All Screen articles in 18 September 2005
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Spain names trio of films to fight for Oscar contention
The Spanish Film Academy hasselected three finalists for its nomination to the foreign-language Oscar,including Montxo Armendariz's Obaba, which inaugurated the 53rd Donosita-San Sebastian International FilmFestival on Thursday night.The other two finalists areJose Luis Garci's theatre adaptation Ninette and Fernando Leon's prostitute drama Princesas.The Academy, which createdthe two-tiered selection four years ...
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Tsotsi, Look Both Ways win top prizes at Toronto
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival ended on Saturday, with Gavin Hood's UK/South Africaco-production Tsotsi winning thecoveted People's Choice Award voted on by festival audiences. The award has, inthe past, signaled enormous popular successes such as Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon (2000), Amelie (2001), Whale Rider (2002) Zatoichi (2003), and last year Hotel Rwanda.Sarah ...
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Krrish rolls in Singapore under incentive scheme
Production has started in Singapore on Indian director Rakesh Roshan's Krrish,which is the first film to take advantage of the $6m (S$10m) 'Film InSingapore' incentive scheme.Set up by the SingaporeTourism Board (STB), the scheme aims to encourage foreign productions to chooseSingapore as a shooting location. Up to 50% of productionexpenses ...
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Obaba
Dir: Montxo Armendariz.Sp-Ger. 2005. 109mins.There are strange thingsgoing on down in Obaba, a tale of isolated village life set in thePyrenean hinterland of San Sebastian - which is why, presumably, it was chosento open the 53rd edition of Spain's A-list film festival.But although it got a warmreaction from the gala ...
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Mistress Of Spices
Dir: Paul Mayeda Berges.UK. 2005. 92mins.A featherweight, feelgoodromance, The Mistress Of Spices is heavily reliant on the radiant beautyof Aishwarya Rai for any modest charm that it may possess. The directorialdebut of Paul Mayeda Berges promises to add a taste of India to a Chocolat-stylescenario but falls considerably short of ...
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Toronto's mega-studio won't be so mega
It will be bigbut not as big is was supposed to be: the size and cost of the much-anticipatedToronto mega-studio has been scaled back. As reportedSept. 10 in Screendaily, Toronto Film Studios (TFS) has signed a land leasewith the City of Toronto, a crucial step toward breaking ground on thestate-of-the-art ...
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Germany, Japan tap heels to Saura's Iberia
Carlos Saura's latest dance extravaganza, Iberia, hassold to 14 territories following its world premiere in Toronto, led by deals inGermany, France and Japan.The film, being sold internationally by Wild Bunch, isinspired by Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz and is about the top stars offlamenco music and dance, much like Saura's 1995 ...
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Industry execs sign up for Skillset mentoring scheme
A who's who of British filmindustry insiders have volunteered to serve as mentors for people startingcareers in the film business, as part of a new mentoring programme announced bySkillset. Guiding Lights is a year-long programme of mentoring, advice, andsupport that will boast mentors including Michael Kuhn, Paul Greengrass, FrankCottrell-Boyce, Lynne ...
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Woodrow, Kotchek launch Offshore Entertainment in NYC
New York-basedOffshore Entertainment has launched with a slate of feature, television andmusic projects including Morgan J Freeman's road movie Just Like The Son.Financed through a New York investment bank, the umbrellacompany is headed up by former investment fund manager Christopher Woodrow aschief executive officer and Darren Kotchek as chief financial ...
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San Sebastian kicks off with emotional tribute to Robert Wise
Spain'sDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival kicked off its 53rd annualedition Thursday night.The inaugurationat the coastal city's glass-box Kursaal auditorium commenced with news thatdirector Robert Wise, the subject of one of the festival's two retrospectives,had passed away just one day earlier.The festivalplayed a short video of Wise thanking San Sebastian forthe ...
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Cast lines up for Lion's Gate werewolf movie Skinwalkers
Jason Behr,Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Natassia Malthe and Lyriq Bent have been cast inLions Gate's upcoming werewolf picture Skinwalkers, which is set to begin shooting inSeptember in Canada.Lions Gate isproducing with Germany's Constantin Film, which is financing the project with DonCarmody and Dennis Beradi of Red Moon Films and effects ...
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Fiji makes Oscar bid with The Land Has Eyes
Fiji has made its first ever attempt to win an Academy Award by submitting TheLand Has Eyes for the best foreign-language film category. In order to qualify,Australian-based distributor Ronin Films opened the film at the only multiplexin the Fijian capital of Suva on September 8, where it took a respectable ...
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Mehlitz joins Potok in Berlin-Brandenburg incentive scheme
Former Cinerentapartner and current Lago Film managing director Marco Mehlitz has partneredwith former Vivendi Germany and Studio Babelsberg chief Thierry Potok on hisstate-backed incentive scheme for projects shooting in the Berlin-Brandenburgarea.Producers who team up with German production partners willbe eligible for a guarantee through Potok's International Production FinancingServices (IPFS).Under thescheme, ...
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Bee Season
Dirs: Scott McGehee,David Siegel US. 2005. 104mins.Makers of hand-craftedindividual items rather than mass-produced merchandise, directing partnersScott McGehee and David Siegel have built a career on the unpredictable. Theirmuch admired, low-budget indie drama Suture (1993) was eventuallyfollowed by The Deep End (2001), an icily elegant re-imagining of theMax Ophuls film noir ...
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang to open Hollywood Film Festival
Shane Black's KissKiss, Bang Bang will bethe opening night gala screening at the Hollywood Film Festival on Oct 18.Robert DowneyJr, Michelle Monaghan and Val Kilmer star in the story of a petty thief withaspirations to act who finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation.Warner Bros plans to release ...
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Wallace & Grommit debuts in Australia, Pride in UK
Strong holdover business from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory may be enough to keep the WarnerBros title ahead of the international pack for a second consecutive weekend.Currently on more than $157.2m, the family title enjoyed animpressive Japanese launch last weekend and now ventures into South Korea onSept 16.Sci-fi adventure The ...
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Little Fish hooks Oz audiences
Little Fish has had the biggest opening for an Australian filmthis year in its home territory.Director Rowan Woods' secondfilm grossed $502,000 (A$655,672) in the week to September 14, coming seventhin the film chart. Distributor Icon says thisresult is comparable to Lantanaand Japanese Story, which went onto gross $9.4m and $3.5m ...
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Pizzo joins Washington Square Films to head up film sales arm
FormerCarmichael Films partner Christopher Pizzo has joined Washington Square Films(WSF) to head up the bi-coastal US production and management company's newfilm sales division.PIzzo hasalready picked up North American sales rights to Pietro Reggiani's Italianfamily drama My Brother's Summer (L'Estate Di Mio Fratello) as well as Flannel Pajamas, the directorial debut ...
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Shoreline acquires worldwide rights to Brooklyn Lobster
ShorelineEntertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Kevin Jordan's BrooklynLobster which had itsworld premiere in the Toronto Film Festival this week.Presented byMartin Scorsese, the film stars Danny Aiello and Jane Curtin and centres on aBrooklyn workingman struggling against the foreclosure of his lobster farm.Jordan also wrote the film and produced ...
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Battsek's Miramax makes first acquisition as Toronto deals accumulate
The Toronto trickle turned into a torrent of deals yesterday,headed up by new-look Miramax's first acquisition as Daniel Battsek's teambought all North American rights to Ward Serrill's girls basketball documentaryThe Heart Of The Game.Elsewhere, THINKFilm took worldwide rights to Josh Gilbert'sdocumentary AKA Tommy Chong, and Bauer Martinez bought North American ...