All Screen articles in 16 March 2006
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Piano 17
Dir: Manetti Bros. Italy2006. 105mins.Italy long ago lost the talent for genre film-makingthat made it such a commercial force in the 1960s and 1970s. But a few bravesouls, like the Manetti brothers, are trying to kicksome life into the old corpse. The Rome-based brothers' first feature, thetrash horror parody Zora ...
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Weinsteins acquire Crane-Iron Pentalogy for films, stage
The Weinstein Company (TWC)has acquired worldwide film rights to Wang Du Lu's Crane-Iron Pentalogy, the series of novels upon which Ang Lee's classic CrouchingTiger, Hidden Dragon was based. TWChas also acquired the worldwide rights to develop and produce stage adaptationsof the pentalogy including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which will be ...
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Odd Lot reteams with Lexi Alexander on A House Divided
DeborahDel Prete and Gigi Pritzker's Odd Lot Entertainment has acquired A HouseDivided, a script by Lexi Alexanderfor whom they produced Green Street Hooligans.Alexanderwill produce the film under her Irons Productions along with her partner StefanHeller. Del Prete and Pritzker will serve as executive producers, while LindaMcDonough will co-produce.AHouse Divided is ...
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Panther laughs its way into France, Germany, Australia
20th Century Fox International takes MGM's US hit ThePink Panther out in aslew of major territories this weekend including France, where the film is set,Germany, Australia, Norway and South Africa.The Steve Martin-starrer whichwas a surprise family success in North America goes out on 510 prints inFrance, 550 in Germany and ...
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In Between Days
Dir: So Yong Kim. US-Can 2005.83mins.Some of the most interesting films in this year's Berlinale screened in the supposedly off-off Forum sidebar,with In Between Days - a small butmemorable teen romance - a case in point.So Yong Kim's feature is, asthe title hints, a work that takes its time getting ...
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Walden to co-finance Wonder Emporium with Mandate
Chronicles OfNarnia backer WaldenMedia has teamed up with Mandate Pictures to co-finance Mr Magorium's WonderEmporium, thedirectorial debut of screenwriter Zach Helm which will star Natalie Portman,Dustin Hoffman and Jason Bateman.Richard Gladstein of FilmColony and Jim Garavente areproducing the film which is scheduled to start shooting in Toronto at the endof ...
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My Country, My Country
Dir: Laura Poitras. US. 2006. 90mins.The trouble with current affairs documentaries istheir topicality: contemporary as they may seem at the time, they lose lustreby the time they premiere.It could be an obstacle forLaura Poitras' MyCountry, My Country, about the Iraqi elections of January 2005. There islittle more she can add ...
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Flannel Pajamas
Dir/scr: Jeff Lipsky. US. 2006. 124mins.With his reportedly autobiographical FlannelPajamas, former arthousedistribution specialist Jeff Lipsky successfully tracksthe emotional ups and downs of a relationship, moving from sublime rapture andsurrender to grim heartbreak.Guided by two excellent leadperformances and shaped by some raw writing, he reveals a finely shaded and tactilesense of ...
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Vienna Film Fund puts $1.6m into 10 projects
New featurefilms by Antonin Svoboda, Michael Glawogger,and Rupert Henning are among 10 projects awarded over $1.6m (Euros 1.4m) bythe Vienna Film Fund.The largestamount $542,609 (Euros 455,000) went to first-time director Rupert Henning'sadaptation of the satirical play Friendship(Freundschaft) which will be produced by Danny Krausz and Kurt Stocker's DOR-Film with Henning ...
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Focus to back Euro projects from McDonagh and Barra
Focus Features has boardedtwo new European productions - Belgium-set hitman drama In Bruges directed by this year's live action short Oscarwinner Martin McDonagh, and an adaptation of the bestselling World War II novelNaples '44: A World War II Diary Of Occupied Italy by Norman Lewis.In Bruges is being produced by ...
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Sandino Moreno signs on to Cuadri's new feature
Oscar-nominated Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Morenohas signed on to the cast of $14.3m (Euros 12m) Spanish-UK-Portugalco-production The Heart Of The Earth,shooting from March 31.Sandino Moreno, who earned anOscar nomination and Berlin'sSilver Bear for her feature film debut in 2004's Maria Full Of Grace (Maria LlenaEres De Gracia), starsin the true ...
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Feature debut for Unjoo Moon with adaptation of children's book
Unjoo Moon is to direct an adaptation of children's book The Wicked, Wicked Ladies In The HauntedHouse. She directed short film, Sorrow'sChild in 1998 and this will be her feature debut. It also looks likely to bethe next project for Moon's cinematographer husband, DionBeebe who won an Oscar for Memoirs ...
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Akeelah to open 200-film Philadelphia Film Festival on March 30
Daniel Atchison's drama Akeelah And The Bee will open and Nicole Holofcener's LosAngeles-set friendship drama Friends With Money will close the 15th Philadelphia FilmFestival.This year's event, which runs from Mar 30 to Apr 11, introducesnew sections catering to families and music lovers and honours Susan Sarandonwith the Artistic Achievement Award.Among ...
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Akeelah, Sweet Land bookend Cleveland Film Festival
Doug Atchison's spelling bee drama Akeelah And The Bee and Ali Selim's Minnesota-set romance SweetLand bookend the 30thCleveland International Film Festival, which runs from Mar 16-26.Alongside the Eastern European Film Competition and the Nesnadny +Schwartz Documentary Film Competition, the inaugural Greg Gund MemorialStanding Up Film Competition will celebrate films about ...
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Sight, Pounds take audience awards at NY Israel Film Festival
DanielSyrkin's mystery Out Of Sighttook the Panavision Audience Choice Award at the 21st Israel Film Festival,which ran in New York from Feb 23-Mar 9.Dani Menkin's 39 Pounds Of Love won the corresponding Audience Choice Awardfor best documentary, while Leonid Prudozsky took home the student film prizefor Dark Night.The Visionary Award ...
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Water to open fourth Indian Film Festival of LA
Deepa Mehta's 1930s Varanasi-set social drama Water will open the fourth annual Indian FilmFestival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) on Apr 19.The festival's executive director Christina Marouda also announcedthat the award-winning sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar will receive theLifetime Achievement Award."We are truly delighted to be hosting the Los Angelespremiere of ...
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Lionsgate to handle US release of Peaceful Warrior
Lionsgate will handle US distribution of Peaceful Warrior, the film based on Dan Millman'sself-help international bestseller Way Of The Peaceful Warrior which was produced by Mark Amin's Sobini Films.Lionsgate-based Sobini recently bought back domestic rights fromBlockbuster after producing the picture with DEJ Productions. Los Angeles-basedInferno Distribution retains international rights.The picture ...
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San Francisco doc fest will open on May 12 with Long Gone John
Gregg Gibb's The Treasures Of Long Gone John will open the sixth San FranciscoDocumentary Film Festival, which runs from May 12-21.The picture chronicles the artand musical obsessions of independent record producer Long Gone John, whohelped launch the careers of The White Stripes, Hole and Rocket From The Crypt.Also screening is ...
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Accused, Life In Colour take top prizes at Miami
The Miami International Film Festival concluded on Saturday nightwith the announcement of three juried awards offering cash sums of $25,000each. Presentations were made at a closing ceremony introduced by festivaldirector Nicole Guillemet and hosted by actors Alice Braga and Jose Antonio.Life In Colour from Spain's Santiago Tabernero won the top ...
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Failure is anything but at domestic box office
Paramount's romantic comedy Failure To Launch was anything but a failure in itsopening weekend, soaring to number one on an estimated $24.6m weekend haul.Buena Vista's comedy The Shaggy Dog - the picture that had beenexpected to dominate the weekend - opened in second place on $16m,marginally ahead of Fox Searchlight's ...