All Screen articles in 8 August 2005
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Axel Springer takes over ProSiebenSat.1 Media
Germanpublishing empire Axel Springer has acquired a majority stake in theProSiebenSat.1 Media to create the only listed media group in Germany withactivities both in the print media and television sectors.Inan Euros 2.5bn acquisition subject to anti-trust and media authority approval,Springer intends to increase its existing shareholding in ProSiebenSat.1 fromthe present ...
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AUTLOOK Filmsales racks up Crash Test Dummies sales
AUTLOOKFilmsales has clocked up the first sales on Joerg Kalt's Crash Test Dummies which had its worldpremiere in Berlin's International Forum sidebar and was shown in Karlovy Varylast month. AUTLOOK'smanaging director Peter Jager told ScreenDaily.com that Kalt's debutfeature has been sold to Germany's Stardust Filmverleih and Poland's AgainstGravity, while he ...
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Ex-Renaissance exec Canning joins Becker Films
Former Renaissance executive Iain Canning has joinedBecker Films International (BFI) as head of worldwide acquisitions, and willalso act as a consultant on acquiring Australian rights for sister companyDendy Films. He will continue to be based in London.In a statementreleased on Friday, Canning said he looked forward to working with BFIpresident ...
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Sandrelli set for Golden Lion at Venice
The Biennale has announcedthat Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli will receive a Golden Lion for LifetimeAchievement at the upcoming Venice Film Festival (Aug 31-Sept 10).Festivaldirector Marco Mueller said: "A 45-year-old career in film, and she doesn'tshow it. Stefania Sandrelli has lived through all the various periods ofItalian cinema."TheTuscan actress started out ...
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Charlie wins international weekend with $14.4m in 23 markets
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory drew the winning ticket for the secondconsecutive weekend as the family remake grossed an estimated $14.4m on 2,500screens in 23 markets through Warner Bros Pictures International for a $67.2mrunning total.The picture vanquished Typhoon Masa in Taiwan to open top on $720,200including previews on 63 prints, ...
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20 Centimetres (20 Centimentros)
Dir/scr: Ramon Salazar.Sp-Fr. 2005. 113mins.A bawdy, picaresque Spanish yarn about a transvestite whoyearns for a sex change operation (she has 20cm she wishes to dispense with -hence the title), Ramon Salazar's second feature carries obvious echoes of theearly work of Pedro Almodovar. There is the same irreverent humour, a sharedfascination ...
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Warner's Dukes lord it over US theatres with $30.6m weekend
Warner Bros' The Dukes Of Hazzard kicked the hides of the competition overthe weekend as the TV adaptation opened on an estimated $30.6m.Overall the top 12 titles grossed $102.5m, up 5% against the sameweekend last year.Starring Seann William Scott, Johnny Knoxville and JessicaSimpson, The Dukes Of Hazzard follows two brothers ...
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Dukes Of Hazzard reign at the box office with $30.6m weekend
Warner Bros' The Dukes Of Hazzard kicked the hides of the competition overthe weekend as the TV adaptation opened on an estimated $30.6m.Overall the top 12 titles grossed $102.5m, up 5% against the sameweekend last year.Starring Seann William Scott, Johnny Knoxville and JessicaSimpson, The Dukes Of Hazzard follows two brothers ...
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Oldman, Ledoyen headline Filmax horror Backwoods
Gary Oldman and Virginie Ledoyen are headlining a new Englishlanguage horror title from Spain's Filmax, The Backwoods.To be sold internationally by Filmax, the film is aco-production with Spanish start-ups Monfort Producciones and Videntia FramesProducciones together with the UK's Holy Cow and France's Divine Productions.It began shooting under award-winning short film ...
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Watt's Ways takes Fipresci prize at Brisbane
Australian film Look BothWays, US coming-of-age tale Mysterious Skin, and South Koreanpicture Spying Cam (Frakchi) have each won major awards at the BrisbaneInternational Film Festival.Writer/director Sarah Watt'sdebut Look Both Ways won the FIPRESCI (Federation Internationale de laPresse Cinematographique) award for best Asia Pacific film. Watt was previouslybest known for her ...
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Kerrigan's Keane pulls out of Edinburgh line-up
Lodge Kerrigan's Keane will no longer bescreening at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) Aug17-28).The festival cited a conflicting commitment -understood to be a screening at this year's Deauville Festival of British film- as the reason for the move.Replacing it, Edinburgh is to screen the WorldPremiere of Lasse Hallstrom's ...
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What A Wonderful Place (Eize Makom Nifla)
Dir/scr: EyalHalfon. Is-Ger. 2005. 104mins.Eyal Halfon's WhatA Wonderful Place, about the plight of foreign workers in Israel is a grim,angry and uncompromising drama. Three inter-related plots leading to violentfinal clash offer the bitterly ironic conclusion that Israel - or any othersupposedly liberal western country that treats its economic migrants in ...
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Oz producers navigate funding Puzzle
Writer/director Mark Forstmann and producers MiriamStein and Tamara Popper go into production on October 31 on Monkey Puzzleafter extensive workshops with a cast of young emerging actors.The coming of age, character-driven drama centres onfive friends who go looking for world's rarest tree. As they descend into theravines and canyons of ...
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Gordon joins Langley as president of production at Universal
Jon Gordon (pictured) will join Donna Langley as president ofproduction at Universal Pictures.The two executives will work side-by-side overseeing developmentand production of the slate, and both will report to studio chairman StaceySnider.Gordon will assume his new post in October once he completesduties as Miramax co-president of production."By maintaining our production ...
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Moreau to head San Sebastian jury
Jeanne Moreau will preside over a high-profile official jury at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival(Sept 21-30).She is joined by Bruno Barreto, Isabel Coixet, Sara Driver, Bruno Ganz, Manuel Gomez Pereira and Jose Saramago.Mexican actress Patricia Reyes Spindola will preside over the New Directors' jury. The festival has also made ...
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Co Op acquires film rights to Levangie Grazer's Teacher, Teacher
Bob Jason and Bob Kravitz's New York-based production company Co.Op has acquired feature rights to Gigi Levangie Grazer's dark comedy Teacher,Teacher.Gavin G Grazer will direct the story of a trio of high schoolstudents who take extreme measures to prevent a hated teacher from thwartingtheir graduation plans.Jason, Kravitz and founding partner ...
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Relief as Italian box office soars in July
After the gloomand doom of reports that Italian admissions tumbled sharply in the first halfof 2005, Italy has announced a formidable 44% rise in box office takings forthe month of July.According to figures released by data-gathering body,Cinetel, Euros 19m were earned at the box office in July, a 44% hike ...
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Swiss film chief calls for end to 'watering can' funding
Nicolas Bideau,the incoming head of the film section at Switzerland's Federal Office ofCulture (BAK) from October 1, has called for concentration of funds into fewerprojects and an improvement of Swiss cinema's image at home and abroad.Speaking at the weekendat the Locarno Film Festival, Bideau said that he was looking to ...
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UK's Tucker to direct New Line's Golden Compass
Anand Tucker is in talks with New Line to direct The GoldenCompass, the firstinstalment of Philip Pullman's children's fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials.According to sources a formal offer has been sent out to Tucker,however his participation had not been confirmed at time of writing.If the deal goes ahead this will ...
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TLA acquires Beverly Kills for North America, UK
TLAReleasing has acquired theatrical, home entertainment and broadcast rights inNorth America and the UK to Damion Dietz' comedy Beverly Kills.Alimited theatrical run is planned for mid-2006 on the project, in which anembittered and ageing drag queen swears vengeance on the entire city of LosAngeles after he is rejected for a ...