All Screen articles in 5 August 2005
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Weinsteins win US, territories on Tom Yum Goong
The Weinstein Company haspicked up US and multiple territory rights to Thai director Prachya Pinkaew's Ong-Bak follow-up Tom Yum Goong.The Weinsteins also holdrights in Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to the actionpicture, which is set to launch in Asia on Aug 11. TF1 International holdsremaining worldwide rights. A ...
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Pathe International gets On The Road with Salles
Pathe International ispartnering with Focus Features on the long-gestating movie of Jack Kerouac's OnThe Road which will be directed byWalter Salles, written by Jose Rivera and produced by Rebecca Yeldham.The film is a reunion forthe makers of The Motorcycle Diaries which was directed by Salles, written by Rivera, executive produced ...
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San Sebastian unveils Spanish titles set for competition
The San Sebastian InternationalFilm Festival (September 15-24) has unveiled four Spanish titles set to competefor this year's Golden Shell. Sud Express by Chema de la Pena, Malas Temporadas by Manuel Martin Cuenca and Alberto Rodriguez'sToronto-bound 7 Virgins will joinMonxto Armendariz's opening title Obaba atSpain's premiere festival.They will be joined by ...
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Canada's Capri picks up six including U-Carmen
Toronto-based CapriReleasing has picked up all Canadian rights on several titles, including GoldenBear winner U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha,from South Africa, John Hillcoat's Australia-UK coproduction The Proposition, starring Ray Winston and Guy Pearce, GabrieleSalvatores' Italian box office hit Quo Vadis Baby', and Sundance title Pretty Persuasion, starring Evan Rachel Wood. Capri also picked ...
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Big weekend for Warner, as Charlie, Island spread wider
Warner Bros PicturesInternational will be vying to hold on to the box office crown this weekend as CharlieAnd The Chocolate Factory opens inTaiwan on Aug 6 alongside an anticipated string of impressive holds.The family picture amassedjust over $20m last weekend powered by a massive UK launch and stands on a$37.3m ...
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Golden Globes set 2006 awards date as Jan 16
The timetable for the 63rd Annual Golden Globes has been announcedclimaxing with the Beverly Hills awards ceremony on Jan 16, 2005.It is the first time the Globes will take place on a Monday inmany years.Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) president Philip Berksaid the nominations would be announced on Dec 13.The ...
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NHK invests in first ever Israeli film Sweet Mud
Japanese broadcaster NHK hasinvested in its first ever Israeli film, Sweet Mud directed by DrorShaul.Sweet Mud is set 30 years ago in a kibbutzand tells the story of a 12 year old boy, Dvir, who realizes that his mother,Miri, is mentally ill. In this closed community bound by rigid rules, ...
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The Rising: The Ballad Of Mangal Pandey
Dir: Ketan Mehta. India.2005. 150minsThe story of the IndianMutiny gets a swashbuckling spin, complete with musical numbers, in TheRising, a film that director Ketan Mehta originally planned to make in1988.The presence of Aamir Khan -star of Lagaan, one of the few Bollywood films to achieve a healthydegree of non-niche prominence ...
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Grosvenor Films nears thriller Messages wrap
Grosvenor Films wraps itsnew £1.2m supernatural thriller Messageson August 7 in London.Thefilm, directed by David Fairman, tells the tale of pathologist Dr. RichardMurray who receives cryptic messages from his dead wife which enable him totrack down the identity of a serial killer.He eventually becomes a suspect after turning up at ...
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Losique's Montreal festival uninvites Karla
Under pressure from itssponsors, the Montreal World Film Festival has decided not to present acontroversial film about Canada's infamous serial killing couple Karla Homolkaand Paul Bernardo. Karla, directed by Joel Bender, tells the story of Homolka,whose husband Bernardo is serving a life sentence for the kidnapping, rape andmurder of two ...
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Brillstein-Grey completes post-Grey reorganisation
Brillstein-GreyEntertainment has completed the transition of its management and televisioncompanies to new owners and announced that longtime executives CynthiaPett-Dante and Jon Liebman will lead itsexecutive team.Pett-Dante, aBrillstein-Grey partner of 14 years whose client roster includes Brad Pitt,Courteney Cox-Arquette and Matthew Vaughan, assumes leadership and strategicresponsibilities for the overall company.In addition ...
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Thai epic to bequeath film industry city
PrinceChatrichalerm Yuko's Naresuan, thefollow-up to his 2001 historical epic TheLegend of Suriyothai, has resumed shooting after a six-month break tocomplete the extravagant set in Thailand's Kanchanaburi province. The $12m (THB500)film - the most expensive Thai picture ever - is 100% funded by the Thaigovernment to mark the birthday of the ...
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Miramax battle R rating for Dahl's Great Raid
Miramax Films announced saidyesterday that it would appeal against the MPAA's R rating of John Dahl'supcoming wartime drama The Great Raid.The MPAA's ratings boardawarded the rating based on "strong war violence and brief language".Set in the Philippines in1945, The Great Raid recounts theliberation by American soldiers of 500 POWS from ...
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Barclay signs on for Suburban Mayhem
Emily Barclay, who came toattention via the critically acclaimed New Zealand film In My Father's Den,has been cast in the lead role of a conniving single mother with murder on hermind in the Australian black comedy Suburban Mayhem.Playing her besotted boyfriendwill be Michael Dorman, who is named as one of ...
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Hollywood Film Awards name craft winners
The HollywoodFilm Festival has announced its roster of craft awards recipients for theupcoming Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony at the Beverly Hilton on Oct 24.Pawel Edelmanwill receive the Hollywood Cinematographer of the Year Award, Walter Murch willbe honoured with the Hollywood Editor of the Year Award, and costume designerColleen Atwood will ...
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Hollywood Film Awards name craft winners
The HollywoodFilm Festival has announced its roster of craft awards recipients for theupcoming Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony at the Beverly Hilton on Oct 24.Pawel Edelmanwill receive the Hollywood Cinematographer of the Year Award, Walter Murch willbe honoured with the Hollywood Editor of the Year Award, and costume designerColleen Atwood will ...
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BAFTA calls for UK entries to Oscar foreign language award
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) hascalled for all films wanting to be the UK's submission for the Foreign LanguageFilm Award at the 78th American Academy Awards to submit VHS/DVDsfor viewing by August 26.BAFTA is the appointed organisation by theAmerican Academy to select the UK's submission for ...
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Edinburgh names Michael Powell Award jury
Director and producer Antonia Bird, actress Eva Birthistle, screenwriterPaul Mayersberg and actor Alessandro Nivola will join Jury Chair Michael Kuhnon this year's Michael Powell Award Jury at the Edinburgh International FilmFestival (August 17-28).13 films selected for the British Gala section of the festival areeligible for the Michael Powell Award for ...
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Former Miramax execs Silfen, Andres join Lindsay at Kimmel International
Sidney Kimmel has announcedthat former Miramax International executives Jill Silfen and Joan Andres willjoin Kimmel International under their former Miramax colleague Mark Lindsay whois president of the division.Jill Silfen has joined assenior vice president of business and legal affairs and Joan Andres has beennamed manager of sales and administration.Based in ...
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Paramount's War celebrates $500m gross
Paramount/DreamWorks'science fiction epic War Of The Worlds has swept past $500m at the worldwide box office since it opened fiveweeks ago.Steven Spielberg's H G Wellsadaptation has grossed more than $315.1m in international and $219.8m indomestic ticket sales as of Aug 2 for a worldwide running total of more than$534.9m.The picture ...