All Screen articles in 19 August 2005
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Sarajevo festival kicks off in confident mood
The 11th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 19-27)kicks off today with a film line-up and guest list that suggests it has becomethe most important festival in South East Europe. With 162 films, four world premieres and five regionalpremieres and 100 foreign press representatives, Sarajevo in now an essentialplace to be for ...
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San Sebastian names New Directors contenders
Twenty-fourfilms from almost as many countries will compete for the Altadis New Directorsprize at the upcoming 53rd edition of the Donostia-San Sebastian InternationalFilm Festival (Sept 15-24).Social themes -from Tibetan exiles and Mongolian nomads to unemployed and illegal workers inSpain - reign across genres and from around the world in the ...
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Oz censor sparks spat with exhibitors, distributors
About 20 senior exhibitorsand distributors held an impromptu meeting on the final night (Aug 18) of theAustralian International Movie Convention, to express their anger over thepublic way they were criticised on the first day of the event.Des Clark, directorof the Office of Film & Literature Classification, pulled no punches earlyin ...
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First Run, Asia Society bring Chinese films to US
Seeking to build greater international understandingthrough film, US-based organisations First Run Features and Asia Society haveteamed up to bring Chinese features to North American theatres, DVD andtelevision markets.The two bodies will create joint marketing and promotionalcampaigns for all titles across the various stages of release.The collaboration will kick off with ...
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Montreal's Nouveau fest adds Vinterberg, Quebecois shocker
Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema added eight titles toits October line-up, including screenings of Thomas Vinterberg's Sundance titleDear Wendy, Pierre Jolivet's Cannestitle Zim & Co. and the worldpremiere of Quebecois director Robert Morin's shock film Petit Pow!Pow! Noel. The festival will also present Amos Gitai's Free Zone, which won Israeli ...
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California ponders $50m annual incentive scheme
California legislators are preparing to debate a billdesigned to stem the tide of runaway productions and help restore the notional"Hollywood" to its rightful home.The move follows years of vocal agitation by Californian industryworkers troubled by the exodus of productions to more cost-effective shootinglocations such as those in Canada, Eastern Europe ...
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Charlie set to pass $100m in golden ticket sales
Warner Bros PicturesInternational's slice of family confection, Charlie And The ChocolateFactory, is poised to pass $100mthis weekend.The picture has no majoropenings but should continue to prove irresistible to filmgoers in theterritories where it has opened, and stood at $91.5m as of Aug 15.Meanwhile action sci-fi TheIsland was set to launch ...
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New York Film Festival unveils full line-up
The prestigious New York Film Festival (NYFF) has unveileda typically diverse and high-wattage line-up for its 43rd edition, with numerous potential US and North American premieres.The exact status of the premieres remains uncertain until both theToronto International Film Festival announces its complete line-up and thesecretive Telluride programme becomes known when ...
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UIP readies global Were-Rabbit campaign
The long-awaited Wallace & Gromit - The Curse Of TheWere-Rabbit will bow in Australia on September 15, as internationaldistributor UIP mirrors the pattern successfully swum byShark Talelast year.With a North American premiere at the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival following within days, Wallace will open in the US throughDreamWorks on October 7 ...
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Festival director becomes new Czech culture minister
The Czech prime minister hasproposed Vitezslav Jandak, an actor and the president of the Zlin InternationalFilm Festival, as culture minister. Jandak will replace Pavel Dostal, who diedrecently of cancer.Pavel Strnad, president ofthe Czech Audiovisual Producers Association, was optimistic about the primeminister's selection. "It's good news that he's an actor and ...
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Greeks act to revitalise embattled box office
Greekdistributors have agreed to move back film release dates to Thursdays in anattempt to revitalise the country's embattled local box office. Until now,Fridays have been the traditional opening day for films. The move takes effectfrom today (August 18). Admissionsin Greece have plateaued in the past five years, at an estimated ...
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Wah-Wah
Dir/scr: Richard E Grant.UK-Fr-S Afr. 2005. 97minsAdd the name of Richard EGrant to the roster of actors who have made a successful transition to thedirector's chair. His feature debut Wah-Wah is an affectionate, keenly-observedportrait of a family's life set against the dying days of the British Empire.Working from autobiographical material, ...
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Irish producers line up 'likely' local shoots
Aftera slow seven months it looks increasingly likely that Irish producers will pushupwards of six locally developed features into production before the year-end.That they are "likely" to start means, as many producers are carefulto say, that the films are probable rather than definite and that financingdeals in many cases are ...
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UIP, Fox take Oz Movie Convention prizes
UIP and Fox were the most high profile distributors at last night'sAustralian International Movie Convention's box achievement awards.UIP won six of the 18 awards which are given to films that grossed morethan $7.5m (A$10m) in the previous 12 months.Top of the list for UIP was Meet The Fockers but it ...
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CMG plans Toronto 'market' screening for Reeker
Cinema Management Group has picked up international rights to DavePayne's Reeker andplans to screen the horror picture in Toronto on Sept 10 outside the festival asa de facto "international market premiere." Reekerhas been a festival staple of late, earning strong reviews followingappearances at South by Southwest, Tribeca Film Festival and ...
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Producers urged to focus on older cinemagoers
Prompted by new research,Nielsen EDI has suggested putting more of a focus on cinemagoers aged 55 yearsand over as a way of addressing Australia's current box office demise. General manager Simon Burton toldthe Australian International Movie Convention today that a key finding from thesurvey of 1,428 moviegoers was that the ...
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Weinsteins press Panic button
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have added another title to their bulgingWeinstein Company slate, optioning film rights to Jeff Abbott's paranoiathriller novel Panic,which goes out in US bookshops today [18].Abbott's story centres on Evan Casher, a documentaryfilmmaker who returns home to discover his mother's murdered body and quicklylearns that everything he ...
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Deauville unveils American film line-up
The Deauville Festival of American Film has announced itscomplete line up for the 31st edition which will run from September2-11 in the Normandy town.AlainCorneau will head up the jury surrounded by directors Dominik Moll, BrigitteRouan and actors Dominique Blanc and Melvil Poupaud among others.Ten films make up the main competition, ...
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IFC accompanies Weinsteins on trans-sexual odyssey
IFCFilms will partner with The Weinstein Company to distribute Duncan Tucker's hot-buttonroad movie Transamerica. Thefilm's central character, a Christian transsexual played by Felicity Huffman, isseen as a potent Oscar vehicle for the Desperate Housewives actress.Thetwo companies, who already share a broadly defined strategic alliance, willjointly share the distribution of the ...
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Pusan project market shortlists 27 Asian features
Asia's highest-profile project market, the PusanPromotion Plan (PPP), has unveiled a record 27 projects that will be introducedto potential co-producers and financiers at the upcoming Pusan InternationalFilm Festival.Held from October 10-12, this year's PPP will includevarious projects in development or pre-production including The War MovieProject, a big-budget WWII film set ...