All Screen articles in 21 May 2008
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Indiana Jones is second biggest US Memorial Day hit ever
Indiana Jones' fourth outing scored the second biggest Memorial Dayholiday weekend launch in North America as Paramount's nostalgicadventure brand rang up $311.1m in worldwide ticket sales.The four-day $151.1m domestic haul has only been bettered over thesame holiday period by last year's $153m launch of Pirates Of TheCaribbean: At World's End, ...
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Lionsgate picks up Adam Sachs' satire
Lionsgate has picked up worldwide rights to Adam Sachs' satiricalscript Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.The story charts the unlikely friendship between an alcoholicmiddle-aged reporter and an outspoken teenage boy who bond whilefinding themselves somehow pitted against a group of fanaticalprotesters.Brooklyn Weaver of Energy Entertainment will produce along with ToddGarner of Broken ...
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SILVERDOCS announces 2008 programme
James Marsh's Man On Wire, Karim Chrobog's War Child and Yung Chang's Up The Yangtze are among the anticipated highlights of the SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, set to run in the Washington DC area from June 16 to 23.As previously announced, Adrian Wills' All Together Now and JohnWalter's Theatre ...
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Gainsbourg, Yelchin and Common among cast for Terminator Salvation
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anton Yelchin, Kate Connor, Moon Bloodgood andrapper Common have joined the cast of Halcyon Company's sci-fi epicTerminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which started production inAlbuquerque, New Mexico, on May 5.Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the leader of the humanresistance and sworn enemy of the tyrannical Skynet organisation ...
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Indiana Jones finds treasure with $269m worldwide opening
Paramount and Lucasfilms' Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull unearthed plenty of box office gold at the weekend, grossing an estimated $143m in the international marketplace and another $126m in North America. Though it did not break any records, Crystal Skull will, if early estimates are confirmed, end up among ...
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Laurent Cantet's The Class takes Palme d'Or
Laurent Cantet's The Class (Entre Les Murs) has taken this year's Palme d'Or.The film is a Paris classroom drama-documentary based on a novel by Francois Begaudeau, who playsa teacher in the filmworking in a tough Parisian neighbourhood.Screen's four-star review describes it as offering 'a rich microcosm of today's multi-ethnic French ...
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Naomi Kawase unveils ambitious plans for new Japanese festival
Film-maker Naomi Kawase has unveiled plans to launch the Nara International Film Festival.Kawase - whose The Mourning Forest won the Cannes 2007 Grand Prix - is chairing non-profit organisation The Nara International Film Festival Planning Committee and is lobbying for funds for a major event through the federal government's $24.2m ...
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New Wave takes on Un Certain Regard winner Tulpan
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has taken on yet another Cannes title: Tulpan.New Wave acquired all UK rights for Tulpan from sales company The Match Factory on Friday night. Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan then won the top prize in Un Certain Regard on Saturday.The ...
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Cannes 2008 in pictures
Day 11: Laurent Cantet, Cannes prizewinnersDay 10: includes Wim Wenders, Dennis HopperDay 9: includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily WatsonDay 8: includes Benicio Del Toro, Sharon StoneDay 7: includes Spike Lee, Julia OrmondDay 6: includes Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood, Gwyneth PaltrowDay 5: includes John Woo, Jackie ChanDay 4: includes Steven Spielberg, ...
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Number of countries represented at Cannes market tops 100
The Cannes Market had increased attendance this year up 2% over last year with a significant jump in the number of countries represented. There were 101 countries at the market as compared to 92 in 2007. For market review click hereNew faces came from Algeria, Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Jordan, Macedonia ...
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McQueen's Hunger lands in US with IFC Films
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Steve McQueen's Maze Prison drama Hunger starring Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham.The film, whichopened Un Certain Regard at Cannes, interprets events during the 1981 hunger strike by incarcerated IRA terrorists led by Bobby Sands. Enda Walsh wrote the screenplay.Laura Hastings-Smith and Robin Gutch ...
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Dvortesevoi's Tulpan triumphs in Un Certain Regard
Sergey Dvortsevoy's debut Tulpan has been awarded the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard.The jury, led by Fatih Akin, chose the film from 20 in competition, including six other first films.The film, set in the film-makers' native Kazakhstan, was rapturously received at its screening in Cannes.Screen's review described it ...
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Jupiter picks up French-speaking territories to Yasukuni
Jupiter Communications has picked up all rights for French-speaking territories to Li Ying's documentary Yasukuni, from Hong Kong-based sales agent The Film Library. The controversial film, about the Yasukuni shrine to worship the war dead in Tokyo, was released in Japan on May 3. It was originally scheduled to open ...
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ReviewsChelsea On The Rocks
Dir. Abel Ferrara. US. 2008. 88minsThe Chelsea hotel in New York has a global reputation as the place where artists go to enhance their notoriety. Dylan Thomas slid into alcoholic oblivion from a room at the Chelsea. Sid Vicious’s girlfriend Nany Spungen died there and its ...
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ReviewsPalermo Shooting
Dir: Wim Wenders. Germany-Italy-France. 2008. 124 mins.Wim Wenders muses on love, death and his perennial bugbear, the ‘Crisis of the Image’ in The Palermo Shooting, a metaphysical thriller cum philosophical essay that marks another step on the downwards slope for this once-vital film-maker. Unwisely cast, leadenly ...
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ReviewsParking (Ting Che)
Dir: Chung Mong-hong. Taiwan, 2008. 112 min.A man is rushing back home to his wife but a double-parked car blocks his way. He searches in vain for the driver and encounters a variety of persons who cannot or do not want to help him. When he ...
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ReviewsMy Magic
Dir: Eric Khoo. Singapore, 2008. 75 min.Eric Khoo’s films are an acquired taste, and he hasn’t moved much past the festival circuit since 12 Storeys emerged internationally in 1997. Exposing My Magic to the noise and attention of the Cannes competition doesn’t particularly benefit either this ...
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MK2 add sales for 24 City
MK2 has announced sales on Jia Zhang Ke's 24 City .Deals were closed on the official Cannes competition film in the UK with New Wave, Benelux with Cineart, Greece with Seven Group, Korea with With Cinema, Portugal's Atalanta, Ex-Yugoslavia's Megacom and Austria's Stadtkino.MK2 said that negotiations were pending in Brazil ...
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Aida Begic's Snow takes Critics Week Grand Prize
Critics Week has crowned Aida Begic's Snow with its Grand Prize.The film is a co-production from Bosnia Herzegovina, Germany, France and Iran and along with the prize also comes with a $8,000 (Euros 5,000) purse given to the director.The ensemble drama about the aftermath of the Balkan war is being ...
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Elad Keidan's Anthem wins Cinefondation top award
The Cannes Cinefondation has awarded Elad Keidan's Anthem with its top prize.The film hails from Israel's Sam Speigel Film & TV School. Each of the contenders for the Cinefondation prize comes from a film school student.This year 17 films from Asia, Europe, North and South America vied in the competition. ...