All Screen articles in 9 August 2006
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Locarno gives Golden Leopard to Das Fraeulein
AndreaStaka's fiction feature debut Das Fraeulein has become the first Swiss film to win Locarno'sGolden Leopard in more than 20 years, since the top honour went to Fredi M.Murer's Hoehenfeuer in 1985. TheSwiss-German co-production between Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion and QuinteFilm of Staka's drama about three women coping with life far ...
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San Francisco Film Festival gets $150,000 grant from AMPAS
The San Francisco FilmSociety has received a $150,000 three-year 'secure foundation' grantfrom the Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS).The rare award will bepresented to the San Francisco International Film Festival in the form of$50,000 in its 50th anniversary year next year, and $50,000 for each ...
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Korean court clears banned footage from President's Last Bang
Seoul CentralDistrict Court dismissed the defamation suit against ImSang-soo's ThePresident's Last Bang to be screened in its full version yesterday (Aug 10).Selected forCannes Director's Fortnight in 2005, ThePresident's Last Bang dramatises the events thatsurrounded authoritarian president Park Chung-hee'sassassination on the night of Oct. 26, 1979.The defamation suitwas brought by Park ...
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Pulse (Kairo)
Dir: Jim Sonzero. US. 2006. 86mins.The latest Americanisedremake in the still-burgeoning J-horror trend arrives in the form of thestrident and melodramatic Pulse, anonsensical thriller devoid of unified menace which quickly devolves into arather silly series of stylised, desultory jolts andartificial peril.With its dogged,demo-focused television advertising campaign and an absence of ...
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Gaumont to start Bensalah's Big City
French major Gaumont has announced the start of shooting on Djamel Bensalah's Big City,a western starring a cast of children ages 8 to 14.Principal photography willcommence on Aug 14 in Alberta, Canada before movingto Bulgaria. Adult co-stars in the film,which is set in the American west of the 1880s where ...
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Frederic Maire already looking forward to 60th Locarno
With his firstedition as artistic director coming to a close on Saturday (Aug 12), Locarno's Frederic Maire isalready looking ahead to the festival's 60th anniversary in 2007.Speakingexclusively to ScreenDaily.com, Maire revealed thatthe festival will be organizing a tour of 30 important competition films frompast years by such directors as Spike ...
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Distant Horizon's Prey gobbled up by TWC
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up North American rightsfrom Distant Horizon to Darrell James Roodt's safari thriller Prey.Bridget Moynahan, Peter Weller, Jamie Bartlett and Carly Schroederstar in the story of American tourists who get lost in an African game reserveand find themselves at the mercy of lions.Roodt, who previously ...
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Das Fraulein
Dir: Andrea Staka. Sw-Ger-Bos-Cro-Serb. 2006. 81mins.Cross-cultural relationships and the immigrantexperience are given a new twist in Das Fraulein, AndreaStaka's debut feature, which examines three womenfrom the former Yugoslavia and how they deal with their past, their present andtheir future.Working from a script shewrote with Austrians Marie Kreuzer andwriter/director Barbara Albert ...
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Chest set to be filled with Spanish gold
Buena Vista International (BVI) will looking to plunder anotherbig weekend as Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sets course for $500m.The picture has reigned supreme for five consecutive weekends andwill surely hold on to its crown on the back of a wide Spanish debut on Aug 11.The picture crossed ...
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Stone's World Trade Center has strong first day
World Trade Center grossed $4.4m from 2,803 theatres at the North American box officeon its opening day yesterday (Wednesday)."It's a very strong opening," Paramount's executive vicepresident, general sales manager Don Harris said. "The movie has producedan emotional and powerful response and the exit polls that we did yesterdaywere sensational."Oliver Stone's ...
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Fernandes gets promotion and vp stripes at Warner Bros India
Blaise Fernandes has been promoted to the newly created positionof vice president and managing director of Warner Bros Pictures India PrivateLimited.Fernandes will oversee all of the company's businesses in the sub-continentwith particular focus on film, and will liaise with Warner Bros divisional andregional chiefs on corporate strategy.He will report to ...
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Balcony to release Tony Kushner documentary in North America
Balcony Releasing has picked up North American rights to FreidaLee Mock's documentary Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner.The American Film Foundation production, which premiered atSundance, profiles the award-winning writer of the acclaimed Angels InAmerica.Mock wrote and produced the documentary, and Terry Sanders servedas executive producer. It will open in New ...
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Spanish actress Fernandez gets lead role in JSA remake
Spanish actress Dafne Fernandez has been cast in the lead in Gladiator producer David Franzoni's remake ofKorean political thriller Joint Security Area.Franzoni is directing the story of a Spanish army officer (Fernandez) sent by the Hague toinvestigate a violent confrontation between US Marines and Mexican SpecialForces. Shooting on the low ...
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Mandate's buys supernatural thriller script 27 Times
Mandate Pictures has bought the screenplay to Thomas Thonson'ssupernatural thriller 27 Times.The story centres on a paranoid man named Arthur, who cares forhis teenage brother who himself is tortured by precognitive visions of violentdeaths.The project will be overseen by Mandate's Mary Lee and produced byMandate Pictures' president of motion pictures ...
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La Consultation lands French and Swiss deals at Locarno
Helen de Crecy'sfirst feature-length documentary LaConsultation on the world of private medicine has been sold to Xenix Filmdistribution for Switzerland and to Ad Vitam for France.The dealsfor the film, which is showing in Locarno's Filmmakers of the Present section, was negotiated byCaroline and Stephane Rousselfor the Arturo Mio production company ...
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Tribeca and Rome festivals announce collaboration
TheTribeca Film Festival (TFF) and the Rome FilmFestival have officially announced their collaboration.Duringits first edition, Rome, which runs Oct 13-21,will screen a selection of films that were shown at Tribecaearlier this year. The names of the films will be announced in coming weeks.Tribeca will screen several of Rome's films during ...
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Metrodome launches children's DVD label
UK-based distributor Metrodome's home entertainment division has launched a new labelfor children's entertainment. The budget label MiniMetro will focus on distributing children's films andTV programmes to UK retailers. The label launches inSeptember, following on a separate launch of another home entertainment label,In2Film. That division will seek to exploit library titles ...
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Peep Show team to shoot feature Magicians
The team behind the UK TV hit Peep Show is gearing up to shoot its first feature, Magicians, which will start principalphotography in the UK on Aug 20. The comedy is about a double act of magicians whofall out and become rivals years later. It will shoot on location ...
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Shochiku promotes Matsumoto to head film division
Japanese studio Shochikuannounced today several changes in the top management of its motion picturedivision. Chiefly, Teruki Matsumoto has been promotedto managing director of the filmed entertainment division. In the position Matsumotowill oversee all production, development and distribution of feature films. He will report directly to Shochiku president Junichi Sakomoto,who himself ...
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FilmFour backs Irish comedy Garage
FilmFour is on board for Irish film-makers LennyAbrahamson and Mark O'Halloran's follow-up to theiraward-winning comedy Adam & Paul.O'Halloran wrote and Abrahmsonwill direct Garage, about asmall-town misfit. The new film will star Pat Shorttand Anne Marie Duff. The project willshoot for six weeks starting Aug 14 in Ireland. The filmmakerswill again ...