All Screen articles in 19 May 2007
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Georgia Rule
Dir: Garry Marshall. US. 2007. 111mins.Georgia Rule is a comedy about women that comes with stars and a mighty promise -that honesty and humor can heal the most bitter rifts that fray mother-daughter bonds over three generations. The film, written and directed by men, aims at a trans-generational market of ...
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Schrader's Walker strolls to THINKFilm for North America
THINKFilm has swooped on all North American rights to Paul Schrader's thriller The Walker starring Woody Harrelson and Kristin Scott Thomas.The third part in Schrader's 'lonely man' trilogy following American Gigolo (1980) and Light Sleeper (1992), The Walker stars Harrelson as an escort in Washington DC who covers up for ...
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Spider-Man still dominates after 50% international drop
Spider-Man 3 once again dominated the international box office this weekend, falling a respectable 50% from its record-shattering opening to gross $85.5m. International debutant 28 Weeks Later came a very distant second with an estimated $4.7m. With no new competition in most markets, Spider-Man 3 stayed top in all major ...
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Spidey on top in US, in spite of 60% drop
Spider-Man 3 took a 60% hit in its second weekend at the North American box office, but it still ruled the marketplace, leaving slimmer than expected pickings for three new releases. After re-writing the record books last weekend with its $151m domestic debut, Sony's Spider-Man 3 grossed ...
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Momentum's Suen joins Aramid as chief operating officer
Aramid Capital Partners has appointed Yu Fai Suen as chief operating officer. Aramid is the large new new film fund comprised of financiers Future Films, Screen Capital International and Stonehenge Capital. Suen had been senior VP operations for Europe at Momentum Pictures, where he had been for nine years. He ...
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Nordisk picks up three features including The Art Of Negative Thinking
Having sold Norwegian director Joachim Trier's award-winning Reprise to 20 countries, Nordisk Film International Sales has picked up another three Norwegian features, launching one - Bard Breien's debut drama, The Art of Negative Thinking - in the Cannes Market. 'There is currently a lot of focus on Norwegian cinema,' explained ...
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Hong Kong's Triangle added to Cannes official selection
Hong Kong-Chinese action thriller Triangle, directed by Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To, has been added to Cannes official selection just days before the festival begins. The film has been programmed as an out-of-competition Midnight Screening on Thursday night/Friday morning at 12:20am. Cannes and the film's producers were waiting ...
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Singapore's RGM to finance Point Break sequel
Singapore-based RGM Entertainment will finance and executive produce Point Break 2, a sequel to the 1991 Hollywood hit, with key Asian actors to be cast in principal roles. 'The movie will be shot entirely in South-East Asia, including Singapore, to bring the flavours of the region to a world audience. ...
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Directors' Fortnight title Foster Child sold to France
Ad Vitam has acquired French rights to Filipino director Brillante 'Dante' Mendoza's Foster Child, which will play in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar at Cannes. In addition to France, the deal also covers French-speaking territories including Monaco, Andorra and French-speaking Switzerland and Benelux. Gregory Gajos of Ad Vitam and Philippines-based Ferdinand ...
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The Edge signs distribution deal with Echo Bridge
The Edge, the US financing, production and worldwide distribution company launched by John Travolta's longtime producer Jonathan Krane and Beau Rogers, has struck a distribution deal with Echo Bridge Entertainment.Echo Bridge will handle worldwide sales and distribution excluding North American theatrical on two of The Edge's initial slate and will ...
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San Sebastian to feature Henry King retrospective
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29) will feature a retrospective of the works by American cinema pioneer Henry King at its upcoming 55th edition.The festival will also offer a contemporary retrospective devoted to the new Nordic cinema with a selection of films made in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark ...
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Kinowelt International to handle sales of Bioskop Film library
On the eve of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Leipzig-based Kinowelt International has concluded an agreement with the Munich production house Bioskop Film to handle the marketing of its film library, including such German cinema classics as Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum, Reinhard ...
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Britdoc plans second festival for July; selections include We Are Together
Britdoc's second-annual festival will have a theme of 'Documentary Meets Art,' and will run July 25-27, again at Oxford's Keble College.The three-day event will include screenings, a Pitching Forum, masterclasses with the likes of film-maker Larry Charles, and speed meetings. Explaining the theme, organizers said: 'At a time when the ...
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Araki and Mechanic line up for Venice jury duty
The Venice Film Festival has announced that American director Greg Araki will preside over the Venice Horizons section jury while the Lion of the Future prize jury (dedicated to first films) will be presided over by American producer Bill Mechanic.The Lion of the Future prize is a USD $100,000 cash ...
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Global Tax Guide 2007
If you don't use soft money, you shouldn't be making an independent movie.' Ryan Kavanaugh, CEO of US financier Relativity Media, perfectly sums up the importance of tax breaks for film-making. 'It's free equity, literally. It's free money that doesn't generally require participation in a movie. And there's soft money ...
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Cannes at 60: a celebration
For six decades now the Cannes film festival has been at the epicentre of cinema. Screen's 60th celebration (below) looks at the enduring importance of Cannes and speaks to a range of Palme d'Or winners (see sidebar, right) about how it feels to pick up world cinema's greatest prize. Sun, ...
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Screenwriters playing against type
Arguments over the credit for a film are as old as the industry itself. Ironically, at first actors were insistent on not getting credits, embarrassed by their association with what was considered a fairground attraction. But as novelty grew into mass entertainment and art and - more importantly - into ...
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Silverdocs unveils 10 Sterling award entries
Organisers at the Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival have announced the 10 entries in the Sterling Award Feature Film Competition at the upcoming festival, which runs in the Washington DC area from Jun 12-17.The films are: Doug Pray's long-haul trucking tale Big Rig (USA); Eva Mulvad's profile of Afghanistan's first ...
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Banderas Berlin award-winner makes first sales
The first round of sales have closed on Antonio Banderas' latest directorialeffort, Summer Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses), which recently won theEuropa Cinemas Label prize for Best European film in Berlin.Banderas' second film as a director after Crazy In Alabama (1999) hasalready sold in 12 countries, including the UK ...
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Cork signs new three-year sponsorship deal with drinks importer
The Cork Film Festival has announced a new headline sponsor in Barry Fitzwilliam Maxxium, Irish importers of Corona Extra, Absolut Vodka and other products.Recently appointed Festival chairman Michael O'Connell, welcomed the three-year sponsorship deal of both financial and marketing support for the festival. 'This new sponsorship enables us to bring ...