All Screen articles in 7 November 2005
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Seville picks up second Metal pic
Montreal-based sales anddistribution outfit Seville International has picked up worldwide rights for GlobalMetal, the follow-up to hot Torontodocumentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Directed by the same team ofSam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy Wise, the new film will pick up thetheme that heavy metal music is an alternative view-point ...
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Kilmer joins Silverstone, Gallo in Luna's Moscow Zero
Val Kilmer has beenconfirmed as the third major lead in Moscow Zero, the psychological horror picture from cult directorLuna. Appearing alongside Vincent Gallo and Alicia Silverstone, he will play anunderground dweller fighting demons in the Moscow subway. Shooting begins nextmonth in Russia and Spain.The project, sold byValentia at the AFM, ...
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Intandem, Spice Factory set up FearFactory
UK-based financing, salesand distribution company Intandem Films, production company Spice Factory UK,and producers Colin Pons of Studio of the North and Mark Thomas of BallparkProductions have set up a new venture, FearFactory, to produce horror films andpsychological thrillers.Intandem CEO Gary Smith toldScreen that FearFactory, whichwill be set up under the ...
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Content sells Mee Shee to VCL/Warner and others
Content Film has closed adeal with VCL/Warner for German rights to its new family adventure, $25 millionMee-Shee The Water Giant. Thedeal was the first major territory closed on the film, which features specialeffects from Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Deals with Senafor Iceland, Lusomundo for Portugal, WEG India for India, Intersonic ...
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GreeneStreet kicks off sales on comedy Pleasure
GreeneStreetFilms International (GSFI) has reported steady business on the Jason Biggs comedy The Pleasure Of Your Company, which begins production tomorrow in New York.Territories have gone to Video Filmes in Brazil, RCV in Benelux, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Castelo Lopes in Portugal, and Forum in Israel. Deals with the UK, Germany ...
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Sevigny joins Malone, Sobieski in cast of Lying
Chloe Sevigny has joined the ensemble cast of Lying for PCHFilm/Catfish Productions and Periscope Entertainment's psychodrama Lying.As previously announced Jena Malone, Leelee Sobieski, HalleyWegryn Gross, Maya Goldsmith and Henry Gummer star in the project, which iscurrently filming in upstate New York.M Blash's directorial debut centres on a group of New ...
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Warner Japan buys Korean weepie My Girl And I
Warner Bros Japan hasacquired Korean romantic drama My Girl And I from start-up Korean sales company iHQ. The film, which is a remakeof Japanese hit Crying Out Love In The Centre Of The World, stars Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl) and Song Hye-gyo. It was also sold to Hong Kong'sCelestial ...
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Gold Circle to remake Breaking News
Gold Circle Films hasacquired remake rights to Johnnie To action movie Breaking News from Hong Kong's Media Asia. The film, about a policestakeout that turns into a live televised event, screened in anout-of-competition slot at the Cannes film festival in 2004. Gold Circle president PaulBrooks will produce the project. Executive ...
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New teams with Woo, Chang for Bloody Numbers
BeverlyHills-based New Films International will co-produce the supernatural thriller BloodyNumbers with John Wooand Terence Chang's Lion Rock Productions.The productionis set to be one of the first to return to the French Quarter in New Orleans inthe wake of Hurricane Katrina and will get underway in the first half of 2006.Woo's ...
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Bauer Martinez lines up McTiernan for Crash Bandits
Bauer Martinezchief Philippe Martinez has revealed that John McTiernan is preparing to shootthe action adventure Crash Bandits for the company with Hayden Christensen set to star.Martinezconfirmed that production is set to begin on Feb 15 in Thailand on the story oftreasure seekers who target wrecked airplanes containing riches.The title makesit ...
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Attenborough closes the ring with ContentFilm
ContentFilm Internationalhas taken worldwide rights to Richard Attenborough's forthcoming epic, ClosingThe Ring. ContentFilm isco-financing the film with the Bank of Ireland.Oscar-winning directorAttenborough will co-produce with Jo Gilbert. Shirley MacLaine is attached tostar, and discussions are ongoing with other actors. Closing The Ring is a UK-Canadian co-production to be shot onlocation ...
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Lumina launches thriller label Panic Attack
UK-based production andsales company Lumina Films is launching its thriller label Panic Attack withDan Reed's Straightheads,starring Gillian Anderson, Danny Dyer and Anthony Calf.Damian Jones (The HistoryBoys, Millions) and Kevin Loader (TheHistory Boys, Enduring Love) areproducing. The film is funded by FilmFour, the UK Film Council's New CinemaFund (which has invested ...
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Peace Arch shoots five for genre arm
Toronto-basedPeace Arch Entertainment Group has launched genre division Archetype Films andis introducing five titles already in production.The slate isheaded by Warrior Of Terra starring Edward Furlong, Ellen Fury and Andrew Lui, in the storyof a team of animal rights activists who discover a bio-engineered monster.Archetype isalso in production on The ...
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Screen Gems, Summit share the world on Apocalypse
Screen Gems hastaken the majority of worldwide rights to Constantin Film and Davis Films'horror sequel Resident Evil: Afterlife. Summit Entertainment is selling the rest of the world atAFM.ProducerConstantin is handling the film in Germany and Davis Film sister companyMetropolitan Filmexport is handling France. Screen Gems hastaken North America, Latin America, ...
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Von Trier plans documentary about Dreyer's Gertrud
Lars Von Trieris hatching a documentary about one of his favourite films - legendary movie auteur Carl TheodorDreyer's 1964 feature Gertrud.Von Trier'sproducer Vibeke Vindelow said here that Von Trier will write, direct andconduct all the interviews for the documentary which will feature the cast andcrew from the film who are ...
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Derailed
Dir: Mikael Hafstrom. US. 2005. 108mins.Representing a fairly low profile debut for a highprofile operation, The Weinstein Company's Derailedis a sharp, nicely cast neo-noir thriller that loses some of its edge over thecourse of its twisting and turning plot.Swedish director Mikael Hafstrom - whose Evil (Ondskan)was a best foreign language ...
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Vindelow, Muasya team on Sunshine And A Funeral
Lars Von Trier's regularproducer Vibeke Vindelow has revealed details of an intriguing new project sheis hatching with Danish director Vibeke Muasya. Together, the two Vibekes areputting together A Bit Of Sunshine And A Funeral. Trust will be handling saleson the low-budget drama. It's inspired by the true story of an ...
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Hong Kong man jailed for film piracy
AHong Kong man has become the first person to be jailed for passing on film contentover the controversial BitTorrent (BT) online file-sharingservice.Chan Nai-ming, 38, who used thealias "Big Crook", was sentenced to three months in jail by a Hong Kong magistrate after conviction on three charges of attempting todistribute Hollywood ...
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Zorro continues lead of international market
The Legend Of Zorro maintained its number one international status as an estimated$17.5m weekend haul on 6,150 screens in 60 markets raised the running total to$60.1m after two weekends.Handled in most territoriesthrough Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI), which licensed rightsfrom the picture's co-financier Spyglass Entertainment, the picture openednumber one in ...
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Berger Dagan gets senior vp publicity job at The Weinstein Co
Former Miramax publicist Liz Berger Dagan has reunited with theWeinsteins and joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) as senior vice president ofpublicity.Based in New York and reporting to executive vice president ofpublicity Liza Burnett, Dagan will work on the company's Academy Awardscampaigns as well as day-to-day publicity duties on the theatrical ...