All Screen articles in 19 May 2007
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BFI sets out plans following $2.7m LFF cash boost
The BFI has set out its plans for The Times London Film Festival, following a $2.7 million cash injection from the UKFC.Speaking earlier today at an event to formally announce the funding, Sandra Hebron, the festival director, outlined the BFI’s plans to raise the profile of the festival on an ...
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We Own The Night breaks domestic record for Cannes competition film
In the first North American deal for a competition film here this year, Columbia Pictures has swooped on domestic rights to James Gray's We Own The Night in a record domestic sale for a competition film at Cannes believed to be around $11m. The crime drama, which stars Mark ...
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ICA picks up six films including Chabrol's Comedy Of Power
ICA Films has picked up six new titles for UK distribution.They are Sandhya Suri's I For India from Celluloid Dreams; musical documentary When The Road Bends: Tales Of A Gypsy Caravan from Fortissimo; Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building from BAC Films; Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon from Match Factory; Claude Chabrol's ...
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Samira Makhmalbaf to resume troubled Afghan film
Shooting on Two-Legged Horse, Samira Makhmalbaf's latest feature, will resume soon in an undisclosed location, she announced at Cannes. Her first feature in five years came to an abrupt end on March 28 when an extra threw a handheld bomb into the northern Afghanistan-based set.In Cannes with her father Mohsen, ...
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Breath (Soom)
Dir/scr: Kim Ki-Duk. Kor. 2007. 84 mins. Removing any pretence of reality for yet another of his existentialist essays on human nature, Kim Ki-Duk's bare-boned new film pairs a married woman with a man on death row, for an impossible love affair. But as this is, after all, Kim Ki-Duk ...
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Savage Grace
Dir: Tom Kalin. US. 2007. 87 mins Fifteen years after his eye-catching debut Swoon, Tom Kalin returns with a second feature that also addresses a story of true-life transgression and its lethal consequences. The inspiration this time is the rise and demise of 1940s socialite Barbara Daly and the increasingly ...
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Terror's Advocate (L'Avocat du terreur)
Dir: Barbet Schroeder Fr. 2007. 135 mins Renewing his fascination with monsters of modern times, Barbet Schroeder has created a weighty, wide-ranging portrait of devil's advocate Jacques Verges. It could also stand as a complex guide through the rise and rise of global terrorism. The controversial subject matter and Schroeder's ...
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Sicko
Dir: Michael Moore. US. 2007. 123 mins. If it works, don't fix it. Michael Moore's passionate, bullying, gag-laced approach to the 'j'accuse' documentary worked a treat in Bowling for Columbine and Farenheit 9/11 - and it works even better in Sicko, his investigation of the US public healthcare system. Moore ...
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IDG, China Film to co-finance five-picture slate
IDG China Media Fund has announced that it will cooperate with state-owned China Film Group to invest in five Chinese-language films over two years. China Film president Han Sanping and IDG China Media Fund president Hugo Shong signed a memo of cooperation in Beijing on Thursday. The first film to ...
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Boarding Gate
Dir/scr: Oliver Assayas. Fr. 2007. 106mins. Maverick French director Oliver Assayas gets lost in transit with Boarding Gate, a transglobal thriller of dirty business deals and dirty sex that he has previously mined in Demonlover, with equally underwhelming results. Cannes ' out-of-competition 'Midnight Screening' is generally reserved for films that ...
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Draper joins Slingshot's new distribution arm
New UK digital film company Slingshot Studios has announced a new UK distribution arm, Slingshot Distribution, which will handle 10-12 films per year.Slingshot will acquire third-party projects and also work on Slingshot's own productions.Elizabeth Draper, a veteran of Fox Searchlight UK, Icon and Pathe Film Distribution, has been named managing ...
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Little Film Company picks up Shill debut
The Little Film Company has picked up the romance Silky Pink, the feature directorial from The Tudors executive producer Steve Shill.Chris Coen and Kelly McCormick produced with Shill, who has also directed episodes of The Sopranos, The Wire, and Deadwood.Shill's manager Paul Nelson is serving as executive producer with Robbie ...
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Bold and The Orphanage to produce supernatural thriller Legion
Bold Films, the LA-based production company behind Bobby, is teaming with visual effects outfit The Orphanage to produce Legion, a supernatural action thriller about a group of strangers stranded in a desert truck stop that bands together to stop an army of demonic creatures bent on fulfilling an age-old prophecy ...
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UTV looks to acquisitions for new channels
India's UTV is ramping up its acquisition activities here at Cannes ahead of the launch of a bouquet of new movie channels over the coming months. The first to launch will be Bindass Movies, a companion to general entertainment channel Bindass, both of which are aimed at upwardly mobile 16-35 ...
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Cinema Libre joins Participant for Angels
Cinema Libre Studio has partnered with Participant Productions to handle domestic distribution and international sales on Participant's Angels In The Dust which looks at the AIDS crisis in South Africa through the eyes of orphans. It is set to open in select US cities in autumn 2007.Louise Hogarth's film recently ...
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Weinsteins closes Cannes sales on Teeth
The Weinstein Company International chief Glen Basner has closed sales on Mitchell Lichtenstein's comedy-horror tale Teeth that premiered at Sundance.Rights have gone to the UK (Momentum), South Korea (Mars Entertainment), Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow), Eastern Europe (EEAP),Greece (Odeon), Portugal (LNK),Indonesia (PT Amero), and Thailand (Major Cinepictures).
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Arclight and Micott & Basara fund fighters
Arclight Films and Japan's Micott & Basara will jointly finance and produce a live-action adaptation of bestselling video game King Of Fighters, which is set to be directed by Hong Kong film-maker Gordon Chan.Chan (The Medallion, Fist Of Legend) will direct from a script by Chris Chow who wrote the ...
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QED takes global rights to Filipino frightener
QED International has acquired worldwide rights to The Echo, Vertigo Entertainment and Dark & Stormy Entertainment's English-language remake of the Filipino horror film Sigaw.Yam Laranas will direct the tale of an ex-con who moves into his recently deceased mother's house and is plagued by supernatural encounters. Casting is underway and ...
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Zentropa expands beyond Danish homeland
Denmark's flagship film company Zentropa is cutting many ties to its homeland with founder Lars Von Trier in talks to shift his next film abroad.In Cannes, company boss Peter Aalbeck Jensen told Screen that the company he and Von Trier founded it will be opening further facilities in Sweden where ...