All Screen articles in 26 May 2007

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    Sony Pictures promotes Staci Griesbach, Jason Allen

    2009-05-15T09:57:00Z

    Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced a number of promotions in its worldwide publicity department.

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    Wide Management sells Shelter to US

    2007-05-26T21:02:00Z

    Wide Management has announced sales at the just-wrapped Cannes Market on Shelter from director Marco Puccione and starring jury member Maria de Medeiros. The film went to Wolfe for the US and Canada, France's Epicentre, Pride Films in Spain and Portugal and ex-Yugoslavia's MGF. MGF also picked ...

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    California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)

    2007-05-26T20:17:00Z

    Dir. Cristian Nemescu. Romania, 2007. 155 min. Awarded the Un Certain Regard prize more for its intentions than the actual outcome, this unfinished picture by talented young Romanian director Nemescu, as shown in Cannes, is the rough cut of a film that might have looked entirely different once completed. ...

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    XXY takes Critics Week Grand Jury prize

    2007-05-26T20:14:00Z

    Lucia Puenzo's XXY has won the Grand Jury prize in Critics Week, the sidebar announced Friday. The film is an Argentine, Spanish, French co-production. The SACD award went to Les Meduses , a French-Israeli co-production from directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen. Both films, handled by Pyramide ...

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    California Dreamin' (Endless) wins Un Certain Regard

    2007-05-26T20:09:00Z

    The Un Certain Regard sidebar has awarded its top honour to Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' (Endless).The Romanian title stars Armand Assante and Jamie Elman and is handled by Mediapro Distribution. The Jury Prize went to Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's second feature, Actresses, starring Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Hughes Anglade and the director. The film ...

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    Gonzalo Tobal takes top prize in Cannes Cinefondation

    2007-05-26T20:06:00Z

    The Cannes Cinefondation, which promotes the discovery of new filmmakers, has awarded prizes for this year's edition to Now Everybody Seems To Be Happy from Argentina's Gonzalo Tobal (first prize), Way Out from Chen Tao of China (second prize) and a joint third prize ...

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    Belgian tax fund invests in two major co-productions

    2007-05-26T10:42:00Z

    Belgian tax fund Motion Investment Group (MIG) has raised finance for two co-productions - The Possibility of an Island and Disco.The first is a futuristic drama based on the potential for human cloning and marks the directorial debut of novelist Michel Houllebecq and starring Benoit Magimel,The film is produced by ...

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    H20 closes Cannes sales on Poor Things and Opium

    2007-05-26T10:36:00Z

    H20 Motion Pictures has closed multiple territories on the dark comedy Poor Things and the psychological drama Opium. Poor Things has sold to South America (IDC), Portugal (Castello Lopes), Israel (Forum Films), Poland (Monolith), the Middle East (Front Row), Romania and Bulgaria (New Films), and Hungary and the Czech ...

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    IM Global celebrates 'exceptional' debut Cannes

    2007-05-26T10:28:00Z

    IM Global president Stuart Ford has reported an 'exceptional' market debut for the company on the back of roaring sales on Stopping Power and Untitled Larry Charles Project. A major US distributor has picked up North America and all English-speaking territories to Jan de Bont's upcoming action title in ...

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    Warner Bros takes rights to Irish children's book series

    2007-05-26T10:25:00Z

    Warner Bros Pictures has acquired film rights to the children's book Skulduggery Pleasant by Irish author Derek Landy.The deal incorporates all future books in a potential nine-title series based on the contemporary Dublin-set tale about a skeleton detective who works tirelessly to thwart the return of the Faceless Ones.The first ...

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    Control wins Europa Cinemas Label honour at Cannes

    2007-05-26T10:13:00Z

    Control, Anton Corbijn's biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, was named the Europa Cinemas Label best European film in the Cannes' Directors' Fortnight section. Control will now receive the invaluable support of extended theatrical exposure and additional promotion from the Europa Cinemas network. The Directors' Fortnight Europa ...

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    Artificial Eye picks up three Cannes Competition titles

    2007-05-25T16:00:00Z

    UK arthouse distributor Artificial Eye has acquired three Competition titles at Cannes.The company has picked up Cristian Mungiu's Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days from Wild Bunch, Catherine Breillat's Cannes Competition debut An Old Mistress from Pyramide International and Christophe Honore's Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour) from ...

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    China Film, Shougang Group set up digital cinema venture

    2007-05-25T10:45:00Z

    State-owned entertainment conglomerate China Film Group, Beijing-based state-owned engineering group Shougang Group and Hong Kong-based GDC Technology are setting up a joint venture to construct digital cinemas. The venture, China Film Shougang GDC Technology Digital Cinema Construction Ltd, plans to build 700 digital cinema screens in China by the end ...

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    Deltamac snaps up Diving Bell, Lionsgate titles

    2007-05-25T10:27:00Z

    Hong Kong distributor Deltamac had a busy Cannes where it picked up competition film The Diving Bell And The Butterfly and two other titles. Julian Schnabel's French-language The Diving Bell And The Butterfly is produced by Pathe Renn and sold by Pathe Pictures International. Deltamac also pre-bought two titles from ...

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    Persepolis to have English-language makeover from SPC

    2007-05-25T04:00:00Z

    Sony Pictures Classics is set to record an English-language version of Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's warmly received Cannes competition title Persepolis, an animated project based on Satrapi's bestselling graphic novels.Catherine Deneuve, who plays the role of the mother in the French version, is re-recording her part this summer, joined ...

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    Russo to run Liverpool's Digital Departures

    2007-05-25T04:00:00Z

    Lisa Marie Russo has been named executive producer for Digital Departures, a North West Vision initiative to produce three feature-length films in the Northwest of England in the next 18 months.The scheme is also backed by Liverpool Culture Company, the UK Film Council and the BBC.Each film will get a ...

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    De Lorenzo plans new June festival in Caserta, Italy

    2007-05-25T04:00:00Z

    Italian Organisers have announced plans for a new film festival to be held in Caserta at the Royal Palace Vanvitelliana and Royal Site Belvedere of St Leucio.Francesco De Lorenzo of Darkness Production has started the Drake International Film Festival, which will run June 23-30, with 'the aim of promoting the ...

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    Black Book's Carice Van Houten to play South African writer

    2007-05-25T04:00:00Z

    Dutch actress Carice van Houten will play the lead role in the biopic Smoke and Ochre about revolutionary South-African writer Ingrid Jonker. Dutch company Riba Film is developing the project, which will shoot in 2008.Dutch director Paula van der Oest is directing the project, which will be her first English-language ...

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    Arthouse strikes distribution deal with Australia's Madman

    2007-05-24T17:00:00Z

    New York-based Arthouse Films has signed an exclusive output and distribution deals with Melbourne-based Madman Entertainment for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.Madman will distribute 10-15 Arthouse titles per year in the territories. The deal was negotiated by David Koh, Head of Acquisitions & Production for Arthouse Films along with ...

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    Nordisk pre-buys three hot titles including Pompeii

    2007-05-24T15:05:00Z

    Nordisk Film has struck Cannes deals for a number of films, including Roman Polanski's forthcoming $130m Pompeii. Nordisk also bought Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex, based on the true story of German terrorists. Stefan Aust, author of the book of the same name, will write the script with producer Bernd Eichinger. Uli ...