All Screen articles in 4 September 2005

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  • News

    Sienna Miller signs for Golconda's Camille

    2005-09-04T04:00:00Z

    Golconda Films, the London-based production and financing company headed by Gregory Mackenzie and Brett Walsh, has recruited rising British actress Sienna Miller to star in its forthcoming dark comedy, Camille. Harvey Keitel is also attached to the project, to be exec-produced by Charles Finch. The UK-Canadian co-production is in advanced ...

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    Tribeca, Sloan Foundation team to stage Oct science conference

    2005-09-04T00:00:00Z

    The Tribeca Film Institutewill host a summit aiming to bring together the film and scientific communitiesfrom Oct 5-8 in New York City.The Summit is designed toassemble emerging screenwriters and directors from leading film schools andorganisations across the US who have been supported by grants from the Alfred PSloan Foundation. The ...

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    New LA short festival launches with series of quarterly competitions

    2005-09-04T00:00:00Z

    LA-based Very Short Movies(VSM) has launched with the aim of presenting a world class shorts festival inHollywood for films under 10 minutes called the Golden Star Shorts Fest. In addition to providingshort filmmakers with festival exposure, VSM will help to secure appropriatedistribution opportunities for select entries VSM launches with a ...

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    Anjelica Huston to head San Sebastian jury

    2005-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Anjelica Huston will presideover the official jury of the 53rd Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 15-24), which has also unveiled TheWorld's Fastest Indian as its closing film.Written and directed byRoger Donaldson, The World's Fastest Indianstars Anthony Hopkinsin the true story-inspired tale of a man who set a new speed record ...

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    Dillon to get Gotham Award tribute for body of work on Nov 30

    2005-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Matt Dillon will receive aGotham Award tribute at IFP New York's upcoming 15th Annual Gotham Awards on Nov 30. Dillon will be the onlyperson to be honoured for his body of work during the show, although the awardwill be presented alongside six competitive honours recognising the year's mostinnovative films and ...

  • Reviews

    A Sound Of Thunder

    2005-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Peter Hyams.US/Germany/Czech Republic/UK. 2005. 101 mins. Emerging in themarketplace almost three years after it was made, A Sound of Thunder turns a vintage Ray Bradbury short story into acheesy and unconvincing big budget B-movie. With its sub-par effects, uninspiredperformances and unfocused narrative, this sci-fi thriller, left over from theglory ...

  • News

    De Palma, Gilliam sign up for Talent Lab at Toronto

    2005-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Brian De Palma, TerryGilliam and Atom Egoyan are just three of the film artists who have signed forthe Toronto International Film Festival's Talent Lab, a four-day artisticdevelopment programme for emerging Canadian filmmakers held during the event. 22participants from across Canada were selected.De Palma, a perennialaudience member at TIFF, has agreed ...

  • News

    Warner Bros signs German broadband VOD deal

    2005-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-year deal toprovide content to T-Online for its broadband VOD service in Germany.Beginning inSeptember, Warner Bros pictures from the Harry Potter and Matrix franchises, as well as Ocean's Twelve and The Polar Express, will be available on T-Online'sbroadband VOD service. The deal ...

  • News

    Films Distribution strikes US deal on Live And Become

    2005-09-02T04:00:00Z

    French sales house FilmsDistribution has acquired several new titles, formed a new alliance andmade some of high-profile sales.Radu Milhaileanu's LiveAnd Become, which last month took top prizes at the Copenhagen FilmFestival, has been sold to the US's Menemsha in a six figure deal. The film hasalso gone to Klockworx in ...

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    Copenhagen Screenings win seller approval

    2005-09-02T04:00:00Z

    The Copenhagen International Film Festival's (Aug 18-28)new industry Screenings programme has been given the stamp of approval byScandinavian sellers.Trust Film Sales, NordiskFilm Sales and Angel Film have reported strong interest generated by the CopenhagenScreenings. Ten new Danish films wereshown to 30 international buyers over a two-day period during the festival ...

  • News

    Sogepaq runs with South Express

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Spain's Sogepaqhas picked up world rights on new feature South Express, screening this month in both Toronto andSan Sebastian.The movie (SudExpress) weaves togethersix stories of ordinary people whose lives are touched by the fabled train linethat runs from Lisbon to Paris.It was shot onDVacross three countries and in five languages ...

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    Terence Stamp joins cast of western love story Dawn

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Terence Stamphas joined the cast of September Dawn, Christopher Cain's Western love story set against thebackdrop of religious fanaticism.Jon Voight,Lolita Davidovitch, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope and John Gries were previouslyconfirmed in the cast.Cain wrote the screenplaywith Carol Whang Schutter, and is producing with Scott Duthie and KevinMatossian. Production is currently ...

  • News

    Telluride lineup includes Pluto, Brokeback

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Announcing aheavily US-centric line-up on its opening day, organisers of the 32nd TellurideFilm Festival have snagged world premiere bragging rights to films includingJames Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line starring Joaquin Phoenix and ReeseWitherspoon, and Scott McGehee and David Siegel's drama Bee Season starring Richard Gere and JulietteBinoche.Also scheduledto ...

  • News

    Two Bollywood movies set to shoot in New York

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Two Indian projectsfeaturing Bollywood superstars are gearing up for autumn shoots with thefinancial support of New York Mayor Bloomberg's Made In NY tax creditinitiative. Shirish Kunder's romanticcomedy Jaaneman stars megastarSalman Khan with Preity Zinta and Akshay Kumar and is being produced byNadiawala Grandson Entertainment, which plans to launch a US ...

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    Virgin goes against Red Eye in hot UK weekend for UIP

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Warner BrosPictures International (WBPI) executives are bidding to hold on to theirinternational crown of the past few weeks when they unleash The Dukes OfHazzard in Italy on Sept2 and Taiwan on Sept 3.The comedy hasgrossed $5.5m from six territories so far and executives will be looking tocapitalise on its familiarity ...

  • News

    Zhang Yimou reunites with Gong Li for China drama

    2005-09-01T21:59:00Z

    Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou will reunite with his former museGong Li for the first time in 10 years in an untitled new film slated for 2006.Qin Lixun, deputy general manager of Beijing New Picture,has confirmed that both Gong and Hong Kong actor Chow Yun Fat have signed tostar in a ...

  • News

    Fox Searchlight lands US rights to Mehta's Water

    2005-09-01T04:00:00Z

    Fox Searchlighthas picked up US rights to Water, the final instalment in Deepa Mehta's elemental trilogy thatwill open the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 8.Set in 1930sIndia against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, Water charts the fallout on a temple communitywhen a group of widows arrives. ...

  • News

    Bim goes on pre-Venice buying spree

    2005-09-01T04:00:00Z

    Rome arthouse distributor Bim has acquired Italiandistribution rights to a host of Venice films, including competition titles BrokebackMountain and The Constant Gardener.Sold by Focus/UIP, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is about therelationship between a Wyoming ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy. Heath Ledger andJake Gyllenhaal co-star.The Constant Gardener, which opened in North ...

  • News

    Celluloid seals international on Barney, Caravaca films

    2005-09-01T04:00:00Z

    Celluloid Dreams has signedto handle international theatrical sales on Drawing Restraint 9, from Cremaster Cycle director Matthew Barney and all international rightson Eric Caravaca's Le Passager. Celluloid managing directorCharlotte Mickie told Screendaily.com that the company has already locked adeal on DR9 with Australia'sAccent and is considering offers for Japan, Germany, ...

  • News

    Lions Gate greenlights Lennon doc with Ono approval

    2005-09-01T04:00:00Z

    Lions Gate Filmsand LSL Productions have begun pre-production on David Leaf and JohnScheinfeld's documentary The US Vs John Lennon, the third project from Lions Gate'sdocumentary unit following Grizzly Man and Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man, which receives its world premiere atToronto.Endorsed by YokoOno, The US Vs John Lennon covers the ...