All Screen articles in 10 June 2005 – Page 2
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Emilia Fox stars in Ellis' Cashback
The Pianiststar Emilia Fox has taken a lead role in director Sean Ellis' Cashback which is currently shooting inLondon.Fox stars as a supermarketclerk who becomes the love interest of main character Ben, played by SeanBiggerstaff (Harry Potter And The ChamberOf Secrets). Billed as a quirky comedy,the film is about an ...
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Taormina festival to showcase Batman, Costa-Gavras
Batman Begins and Costa-Gavras' Le Couperet are amongthe titles that will receive their European premiere at the 51stTaormina Film Festival (11-18 June).Guests who will attend the festival and give a cinemalesson include director Bob Rafelson, Andie MacDowell, Italian actresses VirnaLisi and Laura Morante, Malcolm MacDowell and Hugh Hudson.Taormina, directed for ...
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Glen Basner leaves Focus Features
Glen Basner has left hisposition as executive vice president of international sales and distribution atFocus Features. He has stepped down immediately from the company, although itis unclear as yet where he will land.Basner, one of themost accomplished sales executives in the business, had worked ininternational sales under David Linde at ...
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South African film incentives in disarray say producers
SouthAfrican producers have accused the country's Department of Trade and Industry(DTI) of reneging on a pledge of $38m (R250m) to support the South African filmindustry. The country's Independent ProducersOrganisation (IPO) has written to the DTI's acting director general TsidisoMatona complaining that the motion picture rebate scheme "launched with muchfanfare" last ...
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Lin to direct Fast And The Furious 3 for Universal
Justin Lin, the youngfilm-maker whose debut feature Better Luck Tomorrow was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002, haslanded the job as director of Universal Pictures' The Fast And The Furious 3 (tentative title).Neal H Moritz, who producedthe first two instalments in the series The Fast And The ...
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Invisible (Les Invisibles)
Dir: Thierry Jousse.France 2005. 85mins.Sound, vision and obsession mix to stylish, provocativeeffect in Invisible, the debut film from former Cahiers Du Cinema editorThierry Jousse. The latest in a long line of that magazine's critics to turn todirecting, stretching from the nouvelle vague generation to the likes ofOlivier Assayas and Pascal ...
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Hustle, Flowers join LAFF slate
Los Angeles FilmFestival organisers have added Craig Brewer's rap drama and Sundance hit Hustle& Flow to theline-up and will screen the picture on Jun 17.Other additionsinclude two Cannes-flavoured events. Jim Jarmusch's Grand Prix winner BrokenFlowers will screen onJun 25, and Shane Black will discuss his noir romp and Croisette favourite ...
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Third Man Out to open Philadelphia gay & lesbian fest
The worldpremiere of Ron Oliver's murder mystery Third Man Out will open the 2005 PhiladelphiaInternational Gay And Lesbian Film Festival, which closes with Craig Lucas'noir thriller The Dying Gaul.Festivalorganisers will present three awards this year. Activist and actor Kathy Najimywill receive the Artistic Achievement Award, actor Peter Paige will receive ...
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Rodgers named director of RiverRun festival
Andrew Rodgershas been named director of the RiverRun International Film Festival and willoversee all aspects of the event including programming, strategy, budgets,fundraising, and marketing and publicity.Rodgers, afestival veteran who began his career as a staff writer on the Chicago Tribune,will relocate to North Carolina in August in preparation for the ...
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Moscow festival unveils competition line-up
The Moscow International Film Festival (June 17 - 26) hasunveiled its full competition programme, which includes features such as Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wendy and Greek hit Brides.The festival now has two competition programmes: the MainCompetition section and Perspectives, which showcases directorial debuts andinnovative films.Jury members for the two competitions include ...
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Sin City explodes onto international chart
In its first weekin major European territories, BVI's Sin City exploded onto theinternational chart in second place with $11.7m. BVI will be aimingto do similar business to last year's Kill Bill Vol. 2 - and the firstmajor week for Sin City certainly looks good to head in that direction. Kill ...
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Magnolia buys multiple territories from Miramax to Pulse
Magnolia Pictures has pickedup all English-speaking territories as well as Mexico, Germany, Italy, Poland,and Spain on Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Japanese horror Pulse.The picture was acquiredfrom Dimension and Miramax, which still maintain an interest in the property asHarvey and Bob Weinstein recently began production on the remake based on ascreenplay by Wes ...
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Bracewell wraps up London-set Gigolos
Director Richard Bracewell'sfeature debut film The Gigolos has just finished editing.The Gigolos was shot in London in 2004 and is about two maleescorts (Sacha Tarter and Trevor Sather) who are searching for love andfriendship. "We follow the loves, lives and laughs of two gigolos as they dateprofessional women over 50 ...
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Habana Blues
Dir:Benito Zambrano. Sp-Cuba-Fr. 2005. 110mins.Spanish director Benito Zambrano scored a surprise hit athome in 1999 with his first film, the intense mother-and-daughter drama Solas.Habana Blues is a very different product - a feelgood slice of raw Havanaenergy which uses its conventional but solid plot as a frame on which to ...
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Cruise to receive BAFTA/LA's Britannia Award
The seemingly ubiquitous TomCruise is to be honoured with BAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award inNovember.Cruise will receive theorganisation's highest honour at the 14th Annual Britannia Awards on Nov 10 atThe Beverly Hilton Hotel.He joins an illustrious listof recipients that includes Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Scorsese, MichaelCaine and the late ...
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Koch Vision picks up Margaret Cho's Assassin
Koch Vision has picked upNorth American home entertainment rights to Margaret Cho's one-woman show Assassin...aka...StateOf EmergencyKoch plans a Novemberrelease on the title, which will coincide with the publication of her novel "IHave Chosen To Stay And Fight" and follows the September broadcast of Assassin on the gay television network Here!Cho's ...
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M:I 3 finally gets start date in July in Italy
Mission: Impossible 3 will finally start principal photography on July 18in Italy, it was announced yesterday by Paramount Pictures chairman and CEOBrad Grey. The film will be shot on locations across Europe, the US and Asiaand will be released in US theatres on May 5, 2006.Tom Cruise will of coursestar ...
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Diller ends Vivendi feud with $3.4bn deal
Barry Diller'sIAC/InterActive Corp. has agreed to sell its stake in Vivendi UniversalEntertainment (VUE) for $3.4 billion. The deal will see Diller handover his 5.4% stake in VUE to NBC Universal -a stake which has long been a bone of contention between Vivendi and Diller andwhich had threatened to derail Vivendi's ...
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EU approves Euros 18m Northern Ireland film and TV fund
European regulators on Wednesday approved Euros 17.7m inU.K. state aid for the promotion of Irish language TV and film. The Northern Irish Language Broadcast Fund will receivethe funds over four years, ending in 2009. European Union law allows governments to back culturalprojects. 'I am happy to approve state aid which ...
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Copenhagen festival to focus on European film
TheCopenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 18-28) is to concentrateexclusively on screening European films. Thefestival's new programme chief Jacob Neiiendam plans to raise the percentage ofEuropean films playing at the event from 70% to 100%."Weare narrowing the concept geographically but at the same time expect to spreadour wings genre wise. Often ...
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