All Screen articles in 21 July 2006
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My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Dir: Ivan Reitman. US. 2006. 96mins.A tantalising comic premise about a beautifulsuperhero whose romantic frustration turns her into a vengeful stalker, Ivan Reitman's large budget action comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend plays to diminished power that is all set-upand no pay-off. In particular, this flat, increasingly mannered work sabotagesa droll, inventive ...
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Film London revamps local film funds
Film London has started the London Borough Film Fund Challenge to stimulate local film-makingacross the city. The aim is for every London resident to have access to a local film fund. Fivenew "cluster" funds are being created to represent 13 London boroughs. They are Eastern Edge Film Fund forBarking & ...
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New Marbella festival to offer four competition sections
Dancing For Oliver, a documentary about the making of the dancesequences in Oliver Stone's Alexander,is one of approximately 50 films to screen at the first International FilmFestival of Marbella, Spain this Sept 8-10.The festival, funded by thecharitable organization New World Trust, aims to promote new filmmakers fromaround the world. Organizers ...
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Picture This! picks up A Love To Hide
Picture This! Entertainmenthas picked up North American rights to Christian Faure's period drama A Love ToHide, which recently shared the OUTstanding narrativefeature award at Outfest.Jeremie Renier, Bruno Todeschini and Louise Monot star in the story setin German-occupied France of a gay couple's secret romance that is complicatedby the arrival in ...
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Miami fest names Ibero-American programmer
Monika Wagenberg has been appointed senior programmer of Ibero-AmericanProgramming at the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF).Wagenberg arrives from Cinema Tropical, which she co-founded and currentlyco-manages, and for which she serves as director of programming andacquisitions.'Monika's programming experience, her relationships withLatin American filmmakers, her expertise and her knowledge all will support ...
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Magedman earns vp distribution stripes at WiP
David Magedman has beenpromoted to vice president of distribution at Warner Independent Pictures,where his duties will include overseeing all sales and daily operations of thetheatrical distribution department for the upcoming releases The Science OfSleep, Infamous, For Your Consideration, and The Painted Veil.Magedman will continue to report to executive vice president ...
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Warner China Film unveils local release slate
Following its success with thedistribution of Ning Hao's black comedy CrazyStone, Warner China Film HG Corporation has announced its release slate forthe rest of the year. Produced by Hong Kong star Andy Lau's Focus Films, CrazyStone opened in China on June 30 and has grossed more than $1.5m (RMB12m)to date, ...
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Gravehopping takes best film at European Film Festival
Slovenian director JanCvitkovic's Gravehopping (Odgrobadogroba) took home the Golden TowerAward for best film in the main programme of the 13th European Film Festival inPalic (July 15-21).The Palic Tower Award forUnique Artistic Approach went to Berlin-based filmmaker Detlev Buck'shard-hitting urban drama Tough Enough (Knallhart) which had itspremiere at the Berlinale in ...
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Adam's Apples takes top prize at Puchon
The Puchon InternationalFantastic Film Festival (PiFan) held its closing ceremony yesterday with thetop Puchon Choice award going to Adam'sApples from Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen. Adam's Apples also won the best actor award, which was shared by Ulrich Thomsen andMads Mikkelsen, while best director went to Stormfrom Sweden's Mans Marland ...
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Britdoc speakers include Broomfield and Maysles
The firstBritdoc festival, in association with Nokia, has announced some top documentaryfilm-makers participating in masterclasses and panels. Thefestival (July 26-28) at Keble College in Oxford will welcome speakersincluding film-makers Albert Maysles, Alex Gibney, Kevin Macdonald, Pawel Pawlikowski, Mike Figgis, Nick Broomfield, and Penny Woolcock. Industryspeakers include Sundance's John Cooper, SXSW's ...
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Universal partners with Telefonica for Spain downloads
Universal Pictures Iberia is partnering with Telefonicade Espana to launch the first legal download-to-own filmservice in Spain. The service, which launches today on Telefonica'snew Pixbox portal, will use Avartopeer-to-peer technology. The model will provide users with access to two digital files, one for aPC or laptop and one for a ...
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BBC veterans plan feature based on Shoebox Zoo
Drama veteransClaire Mundell and Justin Molotnikovhave set up a new production company, Synchronicity Films, to produce featurefilms and TV drama series. Mundell has worked for BBC television as a producer/director andhead of department. Molotnikov has a total of 11years TV experience, including three years of drama development at the BBC. ...
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FilmFour moves from subscription to free channel
Channel 4's film channel FilmFour will transition from a paid subscription serviceto a free channel with a relaunch on July 23.Satellite TV and Freeview customers will now be able to watch the channel,renamed Film4, without subscribing, making it the UK's biggest film channel. Advertising will be runduring the films, a ...
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Buscemi, Slater, Cleese add voice to Igor
Christian Slater,Steve Buscemi and John Cleese will lend their voices to Exodus' CG-animatedcomedy Igor, which is beingdistributed by The Weinstein Company (TWC).TWC holds North American rights and completed international sales in most territoriesin Cannes.The story centres on a mad scientist's hunchbacked lab assistant who dreams ofwinning first place award at ...
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Locarno buyers grow to 150 from 28 countries
Distributors from the UK, US, Russia, Spain and Romania are among theincreased numbers of internationalbuyers attending this year's Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com,Nadia Dresti, head of the festival's industry office, revealed that more than25 new companies will be coming to Locarno for the first time in 2006, ...
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Rosenfield joins Fifteen Minutes PR as entertainment chief
Zachary Rosenfieldhas left Insignia PR and joined Fifteen Minutes PR as the head of its entertainment division.In his new capacity Rosenfield will handle a roster of corporate clients,producers, personalities and consumer product-entertainment crossover."Zach is a young man of immense skill and character and I know he will make agreat addition ...
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Stormbreaker hopes to steal some Buena Vista bounty
Buena Vista International top brass will be looking to extendtheir dominance of the last couple of weekends thanks to the one-two punch of PiratesOf The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Cars.After amassing $141m from international markets so far, Pirates sets sail further in a number of newterritories this weekend, beginning ...
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Barbican to present season devoted to Jeremy Thomas
UK producer Jeremy Thomas will be honoured with a season of films at London's Barbican. "Jeremy Thomas - 30 Years A Maverick" will run Sept 7-12 including screenings andtalks with Thomas and directors Nic Roeg and Stephen Frears. The retrospective opens witha gala presentation of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987Oscar winner The ...
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Unfinished Sky secures FFC backing
Peter Duncan's romanticthriller Unfinished Sky, about afarmer and an Afghani illegal immigrant who fall in love, is one of threefeatures to receive production finance from Film Finance Corporation Australia this week. Australian actor WilliamMcInnes (Look Both Ways) will playthe farmer and Dutch actress Monic Hendrickx has been cast as the ...
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Loewy, Theroux out at Alliance Atlantis' MDP
Victor Loewy, the long-time head of Alliance AtlantisCommunication's distribution business, has resigned from his position ofchairman and director of Motion Picture Distribution LP (MPD). Also exiting thecompany is Patrice Theroux, another long-serving senior distribution executive,who leaves his post as president and CEO.MPD is the leading Canadian film distributor, with sub-distributiondeals ...