All Screen articles in 21 April 2006
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UIP makes pioneering move into Vietnam
United International Pictures (UIP) is to become the first of the major global film distributors to do business in Vietnam.Its agent Envoy Media Partners is to work with Megastar Media JVC to establish the country's first purpose-built multiplex operation. The first release will be Mission: Impossible III, which will ...
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Driver races to worldwide deal with Rogue/Focus
Rogue Pictures has acquired worldwide distribution rightsexcluding Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland to Constantin Filmand Impact Pictures' video game adaptation Driver.Roger Avary is writing the screenplay and will direct, with ImpactPictures' Jeremy Bolt and Paul W S Anderson and Constantin's Bernd Eichingerand Robert Kulzer producing.Focus Features International will handle international ...
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The Sentinel
Dir: Clark Johnson. US.2006. 108mins.One of the biggest challenges facing contemporary UScinema is the high quality of homegrown TV drama, beit The West Wing, The Shield or The Sopranos or so-called "procedurals" like Law And Order or CSI. It is why a movie like TheSentinel, a White House-set thriller about ...
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Noeltner's CMG takes on rap & hip-hop collection
Ed Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group (CMG) will commence pre-sales in Cannes on its 12-title rapand hip hop DVD premiere set The Streets Are Talkin'.Each DVD in the collectionwill feature cutting edge music, interviews and footage and will be accompaniedby a specially created bonus CD mix.The first title set fordomestic release in ...
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Hamilton to head festival centre programming at TIFFG
Jim Hamilton has been appointed to the new post of director offestival centre programming for the Toronto International Film Festival Group(TIFFG).Effective immediately, Hamilton (pictured) will take charge of allprogramming at the yet-to-be-built festival centre and oversee the five screens, educationalspaces and gallery.In the meantime, he will also oversee the direction ...
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Yari backs Jamie Kennedy vehicle Kickin It
Jamie Kennedy is heading the cast on the comedy Kickin It OldSkool for Bob YariProductions and Kennedy's Jizzy Entertainment and Hi-Def Entertainment.Shooting is underway in Vancouver on Harvey Glazer's directorialdebut about a 32-year-old former breakdancer who awakens from a 20-year comaand attempts to revive his dance team.Maria Menounos, Christopher McDonald, ...
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Focus Features gets Woody Allen's Scoop
Focus Featureshas picked up North American, Australian and New Zealand rights to WoodyAllen's second UK project Scoop, which is currently in post-production.Scoop was shot in London last summer and starsScarlett Johansson as a journalism student who investigates a string of murdersand falls in love with a handsome Englishman. Hugh Jackman, ...
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Ice Age sequel set to soar with major openings
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown should soar past $300m this weekend,powered by expected strong holds and several major launches.The animated sequel currently stands at $291,5m and goes out inSouth Korea on Apr 20, followed by Italy and India on Apr 21 and Japan on Apr22.Big debuts would appear ...
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IMAX to add fifth giant screen in CJ CGV Pusan multiplex
IMAX has signed a deal with leading Korean exhibitor CJ CGV Coto add a fifth giant screen theatre to its original four-theatre commitment inPusan's Seomyun 12 multiplex.The new theatre is scheduled to open in time for the release of SupermanReturns: The IMAX Experience on Jun 30.The decision to add a ...
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United 93
Dir/scr. Paul Greengrass. US-UK. 2006.110mins.Gut wrenching and chilling, Paul Greengrass' United 93is a visceral recreation of the September 11 terrorist attacks that sharplydraws on the film-maker's documentary background. The result is a searingcollage, couched in sorrow and conjuring up mournful chaos and dread.Features of this scaleclearly are neither made nor ...
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UK Manga takes dominant role in download revolution
A UK Manga-style animation is promising to be the first to offer serialised monthly downloads to iPod and Playstation before theatrical release.Dominator X, currently in production at the Brighton studios of Renga Media, is the creation of successful comic book writer Alan Grant and director Tony Luke.From July, the feature ...
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Ten new directors to compete at Crossing Europe festival
GoEast'smain prize-winner Tbilisi Tbilisi by Georgian filmmaker Levan Zakareishvili isamong 10 debuts or second films by promising new directors selected for thisyear's European Competition at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Austria'sLinz (April 25-30).Theline-up of films competing for prize money amounting to Euros 10,000 are:ColdShowers by Anthony Cordiers (France)Giselaby Isabelle ...
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Prater steps down as head of Bangkok Film Festival
Craig Prater hasstepped down as executive director of the Bangkok International Film Festival(BKKIFF), a post that he has held for the last three years. Prater cited"personal reasons" for his decision to resign from Film FestivalManagement (FFM), the US consulting firm that the Tourism Authority of Thailand(TAT) hired for the overall ...
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Jonathan King takes on evp production role at Focus
Jonathan King, the formerhead of production at Sony-based Laurence Mark Productions, is joining FocusFeatures as executive vice president of production.King begins work this weekbased in the company's West Coast offices. He will report to Focus' productionpresident John Lyons.At Laurence Mark ProductionsKing's credits included Bill Condon's upcoming musical Dreamgirls, and Scott ...
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The Wedding Director (Il Regista Di Matrimoni)
Dir/scr: Marco Bellocchio. It. 2006. 102mins.After the compelling Red Brigade psycho-drama Good Morning, Night, Italian auteurMarco Bellocchio has returned to the hermetic,dreamlike mode of The Hour Of Religionwith his latest effort, in which a leading arthousedirector is talked into shooting a Sicilian wedding video. Occasionally comic,undeniably evocative, at times simmering ...
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Cannes line-up: Un Certain Regard
Un Certain RegardOpening film Paris Je T'Aime Bled Number One (Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche)Il Registra Di Matrimoni (The Wedding Director) (Marco Bellocchio)Cronica De Una Fuga (Free Pass) (Israel Adrian Caetano) Hamaca Paraguaya (Paz Encina)* ...
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Cannes Competition yields surprises
CannesFestival organisers have announced the official lineup for this year's edition, with 19 films competing for the Palmed'Or - one less than 2005.Many filmshad been predicted prior to the announcement, including Pedro Almodovar's Volver, SofiaCoppola's Marie-Antoinette, Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth,Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel, Aki Kaurismaki'sLights In The Dusk and ...
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Bogandovich will crack The Broken Code
Peter Bogdanovich has signedon to direct the competitive science drama The Broken Code, which is being backed by The UK Film Council andCapitol Films though Capitol Films Production's Super Slate developmentcompany, along with Signature Films.The story puts under themicroscope the life of Rosalind Franklin, an unsung research scientist whosepioneering X-ray ...
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Frank Oz signs to direct Kimmel's Death At A Funeral
Frank Oz has signed on to direct the ensemble comedy Death At AFuneral for US bi-coastal outfit Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE).Sales arm Kimmel International will commence sales at Cannes onthe story of a riotous funeral that ensues when a dysfunctional British familyturns out to pay its respects to a patriarch.Matthew ...
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June deadline for expanded Grierson Awards
TheGrierson Awards for documentaries have expanded beyond the UK this year totake in factual films made anywhere in the world.The entry deadline is June 2 in 10 categories: bestdocumentary on a contemporary issue, best documentary on the arts, besthistorical documentary, best documentary on science or the natural world, mostentertaining documentary, ...