All Screen articles in 14 July 2006
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Ascot Elite acquires six new films
Swiss distributor AscotElite, whose forthcoming release of Christopher Smith's horror comedy Severance will be screened as part of Locarno's Piazza Grande open-air programme next month, hasacquired Laurence Malkin's psychological thriller Five Fingers, starring Laurence Fishburne and Ryan Philippe, and Wilson Yip's Hong Kongaction film SPL for Germany, Austriaand Switzerland.In addition, ...
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Crazy Stone (Feng Kuang De Shi Tou)
Dir:Ning Hao. China. 2006.100mins.The commercialpotential for modestly budgeted, audience-oriented films in China's filmindustry may be more theoretical than fully realised -but Ning Hao's Crazy Stone is a model exampleof how it can work, combining as it does box-office appeal with strongproduction values and a jazzy contemporary sensibility.New Chinese cinema is ...
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The Music Box (Lifashi)
Dir:Chen Yifei. China. 2006. 104mins.Lushly photographedhistorical romances from mainland China are not exactly in short supply intoday's film market, but The Music Boxdistinguishesitself with its meticulously illuminated visual polish. Yet although this taleof a hairdresser's grand adventures, both amorous and political, is set againstthe turmoil of modern China's mid-20th century, ...
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Pirates, Superman take on the world
Now that the World Cup is over, Hollywood's overseas distributors arelooking to dominate the entertainment arena once again this weekend with widereleases for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Superman Returns.Pirates 2stands at $66.4m after barely one week in release in seven territories andBuena Vista International (BVI) executives ...
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Film Sales Company picks up festival hit Dirty Laundry
The Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights to Maurice Jamal'scomedy Dirty Laundry.A favourite at the Urban World Film Festival in New York andFrameline Film Festival in San Francisco, Dirty Laundry stars Loretta Devine asthe matriarch of a small town Southern family whose returning son Sheldonreveals he is gay.The ...
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Korea's Puchon festival wins back industry support
The 10th PuchonInternational Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) opened yesterday amid signs thatit's winning back industry support. This year's new festivalhead and programming team have been working for reconciliation with the localfilm industry after the ninth edition was widely boycotted over festivalpolitics. Festival director Lee Jang-ho said that being able to ...
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Screen, HFF name jury for Hollywood World Award
Screen International and TheHollywood Film Festival have named the panel of international judges assembledto decide on the nominations of this year's Hollywood World Award. The Award, now in its thirdyear, will be presented to the best film in world cinema and presented at theHollywood Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton ...
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Weinsteins launch African American comedy co with RLJ
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed a deal with BET founderRobert L Johnson's RLJ companies to create a venture to produce African-Americancomedies.Our Stories Films will launch shortly in Los Angeles with officesin New York City. Dimension Films will distribute all titles theatrically andTWC's home entertainment partner Genius Products will handle ...
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Hong Kong action maestros set to draw Triangle
Three of Hong Kong's leadingaction directors - Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To - are gearing up to worktogether on an innovative action thriller with the working title Triangle. Each of the three directorswill be responsible for around 30 minutes footage of the $5m film, withoutforewarning the others what ...
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Arts Alliance takes stake in La Banque Audiovisuelle
UK-based digital film services company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has announced an investment in Paris-basedLa Banque Audiovisuelle,managers of French video-on-demand (VOD) portal VODEO.TV. AAM also has the option to acquire thecompany within the next 12 months.The deal will allow both companies to further their work in VOD, download-to-own and digitalcinema. ...
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New Cinema Fund backs Roeg's Puffball
The UK Film Council's NewCinema Fund has given funding to two film-makers at very different stages intheir careers: 78-year-old Don't Look Now veteranNicolas Roeg and first-time feature director PaulAndrew Williams. The fund, which aims tosupport "unique ideas, innovative approaches and new voices," awarded $1.2m (£664,214)of National Lottery funding to Roeg's ...
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Giffoni festival competition includes Opal Dream
ElijahWood, Kathy Bates and Anna Paquin are among the guestswho will be attending the 36th edition of the GiffoniFilm Festival, one of the world's leading events for children's films.Filmsscreening in competition at Giffoni (July 13-22) includePeter Cattaneo's OpalDream about a girl who lives in a small Australian opal mining town ...
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Janek takes over as director of Citizen Havel
Czech documentary film-maker Miroslav Janek has agreed to take over as director of Citizen Havel,a documentary about former Czech president Vaclav Havel,following the tragic death of the project's original director, Pavel Koutecky. Janek has directed numerous Czech documentaries,including Kha-chee-pae,which screened in documentary competition at Karlovy Vary, and served as editor ...
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Internet doc Loose Change eyes theatrical run
US film-makers Dylan Avery and Korey Roweof Louder Than Words have released a new version of their film Loose Change, a documentary that alleges the US government lied about the events of 9/11, as Loose Change 2 following a surge of interest in the project afteran article in the August ...
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Manual Of Love sequel starts shooting in Barcelona
Manual OfLove: The Stories, a sequel to the hit Aurelio De Laurentiis-producedcomedy, has started shooting in Barcelona with Monica Bellucci and Carlo Verdone.Directedby Giovanni Veronesi, the film also stars Riccardo Scamarcio, Barbora Bobulova, Sergio Rubini, and comedians Antonio Albanese, Fabio Volo and Claudio Bisio.Likethe original film, also directed by Veronesi, ...
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New joint board announced to make way for Creative Scotland
Theestablishment of Creative Scotland has taken another step forward with theannouncement that there is to be a new joint Board for Scottish Screen and theScottish Arts Council which will be appointed before the end of the year.Thisfollows the Scottish Executive's announcement earlier this year that ScottishScreen and the Scottish Arts ...
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Roy promoted to artistic director in Hamptons restructuring
Hamptons International Film Festival director of programmingRajendra Roy has been promoted to artistic director and programming associateJosh Koury will now serve as programming manager/shorts programmer as part of amajor restructuring.Roy will oversee all programming and the entire artistic focus ofthe festival's year-round activities. He will continue to work closely withexecutive ...
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Syntek acquires stake in slate of films from Ed Pressman
Private equity investment company Syntek Capital is acquiring a stake in a slate of filmsbeing lined up by New York-based Edward Pressman Film Corp.Syntek will also acquire Pressman's shares in ContentFilm, as the producerseeks to devote himself entirely to producing. He established the company withJohn Schmidt in September 2001, and ...
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Golden Harvest to raise $13m for mainland cinemas
Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Entertainment plans to raise $12.9m(HK$100m) through the sale of convertible debt to fund its new cinemas anddigital screen advertising business in mainland China. Half the notes will be soldto existing shareholder Hanny Holdings while Golden Harvest chairman RaymondChow and another investor, Li Ka-shing, will each buy ...
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Anand Tucker set to shoot new project for Number 9 and FilmFour
Number 9 Films and FilmFour have planned an autumn shoot for Anand Tucker's And When Did You LastSee Your Father' Tucker's schedule is free this autumn as he's no longer atthe helm of New Line's The GoldenCompass. Starter For Ten author David Nicholls adapted the Father screenplay from Blake Morrison'sbestseller. ...