All Screen articles in 12 May 2007
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Domestic opening record established by Spider-man 3
The spandex one-piece and wise-cracking come-backs weren't the only familiar things about Spider-Man 3, as Sony's favourite super-hero swung back into action with a sensational estimated $148m three-day domestic opening that returned the franchise to its record-breaking ways established by the first episode in 2002.Spider-Man 3 spun a staggering $375m ...
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The Grand
Dir: Zak Penn. US. 2006. 95minsIf you hesitated to believe that gambling casinos were a magnet for misfits, The Grand, an improvised ensemble comedy set at a high-stakes poker tournament in Las Vegas, will confirm that impression. Zak Penn's new film is a high-stakes vaudeville Love Boat with more stars ...
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My Father, My Lord (Hofshat Kaits)
Dir. David Volach. Is. 2006. 72mins. Even the top drama award at Tribeca can't make My Father, My Lord, David Volach's debut feature, into a crowd pleaser - but then again, it was never meant to. An intimate chamber piece, requiring its audience to interpret the apparently banal images into ...
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The Air I Breathe
Dir: Jieho Lee. US. 2007. 97mins.In his debut feature, The Air I Breathe, Jieho Lee turns a Chinese proverb into a story that explores the interlocking fates of four characters, all of whom all are trapped in the grip, literally, of a violent gangster boss called Fingers. The gangster drama ...
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Watching The Detectives
Dir: Paul Soter. US. 2007. 91mins. Watching The Detectives, Paul Soter's feature debut, is intended to be a cinephile's movie, a geek cinephile's movie, where the hapless proprietor of video store and slacker haven is seduced by a femme fatale who walks in off the street. The tale than unfolds ...
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Spider-Man shatters records with $375m global opening
Spider-man 3 ignited the global summer blockbuster season with the most auspicious of starts, triggering a gargantuan $375m worldwide gross from 107 countries and a $227m international tally on 16,700 screens in the first six days.The results far exceed the boldest predictions of analysts and pave the way for the ...
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We Are Together wins Tribeca Audience Award
Paul Taylor's South African orphans documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye) has won the 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival's Cadillac Award.The audience award was announced before the closing night premiere of HBO's documentary The Gates.Taylor, who produced with Teddy Liefer, earns a $25,000 cash prize for his account of the ...
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Bleiberg to handle sales on He Was A Quiet Man
Bleiberg Entertainment has bulked up its Cannes slate with international rights to Frank A Cappello's drama He Was A Quiet Man starring Christian Slater and Elisha Cuthbert.The film, which premiered at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival, follows a downbeat office worker whose potentially homicidal trajectory is radically shifted ...
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Til Schweiger takes the lead in Boll's latest Far Cry
Til Schweiger has been cast in the lead of Uwe Boll's latest video game adaptation Far Cry.Filming on the $25m Boll and Brightlight Pictures co-production is scheduled to begin on Jun 13 in Vancouver. Boll, Brightlight's Shawn Williamson and Dan Clarke are producing.Schweiger will play Jack Carver, a former Special ...
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CORRECTION: Nanking to get fulll theatrical release
A profile of Bill Guttentag which ran in Screen International on April 20 and on Screendaily on April 24 incorrectly stated that Guttentag's Nanking would receive a short theatrical release in North America through THINKFilm.In fact, the film will have a full domestic release in December.
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Intandem takes on sales to Julie Delpy's thriller The Countess
London-based Intandem Films has taken worldwide sales rights to Julie Delpy's Gothic thriller The Countess. The film is inspired by the life of the 17th-century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, whose reckless pursuit of eternal beauty transformed her into a murderous heretic. Delpy, Oscar-nominated for her screenplay for Before Sunset, not ...
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Korea to host Cinema Digital Seoul film festival in July
A new film festival was unveiled in Seoul today - the Cinema Digital Seoul 2007 Film Festival (CinDi 2007) - which has secured sponsorship from the CJ Culture Foundation and Korean Culture & Arts Foundation. Korean Academy of Film Arts director and a digital filmmaker, Park Ki-Yong, jointly heads CinDi ...
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Turin to feature retrospectives of Wenders and Cassavetes
Turin Film Festival director Nanni Moretti has announced two retrospectives and two new sections. In his first edition as artistic director of the 25-year-old festival, Moretti has selected John Cassavetes, as well as to German director and President of the European Film Academy, Wim Wenders as subjects of two retrospectives. ...
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Three German films in running for Student Foreign Academy Award
Five finalists selected from a record 49 entries representing 33 countries will vie for the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2007 Honorary Foreign Film Award in the 34th Annual Student Academy Awards.The winning film-maker will be brought to Los Angeles in June to participate in a week of ...
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Lightning picks up Bonneville starring Lange, Bates, Allen
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has added Christopher Rowley's female road movie Bonneville starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen to its Cannes slate.The film premiered at Toronto last year and follows the exploits of a disillusioned woman who enlists two friends and embarks upon a trip across the Great ...
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Dori Begley joins Tom Quinn on Magnolia's acquisitions team
Dori Begley has joined Magnolia Pictures' New York office in the newly created role of director of acquisitions and will report to head of acquisitions Tom Quinn.Begley recently served as associate programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival. Prior to that she worked from 1998-2006 in various capacities at Sony Pictures ...
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WHV signs five-year extension on Zaentz distribution deal
Warner Home Video (WHV) has signed a five-year extension to its global distribution deal with producer Saul Zaentz.WHV will continue to distribute Zaentz' films, which include the HD DVD and Blue-Ray releases of Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus in February 2008.'Warner respects the passion I ...
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Intrepid buys rights to graphic novel The Expendable One
Los Angeles-based production and financing company Intrepid Pictures has acquired Jason M Burns' graphic novel The Expendable One and has hired Shane Kuhn and Brendan Cowles to co-write the screenplay.The Expendable One is an action-comedy about an ordinary man who realises after accidentally drinking his friend's scientific experiment that his ...
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Spider-Man 3 actual weekend gross higher than estimates
Spider-Man 3 actually grossed more than initial weekend estimates suggested, taking $382m worldwide and $231m internationally in its first six days, and $151m in its first three days in North America.The action epic screened in 4,252 domestic theatres for a $35,540 per-theatre average, and played in 8,900 overseas venues.It opened ...