All Screen articles in 19 May 2005
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Menzel ready to Serve The King
Oscar-winningCzech director Jiri Menzel is edging ever closer to a starting date for hislong-gestating I Served The King Of England. The Euros 3m project, puttogether by producers AQS and Bioscop as a Czech/Hungarian/German/Slovakianco-production, is close to being fully financed. The first part of the 61-dayshoot is slated to take place ...
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Julian Richards gets Prolific with new slate
Prolific Britishdirector/producer Julian Richards (The Last Horror Movie) has announced a slate of new projects through hisdevelopment and production outfit, Prolific Films.Krizia is a supernaturalhorror film scripted by Andrew Miller (Cube, Nothing) about a schizophrenic girl with telekinetic powers.Long Dark Hours, backed by the Arts Council of Wales, is billed ...
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Metacinema takes Italian rights to Gallenberger's Time
Metacinema has acquiredItalian distribution rights to Florian Gallenberger's Shadows of Time.Sold by BavariaInternational, the epic film is set in India before independence and traces thetragic love story of Ravi and Masha, a couple who were forced to work as childlabourers.The picture marks the featuredebut of writer-director Gallenberger, who won an ...
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Nexo swoops for three new films
Italy's Nexo has acquired three new films here - Steven Shainberg'sDiane Arbus biopic Fur from New Line International, Emanuel Carrere'swell-liked drama La Moustache from Pathe International and Jaume Balaguero'sthriller Fragile from Filmax. The pick-ups continue relationships between Ernesto Di Sarro's companyand the three sellers. Nexo at its inception handled a ...
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Kaurismaki embarks on Nightwatchman shoot
Shooting has begun inFinland on Nightwatchman, thethird part of Aki Kaurismaki's Finland trilogy. Having dealt withunemployment in Drifting Cloudsand homelessness in Man Without A Past, the Finnish auteur is now taking as his subject "loneliness in suburbanHelsinki." The film is being made through Kaurismaki's production companySputnik.Among the starsis Paju, the ...
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Edinburgh festival plans gathering of European distributors
Distributors from across Europe are to meet at August's EdinburghInternational Film Festival in an event held by the Scottish festival anddistributors federation FIAD. The gathering is billed as an opportunity to network in a less pressuredenvironment, rather than a formal conference. "We hope many distributorswill seize this opportunity to come ...
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Merry Christmas to Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) won a bidding war to takemulti-territory rights for Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) yesterday,the first US deal for a film in official selection to be announced here inCannes,SPC took rights in the US, UK, Italy and Latin Americafrom Films Distribution in a multi-million dollar deal, beating out ...
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Italy's DNC snaps up Un Certain Regard title The King
Italy's DNC Entertainment haspicked up Italian distribution rights to three titles, including Un CertainRegard title The King.Sold by ContentFilm, JamesMarsh's The King features Gael Garcia Bernal as a handsome young USmarine who returns to his preacher father's hometown with the hope ofreconciliation.The film was written by Marshand Milo Addica (Monster's ...
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Chan film to focus on landmines in Cambodia
Jackie Chan plans to head toCambodia next year to direct and star in a film that will draw attention to theproblem of landmines in the former war-torn country."It's about a serious subject so it can't be a comedybut it won't be too heavy or violent," said the star who is ...
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Kline, Hanks line up for the Great Buck
Kevin Kline is in finaltalks to star with Colin Hanks in The Great Buck Howard, which is being produced by Playtone partners TomHanks and Gary Goetzman and Sidney Kimmel through his Sidney KimmelEntertainment (SKE).Kimmel International's newpresident Mark Lindsay will handle sales on the project, which is set to gointo pre-production ...
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Pact, British Directors, Ille de France plan conference
In conjunction with UKproducers' agency Pact and the Directors' Guild of Great Britain, the Ile deFrance Film Commission has announced a conference series to be held on June 15in London.The Ile de France commission was created in 2004 toattract producers to the region in and around Paris as well as ...
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Echo Bridge dead keen on Mortuary
Echo Bridge Entertainment has completed a string of deals on TobeHooper's horror title Mortuary.Rights sold toAnchor Bay for the UK, Bronson Entertainment for Germany, Eagle Entertainmentfor Italy, and Swen Entertainment for Brazil. France and Japan are expected toclose imminently.BridgeEntertainment bought for Benelux, HollywoodEntertainment for Greece and PT Parkit for Indonesia."The ...
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Verhoeven's Black Book closes financing
VIP Mediafondshas boarded Black Book,Paul Verhoeven's long-gestating $20m wartime thriller, as majority financier,finally giving a start-date to the project in August on location in TheNetherlands and at Studio Babelsberg.The cast is ledby Dutch star Carice van Houten, Halina Reijn and Dutch actor Thom Hoffman. Thelead German parts are played by ...
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Lola closes pre-sales on saintly Paz Vega biopic
Spain'sLolafilms has closed three key pre-sales and is fielding broad interest on itsperiod biopic Teresa,starring Viggo Mortensen and Paz Vega.The film has pre-sold toMexico's Gussi, Brazil's Conquest Filmes and Venezuela's Blancica. Offers arealso on the table from Argentina, according to Lola's head of internationalsales, Eva Sklar.Pre-sales areunusual for any Spanish ...
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Indian billionaire Spices up Kapur's Buddha epic
Indian billionaire Dr Bhupendra Kumar Modi has set up an internationalfilm production outfit in Los Angeles called Spice through which he willproduce his epic feature film Buddha to be directed by ShekarKapur.He has hired Patrick De Bokay as the film's executive producer andPascal Borno as its international sales agent.The film, ...
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Univeral beefs up Rogue Pictures
UniversalPictures is beefing up its genre division Rogue Pictures with plans to release10 pictures a year and expand the banner's production infrastructure.Universal's boutique label Focus Features' marketingand distribution teams will also expand to handle the increased workload andRogue will also begin to roll out its DVD Premiere series of titles.Focus ...
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Universal beefs up Rogue Pictures
Universal Pictures is beefing up its genre division Rogue Pictures withplans to release 10 pictures a year and expand the banner's productioninfrastructure.Focus Features' marketing and distribution teams willexpand to handle the increased workload and Rogue will also begin to roll outit DVD Premiere series of titles.Focus Features co-president David Linde ...
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Japan Wise to Argento's Hitchcock homage
Rai Trade has sold cult horrormeister Dario Argento's thriller, DoYou Like Hitchcock' to Japan's Wise Policy. Deals on the hot English-language picture have also been struck with USdistributor Marvista, Russia's Alpha Motion Company, Denmark's DR TV, Sweden'sSverige Television Sdt, Hungary's PCN Budapest, the Czech Republic's Euro Kimand ex-Yugoslavia's Centra Belgrado.The ...
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Cannes briefs: latest deals, announcements
Swintongets on This TownBritshactress Tilda Swinton has joined the cast of No One Gets Off In This Town, the latest film from RichardKwietniowski (Love And Death In Long Island). Produced by Jason Newmark,scripted by Colin Bytheway, the project is on Beyond's Cannes slate. It's ablack comedy exposing the seamy side ...
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Bavaria scores sales on Fatih Akin's Crossing The Bridge
Fatih Akin'smusic documentary Crossing The Bridge has beensold to A-Film in Benelux, Golem's Spain,Discovery Film in the former Yugoslavia and Israel's Orlando with "stronginterest" coming from Italy and the USA, according to Bavaria FilmInternational.DirectorsFortnight opener Be With Me, directed by Eric Khoo, has been sold to Civite Films (Spain) andNew ...