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All Screen articles in 2 October 2005
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Charlie rules international weekend, passes $200m
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory held on to its international crown and passed $200m as a $13.8m weekend haul from 52 markets raised the running total to $201.1m.The Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) release was powered by a $2.7m number one Italian debut on 400 screens.The family picture openedtop in ...
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Hot Docs to spotlight Japanese docs at 2006 event
Hot Docs, Canada's majordocumentary film festival, will spotlight contemporary Japanese documentaryfilmmaking as part of its "Made in..." programme at the festival's 2006 edition."Made in ...", which was on hiatus at this year's event, has previously explorednon-fiction production in Taiwan (2003) and South Africa (2004). In a statement, Hot Docsexecutive director ...
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Rosenberg voted in as president of US actors union SAG
Alan Rosenberg has becomethe 24th president of the largest US actors' union Screen Actors Guild (SAG)following a ballot last week.Rosenberg succeeds MelissaGilbert, who served as president since 2001 and chose not to run for a thirdtwo-year term following her combative tenure.Rosenberg received 39.9%(10,748 total votes) of the nationwide vote of ...
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Disney's Flightplan soars over North American box office
Touchstone's airbornethriller Flightplan opened top onan estimated $24.6m as a strong autumn revival saw box office climb for thethird consecutive weekend.The thriller stars JodieFoster a woman who becomes convinced that she has lost her daughter on atransatlantic flight. Peter Sarsgaard also stars in Robert Schwentke's picture,which drew mediocre reviews but ...
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Violence, Line, Bride among Flanders selections
12 Beneluxpremieres will take place during the 32nd Annual Flanders Film Festival, whichruns from Oct 11-22 in Ghent, Belgium.US titles set toscreen among more than 200 entries include A History of Violence, Walk TheLine, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Elizabethtown and The Weather Man.As previouslyannounced, Mike Leigh and Alan Ladd Jr ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest closes with awards announcements
Benjamin Ross' TorteBluma won the best offestival Award and John Mitchell's Goodnight Bill won the audience award for live actionshort at the 2005 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, whichended at the weekend.Dawn Khoo wonthe documentary prize for her Singaporean entry Search For Her, Josh Staub won the top ...
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New Montreal FilmFest apologises for poor audience turnout
Quebec actor Luc Picard'sdirectorial debut L'Audition tookthe top competition prize, the Gold Iris of Montreal, as the inaugural FestivalInternational de Film de Montreal (FIFM) stumbled to a conclusion on Sundaynight. The awards announcementwas accompanied by a 1,000 word apologia from festival brass acknowledging that"this edition did not measure up to ...
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Theron, Phoenix lead Hollywood Awards rollcall
Charlize Theronand Joaquin Phoenix, who are expected to figure prominently in the upcomingawards season, will receive the actress and actor of the year honours for theirrespective roles in North Country and Walk The Line at the Hollywood Awards gala on Oct 24.MatthewBroderick and Susan Sarandon will collect supporting actor awards ...
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Media Blasters takes gay samurai comedy to the US
Media Blasters is to distribute KankuroKudo's hitJapanese gay samurai road comedy Yaji And Kita, The MidnightPilgrims in the US next summer, with plans to roll out to 40 screens in NewYork, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major cities. Starring pop star Tomoya Nagase and Kabukiactor Shichinosuke Nakamura in the title ...
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Ryan elected to second term as IFTA chairman
IAC Filmdirector Michael Ryan has been re-elected as chairman of the Independent Film& Television Alliance (IFTA).Ryan, who is thefirst IFTA chairman from outside the US, ran unopposed and now commences hissecond consecutive two-year term.IFTA's sevenperson executive committee, headed by Ryan, includes newly-elected vicechairman John Kochman of StudioCanal, and vice chairman, ...
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Chicago unveils competition lineups for Oct festival
Cristi Puiu's critically adored Romanian dramaThe Death Of Mr Lazarescu, Patrice Chereau's French chamber piece Gabrielle and Sarah Watt's Australian drama Look Both Ways feature in next month's international competitionline-up at the 41st Chicago International Film Festival.International competitioninclude features a slew of 2005 festival mainstays such as Heo Jin-ho's April ...
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Top speakers set for Screen's Embracing Digital Cinema conference
A number of top level newspeakers have joined the line up for ScreenInternational's Embracing Digital Cinema conference, which takes place on September28 at the Cafe Royal in London. Former ChiefExecutive Officer of the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) and 30-year veteran of the motion picture exhibitionindustry, Chuck Goldwater has joined the ...
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Rialto picks up rights to Tsotsi, C.R.A.Z.Y.
Rialto Distribution has picked up C.R.A.Z.Y. and Tsotsi,two of the major prize winners at the Toronto International Film Festival, fordistribution in Australia and New Zealand.Both films are also official entries in the best foreign film categoryof the 2006 Academy Awards: C.R.A.Z.Y. for Canada and Tsotsi forSouth Africa.C.R.A.Z.Y. won the Toronto ...
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Something Like Happiness (Stetsi)
Dir/scr: Bodhan Slama.2005. Cz Rep. 100mins.A surprise winner of the top prize at San Sebastian, butno less deserving for that, Bodhan Slama's small-scale Czech drama surged aheadof more heavyweight rivals to take the Golden Shell for best film and bestactress (Ana Geislerova) - and that in a competition which allows ...
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Drawing Restraint 9
Dir/scr: Matthew Barney.US-Jap. 2005. 143mins.Matthew Barney is one ofthe superstars of the American art world. He has held exhibitions everywherefrom the Guggenheim to the Venice Biennale, and has won numerous prizes. His CremasterCycle, made between 1994 and 2002, was shown - and rhapsodised over - inboth cinemas and museums. Drawing ...
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The Regular Lovers (Les Amants Reguliers)
Dir:Philippe Garrel. Fr. 2005. 183minsFrench director PhilippeGarrel makes unclassifiable movies that play to highly discerning tastes. Hisexquisite new feature, The Regular Lovers, a three-hour black-and-whitemeditation on love, passion and the personal and political ramifications of theevents of May 1968, is a strikingly original and challenging piece of work.Even with its ...
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Harsh Times
Dir: David Ayer. US.2005. 119mins.David Ayer's HarshTimes is a corrosive, frequently riveting social portrait on friendship,damaged masculinity and the dread of violence. The debut feature from thetalented screenwriter of Training Day, the movie is flawed and sometimesoverreaches though it is given a propulsive kick from Christian Bale's searingMethod performance.A genre ...
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Czechs study ways to attract film-makers
The CzechMinistry of Culture has contracted Olsberg-SPI, the London-based strategicadvisory firm, to conduct a study of the local film industry's effects on theCzech economy and to make recommendations as to how local conditions can bemade more attractive to film-makers.Radomir Docekalis managing director of the Czech Audiovisual Producers' Association (APA),which is ...
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Barney's Restraint draws buyers for Celluloid
Paris-basedsales outfit Celluloid Dreams is stirring up buyers' interest in artist MatthewBarney's film Drawing Restraint 9, an experimental epic set aboard a Japanese whaling ship. Deals havealready been concluded with Spain (Bistel) and Australia (Accent), andCelluloid Dreams is in negotiations with France, Germany, Greece, Russia, Italyand Japan. Cinetic Media holds ...
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Laxton takes over as Life 'n' Lyrics director
Life 'n' Lyrics, the London-set rap drama from new British outfitFiesta Productions, has secured a new director. Richard Laxton, whose recentcredits include TV series Outlawsand Bodies, is to take over thereins following the departure of the original director, Lexi Alexander, daysbefore shooting was due to begin.Backed by the UK FilmCouncil, ...