All Screen articles in 28 April 2005
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UIP's The Interpreter hits 15 new territories this weekend
Universal's The Interpreter opens in 15 markets through UIP this weekend as executivesexpect to build on last weekend's strong launch that earned the bulk of the$12.5m international running total.The UN-set thriller was due to open in Germany on Apr 21 on 400prints, followed a day later by Mexico on 210, ...
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Imagine, Universal to produce Will Arnett comedy
Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy pitch fromChuck Martin that his Arrested Development collaborator Brian Grazer will producethrough Imagine Entertainment.The picture will star Will Arnett, who will be seen in New Line'supcoming comedy Monster-In-Law and appears in Arrested Development. Imagine is one of the producers on theFox Network show ...
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Bardem, Hayek, Woo join Kusturica on Cannes jury
After an extended wait, theCannes Film Festival has announced the composition of the juries overseeing themain competition as well as various sidebars. As previouslyannounced, the official competition jury will be presided over by director EmirKusturica. Joining him will be actors Javier Bardem, Salma Hayek and NanditaDas, directors Agnes Varda, John ...
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Smith's Intandem debuts on London stock-market
Gary Smith's UK-basedsales company Intandem raised £1.15m on Friday (April 22) when it floated onLondon's AIM stock-market.Smith said that the listingwould provide working capital for the group and development funds. His formercompany, Winchester Entertainment, was one of the first UK film companies tofloat on AIM. It was taken over in ...
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Oguri's Forest uproots to Directors' Fortnight
Japanese film-maker Kohei Oguri, whose The ForgottenForest (Umoregi)was originally announced to run in the Un Certain Regard section of the CannesFilm Festival, has chosen to move the film to the Directors' Fortnightsidebar. The festival's Marie-Pierre Hauville confirmed thechange telling ScreenDaily.com,'This is the precise nature of things. Information is constantlyexchanged - ...
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A Lot Like Love
Dir: NigelCole. US. 2005. 104 mins.The coupling challenges faced by ambitious andgeographically mobile twentysomethings drive the plot in A Lot Like Love, a romantic comedy that casts Ashton Kutcher in hisstraightest romantic role to date and gives British director Nigel Cole, hotoff the success of Calendar Girls,his first shot at ...
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Snuff
Dir: Bernard Rose. 2005.UK/Romania. 93 mins.After ivansxtcproved such a cult favourite in certain territories, British director BernardRose now delivers in Snuff adeliciously Machievellian horror movie which has cult hit written all over it.Strictly for adults of a robust constitution, as opposed to the sanitized PG-13horror movies which are so marketable ...
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Two Malaga festival films get sales agents
Two films competing in theofficial section of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 22-30) havefound international sales agents on the eve of the event: Sogepaq has picked upRamon Salazar's 20 Centimeterswhile Grupo Pi will handle romantic comedy Semen, A Love Sample.International buyers willget a first look at Semen duringMalaga's ...
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Malaga festival kicks off with Ants
Beginningtoday, the Mediterranean city of Malaga transforms itself into the capital ofSpanish cinema for the nine days of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April22-30).The event kicks off its eighth annual edition Friday withinaugural film Ants In The Mouth by Mariano Barroso. There are fewertitles in this year's official competition ...
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France's Memento launches sales arm with Cannes title
France's Memento Films haslaunched a new sales and acquisitions arm which will debut with Hiner Saleem'sCannes competition title Kilometre Zero.Memento Films International (MFI) joins production companies Memento Films Production and La Cinefacture along with Memento Films Distribution (MFD) in a group of companies founded by former Pan Europeenne employees Emilie ...
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Mandate boards Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Los Angeles-based productionand distribution outfit Mandate Pictures has greenlit Mr Magorium's WonderEmporium, its second project bywriter Zach Helm following Stranger Than Fiction, with Natalie Portman in talks to star.Mandate will fully finance and handle worldwide sales on the picture, whichmarks Helm's directorial debut and centres on a magical toy shop, ...
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Branagh cranks up As You Like It
Principalphotography begins today on the feature film adaptation of WilliamShakespeare's As You Like It, directed by Kenneth Branagh.As You Like It, which isBranagh's fifth Shakespearean screen adaptation, features a cast that includesKevin Kline, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrian Lester, David Oyelowo, Alfred Molina,Janet McTeer and Romola Garai. With a setting inspired ...
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Donald De Line headed to Warner Bros
Donald De Line, the formerParamount president whose position was recently filled by outgoing FoxEntertainment chief Gail Berman, is rumoured to be signing a production dealwith Warner Bros.De Line resurfaces following weeks of speculation over his next move afterParamount chairman Brad Grey selected Berman to be his number two at therapidly ...
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Cannes set for Nightmares
When the Cannes film festival unveiled itsofficial selection this week, media coverage focused on the many big nameauteurs who made the cut - and the move away from political documentaries likelast year's Palme d'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11.But one of the most intriguing titles to make it throughto official selection is ...
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Swipe Films takes on sales for Figgis' COMA
London-based Swipe Filmswill handle world sales on Mike Figgis' feature documentary COMA.The film follows Figgis anda group of aspiring film-makers - the COMA group - as they attempt to make afeature film from scratch in seven days with some unexpected consequences. Thefilm will have its market premiere at Cannes on ...
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South Korea's The Road gets best feature prize at Philadelphia
Bae Chang-ho's South Korean picture The Road won best feature and Peter Raymont'sRwandan story Shake Hands With The Devil won best documentary honours at the 2005 Philadelphia FilmFestival, which closed on Apr 20.Audience awards went to Andres Wood's Chilean political drama Machuca for best feature and Marilyn Agrelo'sSlamdance sensation Mad ...
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German DVD distributor e-m-s launches production arm
Leading German DVD distributor e-m-s new mediahas set up its own in-house production arm 3L Filmproduktion to serve as aco-producer on German feature film projects.The new division will be managed by Berlin-basedUlf Israel who previously worked for X-Filme creative pool for three years andthen as an independent producer on such ...
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Swiss launch film fund to support world cinema
Films from Asia, Africa,Latin America and Eastern Europe are set to receive support for theirproduction and international promotion through the creation of the newSwiss-based Visions Sud Est (VSE) fund.The fund, which hasstart-up capital of $424,000 (CHF 500,000), has been set up by Nyon's"Visions du Reel" International Documentary Festival, FribourgInternational Film ...
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...and remains international number one with $11.9m weekend
Universal's The Interpreter remained the top international picture at the weekend,grossing an estimated $11.9m through UIP on 2,340 screens in 31 territories toraise its international running total to $25m.The UN-set thriller, which opened top in North America on $22.8m,thrived with number one debuts in many territories, strong holds and smalldrops ...
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The Interpreter debuts at number one in North America
A strong rally by theover-35 crowd powered Universal's The Interpreter to the top of the North American charts at theweekend on an estimated $22.8m, while Touchstone's A Lot Like Love opened fourth on a disappointing $7.7m.Meanwhile Sony PicturesClassics' martial arts romp Kung Fu Hustle demonstrated its box office chops in ...