All Screen articles in 29 October 2004
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Warner Int'l promotes Zeitz to vice president
Jeff Zeitz has been namedvice president of business systems planning at Warner Bros PicturesInternational.Zeitz will continue toreport to executive vice president of operations and finance Angelina Speareand will be responsible for daily oversight of the system's initiatives and identifybusiness opportunities.He will continue tocollaborate with senior management to establish project priorities ...
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First Independent picks up two from Park for US
Gary Rubin's FirstIndependent Pictures has picked up US rights to Gary Sinyor's comedy Bob TheButler and Richard Jobson's actiontitle The Purifiers from Park Entertainment.Bob The Butler stars Tom Green as an accident-prone man who throughvarious mishaps becomes a butler and befriends a family. Brooke Shields andSimon Callow also star.Steven Manners ...
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Italian government launches private equity film fund
In a highly ambitious move,the Italian government is launching a private equity fund to support theItalian film industry.Cinefund will have a targetbudget of Euros 50-70m per year, to be spent on 30 to 40 Italian films andco-productions 'with high box office potential.' The fund will investan average of Euros 1-2m ...
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Neverland gets international debut in UK
All eyes will beon Russia this weekend as various distributors inundate the lucrative marketwith Shark Tale, Home On The Range, Princess Diaries 2 and Anacondas.Shark Tale, the number one international pictureand a key factor in this week's IPO in the US of DreamWorks' animation unit,opens in Russia through UIP on ...
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Direct Cinema 'godfathers' lined up for IDFA fest
FrederickWiseman, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock and Robert Drew, thelegendary 'godfathers' of the Direct Cinema movement, are all toattend the seventeenth IDFA, the world's biggest documentary festival, inAmsterdam next month.They will be taking part in a special debate about thelegacy of Direct Cinema, which revolutionised documentary in the 60s ...
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Int'l buyers snap up Pobby & Dingan rights
On the eve of the AFM,pan-European buying group Indie Circle has picked up its highest-profile filmto date. It snapped up multi-territory rights to Pobby & Dingan, thefantasy drama directed by The Full Monty's Peter Cattaneo.The picture is handled by UKsales and finance outfit Renaissance Films which also struck deals with ...
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Warner Bros, Cattleya reteam on Placido crime epic
Principal photography isunderway in Rome on Michele Placido's epic crime drama Romanzo Criminale, the latest collaboration between Warner BrosPictures Italy and Cattleya.Warner Bros Italy holdsItalian theatrical and home video rights on the picture, a fact-based sagaabout street gangs who try to control Rome's underworld from the mid-1970sthrough the 1990s.Stefano Rulli ...
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Mueller warns Biennale he needs full control over festival
Veniceartistic director Marco Mueller is warning the Biennale that he needs to havefull control over the next film festival, "or he will be better off beinga full time producer again.""The mishap that happened at this year's eventdidn't have anything to do with the number of films in the festival. There ...
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One Last Dance begins in Singapore
Production begins next week on One Last Dance,a Hong Kong-set gangster picture which is already attracting internationalinterest.The $2.5m film has an unusual cast of co-producersincluding Mediacorp Raintree Pictures of Singapore, China's Ming Productionsand A-Film of The Netherlands.Shot in Cantonese and directed by Brazilian-AmericanMax Makowski, One Last Dance is described by ...
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BAFTA voters prepare for 'mystifying' campaign season
BAFTA voters are preparing for 'mystifying' campaignseason in the UK following the delay in plans to distribute anti-piracy DVDplayers to every BAFTA member.The move has led to predictions in certain quarters thatthe late arrival of the DVD players will cause a repeat of last year's chaosamong film voting members as ...
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Amazonas festival to open with ecological drama
TheAmazonas Film Festival (Nov 26 - Dec 1) will open with ecological adventuretale Taina 2 - A New Amazon Adventure by Mauro Lima in Manaus, Brazil.The filmis the story of a young Indian girl facing up to a dangerous gang who smuggle rare specimens of Amazon fauna.Thefestival was created by ...
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Canada's Tapestry strikes sales alliance with MarVista
Moving to boost itsworldwide profile, Toronto-based production house Tapestry Pictures haslaunched Tapestry Distribution International (TDI), which will sell worldwidetelevision, home video and DVD rights through a strategic alliance with LosAngeles-based MarVista Entertainment.TDI will continue to beresponsible for Canadian distribution under the deal. Tapestry principals MaryYoung Leckie and Heather Haldane head ...
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Every Word Is True joins Arclight AFM slate
Arclight Films has picked upinternational rights to the all-star drama Every Word Is True which Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) is financingand distributing in North America.Set to start shooting inJan, the film is being produced by Killer Films and is the story of thelegendary Truman Capote (to be played by British ...
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MPAA hires Carlson as vp of global government affairs
Former George W Bushcampaigner Stacy Carlson has been named executive vice president of globalgovernment affairs at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).Carlson will commence hernew post on Jan 3 2005, and currently runs California Governor ArnoldSchwarzenegger's Washington DC office, handling federal issues for the state.She played an integral rolein ...
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Kidman in talks with Aardman for Flushed Away
Nicole Kidman is in talks tostar in Flushed Away, the next title to roll out of the multi-pictureanimation deal between the UK's Aardman Animations and DreamWorks SKG.Kidman is likely to play astreet-smart sewer rat named Rita, with Hugh Jackman voicing Roddy, a posh ratwho is swept out of his penthouse ...
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Vivendi, Viacom complete UCI Cinemas sale
Vivendi Universal and Viacom have completed the sale of UCICinemas' European operations to UK private equity group Terra Firma for Euros270m ($343.5m).The deal is part of Vivendi Universal's efforts to narrowits focus on media and telecoms and sell non-core assets to reduce its debt.Viacom and Vivendi each owned 50 percent ...
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Somersault wins every single AFI prize
Cate Shortland'sSomersault managed a remarkable cleansweep of prizes at the star-studded AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards inMelbourne (Oct 29), winning in all 13 categories.Somersault's record-breakingrun meant no other feature was honoured. The awards included best film forproducer Anthony Anderson, best director and best script for Cate Shortland,and actor awards for ...
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Canada - Production Listings: October 30
CANADA - October 29PRE-PRODUCTIONMODERN LOVE(Cirrus Productions/ Les Films Locomotions) Budget: $4.1m. Backer: TelefilmCanada. Dist: Equinoxe Films (Canada). Romance. Maddie is a marriage and sextherapist but when her boyfriend rejects her marriage proposal and leaves her,she is confronted with the harsh realization that she knows nothing of thehuman heart and modern ...
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FRANCE 29 October
In its second week, SharkTale stayed at the top of the chart for an additional 678,986 admissions.The second and third place films are also repeats of last week with L'Enquete Corse and Arsene Lupin only dropping off by 18% and 27% respectively.The sequel to French hit comedy Pedale Douce - ...
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Menemsha picks up US rights to Machuca
Neil Friedman's MenemshaFilms has picked up US distribution rights to Chile's Oscar entry Machuca which played in Directors Fortnight at Cannes thisyear as well as at Edinburgh, Pusan, Vancouver and Montreal.Directed by Andres Wood,Machuca is set in Santiago, Chile, in 1973 and tells the story of thefriendship between two eleven ...