All Screen articles in 6 August 2004
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Shoreline takes on sales for The Limb Salesman
Shoreline Entertainment hassecured worldwide sales rights to The Limb Salesman from production outfits punk Films and Darius Filmsand will be representing the film in Toronto, where the film is playing in thefestival.pUNK Films andDarius Films have announced a deal making Shoreline Entertainment theirworldwide sales agent, beginning with The Limb Salesman ...
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Glenaan readies football project
Scottish director Kenny Glenaan (whose new feature Yasmin premieres in competition inLocarno today, prior to its screeningat the Edinburgh Film Festival) is shortly to go into pre-production on a filmabout the exploitative, cut-throat world of football agents.Ducain's Boys, asthe film is titled, will tell the story of agents who scour ...
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...as Gavin Film takes international sales on Yasmin
SimonBeaufoy drama Yasmin has been pickedup for international sales by industry veteran Bill Gavin's Gavin Film ahead ofits screenings at the Locarno and Edinburgh festivals.Thestory of a westernised Asian woman in a white society was written by The Full Monty writer Beaufoy anddirected by Kenny Glenaan, who won the Michael ...
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Generation to open new Hungarian festival
Generation, theomnibus film currently in production by six Central and Eastern Europeanfilmmakers (ScreenDaily.com, April2004), will be the opening film at the new Alba Regia International FilmFestival (ARIFF) which is going to be launched in the Hungarian spa town ofSzekesfehervar from June 6-12 2005.The six shorts are being made by Stefan ...
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Summit, Serendipity Point reteam on Egoyan's Truth
Los Angeles-based sales, financingand production outfit Summit Entertainment has signed on as international salesagent for Atom Egoyan's latest picture Where The Truth Lies.The film is produced byRobert Lantos and his Serendipity Point Films which has already teamed withSummit on Norman Jewison's The Statement and Istvan Szabo's Being Julia.Based on the ...
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Grant wraps shoot on directorial debut
Wah Wah, the directorialdebut of Richard E Grant, has wrapped principal photography after a seven-weekshoot in Swaziland.The semi-autobiographical film, which Grant also scripted, is acoming-of-age story set against the tail end of British Colonial rule in thelate 1960s. Told from a 14-year-old boy's point of view, Wah Wah focuseson a ...
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New production company launches in Finland
Finland's biggest film and video distributor, FS Film Oy, has set up a newproduction outfit, Juonifilmi Oy, with 33-year old producer Jarkko Hentula (Pearls And Pigs).FS Film, which is fully owned by Nordic major AB Svensk Filmindustri, holdsthe majority stake in the company, while Hentula, who has been appointedmanaging director, ...
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Malaysia clears Passion - for Christians only
Mel Gibson's The Passion OfThe Christ has been cleared by Malaysia's Film Censorship Board for anuncensored release for all ages, albeit with one condition that is restrictedfor Christian eyes only.The approval came after theNational Evangelical Christian Fellowship lobbied the prime minister's officefor the release of the film. Screening will start ...
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Robot invasion spreads to UK, Germany, Brazil
FoxInternational's I, Robot looks set to continue its international dominance this weekendthrough major debuts in Germany, the UK, Brazil and Russia.The sci-fi thriller, which has amassed $35.2m to date,opens in Germany and Russia on Aug 5 on 925 and 302 prints respectively, the UKon Aug 6 on 750, and Brazil ...
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Tartan USA to launch with Bush's Brain
Nearly threemonths after announcing US distribution plans, Hamish McAlpine's Tartan Filmsis gearing up to make Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob's Bush's Brain its first theatrical release later thismonth.McAlpine negotiated US rights to the picture with CassianElwes of the William Morris Agency and plans a home entertainment release onOct 12. Mealey ...
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Motovun film fest maintains youth appeal
The sixth editionof the Motovun Film Festival took place from July 26-30 in the town of Istria,Croatia. Unlike most world festivals that are more market-oriented, what setsthis festival apart is its focus on presenting films to film-lovers as well as toprofessionals, as well as featuring a large number of side ...
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Avelleneda's Moon tops one million admissions in Argentina
La Luna De Avelleneda(Avelleneda's Moon), Juan JoseCampanella's latest drama starring Ricardo Darin, passed the 1m admissionsbarrier in Argentina this week, becoming his second smash hit after SonOf The Bride.The box office score is even more impressive bearing inmind the current economic crisis in the country, not to mention the fact ...
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Korea's Kim Jee-woon unveils 'action noir' feature
Rising Koreandirector Kim Jee-woon (A Tale Of TwoSisters) has lifted the veil on his highly anticipated fourth feature, an"action noir" that is set to start shooting in mid-August.Dalkomhan Insaeng (English title to be decided) is produced by b.o.m.Film Productions, and tells the story of a gangster whose boss asks him ...
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Venice to host amfAR benefit on September 3
The Venice festival will once again play host to a majoramfAR AIDS-research benefit evening, to be held on Sept 3.The event, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island ofSan Giorgio Maggiore, will be co-chaired by Jeremy Irons and ScarlettJohanssen.The evening is presented by upmarket jewellery firm Bulgari,and co-sponsored by ...
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Limelight buys worldwide rights to 21st Century library
Kiera Chaplin'sLos Angeles-based production, financing and distribution company Limelight Films hasacquired all worldwide distribution rights to the 21st Century library from theMotion Picture Company of Australia.The 112-titleresource boasts such titles as Roger Vadim's Don Juan 73,George Lacombe's Female And The Flesh, and Peter Sykes' To The Devil ADaughter.Featured talent includes ...
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The Ninth Day (Der Neunte Tag)
Dir. VolkerSchloendorff. Ger-Lux. 2004. 97mins.Despiteinitial appearances and a long prologue set inside Dachau concentration camp,Volker Schloendorff's The Ninth Day is no Holocaust film, but a neartheological dissertation on Catholicism and how it held up under the Nazi rule.The victims thistime are not Jews but the Catholic priests sent to concentration ...
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Italian producers denounce funding crisis
Italian state funding for local films has stalled for oversix months, while the government has recently made new and drastic cuts to itsentertainment fund.Now, a group of top Italian producers, including Rai Cinemaand Fininvest-owned Medusa, have taken a full-page advertisement in a nationalnewspaper asking prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to take ...
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San Sebastian unveils main competition titles
The Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival hasunveiled 15 of the titles set to compete for the official competition's GoldenShell prize at this year's 52nd edition (Sept 17-25) - showing off ahigh-profile and geographically balanced international line-up.Following the inauguration by Woody Allen'sout-of-competition comedy Melinda AndMelinda are new films from well-known international ...
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SWITZERLAND 6 August
Hot weather had a detrimental effect on Swiss cinemas lastweekend as the overall market saw week-on-week figures down 35% despite thelaunch of Fox's I, Robot in theGerman and French-speaking regions.However, the country's open air cinemas benefitted from theweather. This resulted in films such as LesChoristes, The Last Samurai and TheReturn ...
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Oz production slumps as foreign investment soars
New research confirms that service work on US films issoaring while Australian features remain in the doldrums in terms of numbersmade and budget levels, while co-productions have practically disappeared.Only 15 homegrown films worth A$134m were made in the 12months to June 30, according to the Australian Film Commission's latest annualsurvey, ...