consortium Latido haspicked up worldwide rights to Viva Cuba the second film from director Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, whose debutfeature Nada+ premiered in theQuinzaine in 2002.A fable-like story of twochildren who run away from home, Viva Cuba is the first production from Nicolas Duval and Eric Brach's Quad, the ...
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UGC confirms closure of UK distribution arm
Following the sell-off of its UK exhibition circuit in Dec 2004, Frenchmajor UGC has confirmed that it is closing its UK distribution outfit UGC FilmsUK. UGC chief executive Alain Sussfeld has confirmed that plans are underwayto "progressively stop" the company's operations.The three-and-a-half-year-old company run by Louisa Dent and Emma Daviehad ...
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Rezo sales arm makes Croisette debut with Countdown
Rezo Films International, the sales arm of French producer-distributorRezo Films, is hitting its first Cannes market with Russian action title Countdown.Budgeted at $12 million and tipped as an action blockbuster, Countdownisdirected by Evgeny Lavrentiev and has already taken $6 million at the Russianbox office. Starring Alexey Makarov, Louise Lombard and ...
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High Point Gay in Amsterdam with Van Gogh
UK sales agent High Pointhas taken over international sales duties on Tom Six's Gay In Amsterdam, billed as the first ever drama to investigate indepth the thriving gay scene in the Netherlands' most vibrant city. HighPoint has also taken rights to the last two films by controversial filmmakerTheo Van Gogh, ...
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Devlin amps up science fiction epic Isobar
Independence Day and Godzilla producer DeanDevlin is reviving Isobar, a science-fiction epic which was a flagshipproject for Carolco in the early 1990s. Devlin has reconfigured Isobar, previouslyattached to his former partner Roland Emmerich with Sylvester Stallone to star,as a $45m project and plans to take it into production in summer ...
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F&ME forges Balkan alliance for The Border Post
UK-based production companyFilm and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has forged a Balkan alliance for TheBorder Post, the first feature onwhich all the new nation states created by the break-up of the SocialistFederal Republic of Yugoslavia are collaborating as co-production partners. Set in late 80s on theMacedonian/Albanian border and centring around a ...