All Screen articles in 18 February 2006
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New Pink Panther purrs at US box office
MGM/Columbia's The Pink Panther won a tightrace at the North American box office this weekend, as four new wide releasesfound their respective audiences and took the top four spots on the box officechart. With an estimated gross of $21.7m, The Pink Pantheredged out New Line's Final Destination 3, while Universal's ...
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New Pink Panther purrs at US box office
MGM/Columbia's The Pink Panther won a tightrace at the North American box office this weekend, as four new wide releasesfound their respective audiences and took the top four spots on the box officechart. With an estimated gross of $21.7m, The PinkPanther edged out New Line's Final Destination 3, while Universal's ...
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Lightning strikes on Heaven And Hell
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has pickedup worldwide'sales, excluding India, to Rahul Dholakia's controversialdrama'Parzania: Heaven & Hell On Earth, andJonathan Stack and Jeff'Swimmer's documentary Secrets Of The Code.''Parzania is based on real events surroundinganti-Muslim violence in India that'eventually led to the overthrow of theruling party. The picture was initially banned in'India ...
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Pusan fest cements plans for AFM
The Pusan International FilmFestival (PIFF) has unveiled details of the full-scale film market it plans tolaunch this year - the Asian Film Market (AFM) - which takes place during the11th edition of the festival from Oct 15-18.The four-day market has anew venue at the Grand Hotel in the Haeundae beach ...
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Auteurs are New Crowned Hope for Vienna
Furtherdetails are emerging of the six new features being prepared as part of Vienna'sNew Crowned Hope Festival (November 14-December 13) to celebrate the 250thanniversary of Mozart's birth.Titlesare Bahman Ghobadi's The Last Symphony Of The Kurds, Garin Nugroho's RequiemFrom Java,Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Intimacy, Paz Encina's Hamaca Paraguaya, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun'sDarattand Tsai Ming-Liang's Dark ...
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VCL and 3Rosen on a Promise with Warner Bros
ChenKaige's The Promise, which screened at the Berlinale last week, will be one of the firsttitles to be released theatrically in Germany as part of a new venture betweenDatty Ruth's VCL Film + Medien and the 3Rosen Filmverleih.WarnerBros Germanywill handle billing and booking on Kaige's fantasy epic, while 3Rosen will ...
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Ambitious Rome festival to launch co-production event
Theinaugural Rome Film Festival (Oct 13-21) is looking to set up aco-production event along the lines of Rotterdam's CineMart which will includea cash prize for the best project presented."TheCineMart structure is so far the best one," explained Rome's internationalprogramme manager Teresa Cavina on the decision to emulate Rotterdam's popularpitching bazaar.Rome'sindustry ...
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Capitol unleashes Pawlikowski's Beasts
Rhys Ifans, Eddie Marsan, and Ben Whishaw, who is setvault to fame in the lead role of Tom Tykwer's Perfume later this year, will star in Pawel Pawlikowski's next film The Restraint Of Beasts. Capitol Films has boarded as worldwide sales agent.Pawlikowskiand his My Summer of Love producer Tanya Seghatchian ...
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Lenny Kravitz gets Iced for Daniels
LennyKravitz will make his feature film acting debut as a musician who falls intothe abyss of crack addiction in Iced, thesecond film to be directed by Lee Daniels and available at Berlin from his LeeDaniels Entertainment.Basedon the debut novel by Ray Shell, the film will follow Kravitz's character froma promising ...
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DOCker five pool EFM resources
Five of thebest-known sales outfits in the documentary arena are pooling resources in theEuropean Film Market in Berlin. SND Films,Doc & Co, Films Transit, Deckert Distribution and First Hand Films are thepartners involved in the venture, dubbed Meet The DOCkers! The fivecompanies, normally business rivals, are sharing space at Martin-Gropius-Bauand ...
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Les Bronzes 3 stays in front of international pack
French smash Les Bronzes 3: Amis Pour La Viewas once again the biggest money-maker in the international marketplace thisweekend, grossing more in its home territory than Hollywood movies including Munich,Chicken Little and Walk The Line could manage from multiplemarkets.In its second weekend in France, the Gallic hit,distributed by Warner Bros ...
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New Pink Panther purrs at US box office
MGM/Columbia's The Pink Panther won a tightrace at the North American box office this weekend, as four new wide releasesfound their respective audiences and took the top four spots on the box officechart. With an estimated gross of $21.7m, The PinkPanther edged out New Line's Final Destination 3, while Universal's ...
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New Pink Panther purrs at US box office
MGM/Columbia's The Pink Panther won a tightrace at the North American box office this weekend, as four new wide releasesfound their respective audiences and took the top four spots on the box officechart. With an estimated gross of $21.7m, The PinkPanther edged out New Line's Final Destination 3, while Universal's ...
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A Prairie Home Companion
Dir: RobertAltman. US. 2006. 103 mins. RobertAltman's homage to America's favourite radio show, Garrison Keillor's APrairie Home Companion, is a largely spirited affair, despitea few sagging moments. Paradoxically, though, the film may play better in Europeand other territories than in North America, where its central plot of asoulless corporation overtaking ...
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Once In A Lifetime
Dirs: PaulCrowder, John Dower. US. 2006. 98 mins. Aiming for the huge double demographicof football fans and 1970s nostalgics, Once In A Lifetime narrates the rise andfall of the New York Cosmos football team which, for a few short years in thelate 1970s, was home to stars of the ...
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Gaga reveals ambitious domestic and international plans
Japan's new-look Gaga plans to produce up to 10Japanese films a year, in addition to international co-productions, as part ofa drive to expand its production activities.Since launching production banner Gaga Films lastyear, the company has already shot two Japanese features - Ryo Nishimura's Waters,which opens in Japan next month, and ...
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Morena greenlights Latin American productions
Spain's Morena Films is preparing a new slate offilms, with the $3.6m (Euros 3m) Andalusian road movie Blinkerscurrently at the Berlin Co-Production market and three more set to shoot shortly.With Morena currently in post on Mexican veteranArturo Ripstein's El Carnaval De Sodoma, its forthcomingproductions tap into Latin American talent.Shooting from ...
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Venice Film Festival bounces back with new sponsorship
Withthe buzz surrounding this year's Rome Film Festival, industry watchers have beenincreasingly scrutinising the Venice Film Festival. Causingparticular concern is the Lido's apparent difficulty in lifting itself out of bothadministrative and financial doldrums.Now,Venice is hitting back: Venice Biennale president Davide Croff has announced thatdespite a $3m (Euros 2.5m) cut to ...
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QED joins Intermedia for four film deal
BillBlock's newly formed QED International (Screendaily, Feb 10) has formed anagreement with Intermedia to co-finance and co-produce four Intermedia-developed films.QEDwill complete the financing, co-produce and handle worldwide distribution onthe films, led by Spring Break In Bosnia. The comic thriller from The Matador writer/director Richard Shepard will be distributed in the ...
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Lee and Shin to oversee Korea's Prime Entertainment
Lee Seung-jae, CEO of Korean production company LJFilm, has confirmed that he will oversee film production at rising Koreanstudio Prime Entertainment, formerly known as Innotz.Lee brings with him CJ Entertainment's former head offilm business Shin Sang-han who will head up distribution and exhibition.Prime will produce 15 films a year starting ...