All Screen articles in 26 May 2006
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Producers Guild of America sets date for January 20 awards
The 2007 Producers Guild of America's awards ceremony will take placein Los Angeles on January 20.The annual event will be staged at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza inCentury City on Jan 20.Nominations will be announced on January 4.
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Ireton promoted to president and representative director of Warner Japan
William Iretonhas been promoted to president and representative director of WarnerEntertainment Japan.Ireton assumesbroad oversight of all of the studio's business activities in Japan, a remitthat encompasses theatrical and home entertainment operations, consumerproducts, online and emerging distribution technologies.He will reportthrough executive vice president of international Richard Fox to chairman andchief operating ...
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Poison Friends (Les Amitis Malefiques)
Dir: Emmanuel Bourdieu. Fr. 2006. 103mins.The theme of young male friendship gets a vigorousthough hardly ground-breaking workout in PoisonFriends, French screenwriter Emmanuel Bourdieu'ssecond directorial outing, which opened Critics' Week at Cannes. Though theprotagonists are already at university, this still qualifies as a coming-of-agemovie, which (not for the first time) shows ...
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MK2 takes Lau and Mak's Confession
Hong Kong's Media Asia Distribution haspre-sold all French-speaking rights to Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's ConfessionOf Pain to France's MK2.Infernal Affairs star Tony Leung Chiu-wai willstar in the $8-10m project which is scheduled to start shooting in June forpan-Asian release during Christmas 2006. Takeshi Kaneshiro (Perhaps Love,House Of Flying Daggers) ...
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Focus takes rights to next film from Hany Abu-Assad
Focus Features has picked upworldwide rights to Hany Abu-Assad's follow-up to Paradise Now.Abu-Assad pitched theas-yet-untitled contemporary drama to Focus and is writing the screenplay.Senior vice president ofproduction Kahli Small is supervising development for production president JohnLyons.Paradise Now earned a foreign language Academy Award nominationthis year and picked up a string ...
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Abu-Assad's follow-up to Paradise Now lands at Focus
Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to Hany Abu-Assad's follow-upto Paradise Now.Abu-Assad pitched the as-yet-untitled contemporary drama to Focus and iswriting the screenplay. Senior vice president of production Kahli Small issupervising development for production president John Lyons.Paradise Now earned an foreign language Academy Award nominationthis year and picked up ...
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Myriad takes on three for sales: Argento, Barreto, Silberling
Myriad Pictures has picked upworldwide rights to Dario Argento's English-language horror picture TheMother Of Tears, and Brad Silberling's comedy 10 Items Or Less starring MorganFreeman.The company is also sellingworldwide rights excluding Latin America and France to Bruno Barreto'sRio-set bus hijack drama 174. Filming is set to begin in Riothis autumn ...
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FilmFour backs Hillcoat's Death Of A Ladies Man
After earlier Cannesannouncements to back the next films from Michael Winterbottom and Ken Loach,FilmFour has announced another new film on its slate. The Channel 4 feature filmarm is working with Kudos Pictures, run by former FilmFour head Paul Webster,to co-finance Death Of A Ladies Man.The black comedy, with a budget ...
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Three Dots bask in Eternal Summer
Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment, whichrecently launched a sales arm, has picked up international rights to LesteChen's gay youth drama Eternal Summer, starringJoseph Chang, Bryant Chang and Kate Yeung.The film, currently is shooting in Taiwan,tells the story of two schoolboys who are forced to become friends by theirteacher and then develop ...
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Buskin basks in equity
Rome-based sales and co-production outfit Buskin Filmhas sealed a '$20m financial partnership with Italian private funds groupMg Lab.''The deal will enable Buskin to board internationalco-productions by'investing between 10-25% of a film's budget. In future, Buskin hopes' to be able to invest upto 35% of a movie's budget.'' Buskin CEO Antonio ...
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Bauer Martinez takes new tactic with The Break-Up Guy
Bauer Martinez Studios isretooling its business plan to focus on self-generated material and plans tokick off this October with production of original comedy The Break-Up Guy scripted by David Drew Gallagher.Gallagher previously wrote BauerMartinez's upcoming Van Wilder 2: The Rise Of Taj.The romantic comedy scriptdeveloped from a pitch is the ...
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Manchevski's love story Bones lands at Bavaria
Bavaria Film International has taken worldwide rights toMilcho Manchevski's new picture, Bones. It is the Macedoniandirector's third feature after Dust, which opened theVenice Film Festival in 2001, and Before The Rain, which earnedan Oscar nomination and the Venice Golden Lion in 1994.Bones, which marks New York-based Manchevski's return to Macedonia,is ...
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McTiernan confirmed to direct Deadly Exchange for Film Bridge
John McTiernanhas been confirmed to direct the thriller Deadly Exchange,about a terrorist who infiltrates the US to hunt down the FBI agent that killedhis family.Ellen Wander'sUS-based Film Bridge International is selling rights here to the jointproduction with Anthony J Ridio Productions, and is overseeing financing.Production is setto being in Louisiana ...
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Firth, Weisz and McKellen sign on for The Colossus
Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandonhave signed on to star in The Colossus for director Sean Mathias.Katselas Films' political thriller is based on AnnHarries' novel Manly Pursuits. Lisa Katselas, who previously worked on RichardIII and MrsDalloway,will produce. Mathias co-wrote the screenplay with Myer Taub. The story follows ...
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Giordana plans Franco-Japanese co-production
Best of Youthdirector Marco Tullio Giordana's next picture will be a $7m-$10mFrench-language adaptation of cult author Amelie Northomb's period novel, Mercure.''The story centres on a girl disfigured by abomb who mustn't see the reflection' of her own faceFabrizio 'Mosca of Rome-based Titti Film willproduce, having previously worked with the director ...
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La Tourneuse De Pages
Dir: Denis Dercourt. Fr. 2006. 83mins.While it tries to wedge itself inbetween the caustic social commentary of Claude Chabroland Michael Haneke's notion of past guilt hauntingthe Western bourgeoisie, Denis Dercourt'spsychological thriller La Tourneuse De Pages sadly has neither the wit nor thedepth to play in such a lofty league.Dercourt takes ...
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London Film Focus will feature a dozen world premieres
A dozen world premieres are among around 40 filmsscreening at this year's London UK Film Focus (LUFF). The third edition of the event runs from June 26-29,attracting distributors from around the world to see UK product. Among the titles likely to pique the curiosity of thebuyers are Life & Lyrics ...
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Fast Food Nation
Dir: Richard Linklater. US. 2006. 116mins.The American Dream is full of shit but everyone stillwants a slice of it in Fast Food Nation,an uneven attempt to pick the dramatic meat from the bones of Eric Schlosser's2001 non-fiction bestseller. Following the multi-story template established by Traffic, it traces the food chain ...
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Optimum takes UK rights for seven features
UK distributor Optimum hasacquired UK rights to seven new features.The distributor has come onboard FilmFour's Brick Lanedirected by Sarah Gavron, which will start shooting in June. Also in the pre-productionstage, Optimum has taken Day of the Dead, a horror film directed by Steve Miner for Nu Image/Millennium Films.From Europa Corp, ...
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UK's Warp X unveils first six low-budget features
FilmFour, the UK FilmCouncil's New Cinema Fund, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media and Optimum Releasinghave announced the first projects planned for their low-budget studio Warp X. The first film to be shotfor Warp X will be Travels With My Virginity, a comedy about a teenager hitchhiking in ruralFrance in 1978. The ...