All Screen articles in 19 May 2006
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Paramount brands specialised label as Paramount Vantage
Paramount unveiled its new division Paramount Vantage at a high-profile reception heretonight.Vantage willencompass Paramount Classics and will release approximately 8-10 films each year said John Lesher, who heads up both divisions.The first Vantagerelease will be Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel,which receives its world premiere here on Tuesday and opens in North ...
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Thomas Vinterberg plans Danish comedy
After twointernational projects -- It's All About Love and Dear Wendy -- Thomas Vinterberg will return to Denmark to shoothis next feature, a comedy entitled A Man Comes Home."I'm making a Danishmovie with all my friends and it's gonna be a rather silly film about sex, loveand foolishness in general," ...
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Summer Palace
Dir: Lou Ye. Chi-Fr. 2006.140mins.Social upheaval and sexual liberation make for areasonably potent cocktail in SummerPalace, an ambitious attempt to convey the sweep of recent world historythrough the life and loves of a young Chinese woman. The fourth feature from Suzhou River director Lou Ye is easily hismost accessible, although ...
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Verdone signs on for Manual of Love sequel
Popular Italian comedianCarlo Verdone has signed on to star in the sequel to the Manual ofLove, the hit Aurelio DeLaurentiis-produced titled that earned almost $17m (Euros 15m) at thelocal box officelast year and sold to 15 countries worldwide.Entitled Manual of Love:The Stories, the film will bedirected by Giovanni Veronesi and ...
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Swank to star in PS, I Love You
Double Oscar winner Hilary Swank has signed to star inPS, I Love You, the forthcoming film ofCecelia Ahern's bestseller which is being produced by Alcon Entertainment,released domestically by Warner Bros and sold here by SummitEntertainment.Another Oscar winner Richard LaGravanese, who isdirector of one of the segments in Un Certain Regard ...
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Swank to star in PS, I Love You
Double Oscar winner Hilary Swank has signed to star inPS, I Love You, the forthcoming film ofCecelia Ahern's bestseller which is being produced by Alcon Entertainment,released domestically by Warner Bros and sold here by SummitEntertainment.Another Oscar winner Richard LaGravanese, who isdirector of one of the segments in Un Certain Regard ...
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Paris, Je T'Aime
Dirs: see credits below. Fr-Liech-Switz. 2006. 120mins.That largelyunloved genre, the portmanteau film, no doubt works best in specialised slots -such as that of the opener in the Un Certain Regardsection at Cannes. Fitting the bill as a light, generally celebratory sectioncurtain-raiser, Paris JeT'Aime is a postcard-like, sometimes genuinelycharming, whistle-stop city ...
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IDT ramps up production on Mean Margaret
Ambitious IDT Entertainmentis ramping up production at its Los Angeles headquarters on its fourthCG-animated feature, Mean Margaret.The story centres on afriendship that develops between a missing young girl and a groundhogcalled Fred.Joe Piscatella and CraigWilliams adapted the screenplay from Tor Seidler's award-winning book.Jane Startz and Cheryl Aboodare serving as producers. ...
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Hamaca Paraguaya
Dir/scr: Paz Encina. Fr-Arg-Hol-Par-Sp. 2006. 78mins.With a Cannesappearance (in Un Certain Regard) that makes it the first Paraguayan film to screenin the official selection of a major festival - and the only Paraguayan featureshot on 35mm in the last 30 years - HamacaParaguaya will delight those self-flagellatingcineastes who believe, like ...
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ThinkFilm gets US rights to Keeping Mum
ThinkFilm has picked up USrights to the ensemble comedy Keeping Mum, starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and PatrickSwayze.The company plans aSeptember release on the film, which stars Atkinson as an absent-mindedvicar whose family troubles appear to be solved by the arrival of amysterious housekeeper.Keeping Mum was directed ...
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Korea's Mirovision gets Hong Sang-soo's next film
Korea's Mirovision has inkeda deal with local production house bom Film Productions for both domestic andinternational distribution of Hong Sang-soo's next film, Woman On The Beach, which is currently in production.The project marks the firsttime Hong has worked with Bom, one of Korea's leading production houses withcredits including You're My ...
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Haneke plans English remake of Funny Games
Revered Austrian auteurMichael Haneke is to take his English-language bow, it was announced in Cannesyesterday. He is remaking his 1997 film Funny Games, but the setting will now be the Hamptons. NaomiWatts is to star.The film is about amiddle-class family on holiday who are terrorised by two young men.Chris Coen ...
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Summit embarks on pan-Latin distribution
Summit Entertainment has set up its own Latin Americandistribution operation in alliance with LA-based Pedro Rodriguez who formerlyran the Latin distribution consortium Nu Vision Network.The outfit, International Distribution Company (IDC), hasset up a fixed structure of distribution partners in each Latin territory whichwill handle 5 or 6 Summit titles a ...
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Fortissimo picks up global on desert pic
Fortissimo Films has picked up world rights toSounds Of Sand directed by award-winning Belgiandirector Marion Hansel.Set against the backdrop of the Africandesert, the film features actors from Burkino Faso, Djibouti and Belgium in thestory of a group of African villagers driven away from their homes by drought,famine and the threat ...
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Iran's Farabi tries to foster international co-productions
Iranian film organizationFarabi is championing international co-productions between Iran, Iraqand Afghanistan in order to promote filmmaking in the region.Currently in post is TurtlesCan Fly director Bahman Ghobadi'snew film, Half Moon (Niwe Mung), which has been set up as Iran-Iraq-Austria co-production.The picture is about afamous 80-year-old Kurd musician, who has a ...
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ContentFilm gets Tribeca title I'm Reed Fish
UK-basedContentFilm has taken on international rights for I'm Reed Fish, which premiered at the Tribeca FilmFestival. Zackary Adler'sdirectorial debut stars Jay Baruchel and Alexis Bledel in a coming-of-age storyin a small town. The ensemble cast also includes Schuyler Fisk, DJ Qualls,Victor Rasuk and Katey Sagal.I'm Reed Fish isa production of ...
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Endgame completes new funding round
Jim Stern's EndgameEntertainment has completed another round of financing, bringing the company'sequity to more than $100m in operating capital.The new financing will allowEndgame greater flexibility to make bigger- budget features and financethird-party projects.The private equity fundlaunched in March 2003 and has converted to a fully operational production andfinancing entity.Its co-financing ...
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First Look in ring with Clark's fightclub pic
Henry Winterstern's ambitious US production, distribution and salescompany First Look Studios is developing a project about the teenfightclub scene with Larry Clark.Clark will direct the story based on a concept he devised withWinterstern. Clark and Evan Weiner are co-writing the screenplay.The First Look Studios production will be produced by Winterstern ...
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Media Luna sells Ganz picture to China
Cologne-based Media Luna has sold Bruno Ganz picture Vitus to Chinese' distributor Hansion Media.''The film, directed by Fredi Murer, is about a boygenius whose parents' would like him to become a pianist, until the boyeventually takes 'control of his own life.''Vitus hasalso been sold Mexico's Quality Films, Brazil's Ciruito' Cinearte,France's ...
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UK financiers gear up to cash flow new tax credit
Nobody yet knows how the UKfilm tax credits (introduced last month) will work in practice, but there isalready evidence of a mini-stampede among British film financiers to cash flowthe new credit. This promises to be a highly lucrative, if short-term,business.One new company, IvanMcTaggart's Meteor Films, is being set up specifically ...