All Screen articles in 19 November 2004
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Murder casts cloud over Shouf Shouf sequel
Dutch producer/director Albert terHeerdt says he is 'seriously considering' postponing making the sequel to hishit multicultural comedy Shouf ShoufHabibi! following the murder of director Theo van Gogh earlier this month.Shouf Shouf, about a Moroccan family who struggle to settle in theconcrete sprawl of urban Holland, wasselected for the Panorama section ...
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Buyers snap up Element X's Moguls
UK sales companyElement X has unveiled a string of sales concluded at this month's AFM.Michael Traeger'sThe Moguls sold to Universal for the UK and Australia, Nordisk forScandinavia, Lumiere/EBA Films for Brazil, New Films for Eastern Europe andCathay for Singapore.The film starsJeff Bridges and is about the citizens of a small ...
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Blow for Berlinale as title sponsor pulls out
The Berlin-based station has been a main sponsor for the last seven years and shared the official partner status in 2004 with L’Oreal and Volkswagen, who have retained their deals.According to German press reports, SAT.1indicated that the decision to step down as a sponsor was prompted by a desire to ...
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Bridget, Bad Santa, Polar kick off Christmas season
UIP executivesare enjoying a purple patch at the international box office and will look toUniversal's Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason to continue its dominance when it opensin Spain and Sweden on Nov 19.A strongperformance is on the cards given that Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason was the number ...
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Real-life stories all the rage in Spain
While Hollywood has foundinspiration in recent years culling its own archives for remake possibilities,Spanish cinema has been doing another kind of navel-gazing: bringing real-lifestories to the silver screen. There are currently a slew of reality-based filmsin the works in Spain and all the major production houses have at least onesuch ...
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Sundance/NHK name 12 finalists for 2005 awards
The SundanceInstitute and Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK have announced the 12finalists for the 2005 Sundance/NHK International Film-makers Awards, createdin 1996 to support emerging directors develop their screenplays.One winner fromeach of four global regions - Europe, Latin America, USA and Japan - will be selectedby an international jury and announced before ...
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Brothels, 9/11 share top honours at IDA Awards
Zana Briski andRoss Kauffman's Born Into Brothels and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 shared top honours in the IDA'sDistinguished Documentary Achievement Awards.Born IntoBrothels, which wasnamed on the 12-strong Academy Awards documentary shortlist this week, followsthe plight of children from Calcutta's red light district as they try to escapea doomed future.Fahrenheit9/11 is ...
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National Treasure
Dir: Jon Turteltaub. US.2004. 131minsWalt Disney Picturesexperiments with a PG-13-rated adventure movie for all the family in NationalTreasure delivered by the studio's in-house stalwarts producer JerryBruckheimer and director Jon Turteltaub. The result is an efficientlycrowd-pleasing, wholesome popcorn picture short on violence and long onmystery, although it is also short on ...
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Rolling Family (Familia Rodante)
Dir/scr: Pablo Trapero.Arg-Braz-Fr-Ger-Sp. 2004. 103mins.Put Robert Altman's TheWedding on wheels, give it an Argentine passport and send it rolling1,000km out of Buenos Aires - and it would look pretty much like PabloTrapero's latest feature Rolling Family.While it may be less flashyand more populist than Altman's work, it still has a ...
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Williams named DeMille winner at next year's Globes
Robin Williams will receivedthe Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 2005 Cecil B DeMille Award for his"outstanding contribution to the entertainment field" at the 62nd GoldenGlobes in Los Angeles on Jan 16.Williams has won five GoldenGlobes - including three as best actor for Good Will Hunting, The FisherKing and Mrs Doubtfire - ...
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Participant to produce global Sesame Street doc
Former eBay president JeffSkoll's Participant Productions is producing documentary The World AccordingTo Sesame Street in association withInternational Street Productions.The picture will chart thehistory of the children's programme and explore its cultural, political andsocial impact around the globe, and will be directed and produced by LindaGoldstein Knowlton and Linda Hawkins.In particular ...
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The Works unveils Proposition, Tara Road deals
UK based sales oufit TheWorks has unveiled a string of deals completed at this month's AFM.- John Hillcoat's TheProposition, which is currently shooting in Australia, closed a pre-sale at the AFM with Triangelfilm forScandinavia. The film has also beensold to Columbia TriStar for Australia and New Zealand, A Film for ...
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Cold Light dominates Icelandic Oscars
Iceland's official Oscar candidate, Hilmar Oddsson's ColdLight, swept the country's film awards, the EDDA, on Sunday night inReykjavik.The psychological drama took both acting prizes, best actor (Ingvar Sigurdsson) and best supporting actor/actress (KristbjorgKjeld), and best cinematography(Sigurdur Sverrir Palsson) as well as best director and film.The Icelandic Academy of Film and ...
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BVITV strikes Russian pay-TV package deal
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has struck itsfirst pay TV agreement in Russia, with the DTH broadcaster NTV Plus for thelicensing of first-run, re-run, and library features.First-run features will include Pirates Of The Caribbean:The Curse Of The Black Pearl, Freaky Friday, The Village, Calendar Girls, SweetHome Alabama and The Ladykillers.Re-run ...
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Kinky Boot Factory kicks off in Northampton
Harbour Pictures/BVIproduction The Kinky Boot Factory is to start shooting at the end ofNovember with Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor to star as the two male leads,Charlie Price and Lola.Julian Jarrold (Cracker;Crime & Punishment; White Teeth) is directing, with producers NickBarton and Suzanne Mackie working again with the production arm ...
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Rialto takes Australasian rights to foursome
Rialto Entertainment has acquired Australian and NewZealand rights to The Machinist, Mean Creek, The Queen Of Sheba's Pearlsand Last Days.Chief executive Kelly Rogers describes Gus Van Sant's LastDays as a visual requiem, not just to Kurt Cobain but to an entiregeneration of rock 'n' roll, and says its acquisition continues ...
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TLA Releasing acquires NonStop's UNO
Nordic sales outfit NonStop Sales has sold two of itstitles, UNO and Slim Susie, to the US. Both deals were concludedat this month's AFM.Norwegianactor Aksel Hennie's directing debut UNO secured a US distribution dealwith Philadelphia-based TLA Releasing."UNOis an exciting and unexpected blend of art film, action drama and characterstudy,' said ...
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DV8 gets ten-picture slate backing
Ster Kinekor, the SouthAfrican distribution and exhibition conglomerate, is to expand its commitmentto the DV8 digital film-making combine headed by Jeremy Nathan and Joel Phirie.Ster-Kinekor, which hadpreviously made distribution commitments to DV8 on a picture-by-picture basis,has now committed to bankroll the operation's next ten features and to bebecome an equity ...
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Germany breaks Euros 1bn home entertainment barrier
Thanks tothe continuing DVD boom, turnover in Germany's home entertainment market hasbroken the Euro 1bn barrier after just nine months for the first time.Accordingto the GfK market research institute, the sector posted a total turnover ofEuros 1.079bn on the sale and rental of DVDs and videos in the first ninemonths ...
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The Hidden Blade
Dir/Scr Yoji Yamada.Jap. 2004. 131 mins. Best known in Japan for his 48 Tora-san films about a wandering peddler who is forever falling inlove, Yamada has scripted or directed several other successful series for theShochiku studio -- and single-handedly saved it from the financial brink. Two years ago Yamada released ...