All Screen articles in 5 May 2006
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Transylvania festival to open with A Fost, Sau N-A Fost'
Cannes Directors Fortnighttitle Corneliu Porumboiu's A Fost, Sau N-A Fost' will open the fifth Transylvania International Film Festival(TIFF) on June 2.The film is one of twoRomanian titles which will rush home from Cannes to compete for the grand prize at the ten-dayfestival in Cluj Napoca, Romania.Catalin Mitulescu's debut film Cum ...
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Munich to honour Makhmalbafs, Figgis and Levinson
Thisyear's Munich Film Festival will be dedicating its retrospective to the Makhmalbaf family and a tribute to UK filmmaker Mike Figgis, while the 2006 CineMeritAward for his services to cinema will be presented to veteran US director BarryLevinson.Accordingto the festival organisers, this will be the first time that the films ...
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The Works to handle sales for Falardeau's Congorama
UK-based sales company The Works International has takenrights to Philippe Falardeau's Congorama, premiering as theclosing-night film in Directors Fortnight at Cannes. The film stars previous Cannes bestactor winner Olivier Gourmet alongside Paul Ahmarani. Congorama followsa Belgian man (Gourmet) who discovers he was adopted and stumbles intomisadventures when he goes to ...
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Hyde Park to start Death Sentence for Fox
Ashok Amritraj's LosAngeles-based Hyde Park Entertainment will fully finance and produce thethriller Death Sentence under itsfive-year first-look deal with 20th Century Fox.Fox willdistribute domestically and Hyde Park International will commence overseassales at Cannes on thefirst project to be greenlit under the deal,announced last summer.Saw creator James Wan is directingbased on ...
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Gold Circle recruits Samuell for My Sassy Girl remake
BeverlyHills-based Gold Circle hashired Belgian filmmaker Yann Samuellto direct the remake of South Korean romantic comedy hit My Sassy Girl.Jae-Young Kwak's 2001 filmwas a huge success in South Korea and the English-language versionis being fast tracked for an autumn shoot.Theproject marks Gold Circle's firstcollaboration with Maverick Films and its ...
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StudioCanal deal will help Optimum become bigger
Furtherdetails have emerged of how UK distributorOptimum Releasing is going to expand following its acquisition by French major,StudioCanal. Optimum'smanaging director Will Clarke refused to say how much StudioCanalpaid for the company he founded in 1999, but rival distributors werespeculating that it could have been as much as $31.7m (Euros 25m). ...
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Focus unveils powerhouse Cannes lineup
Focus Features Internationalhas laid out its most ambitious sales slate to date for Cannes including aTouchstone Pictures production called Dan In The Real Life which Buena Vista will distribute domestically andkey territories on Sean Penn's Into the Wild which Paramount's specialty arm will distributedomestically."We really are trying to getthe message ...
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Walker Payne
Dir: Matt Williams. US. 2006. 113mins.Like a lovingly-crafted curio from another era, Walker Payne is a leisurely-paced perioddrama which defies current storytelling trends to remain resolutely classicalin style and form. Coming off like a cross between Hallmark Hall Of Fame and Amores Perros, if that can be imagined, it faces ...
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The Night Of The White Pants
Dir: Amy Talkington. US. 2006. 90mins.Dallas native Amy Talkingtonmakes a largely entertaining feature debut with The Night Of The White Pants, a frenetic dysfunctionalfamily comedy whose best shot at attracting commercial attention is through itslikeable cast.Set during one night inDallas, it does not cohere as tightly as this brand of ...
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Saw III to start on Monday in Toronto for Lionsgate, Twisted
Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures will start production on Saw IIIwill in Toronto on May 8and are expected to wrap in June.Lionsgate International president Nick Meyer and LionsgateInternational Sales president Stephanie Denton will commence sales at Cannes.As previously reported, the third instalment in the lucrativehorror franchise is set to open this ...
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Hoot
Dir: Wil Shriner. US. 2006. 88mins.Parents craving wholesome children's entertainmentthat promotes environmental conservation might find Hoot acceptable summer fare for the little ones. But this blandfamily film, which is released in the US on May 5, never generates muchinterest in either its human or animal participants.Strategicallypositioned between the mid-April release ...
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Fortissimo drawn to Sketches Of Frank Gehry
Fortissimo Films hasacquired worldwide rights outside the US, France, Benelux and Italy to SydneyPollack's documentary Sketches Of FrankGehry, which screens in official selection, in an out-of-competition slot, atthis year's Cannes.Oscar-winning filmmaker Pollack- who is friends with acclaimed architect Frank O. Gehry and filmed thedocumentary over five years - will present ...
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UK's Northern Film and Media funds three local documentaries
UK regional fund Northern Film & Media, working with digital TVstation Community Channel, has commissioned three local filmmakers to makedocumentaries about the North East. The documentaries now goinginto production are Emily Barber's Sing YourHearts Out, Louise Rea's The ChevyChase, and ReubenJacob Abraham's The Grass Never Goes.TheCommunity Channel plans to air ...
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Peckos exits Tartan, sets up niche US distributor
Distribution executive M J Peckos has left Tartan Films USA aftertwo years to launch the niche distributor Mitropoulos Films."The distribution business is changing at its core. Nicheproduct will require new venues and marketing strategies and Mitropoulos Filmsplans to explore this ever changing marketplace," Peckos said. "As filmmakers continue to face ...
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Hopes high for end to funding chaos
Greek film production has undergone a financingcrisis during the last couple of years - but amid the chaos several projects havemanaged to move forward.The underlying uncertainty has been causedby the same debate that has echoed across Europe; whether public funds should financefeature production.Under Petros Tatoulis, then Greece's deputy Culture Minister ...
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Ganz joins cast of Irreverent's Canadian comedy Restaurant
Bruno Ganz has singed to star in Vancouver-based IrreverentMedia's romantic comedy The Best Restaurant In The World. Ever.Ganz, who won plaudits for his role as Adolph Hitler in OliverHirschbiegel's German 2005 best foreign language Oscar nominee Downfall, joins Marc-Andre Grondin in the cast.Monica Mitchell directs from a screenplay by Rick ...
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Buena Vista picks up Oz rights to Samoan Wedding
Buena Vista Internationalhas picked up Australian rights to feel-good New Zealand comedy SamoanWedding (aka Sione's Wedding) andwill release it in mid-July.Director Chris Graham'sdebut film grossed $2m (NZ$3.14m) for Sony in its first five weeks on homesoil. Putting aside US-funded local blockbusters such as the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and ...
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Bubble set for multi-platform release in Korea
Steven Soderbergh's Bubble is set to be the first film in Korea to receive a day-and-date multi-platform release onmobile phones as well as theatrical, cable TV, DVD and video-on-demand (VoD).The film is to open on May 11.The experimental thrilleroriginally saw a simultaneous release in the US this past January in ...
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Riklin sets up foreign remake company Bridge Films
Former Showtime executive Matt Riklin has launched Bridge Films, acompany devoted to acquiring remake rights to non-English language pictures andsetting them up with US studios and financiers.Funded by private equity, Bridge Films employs a staff of 10 'agents'who will operate throughout the world to source promising material, A Bridgecontingent is ...
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Chinese film Father wins first feature award at San Francisco
Ying Liang's Chinese picture Taking Father Home won the Skyy prize for first narrativefeature at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival Golden GateAwards ceremony.The Golden Gate Award for documentary feature went to MichaelGlawogger's Workingman's Death (Austria), and the Golden Gate Award for Bay Area documentaryfeature went to Stanley Nelson's ...