All Screen articles in 5 May 2005
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Soderbergh bursts theatrical Bubble with 2929
Todd Wagner and Mark Cubanhave taken a step closer to their cross-platform day-and-date releasing visionas it emerged that the 2929 Entertainment founders have signed a mould-breaking six-picturedeal with the ever-adventurous Steven Soderbergh.Soderbergh will directthese low-budget high definition video features for 2929's HDNet Films bannerin a deal finalised at the Tribeca ...
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NFB adds cash to Cannes short film Palme d'Or
The National Film Boardof Canada is pumping some prize money into the Cannes' Short Film Palmed'Or. The Canadian filmagency has created the Norman McLaren Prize, under the aegis of the Cannes FilmFestival, a Euros 3000 prize to be presented to director of the winning short. NFB chief JacquesBensimon and Cannes ...
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Glickman hails anti-camcording law
MPAAchief Dan Glickman has hailed the passing into law this week of the FamilyEntertainment and Copyright Act, which makes camcording theatrical releases afederal crime punishable by up to three years in prison.George Bush signed the law earlier this week following its recent passage through Congress."Video piracy is not a victimless ...
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Parasol Peccadillo moves into wider arthouse market
UK distributor ParasolPeccadillo has just picked up a string of new films scheduled for theatricalrelease within the next year. New releases scheduled for2005/2006 include Ismael Ferrouki's Le Grand Voyage, Swedish box office hit The Ketchup Effect, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's Cocklesand Muscles and MonAnge starring Vanessa Paradis and ...
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Studio Babelsberg shares start trading
Shares in Studio Babelsbergbegan trading on Frankfurt's 'Freiverkehr' exchange on Friday morningat Euros 1.65 after 10% of the company's 15m shares had been floated at anissue price of Euro 1 each. The free flotation of the1.5m shares was open to studio staff as well as friends and partners from thefilm ...
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D'Amico, Damon team up on birth of Israel saga
Beyond Friendship,which focuses on the Arab-Jewish conflict surrounding the birth of Israelimmediately after World War Two, is to be jointly handled for worldwide salesby Myriad Pictures' Kirk D'Amico and Foresight Unlimited's Mark Damon. Their respective Santa Monica and Los-Angeles-basedfinancing and production companies will bring the title to the Cannes marketand ...
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D'Amico, Damon team up on birth of Israel saga
Beyond Friendship,which focuses on the Arab-Jewish conflict surrounding the birth of Israelimmediately after World War Two, is to be jointly handled for worldwide salesby Myriad Pictures' Kirk D'Amico and Foresight Unlimited's Mark Damon Their respective Santa Monica and Los-Angeles-basedfinancing and production companies will bring the title to the Cannes marketand ...
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Montecito Pictures set to roll with Trailer Park Boys
Ivan Reitman's Montecito Pictures isset to commence principal photography this summer on Trailer Park Boys- The Movie, a feature adaptation of theCanadian cult television series about the antics of three 'hosers'- Ricky, Julian and Bubbles - in a Maritime backwater. The production will team series director,head writer and creator Mike ...
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Carloss moves from MGM to Paramount Home Entertainment
Alex Carloss has been namedexecutive vice president of worldwide marketing and development at ParamountHome Entertainment.Carloss will oversee marketing and creative efforts on all of the studio'sworldwide home entertainment properties.He most recently served as senior vice president of marketing for MGM HomeEntertainment and prior to that worked at Real Networks, video ...
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UK industry spells out challenges at Film Council forum
Changes in tax financing andcashflowing pre-production topped the list of key issues facing the productionsector at support body the UK Film Council's first industry forum.Council chairman StewartTill, chief executive John Woodward and vice chair Andrew Eaton alsohighlighted deferred fees, producers' equity, or lack of it, and accessto capital as central ...
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Pale Eyes (Les Yeux Clairs)
Dir: Jerome Bonnell. Fr.2005. 87mins.At just under anhour-and-a-half, Pale Eyes is exactly the right length for its intimate,austere story. Though sometimes too deliberately paced, this modest filmimpresses as it tries to get inside the head of a lovely but anguished youngwoman, thereby arriving at a sort of minimalist grace. It ...
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The Extra
Dir:Kevin Carlin. Aust. 2004. 90minsIrish stand-up comedian Jimeoin made waves in his adoptedAustralia during the 1990s, writing and starring in his own self-titledtelevision series. Sweet-natured, with a thick Irish accent and a nice line inbemused wonderment at modern life, his decade was crowned when his small-budgetdebut feature The Craic, though ...
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Fierce People
Dir.Griffin Dunne. US. 2005. 110mins.Griffin Dunne's fifth feature is by far his most assured,with credits both above the line and below surpassing those of his previousefforts. Set in New York City and New Jersey during the 1980s, Fierce Peopleis darkly comic drama with a decidedly more downbeat third act its ...
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Fierce People
Dir.Griffin Dunne. US. 2005. 110mins.Griffin Dunne's fifth feature is by far his most assured,with credits both above the line and below surpassing those of his previousefforts. Set in New York City and New Jersey during the 1980s, Fierce Peopleis darkly comic drama with a decidedly more downbeat third act its ...
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TLA picks up select int'l rights to Slutty Summer
TLA Releasing has acquiredUS, Canadian, UK and Irish home entertainment and broadcast rights toCasper Andreas' romantic comedy Slutty Summer.Following a limited New York theatrical releasethrough Embrem Entertainment on Jun 10 in New York, TLA will release thepicture on DVD and VHS on Dec 13 in the US and in 2006 ...
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xXx: State Of The Union
Dir: Lee Tamahori. US.2005. 99mins.Atrocious but notable in its own warped way, xXx: StateOf The Union (known as xXx: The Next Level internationally) says alot about what's wrong with some American studio film-making today, in that itsays absolutely nothing at all, doing so both loudly and with the phoney,purchased conviction ...
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Blackstone Group cleared to take over UGC circuit in UK
US buyout firm TheBlackstone Group has been cleared to take over UGC Cinemas provided that itsells six of its cinemas.The Office of Fair Trading(OFT) said today that it will not refer the deal to the Competition Commissionif Blackstone sells certain cinemas where there are particular competitionconcerns. Blackstone acquired UGC's UKand ...
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One man's Madness set to screen at Cannes
Madness In The FirstDegree is one of the many films thatwill premiere at Cannes this year.However, promises to stand out in a unique way - it has been madeentirely by one man - Geoff Searle. Everything from acting, toediting, to special effects, to production has been completed entirely bySearle.It is ...
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Celluloid picks up Euro sales on Three Times
CelluloidDreams will handle European sales for Hou Hsiao-hsien's Cannes competition entryThree Times (pictured), the Paris company said yesterday, after striking a deal with the film's French producers Paradis Films andOrly Films.Making his sixth trip to Cannes, the Taiwanese director returns with a lyricalexploration of love and memory. In this tryptych ...
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... as rival Montreal Festival of New Cinema loses chief
Claude Chamberlain, thefounder and director of Montreal's Festival of New Cinema (FNC), has resignedabruptly. The festival today issued abrief statement, announcing with "regret" the departure, effective immediately."For more than three decades, Claude Chamberlain hascontributed with success to the recognition of a high quality and uniquecinema. He leaves a distinguished track ...