All Screen articles in 30 June 2006
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Click tops US box office for Sandler, Sony with $40m
Sony's latest Adam Sandler comedy Click took control of the box office as itdethroned Cars toopen on an impressive $40m estimated three-day haul.Thiswas in the range of previous Sandler releases: The Longest Yard launched on $47.6m in May 2005, 50 First Dates took $39.9m in February 2004, and Anger Managementproduced ...
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Balcony picks up US rights to Al Franken doc
Balcony Releasing has pickedup US rights to Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus' cinema verite picture AlFranken: God Spoke To Us.Balcony plans an autumnrelease on the picture, which shot over two years and tracks the former SaturdayNight Live comedian and Liberalpolitical commentator as he tackles everyone from right-wing broadcaster BillO'Reilly to ...
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Cowboys, Cuba screen at Rewind/Fast Forward in Miami
Billy Corben's Cocaine Cowboys, Jay Rosenblatt's I Want To BeSomebody and MeganWilliams' Tell Me Cuba areamong documentaries at the upcoming 5th Annual Rewind/Fast Forward Film &Video Festival in Miami Beach.The festival explores all facets of documentary film-making, filmand video preservation, film and TV history and the use of archival images ...
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Los Angeles Film Critics set awards dinner for Jan 14, 2007
TheLos Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will hold its 32ndannual film achievement awards ceremony the day before the Golden Globes on Jan14 2007 in Los Angeles.Theevent will take place at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City.Thedate of the group's December 2006 voting meeting will be announced this autumn.
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Q&A with Shanghai jury president Luc Besson
In the same year that Canneshad its first Chinese jury president in Wong Kar-wai, China's leading filmfestival returned the honour by appointing a French jury president - filmmakerand EuropaCorp co-founder Luc Besson. In addition to his juryduties, Besson had a packed schedule of meetings with filmmakers, film studentsand government officials ...
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Poseidon, Code lead international box office
The start of the World Cup elimination rounds, hot weather acrossmuch of Europe and a lack of new wide releases contributed to a lacklusterweekend at the international box office.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI)'s Poseidon led the pack with an estimated $9.9mgross from approximately 4,000 prints in 49 countries, raising the ...
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Offutt promoted to creative executive at Participant
AmberOffutt has been promoted to creative executive at Participant Productions,freeing her up to work on development and production at the Los Angeles-basedcompany.Offuttpreviously served as executive assistant to Participant executivevice-president of creative affairs and production Chris Salvaterra.Priorto joining Participant she worked at production companies LioneyesEntertainment and Ovation Entertainment. Offutt began her ...
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Four Minutes takes top prize at Shanghai festival
German drama Four Minutes, directed by Chris Kraus,won the Jin Jue best film award at the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival(SIFF) on Sunday night, while Chinese director Qi Jian's The Forest Ranger was awarded the Jury Grand Prix.The nine-day festival had astar-studded closing night with Ed Norton, Catherine Deneuve and ...
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Steckler, Greenfield join Searchlight in production roles
JeremySteckler and Matthew Greenfield have been appointed senior vice presidents ofproduction at Fox Searchlight Pictures. They will report to production chiefClaudia Lewis.Stecklerarrives after three years at di Bonaventura Pictures, while Greenfield is aproducer who previously had two films, The Good Girl and Star Maps,distributed through Searchlight."Matthew'sstellar reputation in the independent ...
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London UK Film Focus to host 12 premieres
The London UK Film Focus(LUFF), the annual showcase of British films for invited UK and international buyers, is looking to set up aco-production market along the lines of Rotterdam's CineMart. "It may be at the beginningor end of LUFF in 2007," said Adrian Wootton, chiefexecutive of organiser Film London. "Initial ...
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Locarno to show Veronica Chen's Aguas Argentinas
Withless than six weeks to go before the launch of his first Locarno as artistic director onAugust 2, Frederic Maire has spoken toScreenDaily.com about the preparations for the 59th edition of the festival ashis programme shapes up."Thematically,there are large number of films with teenagers and children at the centre andthey ...
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Days Of Glory (Indigenes)
Dir: Rachid Bouchareb. Fr-Mor-Alg-Bel. 2006. 125mins.Best intentions are commendably delivered in Days Of Glory (Indigenes), an earnest, well-produced and thoroughly researched epic saga about those North African soldiers who served with the French Army during World War Two.Following a quartet of Algerian recruits and their sergeant through campaigns in Sicily, ...
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Time (Shi Gan)
Dir/scr: Kim Ki-duk. S Kor. 2006. 96minsA Kim Ki-duk film is never less than intriguing, and Time, his new feature, is no exception. His treatment of an increasingly fashionable theme, the popular use of plastic surgery to outsmart nature and relieve emotional insecurities, is in itself enough to draw attention. ...
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Bloom to join Bosworth in Seasons Of Dust
Orlando Bloom will join hisreal-life girlfriend Kate Bosworth in the independent drama Seasons Of Dust which has been written and will be directed byactor/film-maker Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone) and is due to shoot this summer.Set in 1935 in Depressionera Oklahoma, the film is about a young farm ...
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Olguin signs to direct Mayhem Project's Clock Tower
One year-old LA-basedproduction and financing outfit The Mayhem Project has signed Chile's JorgeOlguin to direct horror film Clock Tower, based on the bestselling video game franchise from Japan's Capcom.The film, which is scheduledto go into production later this year, has been written by Jake Wade Wall (WhenA Stranger Calls, The ...
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Spain's Cinema Jove gives top prize to Ryna
Tough coming-of-age Romaniandrama Rynawon top honours at the 21st edition of Spain's youth-oriented Cinema Jove International FilmFestival (June 17-24).The jury selected director Ruxandra Zenide's featurefor the Golden Valencian Moon and its $22,612 (Euros18,000) prize for its risk-taking and emotional toughness. The story turnson a young woman looking to escape her ...
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Private investors fund new $22.6m The Red Baron
Germany's most expensive new production in 2006, Niki Muellerschoen's $22.6m (Euros 18m) English-language production The Red Baron (Der Rote Baron), begins principal photography on July 3 in Prague as a 100% privately financed project. The financing for the film about the legendary First World War fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen ...
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Fortissimo gets four Hal Hartley features
Sales company Fortissimo Films has struck a dealwith director Hal Hartley and his Possible Films to add four of his films tothe Fortissimo library.Marking the first time Hartley has worked withFortissimo, the company is taking rights to 1990's Trust, 1995's Flirt, 1997'sHenry Fool and 2005's The Girl From Monday. Hartley ...
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Berlin's World Cinema Fund backs five new projects
New feature projects by Mexico's Carlos Reygadas and Kyrgyzstan's Aktan Arym Kubat are among five filmprojects recommended for a total of $363,935(Euros 290,000) production funding in the fourth selection round ofthe Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF). The WCF jury, comprising theFrench independent distributor Isabelle Dubar,UK-based curator Keith Shiri, Swiss Television'sprogramme ...
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Geertsen says European industry should pay its share for digital revolution
As the 15th CinemaExpo International got underway in Amsterdam today Anders Geertsen,director of distribution at the Danish Film Institute and director of the commercialmodule at the European Digital Cinema Forum, delivered a call to arms to theEuropean industry.Delivering the convention's firstkeynote address on the subject of digital cinema - a ...