All Screen articles in 22 July 2005
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Ricci to star in Witherspoon-produced drama Penelope
Christina Ricci will star in the drama Penelope, which Reese Witherspoon's Type-A Filmsand Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Pictures will produce. The film is due tobegin shooting in January 2006 in Canada.Witherspoon will play a supporting role in the fable about a youngwoman who sets out to rid herself of a ...
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The Devil's Rejects
Dir/scr: Rob Zombie. US.2005. 108mins.A lot of horror movies self-profess to be brutal andout-there, but most modern genre pictures actually reveal themselves to belittle more than communal vehicles of squeamish discomfort. In the finalanalysis, their pursuit of as many pan-demographic dollars as possible ensuresthat they don't really want to cross ...
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Venice unveils Critics Week line-up
US director RianJohnson's film noir Brick is among seven debut features screening in Critics Week at thisyear's Venice Film Festival (Aug 31-Sept 10).The 20th CriticsWeek sidebar will also feature two French titles: Le Passager, a drama about a Parisian father-of-onewho heads back to Marseille when his brother, who he had ...
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Cinema Service founder Kang steps down as CEO
South Korean distributorCinema Service has announced thatVice President Kim In-soo will take over as thecompany'snew CEO/President.The move will allow founder Kang Woo-suk, a film director(Silmido) recognisedas one of the most powerful figures in the South Korean film industry, to focuson directing and producing full time.Former CEO Michael Kim, who has ...
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Fox looks for fantastic business from Four's UK, France debuts
Fox International's Fantastic Four takes on UIP's heavy-hitting duo of WarOf The Worlds and Madagascarthis weekend with hotlyanticipated debuts in the UK and France.Madagascar and War Of The Worlds have amassed more than $155.2m and $264.8m respectively and heldthe top two positions last weekend.However neither picture has a major release ...
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Bad News Bears
Dir. Richard Linklater.US. 2005. 114mins.To a generation ofAmericans, Michael Ritchie's 1976 comedy Bad News Bears was a culturaltouchstone, a rough-around-the-edges feature that celebrated an underdogbaseball team as it battled against adversity.The problem with RichardLinklater's remake is that the style of films made by Hollywood in the 30 yearssince. Bad News ...
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Armendariz's Obaba to open San Sebastian
San Sebastian filmfestival will open with the premiere of Spanish director MontxoArmendariz's Obaba, which willalso compete for the Golden Shell award.Armendariz's highly-anticipated feature marks a move back towardslocal directors after last year's high profile San Sebastian opener, Woody Allen's Melinda And MelindaObaba stars Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Juan Diego Botta, ...
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Focus unveils debut animated feature - 9
Focus Features has unveiledfirst animated picture - 9, whichis being directed by Shane Acker and produced by Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov,Jim Lemley and Dana Ginsburg.Focus will finance thefeature and holds worldwide rights to the story, which is set in a postapocalyptic parallel universe where humanity faces extinction.The project is an ...
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IMAX and Warner Bros team up for 2006's Ant Bully
IMAX Corporation, Warner Bros, Playtone Productions and DNAProductions are teaming up on the simultaneous conventional 2D and IMAX 3Drelease of the animated picture The Ant Bully on Aug 4 2006.The picture is being directed by Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius director John A Davis and tells the taleof a young boy ...
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Weinsteins, IFC Films partner on Unknown
The WeinsteinCompany and IFC Films have jointly picked up North American rights to thethriller Unknownwhich features an ensemble cast headed up by Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear andBarry Pepper.Joe Pantoliano,Bridget Moynahan, and Jeremy Sisto also star in the story of five men involvedin a kidnapping who wake up in a warehouse ...
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Esparza launches Latino-targeted film ouftit in US
In a two-prongedcampaign catering to the fastest growing demographic in the US, producerMoctesuma Esparza is launching a theatre chain and production/distributioncompany aimed at the continent's 41million-plus English-speaking Latinocommunity.Esparza's MayaCinemas chain will open state-of-the-art multiplexes in minority communityareas, chiefly in what a statement called "Latino-centric, family-orientedcommunities in underserved urban and rural ...
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Swedish-US comedy Darlings kicks off in LA
Production hasbegun in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert on Bjorne Larson'sSwedish-American comedy Kill Your Darlings.Hot Scandinavianactors Andreas Wilson, Alexander Skarsgard and Fares Fares head up aninternational cast that includes Lolita Davidovich, John Larroquette, RonnieYeskel, Greg Germann, John Savage, Benito Martinez, Julie Benz and Terry Moore.Wilson playedthe lead ...
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NBC Universal launches local TV programming venture
NBC UniversalTelevision Distribution (NBC UTD) has launched an original content unit thatwill partner with local media companies to develop and create local programmingin international markets.Under thedirection of Leslie Jones, NBC UTD's New York-based vice president ofinternational sales and format production, the unit will exploit NBCUniversal's existing library and will create ...
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Little Fish
Dir: Rowan Woods. Aus.2005. 114mins.Cate Blanchett laststarred in an Australian film with Gillian Armstrong's Oscar And Lucinda(1997), in which her 19th-century heiress harboured dreams of building a glasschurch in the Outback.She returns to Australianfilm-making eight years later - and with a Best Supporting Actress Oscar - toplay another dreamer in ...
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Grasic out, Tauber, Horberg in at Sidney Kimmel Ent
Marina Grasic has left herpost as chief operating officer of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) in a busyweek for the company following the hiring of William Horberg and Jim Tauber.Grasic had been with thecompany ever since Kimmel launched operations with the opening of the LosAngeles office last October.While it remained unclearwhat ...
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Edinburgh festival to confiscate mobiles in piracy move
Mobile phones are to be temporarily confiscated duringcertain screenings at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival as part of acrackdown on piracy. Festival-goers and industry executives attendingscreenings of films such as BVI's Kinky Boots - which world premieres atEdinburgh - will be asked to hand over their phones for the duration ...
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Child opens Poland's Era New Horizons festival
The 5thedition of Era New Horizons Film Festival opens today (July 21) withJean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Child in Cieszyn, southern Polandwith the directors in attendance.Thefestival will close on July 31 with a gala screening of Lars von Trier's Manderlay.This year,Era New Horizons is set to showcase 300 screenings of ...
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Hill named corporate communications chief at Paramount
Janet Hill (pictured) is leaving herjob as MTV Networks' senior vice president of West Coast CorporateCommunications for the new post of executive vice president of corporatecommunications at Paramount Pictures.Based in Los Angeles andreporting to Paramount chairman Brad Grey, Hill will oversee internal andexternal business and media communications and public relations ...
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Construction begins on film studio complex in Wales
Work has begun on the construction on DragonInternational Studios - dubbed Valleywood - in Wales.The project, championed by Lord Attenborough, has been inthe pipeline for the last five years. According to a report on the BBC, the finished projectwill boast 12 studios, ready to make the biggest blockbuster movies, a ...