All Screen articles in 20 August 2006
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Billi Productions plans to expand CGI short into feature
BilliProductions and Glasgow Animation are seeking to turn their animated short filmSir Billi into a full-lengthfeature.Theproducers expect they need to raise $5.6m (£3m) to get the CGI feature made in12 months. BilliProductions is a company owned by husband and wife team Sascha and TessaHartmann and Sean Connery, who has signed ...
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Really Terrible Orchestra takes EIFF short doc prize
TheEdinburgh International Film Festival has given its short Scottish documentaryaward to Edward Brooke-Hitching for The Really Terrible Orchestra.Brooke-Hitchingalso gets $1880 (£1000) with the honours. Thejury members for this year's prize were film-maker Laura Poitras, AllisonGardner from the Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival, and MoragAnderson and James Anderson of ...
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Pirates week seven: BVI blockbuster takes $25.5m
In its seventh consecutiveweekend on release, Buena Vista International (BVI)'s Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest led theinternational box office with a $25.5m take from 51 territories on 6,222screens.The blockbuster has nowtaken $522.7m, the 12th biggest gross in history. Globally the filmhas reached $923.8m, marking it out as Disney's biggest ...
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Snakes falls short of hype with $15.25m domestic opening
Despite the hype, New Line's Snakes On A Plane had a disappointing opening weekend inNorth America, taking $13.85m on 3,555 screens in three days and $15.25mincluding 10pm shows on Thursday night.Over the three days, without previews, the film was actuallybeaten by Sony's Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby in ...
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Diaz, Cinema Libre complete sexually explicit Now And Later
Cinema Libre Studio has completed production on the HDfictional feature Now & Later in LosAngeles. The company best known for its documentary output fully financed thefilm which marks the US debut of Philippe Diaz (The Empire In Africa) who founded Cinema Libre.The film explores the subject matter of America's awkwardrelationship ...
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Brokeback, Kong among World Soundtrack Award nominees
The World Soundtrack Academy has named its nominees for thethree key categories in the annual World Soundtrack Awards, an initiative ofthe Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, which will this year bepresented in Ghent on Oct 14.The Academy, which was founded in 2001 and now includes 250composers, presents awards in ...
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London To Brighton
Dir/scr: Paul AndrewWilliams. UK. 2006. 86mins.The gritty traditions of British social realist dramaare deftly combined with the dark violence of a gangland thriller in London To Brighton,an accomplished first feature from writer/director Paul Andrew Williams.Distinguished by its sharpcompositions, heartfelt performances and unexpected tenderness, it unfolds as acompelling tale in which ...
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Snakes On A Plane
Dir: David R. Ellis. US.2006. 106mins.After all its pre-release hype, Snakes On A Plane is as wondrously sillyand ruthlessly unrelenting as one could hope. Though by no means a stellarpiece of cinema, this late-summer thriller is an entertaining B-movie gleefullystuffed with bad tough-guy dialogue, obvious stock characters, cheaptitillation and lots ...
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London shoot to start for horror film Credo
Alto Films starts principal photography next week on itsfirst feature, Credo.The supernatural horror film is shooting in London's WestEnd. Toni Harman is directing, with a cast including Myanna Buring (TheDescent), ClaytonWatson (The Matrixtrilogy), and singer Stephen Gately from Boyzone.The plot follows a group of theology students in London whosummon a ...
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Craig joins Kidman in New Line's Golden Compass
Daniel Craig is the latest big name to join the cast of TheGolden Compass, NewLine's first installment in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials children's fantasy trilogy.Craig, who will star as James Bond in the upcoming CasinoRoyale, will play Lord Asriel, a ruthlessadventurer with a mysterious past.He joins Nicole Kidman, his ...
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MPD battle heats up, as statement slams Theroux, Laberge
The two senior executives who left Canadian distributioncompany Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) in July were "terminated for cause",according to a company release issued today. In the statement, MPD said it had "determined" after "athorough investigation" that Patrice Theroux, former president and CEO, andPaul Laberge, former executive vice president, corporate development ...
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Ousted MPD execs fight back through lawyer's statement
Ousted MPD executives Patrice Theroux and Paul Labergelashed back at their former employer, responding through their lawyer to anannouncement earlier today from MPD that the duo were "terminated with cause". Toronto law firm Lenczner Slaight said their clients "werewrongfully dismissed" by MPD and did not breach their fiduciary or contractualduties."I ...
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Pirates set to sail past $500m at international box office
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will cross $500m this weekend as itattempts to rule the international waves for the seventh consecutive weekend.The adventure sequel has grossed more than $492.1m through BuenaVista International so far and should hold well despite no new openings.Meanwhile the animated feature Cars still has ...
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Deckert gets Swiss documentary Zeit Des Abschieds
Deckert Distribution has picked up world rights for Mehdi Sahebi's documentary Zeit Des Abschieds, which had its world premiere in Locarno's Critics Week sidebar last week and won the SRG SSR idee suisse Prize. The film, which charts the last months in the life of AIDS victim dying of ...
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UK producers to pitch at first Nordic Co-Production Forum
Ten UK production companies will pitch new feature film projects to potential co-producers in Scandinavia at the first Nordic Co-Production Forum, which takes place on Monday, 21 August-Tuesday, 22 August during the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.Organised with UK-German content financing consultancy peacefulfish and Film London, the Forum concludes ...
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Eighteen compete for San Sebastian new director prizes
Eighteen films will compete in the New Directors'competition at this year's Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (September 21-30). The films come largely from Europe,although Asia, Latin America andthe United Statesare represented as well. First and second-time feature directors competing in the festival's official selection are also eligible for awards. Prizes include ...
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Potter holds off Pirates to win Australian award
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has been presented with the Gold Award for the biggest revenue earner of the last 12 months at the Australian International Movie Convention. But if it had been a week or two later it would have been usurped by Pirates of the Caribbean: ...
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New York Film Festival boasts Coppola, Lynch, Field
New work from SofiaCoppola, David Lynch and Todd Fields are among 28 additions to the line-up inthe 44th New York Film Festival next month.Coppola's Marie Antoinettestarring Kirsten Dunst will screen, as will Lynch's hi-def mystery TheInland Empire starring Laura Dern,Bong Joon-ho's South Korean horror phenomenon The Host, and Field's romantic ...
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Japan plans early expansion for Sokurov's The Sun
The Sun, director Alexander Sokurov's drama aboutEmperor Hirohito after Japan's WWII defeat, hasexpanded its cinema count earlier and in greater numbers than originallyanticipated. The film,released by small distributor Slow Learner, opened Aug 5 on one screen each inTokyo and Nagoya. The opening weekend in Tokyo broke the predominantly B-movietheatre's record ...
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Valderama, Universal to make Partybuddys movie
Wilmer Valderrama will produce and possibly star in Universal Pictures'story about Partybuddys founders James King and Jason Roefaro.Mike Samonek is writing the screenplay about the entrepreneurial friendswhose VIP service offers party-goers a ready-made posse, bodyguard, limo,paparazzi detail and nightclub entry.Valderrama's manager Glenn Rigberg will serve as executive producealong with John ...